[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR315.708]

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                    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. 315.708  Conversion based on service as a Fellow or Senior Fellow 
in the Presidential Management Fellows Program.

    (a) Agency authority. (1) An agency, not excepted from the 
competitive service, must appoint a Fellow or Senior Fellow to a full-
time, permanent position in the competitive service without further 
competition when the Fellow or Senior Fellow:
    (i) Has satisfactorily completed the Program as outlined in part 362 
of this chapter; and
    (ii) Meets the citizenship requirement set forth in part 338 of this 
chapter.
    (2) A Fellow or Senior Fellow who was initially appointed to a 
permanent position in an agency excepted from the competitive service 
upon completion of the Program may be appointed subsequently to a full-
time permanent position in the competitive service without further 
competition subject to paragraph (a)(1)(ii) of this section.
    (b) Tenure upon conversion. (1) Except as provided in paragraph 
(b)(2) of this section, a Fellow or Senior Fellow appointed under 
paragraph (a) of this section becomes a career-conditional employee.
    (2) A Fellow or Senior Fellow appointed under paragraph (a) of this 
section becomes a career employee when he/she has completed the service 
requirement for career tenure or is excepted from it under Sec. 
315.201(c).
    (c) Acquisition of Competitive Status. A Fellow or Senior Fellow 
appointed to a full-time, permanent position in the competitive service 
under this section does not serve a probationary period and acquires 
competitive status immediately upon appointment.

[70 FR 28779, May 19, 2005]