---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 3330"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "3330"
heading: "Government-wide list of vacant positions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/3330"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart B — Employment and Retention"
  - "Chapter 33 — Examination, Selection, and Placement"
  - "Subchapter I — Examination, Certification, and Appointment"
---

# §3330. Government-wide list of vacant positions

- (a) For the purpose of this section, the term “[agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1)” means an [Executive agency](/usc/5/6501.md?p=2), excluding the [Government](/usc/5/4101.md?p=3) Accountability [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) and any [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) (or unit thereof) whose principal function is the conduct of foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities, as determined by the President.
- (b) The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management shall establish and keep current a comprehensive list of all announcements of vacant [positions](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) in the competitive [service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26) within each [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) that are to be filled by appointment for more than one year and for which applications are being (or will soon be) accepted from outside the [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1)’s work force.
- (c) Included for any [position](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) listed shall be—
  - (1) a brief description of the [position](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3), including its title, tenure, location, and rate of [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4);
  - (2) application procedures, including the period within which applications may be submitted and procedures for obtaining additional information; and
  - (3) any other information which the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) considers appropriate.
- (d) The list shall be available to [members](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20) of the public.
- (e) The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this section. Any requirement under this section that [agencies](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) notify the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) as to the availability of any vacant [positions](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) shall be designed so as to avoid any duplication of information otherwise required to be furnished under [section 3327 of this title](/usc/5/3327.md) or any other provision of law.
- (f) The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) may, to the extent it determines appropriate, charge such fees to [agencies](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) for [services](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26) provided under this section and for related Federal employment information. The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) shall retain such fees to [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4) the costs of providing such [services](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26) and information.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 102–484, div. D, title XLIV, § 4431(a), Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2719, § 3329; renumbered § 3330 and amended Pub. L. 104–52, title IV, § 4(1), Nov. 19, 1995, 109 Stat. 490; Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title X, § 1037(b)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 432; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), July 7, 2004, 118 Stat. 814.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2004—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office”.

1996—Pub. L. 104–106, which directed renumbering of the section 3329 of this title that was added by Pub. L. 102–484, § 4431, as section 3330 of this title, could not be executed because of the intervening renumbering of that section by Pub. L. 104–52, § 4(1)(A). See 1995 Amendment note below.

1995—Pub. L. 104–52, § 4(1)(A), renumbered section 3329 of this title, relating to government-wide list of vacant positions, as this section.

Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 104–52, § 4(1)(B), added subsec. (f).