---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 550.1601"
title: "5"
number: "550.1601"
heading: "Purpose and authority."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/550.1601"
---

# §550.1601. Purpose and authority.


This subpart contains OPM regulations to implement section 2 of the Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 113-277), which added [section 5550](/cfr/5/5550.md) in [title 5](/cfr/5.md), United States Code, and made related statutory amendments. The Act created a special overtime pay program for Border Patrol agents in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection component within the Department of Homeland Security. OPM has authority under [5 U.S.C. 5548(a)](/usc/5/5548.md?p=a) to regulate subchapter V (Premium Pay) of chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code, including [section 5550](/cfr/5/5550.md) and the Act's amendments to sections [5542](/cfr/5/5542.md) and [5547](/cfr/5/5547.md). OPM was also granted broad authority to promulgate necessary regulations to carry out the Act and the amendments made by the Act under [section 2(h)](/cfr/5/2.md?p=h) of the Act.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5548 and 5550(b)(1)(B) and (d)(1)(B); section 2(h), Pub. L. 113-277, 128 Stat. 3005.

### Source

Source: 80 FR 58112, Sept. 25, 2015, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 33 FR 12458, Sept. 4, 1968, unless otherwise noted.