CFR > Title 5 - Administrative Personnel > CHAPTER I—OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT > SUBCHAPTER B—CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS (parts 110 to 990) > PART 575—RECRUITMENT, RELOCATION, AND RETENTION INCENTIVES; SUPERVISORY DIFFERENTIALS; AND EXTENDED ASSIGNMENT INCENTIVES > SUBPART B—Relocation Incentives (§575.201 to §575.214) > 575.203—Eligible categories of employees.

575.203—Eligible categories of employees.

(a) Except as provided in § 575.204, an Executive agency may pay a relocation incentive to an employee in the following categories of positions:
(1) A General Schedule position paid under 5 U.S.C. 5332 or 5305 (or similar special rate authority);
(2) A senior-level or scientific or professional position paid under 5 U.S.C. 5376 ;
(3) A Senior Executive Service position paid under 5 U.S.C. 5383 or a Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration Senior Executive Service position paid under 5 U.S.C. 3151 ;
(4) A position as a law enforcement officer, as defined in 5 CFR 550.103 ;
(5) A position under the Executive Schedule paid under 5 U.S.C. 5311-531 7 or a position the rate of pay for which is fixed by law at a rate equal to a rate for the Executive Schedule;
(6) A prevailing rate position, as defined in 5 U.S.C. 5342(a)(3); or
(7) Any other position in a category for which payment of relocation incentives has been approved by OPM at the request of the head of an executive agency.
(b) Except as provided in § 575.204, a legislative agency may pay a relocation incentive to an employee in a General Schedule position paid under 5 U.S.C. 5332 or 5305 (or similar special rate authority).

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[70 FR 25743, May 13, 2005, as amended at 72 FR 67838, Dec. 3, 2007]