May 13, 1999
The Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is proposing to amend the regulation which authorizes the Director of OGE to grant a waiver of certain gift disclosure requirements for filers of the public financial disclosure report form, SF 278. The proposed amendments would 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 proposed changes also would 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 proposed amendments would expressly require that a description of the gift and its value be included in a waiver request. Finally, the proposed changes would explicitly require that when a gift has multiple donors, the information required to be in a waiver request pertaining to the donor must include the necessary information for each donor.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1999-05-13/pdf/99-12047.pdf