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Operating Status: OGE is affected by the lapse in appropriations.

To learn more read our lapse plan here. Please note, OGE continues to review financial disclosure reports of Presidential nominees to positions requiring Senate confirmation.

Related Guidance for Federal Employees:
LA-18-16: Ethics Laws and Regulations Continue to Apply to Federal Government Employees during Furlough Periods
LA-19-01 : Ethics Guidance for Employees in Non-Pay Status During a Lapse in Appropriations
This FAQ provides guidance for those employees who participated in the Deferred Resignation Program or who are in other extended leave status.



64 FR 49639: Revisions to the Public Financial Disclosure Gifts Waiver Provision

September 14, 1999

The Office of Government Ethics is amending portions of the executive branch regulation which allows the OGE Director to grant a waiver of certain gift disclosure requirements for filers of the public financial disclosure report form, SF 278. The amendments permit the grant of a waiver in appropriate cases, if the basis of the relationship between the grantor and grantee of a gift and the motivation behind a gift are personal. The changes also clarify that the cover letter requesting a waiver will be publicly available if the Director of OGE approves the waiver request, either in whole or in part. Additionally, the amendments expressly require that a description of the gift and its value be included in a waiver request. Finally, the changes explicitly require that the information required to be in a waiver request pertaining to the donor must include the necessary information for each donor when a gift has multiple donors.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1999-09-14/pdf/99-23930.pdf