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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00357R000600080022-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: August 11, 1975
• Content Type: REGULATION

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24. MANAGEMENT OF SPECIALLY QUALIFIED SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL
a. GENERAL. This section prescribes the general policies and re-
sponsibilities pertaining to the Agency's personnel management
and pay administration system orApe sonne a igne to selected
scientific positions associated with high priority national
intelligence requirements.
b. POLICY. It is Agency policy to attract, motivate and retain
highly competent scientific personnel. Within this Agency pool
of scientific personnel resources, a small percentage of such
individuals are governed by the provisions of a management and
pay system which provides for a Scientific Pay Schedule (SPS)
and specially designated scientific (SPS) positions. SPS employees
r A C A4-), V10L0G104(_ %'%r-- icy are specialists in the _es
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occupy one of the following categories of SPS positions:a'
(1) Scientific advisor to line management of a scientific research
and/or development organization that engages in either (a) ex-
ploratory research resulting in the discovery of new concepts,
phenomena and theories that provide the genesis for the develop-
ment of new technologies applicable to the intelligence process,
(b) application of new technological advances in the design,
development and fabrication of prototype hardware/software
systems, equipment, devices and techniques for intelligence
purposes or (c) analysis, evaluation and production of foreign
scientific intelligence, or
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(2) Team Leader, Project Manager or first line supervisor
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responsible for the technical management of research
projects which are within the framework and totality
of an office-wide research program and as characterized
in (1) above, or
(3) Combined advisory and technical manager positions with
responsibilities related to major scientific programs.
c. DESIGNATION OF SPS POSITIONS. .$ entif SSchedule
position will be designated on organizational staffing
complements by the normal title and occupational code used
for comparable General Schedule (GS) positions, with the
prefix "SPS" but excluding GS grade level equivalents, e.g.,
Physicist SPS-1310.04-00.
d. PAY RATES. The pay range for personnel i-ga9d--or. rromotad_
to-SP-&.-positi. will be from the minimum rate of GS-16, to
the highest rate of GS-18. Pay steps within the Scientific
Pay Schedule will be equated with pay steps for GS-16 through
GS-18 as indicated below:
Scientific Pay Schedule General Schedule
Steps (1) through (4) GS-16, Steps 1 through 4
Steps (5) through (8) GS-17, Steps 1 through 4
Step (9) GS-18
Pay applicable to SPS step rates will be automatically adjusted
on the basis of any future changes in the corresponding GS
step rates.
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e. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR SPS POSITIONS
Individuals considered for assignment to &ei-entifrc-
,Pay Schedule positions must show that they have
had- broad and significant ex-
perience in the major scientific field related to the
position, e.g., physics, chemistry, electrical engineer-
ing, medical, biological. This experience may have
been obtained in Government, private industry, academic
institutions, professional societies or organizations,
and must clearly show that the individual possesses a
comprehensive knowledge of the principles in admin-
istering scientific programs or in conducting research
or consultationF, Factors which are considered are
academic backround, publications of the applicant,
activities in professional societies, general reputation
in the scientific field, and present salary.
-The total experipnc(must reflect
dual possesses (a) ability of a very high
order to plan, organs ,direct and coordinate research
or other scieennt 'c programs o 'or importance; or
(b) exceiona.l ability to plan or conduct earch or
t roduce analytical results of a very,high order in
specialized branch of the scientific field.
f. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE. The
Director of Central Intelligence will
(1) establish SPS position ceilings for the Agency and for
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(4) approve appointments - signments-to SPS positions; '- -
(5) approve promotions from SPS step 4 to step 5 (equivalent to GS-16/4
each Directorate within the overall Agency staff manpower ceiling
authorized each fiscal year by the Congress and the Office of
Managemenr and Budget.
(2) authorize increases in the Agency ceiling for SPS positions with
the approval of the Office of Management and Budget;
(3) approve establishment of SPS positions within authorized. ceiling;
GS-17/1) and from step 8 to step 9 (equivalent to GS-17/4 and
GS-18/1)
RESPONSIBILITIES OF DEPUTY DIRECTORS. Deputy Directors will
(1) recommend to the Comptroller estimates of SPS positions and personnel
required for their respective areas as a part of budget submissions
and, when necessary, recommend any revision thereto;
(2) reqommen appointment with desired
salary rates, through the Director of Personnel, to the Director of
Central Intelligence for approval;
(3)' recommend promotions from SPS step 4 to step 5 and from step 8
to step 9, through the Director of Personnel, to the Director of
Central Intelligence for approval;
(4) recommend promotions to SPS steps 2 through 4 and 6 through 8
and submit to the Director of Personnel for approval and processing;
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A) take effective action to attract, motivate and retain competent
scientific personnel.
