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<p>
   Changes in 1993 Edition of the Handbook Outline
<p>
   Groups
<p>
   GS-000 Miscellaneous Occupations Group
<p>
   GS-100 Social Science, Psychology, and Welfare Group
<p>
   GS-200 Personnel Management and Industrial Relations Group
<p>
   GS-300 General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group
<p>
   GS-400 Biological Sciences Group
<p>
   GS-500 Accounting and Budget Group
<p>
   GS-600 Medical, Hospital, Dental, and Public Health Group
<p>
   GS-700 Veterinary Medical Science Group
<p>
   GS-800 Engineering and Architecture Group
<p>
   GS-900 Legal and Kindred Group
<p>
   GS-1000 Information and Arts Group
<p>
   GS-1100 Business and Industry Group
<p>
   GS-1200 Copyright, Patent, and Trade-Mark Group
<p>
   GS-1300 Physical Sciences Group
<p>
   GS-1400 Library and Archives Group
<p>
   GS-1500 Mathematics and Statistics Group
<p>
   GS-1600 Equipment, Facilities, and Service Group
<p>
   GS-1700 Education Group
<p>
   GS-1800 Investigation Group
<p>
   GS-1900 Quality Assurance, Inspection and Grading Group
<p>
   GS-2000 Supply Group
<p>
   GS-2100 Transportation Group
<p>
   Alphabetical Index
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<p>
   Introduction
<p>
   The Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series was developed to aid
agencies in classifying positions under the Classification Act of 1949.
(Some occupations are not included in this handbook because they are
made up of positions specifically exempted by statute from the
provisions of the classification act.)
<p>
   Definition of terms used in this handbook:
<p>
   GS:  The abbreviation and symbol for General Schedule.  The General
Schedule is the basic classification and compensation schedule as
established by the Classification Act of 1949.
<p>
   Occupational Groups:  Related occupations which are grouped together
numerically within the same multiple of 100 (for example:  GS-100,
Social Science, Psychology, and Welfare Group, GS-200, Personnel
Management and Industrial Relations Group). Series:  Occupational groups
which are further subdivided into specific numerical codes (for example:
 GS-110, Economist Series, GS-318, Secretary Series, GS-1410, Librarian
Series) for purpose of identification and personnel management.
Generally, a series corresponds to a recognized occupation in the
Federal service. Specific guidance on grading positions is contained in
the Position Classification Standards;  there is no grade level (())
information in this handbook.  Where a single asterisk appears in this
handbook, it indicates that a position classification standard has been
published;  when two asterisks appear, it indicates that a flysheet has
been published. Flysheets contain some information about a series, but
no grade level criteria.
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<p>
   All agencies may use any occupational series in this handbook since
restrictions on use of standards originally developed for a single
agency have been removed.
<table>
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<p>
   Changes in 1993 Edition of the Handbook
<p>
   GS-120, Food Assistance Program Specialist Series.  This series is
abolished.
<p>
   GS-107, Health Insurance Administration Series.  This is a new
series.
<p>
   GS-344, Management and Program Clerical and Assistance Series. This
is a revised series definition.  The title of the occupation has been
changed from Management Clerical and Assistance Series.
<p>
   GS-454, Rangeland Management Series.  This is a revised series
definition.  The title has been changed from Range Conservation Series.
<p>
   GS-512, Internal Revenue Agent Series.  This is a revised series
definition.
<p>
   GS-861, Aerospace Engineering Series.  This is a revised series
definition.
<p>
   GS-967, Passport and Visa Examining Series.  This is a revised series
defintion.
<p>
   GS-1105, Purchasing Series.  This is a revised series definition.
<p>
   GS-1169, Internal Revenue Officer Series.  This is a revised series
definition.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-1170, Realty Series.  This is a revised series definition.
<p>
   GS-1171, Appraising Series.  This is a revised series definition.
The title of the occupation has been changed from Appraising and
Assessing Series.
