INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING NOMINATIONS FOR THE PRESIDENT'S AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED FEDERAL CIVILIAN SERVICE

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• Document Release Date: June 29, 1998
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• Publication Date: January 16, 1958
• Content Type: REGULATION

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING NOMINATIONS
FOR THE
PRESIDENT'S AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED FEDERAL CIVILIAN SERVICE
Executive Order 10,717 dated June 27, 1957, establishes the President's
Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service and provides that not more
than 5 such Awards Shall be made in any one year. The Order also created the
'President's Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board. The Board is directed
to review recommendations for the Award and decide which of them, if any, war-
rant presentation to the President for his consideration.
The Board has approved the following instructions for submitting nomina-
tions for the Award.
aRITERIA TO BE MET FOR NOMINATIONS
The Exevutive Order establishes these two criteria:
tt(a)
"(b)
The significance and importance of the contribution to the govern-
ment and the public interest shall be so outstanding or exceptional
that in the opinion of the Board, the officer or employee is deserv-
ing of greater public commendation and official recognition than that
which can be accorded by the head of the department or agency in which
he is employed."
Awards shall be made only to civilian career officers or employees of
the government, or to officers or employees whose Federal service, in
the opinion of the Board, can be reasonably considered as carper Serv-
ice.'
In applying criteria (a) above, departments and agencies should consider that
1. The contribution is of such fundamental importance to the people of
the United States that recognition from the highest representative of
the people is Obviously appropriate, or
2. The contribution consists of several highly exceptional achievements
accomplished at various times in the employee's career and that, in
total, deserve much higher recognition than can be given by a depart-
ment or agency.
WHO SHALL MAKE THE NOMINATIONS
The Executive Order provides that the nominations shall be made personally
by the head of the department or agency in which the proposed recipient oe the
Award is employed.
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WHAT SHALL BE INCLUDED IN THE. NOMINATIONS
1. Nominations shall contain a full justification in support of the recom-
mendation based on the criteria cited above.
2. The record of the employee's contribution should include both tangible
and intangible benefits.
There shall be included a statement describing any other awards received
by the employee.,
I. Identification of the employee's position along with a deacription of
his duties and responsibilities and a brief outline of his Federal oa..
reer should be included,
A proposed citation of approximately 50 to 75 words may be included for
consideration if the Award is made.
6. The nomination, with all necessary information, shall be submitted in
6 copies so that each member of the Board may have a copy to review.
NOTE: Departments and agencies are in no way restrained from making Awards
themselves to any employees who are being nominated for the President's
Award.
WHEN SHALL THE NOMINATIONS BE MADE
To be considered for the Award this year, nominations must be received
by the Board no later than October 1, 1958.
WHERE SHALL THE NOMINATIONS BE SENT
Nominations are to be sumbitted to the
Honorable Harris Ellsworth
Executive Secretary of the
President's Distinguished Civilian
Service Awards Board
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Washington, D. C.
PUBLICITY
No information is to be released on the nominations for the Award. -After
the President has made the Awards, departments and agencies should give the
widest possible publicity to the recipients of the Awards.
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Awarded 16 January 1958
JHEDPRESIDENT'S AWARD FOR DISTINGUI FEDERAL CIVILIAN SERVICE
LOT W. W. HENDERSON, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
STERLING B. HENDRICKS, Chief Chemist, Agriculture's Pioneering
Research Laboratory for Mineral Nutrition of Plants
JOHN EDGAR HOOVER, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
ROGER W. JONES, Assistant Director for Legislative Reference,
Bureau of the Budget
WILLIAM B. McLEAN, Technical Director, U.S. Naval Ordnance Test
Station (China Lake, Calif.)
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