---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 410.101"
title: "5"
number: "410.101"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/410.101"
---

# §410.101. Definitions.


In this part:

- (a) **Agency, employee, Government, Government facility,—** and non-Government facility have the meanings given these terms in [section 4101](/usc/5/4101.md) of title 5, United States Code.
- (b) **Exceptions to organizations and employees covered by this subpart include—**
  - (1) Those named in [section 4102](/usc/5/4102.md) of title 5, United States Code, and
  - (2) The U.S. Postal Service and Postal Rate Commission and their employees, as provided in Pub. L. 91-375, enacted August 12, 1970.
- (c) **Training—** has the meaning given to the term in [section 4101](/usc/5/4101.md) of title 5, United States Code.
- (d) **Mission-related training—** is training that supports agency goals by improving organizational performance at any appropriate level in the agency, as determined by the head of the agency. This includes training that:
  - (1) Supports the agency's strategic plan and performance objectives;
  - (2) Improves an employee's current job performance;
  - (3) Allows for expansion or enhancement of an employee's current job;
  - (4) Enables an employee to perform needed or potentially needed duties outside the current job at the same level of responsibility; or
  - (5) Meets organizational needs in response to human resource plans and re-engineering, downsizing, restructuring, and/or program changes.
- (e) Retraining means training and development provided to address an individual's skills obsolescence in the current position and/or training and development to prepare an individual for a different occupation, in the same agency, in another Government agency, or in the private sector.
- (f) **Continued service agreement—** has the meaning given to service agreements in [section 4108](/usc/5/4108.md) of title 5, United States Code.
- (g) Interagency training means training provided by one agency for other agencies or shared by two or more agencies.
- (h) **State and local government—** have the meanings given to these terms by [section 4762](/usc/42/4762.md) of title 42, United States Code.
- (i) **Established contact hours—** are the number of academic credit hours assigned to a course(s) times the number of weeks in a term times the number of terms required to complete the degree.

## Notes

### Amendments

[61 FR 66193, Dec. 17, 1996, as amended at 69 FR 33276, June 15, 2004]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 1103(c), 2301, 2302, 4101, et seq.; E.O. 11348, 3 CFR, 1967 Comp., p. 275, E.O. 11478, 3 CFR 1966-1970 Comp., page 803, unless otherwise noted, E.O. 13087; and E.O. 13152.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 66193, Dec. 17, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[61 FR 66193, Dec. 17, 1996, as amended at 69 FR 33276, June 15, 2004]