---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 3397"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "3397"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/3397"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart B — Employment and Retention"
  - "Chapter 33 — Examination, Selection, and Placement"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Appointment, Re­assignment, Transfer, and Development in the Senior Executive Service"
---

# §3397. Regulations


The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations to carry out the purpose of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 95–454, title IV, § 403(a), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1164.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3397, added Pub. L. 95–437, § 3(a), Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1058, which related to reports, was renumbered as section 3407 of this title by Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, § 906(c)(1)(B), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1226.

A prior section 3398, added Pub. L. 95–437, § 3(a), Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1058, which related to representation by employee organizations of employees employed on a part-time career employment basis, was renumbered as section 3408 of this title by Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, § 906(c)(1)(B), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1226.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 9 months after Oct. 13, 1978, and congressional review of provisions of sections 401 through 412 of Pub. L. 95–454, see section 415(a)(1), (b) of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as an Effective Date note under section 3131 of this title.