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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · Compilation 10342 · Sec. 122

Sec. 122. **[**[5 U.S.C. 3104 note](/us/usc/t5/s3104)**]**

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## Sec. 122 **[**[5 U.S.C. 3104 note](/us/usc/t5/s3104)**]** ###
(a)Notwithstanding any other provision of law relating to position classification or employee pay or performance, during the 3-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may, with the approval of the Attorney General, establish a personnel management system providing for the compensation and performance management of not more than 3,000 non-Special Agent employees to fill critical scientific, technical, engineering, intelligence analyst, language translator, and medical positions in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ###
(b)Except as otherwise provided by law, no employee compensated under any system established under this section may be paid at a rate in excess of the rate payable for a position at level III of the Executive Schedule. ###
(c)Total payments to employees under any system established under this section shall be subject to the limitation on payments to employees set forth in section 5307 of title 5, United States Code. ###
(d)Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations and the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate, an operating plan describing the Director's intended use of the authority under this section, and identifying any provisions of title 5, United States Code, being waived for purposes of any personnel management system to be established by the Director under this section. ###
(e)Any performance management system established under this section shall have not less than 2 levels of performance above a retention standard. ###
(f)Not later than March 31, 2000, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to Congress an evaluation of the performance management system established under this section, which shall include— ####
(1)a comparison of— #####
(A)the compensation, benefits, and performance management provisions governing personnel of similar employment classification series in other departments and agencies of the Federal Government; and #####
(B)the costs, consistent with standards prescribed in Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76, of contracting for any services provided through those departments and agencies; and ####
(2)if appropriate, a recommendation for legislation to extend the authority under this section. ###
(g)####
(1)Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to establish, for a period of 14 years from date of enactment of this provision, a personnel management demonstration project providing for the compensation and performance management of not more than a combined total of 950 employees who fill critical scientific, technical, engineering, intelligence analyst, language translator, and medical positions in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. ####
(2)The provisions of subsections
(b)through
(f)and subsection
(h)shall apply to the demonstration project authorized by paragraph
(1)except that— #####
(A)any reference in such subsections to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall include a reference to the Secretary of the Treasury; #####
(B)the operating plan required by subsection
(d)shall be submitted not later than February 1, 1999 to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, the House Committee on Ways and Means, and the Senate Committee on Finance; and #####
(C)the report required by subsection
(f)shall be submitted not later than March 31, 2001. ###
(h)The authority to establish a demonstration project under this section shall terminate on November 26, 2000.
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