5 CFR § 330.211 - Exceptions to RPL placement priority.
---identifier: "/us/cfr/t5/s330.211"source: "ecfr"legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"title: "5 CFR § 330.211 - Exceptions to RPL placement priority."title_number: 5title_name: "Administrative Personnel"section_number: "330.211"section_name: "Exceptions to RPL placement priority."chapter_name: "OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT"subchapter_number: "B"subchapter_name: "CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS"part_number: "330"part_name: "RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, AND PLACEMENT (GENERAL)"positive_law: falsecurrency: "2026-04-05"last_updated: "2026-04-05"format_version: "1.1.0"generator: "[email protected]"authority: "5 U.S.C. 1104, 1302, 3301, 3302, 3304, and 3330; E.O. 10577, 3 CFR, 1954-58 Comp., p. 218; Section 330.103 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 3327; Subpart B also issued under 5 U.S.C. 3315 and 8151; Section 330.401 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 3310; Subparts F and G also issued under Presidential Memorandum on Career Transition Assistance for Federal Employees, September 12, 1995; Subpart G also issued under 5 U.S.C. 8337(h) and 8456(b). § 330.1301 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 9201-9206 and Pub. L. 116-92, sec. 1122(b)(1)."regulatory_source: "75 FR 67593, Nov. 3, 2010, unless otherwise noted."cfr_part: "330"---
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/us/cfr/t5/s330.211
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2026-04-05
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2026-04-05
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Office of Personnel Management
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5 U.S.C. 1104, 1302, 3301, 3302, 3304, and 3330; E.O. 10577, 3 CFR, 1954-58 Comp., p. 218; Section 330.103 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 3327; Subpart B also issued under 5 U.S.C. 3315 and 8151; Section ... 5 U.S.C. 1104, 1302, 3301, 3302, 3304, and 3330; E.O. 10577, 3 CFR, 1954-58 Comp., p. 218; Section 330.103 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 3327; Subpart B also issued under 5 U.S.C. 3315 and 8151; Section 330.401 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 3310; Subparts F and G also issued under Presidential Memorandum on Career Transition Assistance for Federal Employees, September 12, 1995; Subpart G also issued under 5 U.S.C. 8337(h) and 8456(b). § 330.1301 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 9201-9206 and Pub. L. 116-92, sec. 1122(b)(1).
# 330.211 Exceptions to RPL placement priority.An agency may effect the following personnel actions as exceptions to § 330.210:(a) Fill a vacancy with an employee of the agency's current permanent competitive service workforce through detail or position change, subject to the requirements of subpart F of this part;(b) Appoint a 10-point preference eligible through an appropriate appointing authority;(c) Appoint a current or former employee exercising restoration rights under part 353 of this chapter based on return from military service or recovery from a compensable injury or disability within 1 year;(d) Appoint a current or former employee exercising other statutory or regulatory reemployment rights;(e) Fill a specific position when all RPL placement priority candidates decline an offer of the position or fail to respond to a written agency inquiry about their availability;(f) Convert an employee serving under an appointment that provides noncompetitive conversion eligibility to a competitive service appointment, including from:(1) A Veterans Recruitment Appointment under part 307 of this chapter;(2) An appointment under 5 U.S.C. 3112 and part 316 of this chapter of a veteran with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more; and(3) An excepted service appointment under part 213 of this chapter;(g) Reappoint without a break in service to the same position currently held by an employee serving under a temporary appointment of 1 year or less (only to another temporary appointment not to exceed 1 year or less);(h) Extend an employee's temporary or term appointment up to the maximum permitted by the appointment authority or as authorized by OPM; or(i) Appoint an individual under an excepted service appointing authority.[75 FR 67593, Nov. 3, 2010, as amended at 77 FR 28215, May 11, 2012]