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OGE RIN: 3209-AA14 Publication ID: Spring 2009 
Title: Post-Employment Conflict of Interest Restrictions 
Abstract: This interpretive regulation gives guidance for the executive branch on the various substantive restrictions of the current version of the post-Government employment conflict of interest statute 18 U.S.C. 207, which became effective January 1, 1991, pursuant to title I of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 (Pub. L. 101-194), as amended. Parts of the regulation, dealing with procedures for waivers by the Office of Government Ethics of certain senior official constraints (based on executive agency hardship), designated senior employees, and separate agency designations, have also previously been published in the Federal Register; such designations are periodically updated by the Office of Government Ethics. The Office of Government Ethics also has continued to publish in the CFR the interpretive regulation, 5 CFR part 2637 (but now without the no-longer-effective former Senior Employee and old agency component designation listings), under the lifetime bar of the prior version of the post-employment law which still applies to executive branch employees who left the Government before January 1, 1991. With the publication of the complete current post-employment law final regulation, the old part 2637 regulation has now been removed from the CFR. 
Agency: Office of Government Ethics(OGE)  Priority: Other Significant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 5 CFR 2641    5 CFR 2637 (Now Removed)   
Legal Authority: 5 USC app Ethics in Government Act of 1978    EO 12674    EO 12731    18 USC 207   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Interim Final Rule for One-Year Restriction of Section 207(c)  02/01/1991  56 FR 3951   
Designation of Senior Employee Positions and Separate Agency Components  01/28/1992  57 FR 3115   
Designation of Additional Separate Agency Component  04/07/1992  57 FR 11673   
Amendment to Prior Post-Employment Regulation (Part 2637)  12/31/1992  57 FR 62467   
Amendment to Interim Final Rule (Part 2641)  06/21/1993  58 FR 33755   
Technical Amendment to Authority Citation of 5 CFR Part 2637  12/30/1993  58 FR 69176   
Technical Amendments to Interim Final Rule  07/07/1994  59 FR 34755   
Exempted Senior Employee Positions and Agency Separate Components Designation Update  05/16/1997  62 FR 26915   
Correction: Post-Employment Reg. Update  06/11/1997  62 FR 31865   
Agency Separate Components Designation Update  02/05/1999  64 FR 5709   
Agency Separate Components Designation Update Final Rule  01/30/2003  68 FR 4681   
Overall NPRM  02/18/2003  68 FR 7843   
Correction to Overall NPRM  03/31/2003  68 FR 15385   
Agency Separate Components Designation Update Final Rule  11/23/2004  69 FR 68053   
Exempted Senior Employee Positions and Agency Separate Components Designation Update Final Rule  03/08/2007  72 FR 10339   
Agency Separate Components Designation Update Final Rule  03/06/2008  73 FR 12007   
Overall Final Rule  06/25/2008  73 FR 36168   
Agency Separate Components Designation Update Final Rule  09/00/2009    
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: Federal 
Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Richard M. Thomas
Associate General Counsel
Office of Government Ethics
Suite 500, Suite 500, 1201 New York Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20005-3917
Phone:202 482-9300
TDD Phone:800 877-8339
Fax:202 482-9237