1. Regulations
  2. title 5
  3. chapter I
  4. part 575
  5. subpart E
  6. § 575.501

View all text of Subpart E [§ 575.501 - § 575.515]

§ 575.501 - Purpose.

This subpart contains OPM regulations implementing 5 U.S.C. 5757, which authorizes the payment of extended assignment incentives. Subject to the requirements of this subpart, an agency may pay an extended assignment incentive to eligible Federal employees assigned to positions located in a territory or possession of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands who agree to complete a specified additional period of employment with the agency in that location.

AUTHORITY: 5 U.S.C. 1104(a)(2) and 5307; subparts A and B also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5753; subpart C also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5754; subpart D also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5755; subpart E also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5757 and sec. 207 of Public Law 107-273, 116 Stat. 1780.

SOURCE: 56 FR 12838, Mar. 28, 1991, unless otherwise noted.

CITE AS: 5 CFR 575.501