---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 C.F.R. § 302.4"
title: "44"
number: "302.4"
heading: "Merit personnel systems."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/44/302.4"
---

# §302.4. Merit personnel systems.

- (a) **Background.** Section 208 of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act, as amended ([42 U.S.C. 4728](/usc/42/4728.md)) authorizes Federal agencies to require, as a condition of participation in Federal assistance programs, systems of a personnel administration consistent with personnel standards prescribed by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). OPM has promulgated Standards for a System of Personnel Administration ([5 CFR part 900](/cfr/5/part900.md)) which prescribe intergovernmental personnel standards on a merit basis as a condition of eligibility in the administration of grant programs. OPM has approved FEMA adoption of these standards by the regulations in this part.
- (b) **Standard.** Participation by each grantee and each subgrantee under the program covered in this part is subject to compliance with the following conditions regarding merit personnel systems:

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 50 U.S.C. app. 2251 et seq. Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978; E.O. 12148.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 44211, Sept. 28, 1983, unless otherwise noted.