[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 44CFR302.4]

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              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE
 
             CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
 
PART 302--CIVIL DEFENSE-STATE AND LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (EMA)--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 302.4  Merit personnel systems.

    (a) Background. Section 208 of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act, 
as amended (42 U.S.C. 4728) authorizes Federal agencies to require, as a 
condition of participation in Federal assistance programs, systems of a 
personnel administration consistent with personnel standards prescribed 
by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). OPM has promulgated 
Standards for a System of Personnel Administration (5 CFR part 900) 
which prescribe intergovernmental personnel standards on a merit basis 
as a condition of eligibility in the administration of grant programs. 
OPM has approved FEMA adoption of these standards by the regulations in 
this part.
    (b) Standard. Participation by each grantee and each subgrantee 
under the program covered in this part is subject to compliance with the 
following conditions regarding merit personnel systems:

    Methods of personnel administration will be established and 
maintained in public agencies administering or supervising the 
administration of the civil defense program in conformity with the 
Standards for a Merit System of Personnel Administration 5 CFR part 900, 
which incorporate the Intergovernmental Personnel Act Merit Principles 
(Pub. L. 91-648, section 2, 84 Stat. 1909) prescribed by the Office of 
Personnel Management pursuant to section 208 of the Intergovernmental 
Personnel Act of 1970 as amended.


Section 302.3(a)(5) of this part provides, in part, that State 
administrative plans that fail to provide for fulfilling this condition 
are not approvable.