---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 591.241"
title: "5"
number: "591.241"
heading: "What are the key activities of the COLA Advisory Committees?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/591.241"
---

# §591.241. What are the key activities of the COLA Advisory Committees?

- (a) **The COLA Advisory Committees may—**
  - (1) Advise and assist OPM in planning living-cost surveys;
  - (2) Provide or arrange for observers for data collection during living-cost surveys;
  - (3) Advise and assist OPM in the review of survey data;
  - (4) Advise OPM on its administration of the COLA program, including survey methodology; and
  - (5) Assist OPM in disseminating information to affected employees about the living-cost surveys and the COLA program.
- (b) The committees also may advise OPM on special situations or conditions, such as hurricanes and earthquakes, as they relate to OPM's authority under [§ 591.223(b)](/cfr/5/591.223.md?p=b) to conduct interim surveys or implement some other change in response to conditions caused by a natural disaster or similar emergency.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5941; E.O. 10000, 3 CFR, 1943-1948 Comp., p. 792; and E.O. 12510, 3 CFR, 1985 Comp., p. 338.

### Source

Source: 67 FR 22340, May 3, 2002, unless otherwise noted.