TITLE 5 - ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL

CHAPTER I - OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

SUBCHAPTER B - CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS

PART 841 - FEDERAL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

subpart d - GOVERNMENT COSTS

841.412 - Rates determined by appeal.

  (a) If the Board finds that a different normal cost is warranted based on an agency appeal, it will establish a single agency rate for the category of employees in that agency.

  (b) The single agency rate will be effective at the beginning of the first pay period beginning 30 days after the date of the Board's decision.

  (c) A single agency rate may be higher or lower than the Government-wide rate and will remain in force for not less than 3 years.

  (d) After a single agency rate has been in force for at least 3 years, OPM may (1) Require, no more often than annually, that the agency justify continuation of the rate; and/or (2) When it publishes a notice of normal cost percentages under 841.407, terminate the single agency rate.