[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR330.201]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 330_RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, AND PLACEMENT 
(GENERAL)--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart B_Reemployment Priority List (RPL)
 
Sec. 330.201  Establishment and maintenance of RPL.

    Source: 53 FR 45067, Nov. 8, 1988, unless otherwise noted.

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    Editorial Note: Nomenclature changes to subpart B of part 330 appear 
at 70 FR 72067, Dec. 1, 2005.


    (a) The reemployment priority list (RPL) is the mechanism agencies 
use to give reemployment consideration to their former competitive 
service employees separated by reduction in force (RIF) or fully 
recovered from a compensable injury after more than 1 year. The RPL is a 
required component of agency positive placement programs. In filling 
vacancies, the agency must give RPL registrants priority consideration 
over certain outside job applicants and, if it chooses, also may 
consider RPL registrants before considering internal candidates.
    (b) Each agency is required to establish and maintain a reemployment 
priority list for each commuting area in which it separates eligible 
competitive service employess by RIF or when a former employee recovers 
from a compensable injury after more than 1 year, except as provided in 
paragraph (c) of this section. For purposes of this subpart, agency 
means Executive agency as defined in 5 U.S.C. 105. All components of an 
agency within the commuting area utilize a single RPL and are 
responsible for giving priority consideration to the RPL registrants.
    (c) An agency need not maintain a distinct RPL for employees 
separated by reduction in force if the agency operates a placement 
program for its employees and obtains OPM concurrence that the program 
satisfies the basic requirements of this subpart. The intent of this 
provision is to allow agencies to adopt different placement strategies 
that are effective for their particular programs yet satisfy legal 
entitlements to priority consideration in reemployment.

[60 FR 3058, Jan. 13, 1995]