330.204—Eligibility due to compensable injury.
(a)
A competitive service employee in tenure group I or II who is separated (or who accepts a lower graded position in lieu of separation) because of a compensable injury of disability (as defined in part 353 of this chapter) who has fully recovered more than 1 year after compensation began is entitled to be placed on the RPL provided the individual applies within the timeframes addressed in § 330.202. Part 353 of this chapter contains information on eligibility.
(b)
A former tenure group I employee is eligible for the RPL for 2 years, and a former tenure group II employee is eligible for 1 year, from the date the individual is entered on the RPL. An individual is taken off the RPL before the period of eligibility expires when the individual:
(2)
Receives a career, career-conditional, or excepted appointment without time limit in any agency; or
(3)
Declines an offer or fails to respond to an inquiry of availability about a specific position that is the same as or equivalent to the position from which separated.
(c)
A former employee must request reemployment consideration with the time limits set in § 330.202.