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[CITE: 5USC4118]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                     Subpart C--Employee Performance
 
                          CHAPTER 41--TRAINING
 
Sec. 4118. Regulations

    (a) The Office of Personnel Management, after considering the needs 
and requirements of each agency for training its employees and after 
consulting with the agencies principally concerned, shall prescribe 
regulations containing the principles, standards, and related 
requirements for the programs, and plans thereunder, for the training of 
employees under this chapter, including requirements for coordination of 
and reasonable uniformity in the agency training programs and plans. The 
regulations shall provide for the maintenance of necessary information 
concerning the general conduct of the training activities of each 
agency, and such other information as is necessary to enable the 
President and Congress to discharge effectively their respective duties 
and responsibilities for supervision, control, and review of these 
training programs. The regulations also shall cover--
        (1) requirements concerning the determination and continuing 
    review by each agency of its training needs and requirements;
        (2) the scope and conduct of the agency training programs and 
    plans;
        (3) the selection and assignment of employees of each agency for 
    training;
        (4) the use in each agency of the services of employees who have 
    undergone training;
        (5) the evaluation of the results and effects of the training 
    programs and plans;
        (6) the interchange of training information among the agencies;
        (7) the submission of reports by the agencies on results and 
    effects of training programs and plans and economies resulting 
    therefrom, including estimates of costs of training;
        (8) requirements and limitations necessary with respect to 
    payments and reimbursements in accordance with section 4109 of this 
    title; and
        (9) other matters considered appropriate or necessary by the 
    Office to carry out the provisions of this chapter.

    (b) The Office, in accordance with this chapter, may revise, 
supplement, or abolish regulations prescribed under this section, and 
prescribe additional regulations.
    (c) This section does not authorize the Office to prescribe the 
types and methods of intra-agency training or to regulate the details of 
intra-agency training programs.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 438; Pub. L. 95-454, title IX, 
Sec. 906(a)(2), (3), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1224; Pub. L. 103-226, 
Sec. 2(a)(9), Mar. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 112.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                                                    Revised Statutes and
     Derivation                U.S. Code             Statutes at Large
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                     5 U.S.C. 2305.                July 7, 1958, Pub. L.
                                                    85-507, Sec.  6, 72
                                                    Stat. 329.
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    In subsection (a), the word ``appropriate'' is omitted as 
unnecessary. The words ``with respect to training by, in, and through 
Government facilities and non-Government facilities'' are omitted as 
unnecessary.
    In subsection (b)(2) and (3), the words ``by, in, or through a non-
Government facility'' are omitted as unnecessary in view of the previous 
reference in the subsection.
    In subsection (c), the words ``From time to time'' are omitted as 
unnecessary.
    In subsection (d), the prohibition is restated in positive form.
    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a)(7). Pub. L. 103-226, Sec. 2(a)(9)(A), struck out 
before semicolon at end ``by, in, and through non-Government 
facilities''.
    Subsecs. (b) to (d). Pub. L. 103-226, Sec. 2(a)(9)(B), (C), 
redesignated subsecs. (c) and (d) as (b) and (c), respectively, and 
struck out former subsec. (b) which read as follows: ``In addition to 
the matters set forth by subsection (a) of this section, the 
regulations, concerning training of employees by, in, or through non-
Government facilities, shall--
        ``(1) prescribe general policies governing the selection of a 
    non-Government facility to provide training;
        ``(2) authorize training of employees only after the head of the 
    agency concerned determines that adequate training for employees by, 
    in, or through a Government facility is not reasonably available, 
    and that consideration has been given to the existing or reasonably 
    foreseeable availability and use of fully trained employees; and
        ``(3) prohibit training an employee for the purpose of filling a 
    position by promotion if there is in the agency concerned another 
    employee, of equal ability and suitability, fully qualified to fill 
    the position and available at, or within a reasonable distance from, 
    the place where the duties of the position are to be performed.''
    1978--Subsecs. (a), (c), (d). Pub. L. 95-454 substituted ``Office of 
Personnel Management'' and ``Office'' for ``Civil Service Commission'' 
and ``Commission'', respectively, wherever appearing.


                    Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 95-454 effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, 
see section 907 of Pub. L. 95-454, set out as a note under section 1101 
of this title.


                       Central Intelligence Agency

    Exception of Central Intelligence Agency from provisions of this 
section and certain other provisions of this chapter and section 1308 of 
this title, see Ex. Ord. No. 10805, Feb. 18, 1959, 24 F.R. 1301, set out 
as a note under section 4102 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 4103, 4107, 4108, 4109 of 
this title.