<p>
   GS-1411, Library Technician Series.  This is a revised series
definition.
<p>
   GS-2102, Transportation Clerk and Assistant Series.  This is a
revised series definition.
<p>
   GS-2111, Transportation Rate and Tariff Examining Series.  This
series is abolished.
<p>
   GS-2132, Travel Series.  This series is abolished.  The series has
been conolidated into GS-2102, Transportation Clerk and Assistant
Series.
<p>
   GS-2133, Passenger Rate Series.  This series has been abolished. The
series has been consolidated into GS-2102, Transportation Clerk and
Assistant Series.
<p>
   GS-2134, Shipment Clerical and Assistance Series.  This series has
been abolished.  The series has been consolidated into GS-2102,
Transportation Clerk and Assistant Series.
<table>
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<center>
 Outline of Position Classification Plan Showing Occupational Groups and
Series General Schedule (GS)
<p>
   GS-000--Miscellaneous Occupations Group (Not Elsewhere Classified)
<p>
   Correctional Institution Administration Series*
<p>
   GS-006
<p>
   Correctional Officer Series*
<p>
   GS-007
<p>
   Bond Sales Promotion Series
<p>
   GS-011
<p>
   Safety and Occupational Health Management Series*
<p>
   GS-018
<p>
   Safety Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-019
<p>
   Community Planning Series*
<p>
   GS-020
<p>
   Community Planning Technician Series
<p>
   GS-021
<p>
   Outdoor Recreation Planning Series*
<p>
   GS-023
<p>
   Park Ranger Series*
<p>
   GS-025
<p>
   Environmental Protection Specialist Series
<p>
   GS-028
<p>
   Environmental Protection Assistant Series
<p>
   GS-029
<table>
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<p>
   Sports Specialist Series
<p>
   GS-030
<p>
   Funeral Directing Series
<p>
   GS-050
<p>
   Chaplain Series*
<p>
   GS-060
<p>
   Clothing Design Series*
<p>
   GS-062
<p>
   Fingerprint Identification Series*
<p>
   GS-072
<p>
   Security Administration Series*
<p>
   GS-080
<p>
   Fire Protection and Prevention Series*
<p>
   GS-081
<p>
   United States Marshal Series*
<p>
   GS-082
<p>
   Police Series*
<p>
   GS-083
<p>
   Nuclear Materials Courier Series*
<p>
   GS-084
<p>
   Security Guard Series*
<p>
   GS-085
<p>
   Security Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   GS-086
<p>
   Guide Series*
<p>
   GS-090
<p>
   Foreign Law Specialist Series*
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page109/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-095
<p>
   General Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-099
<p>
   GS-100--SOCIAL SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND WELFARE GROUP
<p>
   Social Science Series
<p>
   GS-101
<p>
   Social Science Aid and Technician Series
<p>
   GS-102
<p>
   Social Insurance Administration Series*
<p>
   GS-105
<p>
   Unemployment Insurance Series*
<p>
   GS-106
<p>
   Health Insurance Administration Series
<p>
   GS-107
<p>
   Economist Series*
<p>
   GS-110
<p>
   Economics Assistant Series
<p>
   GS-119
<p>
   Foreign Affairs Series
<p>
   GS-130
<p>
   International Relations Series
<p>
   GS-131
<p>
   Intelligence Series*
<p>
   GS-132
<p>
   Intelligence Aid and Clerk Series
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page119/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-134
<p>
   Foreign Agricultural Affairs Series
<p>
   GS-135
<p>
   International Cooperation Series*
<p>
   GS-136
<p>
   Manpower Research and Analysis Series
<p>
   GS-140
<p>
   Manpower Development Series*
<p>
   GS-142
<p>
   Geography Series*
<p>
   GS-150
<p>
   Civil Rights Analysis Series*
<p>
   GS-160
<p>
   History Series*
<p>
   GS-170
<p>
   Psychology Series*
<p>
   GS-180
<p>
   Psychology Aid and Technician Series
<p>
   GS-181
<p>
   Sociology Series*
<p>
   GS-184
<p>
   Social Work Series*
<p>
   GS-185
<p>
   Social Services Aid and Assistant Series*
<p>
   GS-186
<p>
   Social Services Series*
<p>
   GS-187
