[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 99 (Thursday, May 22, 1997)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 27947-27948]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13390]
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ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY
22 CFR Part 606
Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the United States
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
AGENCY: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
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(ACDA) is revoking its existing superseded employee responsibility and
conduct regulations at 22 CFR part 606, and, in their stead, inserting
cross-references to the executive branch-wide Standards, as well as to
executive branch financial disclosure regulations.
EFFECTIVE DATE: These regulations are effective May 22, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janice F. Caramanica, Office of the
General Counsel, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 320 21st
Street, NW, Washington, DC 20451, (202) 647-3596.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
On August 7, 1992, the Office of Government Ethics published the
Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch. See
57 FR 35006-35067, as corrected at 57 FR 48557 and 57 FR 52583, with
additional extensions for certain existing provisions at 59 FR 4779-
4780 and 60 FR 6390-6391. The executive branch-wide Standards are now
codified at 5 CFR part 2635. Effective February 3, 1993, they
established uniform ethical conduct standards applicable to all
executive branch personnel.
ACDA is revoking the provisions of its existing standards of
conduct regulations that have already been superseded or that are
superseded upon issuance of this regulation and replacing them with a
new section that provides a cross reference to 5 CFR parts 2634 and
2635.
II. Revocation of ACDA's Responsibilities and Conduct Regulations
This final rule revokes ACDA's employee responsibility and conduct
regulations at 22 CFR part 606, now superseded. Some of those
regulations were superseded when the confidential financial disclosure
provisions of the executive branch-wide financial disclosure
regulations at 5 CFR part 2634 took effect on October 5, 1992, and many
others were superseded when the Standards of Ethical Conduct for
Employees of the Executive Branch at 5 CFR part 2635 became effective
on February 3, 1993. Others were retained in ACDA's internal
regulations since they dealt with other aspects of employee conduct
such as indebtedness and political activity.
The ACDA residual standards rule replaces ACDA's revoked ethics
regulations with a cross-reference at new 22 CFR part 606 to OGE's
rules at 5 CFR parts 2634 and 2635.
III. Matters of Regulatory Procedure
Executive Order 12866
In issuing this rule, ACDA has adhered to the regulatory philosophy
and the applicable principles of regulation as set forth in Section 1
of Executive Order 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review. This
regulation has not been reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget
under that Executive Order, as it deals with agency organization,
management, and personnel matters and is not, in any event, deemed
``significant'' thereunder.
Paperwork Reduction Act
ACDA has determined that the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35) does not apply because the proposed regulation does not
contain any information collection requirements that require the
approval of the Office of Management and Budget.
Administrative Procedure Act
This rulemaking is related solely to ACDA's organization,
procedure, and practice. Consequently, ACDA has found that good cause
exists under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(3) (A), (B), and (d)(3) for waiving, as
unnecessary and contrary to the public interest, the general notice of
proposed rulemaking and the 30-day delay in effectiveness as to these
rules and revocations.
Regulatory Flexibility Act
ACDA hereby certifies that this rule will not have significant
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. This rule
affects only Federal employees and their immediate families.
Accordingly, a regulatory flexibility analysis is not required.
Unfunded Mandates Act Determination
ACDA has determined that this rule will not result in expenditures
by state, local, and tribal government, or by the private sector, of
more than $100 million in any one year. Accordingly, a budgetary impact
statement is not required under section 202 of the Unfunded Mandates
Act of 1995.
List of Subjects in 22 CFR Part 606
Conflict of interests, Government employees.
Dated: May 7, 1997.
Mary Elizabeth Hoinkes,
General Counsel, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
For the reasons set forth in the preamble, the United States Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency, with the concurrence of the Office of
Government Ethics, revises title 22, chapter VI, part 606 of the Code
of Federal Regulations to read as follows:
PART 606--EMPLOYEE ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND CONDUCT
Sec.
606.1 Cross-reference to employee ethical conduct standards and
financial disclosure regulations.
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 7301; 18 U.S.C. 208(b)(2); 5 CFR 2634.
Sec. 606.1 Cross-reference to employee ethical conduct standards and
financial disclosure regulations.
Employees of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
(ACDA) should refer to the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees
of the Executive Branch at 5 CFR part 2635 and the Executive Branch
financial disclosure regulations at 5 CFR part 2634.
[FR Doc. 97-13390 Filed 5-21-97; 8:45 am]
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