Shared Certificates and Pooled Hiring Actions

What it does

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing an interim rule to improve hiring efficiency across federal agencies, modify provisions pertaining to how an appointing authority (i.e., the head of a Federal agency or department) may share a competitive certificate with one or more appointing authorities, implement provisions to allow an appointing authority to share an excepted service certificate with one or more appointing authorities, and implement provisions regarding OPM-led hiring actions which allow federal agencies to utilize competitive and excepted service certificates for occupations common to many agencies.

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

What changed in the regulation

3 parts of Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

5 CFR 302, 5 CFR 332, 5 CFR 337

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

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 3206-AO24 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Effective date. This interim rule is effective October 15, 2026,

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket OPM-2017-0004 on Regulations.gov
• Title 5 on eCFR

The record as published

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