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[CITE: 5USC3349]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart B--Employment and Retention
 
            CHAPTER 33--EXAMINATION, SELECTION, AND PLACEMENT
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--DETAILS, VACANCIES, AND APPOINTMENTS
 
Sec. 3349. Reporting of vacancies

    (a) The head of each Executive agency (including the Executive 
Office of the President, and other than the General Accounting Office) 
shall submit to the Comptroller General of the United States and to each 
House of Congress--
        (1) notification of a vacancy in an office to which this section 
    and sections 3345, 3346, 3347, 3348, 3349a, 3349b, 3349c, and 3349d 
    apply and the date such vacancy occurred immediately upon the 
    occurrence of the vacancy;
        (2) the name of any person serving in an acting capacity and the 
    date such service began immediately upon the designation;
        (3) the name of any person nominated to the Senate to fill the 
    vacancy and the date such nomination is submitted immediately upon 
    the submission of the nomination; and
        (4) the date of a rejection, withdrawal, or return of any 
    nomination immediately upon such rejection, withdrawal, or return.

    (b) If the Comptroller General of the United States makes a 
determination that an officer is serving longer than the 210-day period 
including the applicable exceptions to such period under section 3346 or 
section 3349a, the Comptroller General shall report such determination 
immediately to--
        (1) the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate;
        (2) the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of the 
    House of Representatives;
        (3) the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of 
    Representatives;
        (4) the appropriate committees of jurisdiction of the Senate and 
    House of Representatives;
        (5) the President; and
        (6) the Office of Personnel Management.

(Added Pub. L. 105-277, div. C, title I, Sec. 151(b), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 
Stat. 2681-614.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 3349, Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 426, 
provided for restrictions relating to details to fill vacancies, prior 
to repeal by Pub. L. 105-277, div. C, title I, Sec. 151(b), (d)(1), Oct. 
21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-611, 2681-616, effective 30 days after Oct. 21, 
1998. See section 3347 of this title.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of House of 
Representatives changed to Committee on Government Reform of House of 
Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Sixth Congress, 
Jan. 6, 1999.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective 30 days after Oct. 21, 1998, and applicable to any 
office that becomes vacant after such effective date, with certain 
exceptions, see section 151(d) of Pub. L. 105-277, set out as a note 
under section 3345 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 3345, 3348, 3349b, 3349c, 
3349d of this title.
