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06x5: Denial of Request for Ad Hoc Exemption from One-Year Cooling-Off Period in 18 U.S.C. § 207(c)

March 30, 2006

OGE discusses the extent of its authority to waive the application of the one-year cooling-off period to a particular position or category of positions. OGE denied the request for a waiver to permit former senior employees to make representational contacts with current employees of their former agencies who happen to be on detail to another agency.

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