Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service, and Recruitment and Relocation Incentive Waivers; Correcting Amendments

What it does

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is correcting technical and conforming errors arising from two recent final rules: "Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service," published February 6, 2026 and effective March 9, 2026, and "Recruitment and Relocation Incentive Waivers," published December 15, 2025 and effective February 13, 2026. The corrections make no substantive change to the regulations.

The Personnel Management Office's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

5 CFR 575

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Personnel Management Office has published 29 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 14 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

4 earlier Federal Register documents under regulation identifier 3206-AO36, 3206-AO80 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• Feb. 6, 2026 Final rule. Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
• Dec. 15, 2025 Final rule. Recruitment and Relocation Incentive Waivers
• May 23, 2025 Proposed rule; extension of comment period. Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
• April 23, 2025 Proposed rule. Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service

What happens next and when

Effective August 25, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket OPM-2025-0004 on Regulations.gov
• Title 5 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register