5500.7 (incl 7) Aug 8, 67

Ixtraot From Appendix C. of Civil Service Federal Itersonnel Manual System on Special Government Employees (Including TJuidelines for Obtaining and Utilizing the Services of Special Government Employees)

Bach department and agency should observe the following rules in obtaining and utilizing the services of a consultant, adviser, or other temporary or Intermittent employee:

(a) At the time of his original appointment and the time of each appointment thereafter, the department or agency should make its best estimate of the number of days during the following 365 days on which it will require the services of the appointee. X part of a day should be counted as a full day for the purposes of this estimate, and a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday on which duty is to be performed should be coanted equally with a regular work day.

(b) Unless otherwise provided by law, an appointment should not extend for more than 365 days. When an appointment extends beyond that period, an estimate as required by paragraph (a) should be made at the Inception of the appointment and a new estimate at the expiration of each 365 days thereafter.

(c) If a department or agency estimates, pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b), that an appointee will serve more than 130 days during the ensuing 365 days, the appointee should not be carried on the rolls as a special Government employee and the department or agency should Instruct him that he is regarded as subject to the prohibitions of 18 U.8.C. 203 and 335 to the same extent as if he were to serve as a fulltime employee. If the estimate Is that he will serve no more than

130 days during the following 365 days, he should be carried on the rolls of the department or agency as a special Government employee and instructed that he is regarded as subject only to the restrictions of 18 U.S.C. 203 and 20$. Even if it becomes apparent, prior to the end of a period of 365 days for which a department or agency has made an estimate on an appointee, that he has not been accurately classified, he should nevertheless continue to be considered a special Government employee or not, as the case may be, for the remainder of that 365-day period.

(d) An employee who undertakes service with two departments or agencies shall Inform each of his arrangements with the other. If both his appointments are made on the same date, the. aggregate of the