[Federal Register: January 9, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 5)]
[Notices]
[Page 1456-1457]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
Solicitation of Federal Civilian and Uniformed Service Personnel
for Contributions to Private Voluntary Organizations--CFC Pilot Program
for Department of Defense (DoD) Personnel Deployed Overseas
AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is implementing a
Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) pilot program for a selected number of
local campaigns. This pilot program will allow Department of Defense
(DoD) personnel deployed to certain warfighting areas of responsibility
the opportunity to expand their giving options to include the Morale,
Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) activities and/or to the local charities
located within the corresponding stateside campaign associated with
their home base, in addition to the National and International
charities. OPM will assess the results of the pilot program and
determine, in coordination with the Office of the Secretary of Defense,
if a permanent change should be made to CFC regulations and DoD
Directive 5035-1.
DATES: The Office of Personnel Management's Office of CFC Operations
(OCFCO) will work with the CFC Overseas (CFC-O) Campaign to determine
the campaigns eligible to participate in the pilot program for the 2006
CFC no later than March 2006. The OCFCO will provide guidance to the
selected campaigns on how to process receipts from the CFC-O Campaign
under the pilot program no later than June 30, 2006. Affected deployed
donors whose assigned home base is located within one of these selected
campaigns will be provided the two additional options for contributing
to the 2006 CFC described below beginning on September 1, 2006 and
ending approximately December 15, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark W. Lambert, Senior Compliance
Officer for the Office of CFC Operations, by telephone at (202) 606-
2564; by Fax
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at (202) 606-0902; or by e-mail at cfc@opm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To address the loss of CFC contributions
experienced by local organizations due to the deployment of DoD
personnel to certain warfighting area of responsibility, DoD and OPM
are implementing a one-year pilot program designed to allow those
deployed DoD personnel to adjust their CFC contributions so the
contributions can be designated to the donor's home base MWR activities
and/or the local charities located within the corresponding stateside
campaign associated with their home base, in addition to the National
and International charities. In the absence of this pilot program, CFC
regulations limit CFC designations from deployed DoD personnel to
national/international charities, or to MWR activities overseas. This
pilot program will expire at the end of the 2006 CFC or approximately
December 15, 2006.
Under the pilot program, the CFC-O Campaign will offer affected
deployed DoD personnel a modified CFC-O Campaign pledge card that will
contain two added donation options, as follows:
(1) Each deployed employee may designate a portion of their
donation to their home base's MWR activities; and/or, (2) Each deployed
employee may elect to apply a portion of their total contribution as a
designated contribution for distribution among all local charities
located within the geographic area of their home base campaign.
OPM will evaluate the costs and logistics tied to the
implementation of the new options in anticipation of making it a
permanent change in the regulations.
These designated contributions will be distributed by CFC-O
Campaign to the local campaign associated with the donor's home base as
if the recipient campaign was a participating CFC-O Campaign charity,
with the final payments in the distribution cycle sent early enough
that the recipient campaign can include them in its final payment to
charities. The home base campaign, in turn, will be directed to
distribute these designated funds, at no cost, to all local charities
in the same manner as local undesignated contributions (i.e. in the
same proportion that each charity received designations in the local
campaign). Home base campaigns will only need to adjust their
distribution schedules and include these CFC-O Campaign contributions
in their regular monthly/quarterly distributions to the local charities
and track as cash received. Under this pilot program, donated funds
will be reduced by the proportionate share of the CFC-O Campaign
expenses only prior to distribution to the home base campaigns.
Consequently, the home base campaigns will be directed not to charge
additional processing costs to distribute these donations, since there
is no additional cost associated with either the collection or
distribution of the funds.
DoD personnel deployed to the affected warfighting areas of
responsibility, regardless of the length of time, are officially
assigned to the command to which they have been deployed. Therefore,
personnel deployed to the affected warfighting areas of responsibility
during the campaign season can only be solicited by the campaign
responsible for the geographic area of the command. The exception to
this rule is when a Navy ship has been deployed but is still considered
``homeported.'' In this instance, the local campaign should continue to
solicit the donor stationed on the homeported ship.
CFC regulations at 5 CFR 950.701 state that the CFC-O Campaign is
the only authorized campaign to solicit overseas areas during the CFC
solicitation period in the fall. Under no circumstances may the
stateside campaigns solicit personnel deployed overseas. Sanctions may
result for violations of this rule.
Authority: E.O. 12353 (March 23, 1982), 47 FR 12785 (March 25,
1982). 3 CFR 1982 Comp., p. 139. E.O. 12404 (February 10, 1983), 48
FR 6685 (February 15, 1983), Pub. L 100-202, and Pub. L. 102-393 (5
U.S.C. 1101 Note).
U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Dan G. Blair,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. E6-40 Filed 1-6-06; 8:45 am]
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