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h. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DIRECTOR OF PERSONNEL. The Director
of Personnel will
(1) determine that proposals for SPS positions included in
STATINTL staffing complements (see are consistent with
the mission and functions of an activity and require personnel
with special scientific qualifications of a level embraced
by the salary structure of the Scientific Pay Schedule;
(2) assist Deputy Directors in the recruitment and internal selec-
tion of qualified personnel to fill SPS positions;
(3)
document and evaluate the qualifications of proposed,\assignees
and?candidates for promotion in coordination with the appropriate
Deputy Director;
(4) determine appropriate individual pay rates, placing emphasis
on the qualifications and capabilities of the individual as they
relate to the scope and responsibility of duties to be performed;
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(5) ensure that-the Directorate ceilings-99i2 -personnei in SPS pa-
dons are not exceeded ..and -attach a.certification to
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this effect to every request forwa.r'ded to the Director of
Centra]..._.Inte7 ligence for- approval ;
(6) establish SPS positions on staffing complements upon approval
of the Director of Central Intelligence;
(7) recommend action to the Director of Central Intelligence on
all appointments s4ghmentsI and promotions of SPS personnel
from SPS step 4 to step 5 and from step 8 to step 9;
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(8) approve promotions to SPS steps 2 through 4 and steps 6 through 8,
submitted by Deputy Directors, and process appropriate actions;
(9) approve intra-Directorate transfers and deletions of SPS positions,
and recommend action on inter-Directorate transfers of SPS positions
to the DCI through the Comptroller.
i. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COMPTROLLER. The Comptroller will
(1) review buctget submission estimates of scientific personnel require-
ments to determine consistency with approved Agency missions, pro-
grams, overall personnel ceilings and budget considerations, and in
consonance with the Director of Personnel forward recommendations
to the DCI for increases in ceiling for scientific personnel which
would be in excess of the Agency SPS ceiling.
(2) `fird requests for reallocation of SPS ceiling between Directorates
the DCI,for appxgval.
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Suicidology Fellow, Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare:
Approved training after attainment
of doctorate---------------------
Approved training after a minimum
of one year of postdoctoral training- L-10
Approved training after a minimum of
two years of postdoctoral training- L-11
Approved training after a minimum
of three years of postdoctoral train-
ing----------------------------- L-12
Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling
Residents, U.S. Public Health Service
Hospital, Carville, Louisiana: Ap-
proved training after a minimum of
one year postgraduate training------ L-6
(c) Maximum stipends for positions in the
Public Health Service (a constituent agency
of the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare) in which duty requires intimate
contact with persons afflicted with leprosy
are increased above the rates prescribed in
paragraph (a) of this section to the same
extent- that additional pay is provided by
Public Health Service Regulations (42 CFR
22.1) for employees subject to the General
Schedule. (5 U.S.C. 5102)
Sec. 534.203 Stipends of trainees assigned
to Federal hospitals as affiliates. A trainee at
a non-Federal hospital assigned to a Federal
hospital as an affiliate for part of his training
may not receive a stipend from the Federal
hospital other than any maintenance provided.
Sec. 534.204 Agency requests for additional
exclusions. An agency may request the Com-
mission to:
(a) Exclude from chapter 51, subchapter III
of chapter 53, subchapter V of chapter 55,
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June 27, 1975
and sections 5504 and 6101 of title 5, United
States Code, positions in addition to those re-
ferred to in section 534.201 which are filled by
student employees who are assigned or attached
to a hospital, clinic, or medical or dental
laboratory; and
(b) Prescribe maximum stipends for such
positions.
The agency shall submit each request to the
Commission with full supporting information,
including complete identification of the posi-
tions concerned.
Sec. 534.205 Extent of regulations. Maxi-
mum stipends provided in section 534.202 apply
to any hospital, clinic, or medical or dental
laboratory, operated by any department,
agency, or instrumentality of the Federal
Government or by the District of Columbia,
unless rates of pay are otherwise provided by
law.
SUBPART C. SCIENTIFIC AND PRO-
FESSIONAL POSITIONS REQUIRING
SPECIALLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL
Sec. 534.301 Approval of agency pay deter-
minations and adjustments. Each rate of
pay fixed for a scientific or professional position
requiring specially qualified personnel under
section 5361 of title 5, United States Code, or
a similar statute, is subject to the prior approval
of the Commission. The prior approval of the
Commission is required for both original and
subsequent appointments to these positions, and
for the p y adjustment?for an incumbent or._..
such a position. When an agency requests the
approval of the Commission for a rate of pay
or a pay adjustment, it shall submit adequate
supporting information. (5 U.S.C. 5361)
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