Sec. 4. Internship coordinator

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Each internship coordinator appointed under section 3111a of title 5, United States Code, shall— serve as the main point of contact at the sponsoring agency on all issues related to fellowships, scholarships, and internships; establish a mentor program for interns and fellows at the agency that incorporates best practices as determined by the Federal Internship and Fellowship Center pursuant to section 2(c); and generate and submit, in accordance with subsection (c)(1), an annual report for the one-year period ending on September 1 of the year in which such report is submitted including— the number of interns and fellows who served at the sponsoring agency; a list of third-party organizations that supplied internships or fellowships to the sponsoring agency; information regarding the demographic characteristics of interns and fellows at such agency, including, but not limited to educational background, age, race, gender, and ethnicity, except that no intern or fellow may be required to provide such demographic characteristics for the purposes of such report; a description of the steps taken by the sponsoring agency to prepare and recruit successful interns and fellows for positions in the civil service; a description of any barriers to hiring interns or fellows who successfully complete their internships or fellowships, respectively; a description of activities engaged in the sponsoring agency to recruit new interns and fellows, including descriptions of locations visited, methods used, and schools and stakeholder organizations engaged; a list of the position descriptions for the internships and fellowships offered at each sponsoring agency; a description of the mentorship programs of such internship and fellowship programs; a summary of exit interviews conducted and surveys administered by a sponsoring agency with respect to interns and fellows upon their completion of an internship or fellowship program at such agency; and other information as determined necessary by the internship coordinator.

The head of each sponsoring agency shall submit, in accordance with subsection (c)(1), an annual report for the one-year period ending on October 1 of the year in which such report is submitted assessing each fellowship and internship program of such sponsoring agency in which fellows or interns, respectively, participated during the reporting period. Each report required under subsection

(a)or

(b)shall be submitted to the Office of Personnel Management between October 1 and October 31 of each year. Not later than December 30 of each year, the Office of Personnel Management shall submit to Congress a report summarizing the information submitted to the Office of Personnel Management in accordance with paragraph

(1)for such year. Nothing in this section shall be construed as overriding or otherwise permitting any action not permitted under section 552a of title 5, United States Code.