EPA Using Special Authority to Recruit, Hire 'Outstanding' Scientists, Panel Finds

摘要

The Environmental Protection Agency is using special hiring authority to recruit, retain, and hire outstanding scientists that have strengthened scientific research and helped develop an "important and impressive research program" at the agency, a National Research Council committee said in a report released April 28.rnThe so-called Title 42 authority allows federal agencies to hire specially qualified consultants, scientists, and engineers at a pay scale higher than civil service laws allow, the National Academies said in an announcement of the report. Other agencies that use the Title 42 or equivalent authority include the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Science Foundation, the letter report said.