---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 3501.101"
title: "5"
number: "3501.101"
heading: "General."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/3501.101"
---

# §3501.101. General.

- (a) In accordance with [5 CFR 2635.105](/cfr/5/2635.105.md), the regulations in this part apply to employees of the Department of the Interior and supplement the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch contained in [5 CFR part 2635](/cfr/5/part2635.md). In addition to the regulations in [5 CFR part 2635](/cfr/5/part2635.md) and this part, employees of the Department are subject to the employee responsibilities and conduct regulations at [5 CFR part 735](/cfr/5/part735.md); the executive branch financial disclosure regulations at [5 CFR part 2634](/cfr/5/part2634.md); and the Department's employee responsibilities and conduct regulations at [43 CFR part 20](/cfr/43/part20.md).
- (b) **Definitions.** As used in this part:
  - (1) Department means the U.S. Department of the Interior and any of its components.
  - (2) Bureau means each major program operating component of the Department, the Office of the Secretary, the Office of the Solicitor, and the Office of the Inspector General.
  - (3) Ethics Counselor means the head of each bureau, except that the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy is the Ethics Counselor for employees within the Office of the Secretary.
  - (4) Deputy Ethics Counselor means the bureau personnel officer or other qualified headquarters employee who has been delegated responsibility for the operational duties of the Ethics Counselor for the bureau.
- (c) **Bureau instructions.** With the concurrence of the Designated Agency Ethics Official, each Ethics Counselor is authorized, consistent with [5 CFR 2635.105(c)](/cfr/5/2635.105.md?p=c), to issue explanatory guidance and establish procedures necessary to implement this part and [part 2635 of this title](/cfr/5/part2635.md) for his or her bureau.

## Notes

### Amendments

[62 FR 53718, Oct. 16, 1997, as amended at 63 FR 34259, June 24, 1998]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 7301; 5 U.S.C. App. (Ethics in Government Act of 1978); 30 U.S.C. 1211; 43 U.S.C. 11, 31(a); E.O. 12674, 3 CFR, 1989 Comp., p. 215, as modified by E.O. 12731, 3 CFR, 1990 Comp., p. 306; 5 CFR 2635.105, 2635.203(a), 2635.403(a), 2635.502, 2635.803, 2635.807.

### Source

Source: 62 FR 53718, Oct. 16, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[62 FR 53718, Oct. 16, 1997, as amended at 63 FR 34259, June 24, 1998]