Message to the Congress Transmitting a Report on the Exclusion of Certain Federal Employees From the Performance Management and Recognition System
To the Congress of the United States:
Supervisors and management officials in GS-13, 14, and 15 positions throughout the Federal government are covered by the Performance Management and Recognition System as required by Chapter 54, Title 5, U.S. Code, unless otherwise excluded by law.
Upon proper application from the heads of affected agencies and upon the recommendation of the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, I have excluded, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5402(b)(1), three agencies, units of agencies, and classes of employees from coverage under the Performance Management and Recognition System.
In accordance with Section 205(d) of P.L. 98-615, any agency or unit of an agency that was excluded from merit pay immediately prior to enactment of this legislation is excluded from coverage under the Performance Management and Recognition System for the 12-month period beginning on the date of enactment. However, such exclusion may be revoked at any time in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5402(b)(5). Upon request of the heads of the affected agencies and upon recommendation of the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, I have revoked the exclusion of seven agencies and units of agencies so that they may implement the Performance Management and Recognition System in fiscal year 1986.
Attached is my report describing the agencies to be excluded and the reasons therefor. I am also providing the names of those agencies for which the exclusion is revoked.
RONALD REAGAN
The White House,
October 30, 1985.
Note: The exclusions affected certain employees of the Board of Veterans Appeals, Veterans Administration; NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe; NATO International Staff (Evere, Belgium); NATO Integrated Communications System Management Agency; NATO Supply Center (Cappellen, Luxembourg); SHAPE. and the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior. The revocations of exclusions affected the Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation,. the Committee for Purchase from the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped; the Commission of Fine Arts; the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; the Japan-United States Friendship Commission; the Office of Hearings and Appeals, Department of the Interior; and the United States Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.
Ronald Reagan, Message to the Congress Transmitting a Report on the Exclusion of Certain Federal Employees From the Performance Management and Recognition System Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/259525