[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR251.202]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 251--AGENCY RELATIONSHIPS WITH ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart B--Relationships With Organizations Representing Federal 
                    Employees and Other Organizations
 
Sec. 251.202  Agency support to organizations representing Federal employees and other organizations.

    (a) An agency may provide support services to an organization when 
the agency determines that such action would benefit the agency's 
programs or would be warranted as a service to employees who are members 
of the organization and complies with applicable statutes and 
regulations. Examples of such support services are as follows:
    (1) Permitting employees, in appropriate cases, to use agency 
equipment or administrative support services for preparing papers to be 
presented at conferences or symposia or published in journals;
    (2) Using the authority under 5 U.S.C. 4109 and 4110, as implemented 
by 5 CFR part 410, to pay expenses of employees to attend professional 
organization meetings when such attendance is for the purpose of 
employee development or directly concerned with agency functions or 
activities and the agency can derive benefits from employee attendance 
at such meetings; and
    (3) Following a liberal policy in authorizing excused absence for 
other employees who are willing to pay their own expenses to attend a 
meeting of a professional association or other organization from which 
an agency could derive some benefits.
    (b) Agencies may provide Government resources support to 
organizations (such as space in Government facilities for meeting 
purposes and the use of agency bulletin boards, internal agency mail 
distribution systems, electronic bulletin boards and other means of 
informing agency employees about meetings and activities) in accordance 
with appropriate General Services Administration regulations contained 
in title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The mere provision of 
such support to any organization is not to be

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construed as Federal sponsorship, sanction, or endorsement of the 
organization or its activities.