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page129/93)00000">
<p>
   Recreation Specialist Series*
<p>
   GS-188
<p>
   Recreation Aid and Assistant Series*
<p>
   GS-189
<p>
   General Anthropology Series
<p>
   GS-190
<p>
   Archeology Series*
<p>
   GS-193
<p>
   Social Science Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-199
<p>
   GS-200--PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS GROUP
<p>
   Personnel Management Series*
<p>
   GS-201
<p>
   Personnel Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   GS-203
<p>
   Military Personnel Clerical and Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-204
<p>
   Military Personnel Management Series**
<p>
   GS-205
<p>
   Personnel Staffing Series*
<p>
   GS-212
<p>
   Position Classification Series*
<p>
   GS-221
<p>
   Occupational Analysis Series
<p>
   GS-222
<p>
   Salary and Wage Administration Series
<p>
   GS-223
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page139/93)00000">
<p>
   Employee Relations Series*
<p>
   GS-230
<p>
   Labor Relations Series*
<p>
   GS-233
<p>
   Employee Development Series*
<p>
   GS-235
<p>
   Mediation Series*
<p>
   GS-241
<p>
   Apprenticeship and Training Series*
<p>
   GS-243
<p>
   Labor Management Relations Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-244
<p>
   Contractor Industrial Relations Series
<p>
   GS-246
<p>
   Wage and Hour Compliance Series*
<p>
   GS-249
<p>
   Equal Employment Opportunity Series*
<p>
   GS-260
<p>
   Federal Retirement Benefits Series*
<p>
   GS-270
<p>
   Personnel Management Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-299
<p>
   GS-300--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION, CLERICAL, AND OFFICE SERVICES
<p>
   GROUP
<p>
   Miscellaneous Administration and Program Series*
<p>
   GS-301
<p>
   Messenger Series*
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page149/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-302
<p>
   Miscellaneous Clerk and Assistant Series*
<p>
   GS-303
<p>
   Information Receptionist Series*
<p>
   GS-304
<p>
   Mail and File Series*
<p>
   GS-305
<p>
   Correspondence Clerk Series*
<p>
   GS-309
<p>
   Clerk-Stenographer and Reporter Series*
<p>
   GS-312
<p>
   Work Unit Supervising Series*
<p>
   GS-313
<p>
   Secretary Series*
<p>
   GS-318
<p>
   Closed Microphone Reporting Series*
<p>
   GS-319
<p>
   Clerk-Typist Series*
<p>
   GS-322
<p>
   Office Automation Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   GS-326
<p>
   Computer Operation Series*
<p>
   GS-332
<p>
   Computer Specialist Series*
<p>
   GS-334
<p>
   Computer Clerk and Assistant Series*
<p>
   GS-335
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page159/93)00000">
<p>
   Program Management Series
<p>
   GS-340
<p>
   Administrative Officer Series*
<p>
   GS-341
<p>
   Support Services Administration Series*
<p>
   GS-342
<p>
   Management and Program Analysis Series*
<p>
   GS-343
<p>
   Management and Program Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   GS-344
<p>
   Logistics Management Series*
<p>
   GS-346
<p>
   Equipment Operator Series*
<p>
   GS-350
<p>
   Printing Clerical Series*
<p>
   GS-351
<p>
   Data Transcriber Series*
<p>
   GS-356
<p>
   Coding Series*
<p>
   GS-357
<p>
   Electric Accounting Machine Operation Series*
<p>
   GS-359
<p>
   Equal Opportunity Compliance Series*
<p>
   GS-360
<p>
   Equal Opportunity Assistance Series*
<p>
   GS-361
<p>
   Electric Accounting Machine Project Planning Series*
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page169/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-362
<p>
   Telephone Operating Series*
<p>
   GS-382
<p>
   Telecommunications Processing Series*
<p>
   GS-390
<p>
   Telecommunications Series*
<p>
   GS-391
<p>
   General Telecommunications Series**
<p>
   GS-392
<p>
   Communications Clerical Series*
<p>
   GS-394
<p>
   Administration and Office Support Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-399
<p>
