[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: 5CFR315.706]

[Page 163]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 315--CAREER AND CAREER-CONDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart G--Conversion to Career or Career-Conditional Employment From 
                        Other Types of Employment
 
Sec. 315.706  Certain nonpermanent employees of the Department of Energy.

    (a) General. Employees transferred to the Department of Energy under 
Public Law 95-91, who are serving in nonpermanent appointments made 
under competitive procedures of the former Atomic Energy Commission or 
Energy Research and Development Administration and are determined by the 
Department to be performing continuing functions, may be converted to 
career or career-conditional by OPM upon recommendation by the 
Department.
    (b) Tenure upon conversion. Employees converted under this section 
become career-conditional employees unless they have completed the 
service requirement for career tenure.
    (c) Acquisition of competitive status. A person whose employment is 
converted to career or career-conditional employment under this section 
acquires competitive status automatically.

[43 FR 14002, Apr. 4, 1978. Redesignated at 44 FR 63080, Nov. 2, 1979]