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U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Interim rule with request for comments.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing an interim rule to improve hiring efficiency across federal agencies, modify provisions pertaining to how an appointing authority ( i.e., the head of a Federal agency or department) may share a competitive certificate with one or more appointing authorities, implement provisions to allow an appointing authority to share an excepted service certificate with one or more appointing authorities, and implement provisions regarding OPM-led hiring actions which allow federal agencies to utilize competitive and excepted service certificates for occupations common to many agencies.
Effective date. This interim rule is effective October 15, 2026,
Comments due: Comments must be received on or before November 16, 2026.
You may submit comments by using the Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
All submissions must include the agency name and docket number or RIN for this Federal Register document. Please arrange and identify your comments about the regulatory text by subpart and section number. If your comments relate to the supplementary information, please refer to the heading and page number in the supplementary section. All comments must be received by the end of the comment period for them to be considered. All comments and other submissions received generally will be posted at https://regulations.gov as they are received, without change, including any personal information provided. However, OPM retains discretion to redact personal or sensitive information, including but not limited to personal or sensitive information pertaining to third parties.
A summary of this rule may be found in the docket for this rulemaking at www.regulations.gov.