November 4, 1998									                                                                               DO-98-028

MEMORANDUM

TO:       Designated Agency Ethics Officials

FROM:     Stephen D. Potts
          Director

SUBJECT:  1998 Agency Ethics Program Questionnaire


1998 Questionnaire Due
February 1, 1999

     Please complete and return the attached 1998 Agency Ethics
Program Questionnaire to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) no
later than February 1, 1999.  Your response to this questionnaire
will constitute your annual report as required by section 402(e)(1)
of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as amended.

     The questionnaire covers the period January 1, 1998 through
December 31, 1998.  Failure to file on or before February 1, 1999,
may be cause for OGE to invoke its corrective action authority
(5 C.F.R. § 2638.602(b)).  Please note the information contained in
the questionnaire is subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

     You may submit your responses to this questionnaire
electronically, via diskette. Please contact Kaneisha Cunningham
at 202-208-8000, extension 1180, for an electronic version of the
questionnaire.


New Reporting Format for This Year's
Education and Training Statistics

     As you know, the interim rule amendments to the training
regulation changed how annual training is to be presented to
certain "covered" employees.  It also changed some of the
exceptions.  (See March 20, 1997, DAEOgram Publication of Interim
Rule Amendments to the Training Regulation, DO-97-013.) 

     As a result, revisions have been made to the 1998
questionnaire to account for these changes.  A new question 3
replaces former questions 3 through 7. These revisions were
announced in the distribution DAEOgram for the 1997 Annual Agency
Ethics Program Questionnaire. (See October 31, 1997, DAEOgram, DO-97-033.)  

     In addition, under the Ethics Opinions, Advice and Counseling
Section, questions referencing the Procurement Integrity rules have
been dropped.  Specifically, question 1 has been modified and
former question 2 has been removed.  In addition, OGE has clarified
the definition of special Government employee in footnote 5 on
page 15 and made various minor style and format edits throughout
the questionnaire.  Since these changes did not require additional
data collection on the part of the agencies, advance notification
was not necessary. 

     If you have any questions on this questionnaire, please
contact Kaneisha Cunningham on 202-208-8000, extension 1180, or
Barbara Mullen-Roth, on extension 1133.

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