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What's New

June 10, 2009 Added approved cash awards to the list of awards approved for NIH employees. Under "Gifts" on the topics page.
June 4, 2009

Added Kinetic Concepts, Inc., as an SAO which is not on the D&B list.

Added presentation and link to information for Non-FTE trainees to the topics page, and added its own page.
May 27, 2009

Added link to Guidance for Reviewers of the OGE Form 450, Part I (Assets & Income) (OGE, 2008) (OGE web site)

Added links to revised SF-278 and OGE-450 on OGE web site. Revisions corrected problems with saving a completed form. (OGE web site)

May 10, 2009

HHS Co-Sponsorship policy memoranda and model agreement. See the Procedures page.

Disclosure Report--Resources (distributed by OGE on 5/7/09). Document includes links to various resources. Listed on the Financial Disclosure page, in the Resources section.

May 1, 2009

Added new training classes for ethics officials.

Added new managment report for ethics officials to report SF-278 filers.

April 15, 2009 New HHS Waiver policy, dated January 16, 2009. (HHS intranet, accessible to HHS Only)
April 15, 2009 New page for IC Ethics Officials' Management Reports which contains time frame and links to report forms for submission to NEO.
April 15, 2009
OGE 450 Extension due dates: Due to NEES implementation, the due dates for collecting, initially reviewing, and certifying have all been extended 30 days from the previous benchmarks.
* 3/19/09 OGE-450s due, unless extension granted
* 5/19/09 Initial review complete and certification of reports with no entries, unless extension granted.
January 21, 2009 Implementation of the OGE-450 using NIH Enterprise Ethics System (NEES), for electronic completion and submission of your Confidential Financial Disclosure Report. See the OGE-450 information page for details and links.
December 22, 2008 Revised OGE-450 Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (June 2008) added, accessible from the OGE-450 information page. Language referring employees to NEES also added.

Updated: 6/10/09