Sec. 349. Demonstration project flexibility for the Office of Personnel Management

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Section 4703(d)(1) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking demonstration project shall and all that follows through 5-year period and inserting demonstration period shall terminate before the end of the 10-year period . Section 4703 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking subsection

(h)and inserting the following: The Comptroller General of the United States and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall, every 5 years, each evaluate any demonstration project conducted under this section for its impact on improving public management, which shall, at a minimum, evaluate the following: The effectiveness of the demonstration project in achieving the purpose identified in the project plan. Significant impacts on any other matters important to attracting and maintaining a highly qualified workforce. The cost-effectiveness of the demonstration project. Whether the Director of the Office of Personnel Management should continue, cease, or adjust the demonstration project. Whether the Director of the Office of Personnel Management should make the demonstration project permanent. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall, every 5 years, contract with the National Academy of Public Administration— to conduct a study to evaluate any demonstration project conducted under this section for its impact on improving public management, including an evaluation of the items contained in paragraph (1); and to submit to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management a report on the results of each such study. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management may promulgate regulations to make a demonstration project permanent, without requesting separate statutory approval therefor, if at least 1 of the 2 officers evaluating the demonstration project under paragraph

(1)recommends in such evaluation that the demonstration project be expanded Governmentwide. In exercising the authority under this paragraph, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management may consider the reports made under paragraph (2). .