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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

92 STAT. 1152

PUBLIC LAW 95-454—OCT. 13, 1978 (b) The table of sections for chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 3326 the following new item: "3327. Civil service employment information." MINORITY RECRUITMENT

PROGRAM

SEC. 310. Section 7151 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking out.the section heading and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "§7151. Antidiscrimination policy; minority recruitment program"; (2) by inserting after such section heading the following new subsection: "(a) For the purpose of this section— "Underrepres" (1) 'underrepresentation' means a situation in which the numentation." jjgj. of members of a minority group designation (determined by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in consultation with the Office of Personnel Management, on the basis of the policy set forth in subsection (b) of this section) within a category of civil service employment constitutes a lowei' percentage of the total number of employees within the employment category than the percentage that the minority constituted within the labor force of the United States, as determined under the most recent decennial or mid-decade census, or current population survey, under title 13, and "Category of civil " (2) 'category of civil service employment' means— service "(A) each grade of the General Schedule described in ^"jPWment," section 5104 of this title; 5 USC 5341 "(I^) 6^ch position subject to subchapter IV of chapter 53 of this title; "(C) such occupational, professional, or other groupings • '

(including occupational series) within the categories established under subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this paragraph as the Office determines appropriate."; (3) by inserting " (b)" before "It is the policy"; and (4) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(c) Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the Ante, p. 1111. Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, the Office of Personnel Management shall, by regulation, implement a minority recruitment program which shall provide, to the maximum extent practicable— "(1) that each Executive agency conduct a continuing program for the recruitment of members of minorities for positions in the agency to carry out the policy set forth in subsection (b) in a manner designed to eliminate underrepresentation of minorities in the various categories of civil service employment within the Federal service, with special efforts directed at recruiting in minority communities, in educational institutions, and from other sources from which minorities can be recruited; and " (2) that the Office conduct a continuing program of— " (A) assistance to agencies in carrying, out programs under paragraph (1) of this subsection, and "(B) evaluation and oversight and such recruitment pro'

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grams to determine their effectiveness in eliminating such .£Olt..fcH.ic j • minority underrepresentation.