---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 295.101"
title: "5"
number: "295.101"
heading: "Scope and purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/295.101"
---

# §295.101. Scope and purpose.

- (a) This part sets forth policies and procedures you must follow when you submit a demand or request to an employee of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to produce official records and information, or provide testimony relating to official information, in connection with a legal proceeding. You must comply with these requirements when you request the release or disclosure of official records and information.
- (b) **OPM intends these provisions to—**
  - (1) Promote economy and efficiency in its programs and operations;
  - (2) Minimize the possibility of involving OPM in controversial issues not related to our functions;
  - (3) Prevent the misuse of OPM employees as involuntary expert witnesses for private interests or as inappropriate expert witnesses as to the state of the law;
  - (4) Maintain OPM's impartiality among private litigants where neither OPM nor any other Federal entity is a named party; and
  - (5) **Protect sensitive, confidential information and the deliberative processes of OPM.**
- (c) **In providing for these requirements, OPM does not waive the sovereign immunity of the United States.**
- (d) **This part provides guidance for the internal operations of OPM.** It does not create any right or benefits, substantive or procedural, that a party may rely upon in any legal proceeding against the United States.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. App. (Sec. 1103, Civil Service Reform Act of 1978; 31 U.S.C. 9701).

### Source

Source: 73 FR 58020, Oct. 6, 2008, unless otherwise noted.