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PUBLIC LAW 89-554-SEPT. 6, 1966

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equal importance, difficulty, and responsibility, and requiring comparable qualifications. (17] Grade GS-17 includes those classes of positions the duties of which are— (A) to serve as the head of a bureau where the position, considering the kind and extent of the authorities and responsibilities vested in it, and the scope, complexity, and degree of difficulty of the activities carried on, is of a high order among the whole group of positions of heads of bureaus; (B) to plan and direct or to plan and execute professional, scientific, technical, administrative, fiscal, or other specialized programs of exceptional difficulty, responsibility, and national significance, requiring extended training and experience which has demonstrated exceptional leadership and attainments in professional, scientific, or technical research, practice, or administration, or in administrative, fiscal, or other specialized activities; or (C) to perform consulting or other professional, scientific, technical, administrative, fiscal, or other specialized work of equal importance, difficulty, and responsibility, and requiring comparable qualifications. (18) Grade GS-18 includes those classes of positions the duties of which are— (A) to serve as the head of a bureau where the position, considering the kind and extent of the authorities and responsibilities vested in it, and the scope, complexity, and degree of difficulty of the activities carried on, is exceptional and outstanding among the whole group of positions of heads of bureaus; (B) to plan and direct or to plan and execute frontier or unprecedented professional, scientific, technical, administrative, fiscal, or other specialized programs of outstanding difficulty, responsibility, and national significance, requiring extended training and experience which has demonstrated outstanding leadership and attainments in professional, scientific, or technical research, practice, or administration, or in administrative, fiscal, or other specialized activities; or (C) to perform consulting or other professional, scientific, technical, administrative, fiscal, or other specialized work of equal importance, difficulty, and responsibility, and requiring comparable qualifications. § 5105. Standards for classification of positions (a) The Civil Service Commission, after consulting the agencies, shall prepare standards for placing positions in their proper classes and grades. The Commission may make such inquiries or investigations of the duties, responsibilities, and qualification requirements of positions as it considers necessary for this purpose. The agencies, on request of the Commission, shall furnish information for and cooperate in the preparation of the standards. I n the standards, which shall be published in such form as the Commission may determine, the Commission shall— (1) define the various classes of positions in terms of duties, responsibilities, and qualification requirements; (2) establish the official class titles; and (3) set forth the grades in which the classes have been placed by the Commission.

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