   GS-400--BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES GROUP
<p>
   General Biological Science Series
<p>
   GS-401
<p>
   Microbiology Series*
<p>
   GS-403
<p>
   Biological Science Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-404
<p>
   Pharmacology Series*
<p>
   GS-405
<p>
   Agricultural Extension Series
<p>
   GS-406
<p>
   Ecology Series*
<p>
   GS-408
<p>
   Zoology Series*
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page179/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-410
<p>
   Physiology Series
<p>
   GS-413
<p>
   Entomology Series*
<p>
   GS-414
<p>
   Toxicology Series*
<p>
   GS-415
<p>
   Plant Protection Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-421
<p>
   Botany Series*
<p>
   GS-430
<p>
   Plant Pathology Series
<p>
   GS-434
<p>
   Plant Physiology Series*
<p>
   GS-435
<p>
   Plant Protection and Quarantine Series*
<p>
   GS-436
<p>
   Horticulture Series**
<p>
   GS-437
<p>
   Genetics Series
<p>
   GS-440
<p>
   Rangeland Management Series*
<p>
   GS-454
<p>
   Range Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-455
<p>
   Soil Conservation Series*
<p>
   GS-457
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page189/93)00000">
<p>
   Soil Conservation Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-458
<p>
   Irrigation System Operation Series*
<p>
   GS-459
<p>
   Forestry Series*
<p>
   GS-460
<p>
   Forestry Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-462
<p>
   Soil Science Series*
<p>
   GS-470
<p>
   Agronomy Series*
<p>
   GS-471
<p>
   Agricultural Management Series*
<p>
   GS-475
<p>
   General Fish and Wildlife Administration Series
<p>
   GS-480
<p>
   Fishery Biology Series*
<p>
   GS-482
<p>
   Wildlife Refuge Management Series*
<p>
   GS-485
<p>
   Wildlife Biology Series*
<p>
   GS-486
<p>
   Animal Science Series*
<p>
   GS-487
<p>
   Home Economics Series*
<p>
   GS-493
<p>
   Biological Science Student Trainee Series
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page199/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-499
<p>
   GS-500**--ACCOUNTING AND BUDGET GROUP
<p>
   Financial Administration and Program Series*
<p>
   GS-501
<p>
   Financial Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   GS-503
<p>
   Financial Management Series*
<p>
   GS-505
<p>
   Accounting Series*
<p>
   GS-510
<p>
   Auditing Series*
<p>
   GS-511
<p>
   Internal Revenue Agent Series*
<p>
   GS-512
<p>
   Accounting Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-525
<p>
   Tax Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-526
<p>
   Cash Processing Series*
<p>
   GS-530
<p>
   Voucher Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-540
<p>
   Civilian Pay Series*
<p>
   GS-544
<p>
   Military Pay Series*
<p>
   GS-545
<p>
   Budget Analysis Series*
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page209/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-560
<p>
   Budget Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   GS-561
<p>
   Financial Institution Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-570
<p>
   Tax Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-592
<p>
   Insurance Accounts Series
<p>
   GS-593
<p>
   Financial Management Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-599
<p>
   GS-600--MEDICAL, HOSPITAL, DENTAL, AND PUBLIC HEALTH GROUP
<p>
   General Health Science Series
<p>
   GS-601
<p>
   Medical Officer Series*
<p>
   GS-602
<p>
   Physician's Assistant Series
<p>
   GS-603
<p>
   Nurse Series*
<p>
   GS-610
<p>
   Practical Nurse Series*
<p>
   GS-620
<p>
   Nursing Assistant Series*
<p>
   GS-621
<p>
   Medical Supply Aide and Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-622
<p>
   Autopsy Assistant Series*
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page219/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-625
<p>
   Dietitian and Nutritionist Series*
<p>
   GS-630
<p>
   Occupational Therapist Series*
<p>
   GS-631
<p>
   Physical Therapist Series*
