---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 300.301"
title: "5"
number: "300.301"
heading: "Authority."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/300.301"
---

# §300.301. Authority.

- (a) In accordance with [5 U.S.C. 3341](/usc/5/3341.md), an agency may detail an employee in the competitive service to a position in either the competitive or excepted service.
- (b) In accordance with [5 U.S.C. 3341](/usc/5/3341.md), an agency may detail an employee in the excepted service to a position in the excepted service and may also detail an excepted service employee serving under Schedule A, Schedule B, Schedule D, or a Veterans Recruitment Appointment to a position in the competitive service.
- (c) Any other detail of an employee in the excepted service to a position in the competitive service may be made only with the prior approval of the Office of Personnel Management or under a delegated agreement between the agency and OPM.

## Notes

### Amendments

[60 FR 3057, Jan. 13, 1995, as amended at 70 FR 72066, Dec. 1, 2005; 89 FR 25769, Apr. 12, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552, 2301, 2302, 3301, and 3302; E.O. 10577, 19 FR 7521, 3 CFR 1954-1958 Comp., p. 218, unless otherwise noted. Secs. 300.101 through 300.104 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 7201, 7204, and 7701; E.O. 11478, 34 FR 12985, 3 CFR 1966-1970 Comp., p. 803; E.O. 13087, 63 FR 30097, 3 CFR 1998 Comp., p. 191; and E.O. 13152, 65 FR 26115, 3 CFR 2000 Comp., p. 264. Sec. 300.301 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 3341 and E.O. 13562, 75 FR 82585, 3 CFR 2010 Comp., p. 291. Secs. 300.401 through 300.408 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 1302(c). Secs. 300.501 through 300.507 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 1103(a)(5). Sec. 300.603 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 1104.

### Amendments

[60 FR 3057, Jan. 13, 1995, as amended at 70 FR 72066, Dec. 1, 2005; 89 FR 25769, Apr. 12, 2024]