Request for regulation review.
5 C.F.R. § 1203.11
in effectEffective: 2024-07-01(a) An interested person or the Special Counsel may submit a request for regulation review.
(b) Contents of request. (1) Each request for regulation review must include the following information:
(i) The name, address, and signature of the requester's representative or, if the requester has no representative, of the requester;
(ii) A citation identifying the regulation being challenged;
(iii) A statement (along with any relevant documents) describing in detail the reasons why the regulation would require an employee to commit a prohibited personnel practice; or the reasons why the implementation of the regulation requires an employee to commit a prohibited personnel practice;
(iv) Specific identification of the prohibited personnel practice at issue; and
(v) A description of the action the requester would like the Board to take.
(2) If the prohibited personnel practice at issue is one prohibited by 5 U.S.C. 2302(b)(12), the request must include the following additional information:
(i) Identification of the law or regulation that allegedly would be or has been violated, and how it would be or has been violated; and
(ii) Identification of the merit system principles at issue and an explanation of the way in which the law or regulation at issue implements or directly concerns those principles.
Source: eCFRURL: https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2024-07-01/title-5.xmlFetched: 7/26/2026