<p>
   GS-633
<p>
   Corrective Therapist Series*
<p>
   GS-635
<p>
   Rehabilitation Therapy Assistant Series*
<p>
   GS-636
<p>
   Manual Arts Therapist Series*
<p>
   GS-637
<p>
   Recreation/Creative Arts Therapist Series*
<p>
   GS-638
<p>
   Educational Therapist Series*
<p>
   GS-639
<p>
   Health Aid and Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-640
<p>
   Nuclear Medicine Technician Series
<p>
   GS-642
<p>
   Medical Technologist Series*
<p>
   GS-644
<p>
   Medical Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-645
<p>
   Pathology Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-646
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page229/93)00000">
<p>
   Diagnostic Radiologic Technologist Series*
<p>
   GS-647
<p>
   Therapeutic Radiologic Technologist Series**
<p>
   GS-648
<p>
   Medical Instrument Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-649
<p>
   Medical Technical Assistant Series*
<p>
   GS-650
<p>
   Respiratory Therapist Series*
<p>
   GS-651
<p>
   Pharmacist Series*
<p>
   GS-660
<p>
   Pharmacy Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-661
<p>
   Optometrist Series*
<p>
   GS-662
<p>
   Restoration Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-664
<p>
   Speech Pathology and Audiology Series*
<p>
   GS-665
<p>
   Orthotist and Prosthetist Series*
<p>
   GS-667
<p>
   Podiatrist Series
<p>
   GS-668
<p>
   Medical Records Administration Series*
<p>
   GS-669
<p>
   Health System Administration Series*
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page239/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-670
<p>
   Health System Specialist Series*
<p>
   GS-671
<p>
   Prosthetic Representative Series
<p>
   GS-672
<p>
   Hospital Housekeeping Management Series*
<p>
   GS-673
<p>
   Medical Records Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-675
<p>
   Medical Clerk Series*
<p>
   GS-679
<p>
   Dental Officer Series*
<p>
   GS-680
<p>
   Dental Assistant Series*
<p>
   GS-681
<p>
   Dental Hygiene Series*
<p>
   GS-682
<p>
   Dental Laboratory Aid and Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-683
<p>
   Public Health Program Specialist Series*
<p>
   GS-685
<p>
   Sanitarian Series*
<p>
   GS-688
<p>
   Industrial Hygiene Series*
<p>
   GS-690
<p>
   Consumer Safety Series*
<p>
   GS-696
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page249/93)00000">
<p>
   Environmental Health Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-698
<p>
   Medical and Health Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-699
<p>
   GS-700--VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE GROUP
<p>
   Veterinary Medical Science Series*
<p>
   GS-701
<p>
   Animal Health Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-704
<p>
   Veterinary Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-799
<p>
   GS-800**--ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE GROUP
<p>
   General Engineering Series
<p>
   GS-801
<p>
   Engineering Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-802
<p>
   Safety Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-803
<p>
   Fire Protection Engineering Series
<p>
   GS-804
<p>
   Materials Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-806
<p>
   Landscape Architecture Series*
<p>
   GS-807
<p>
   Architecture Series*
<p>
   GS-808
<p>
   Construction Control Series*
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page259/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-809
<p>
   Civil Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-810
<p>
   Surveying Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-817
<p>
   Engineering Drafting Series*
<p>
   GS-818
<p>
   Environmental Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-819
<p>
   Construction Analyst Series*
<p>
   GS-828
<p>
   Mechanical Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-830
<p>
   Nuclear Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-840
<p>
   Electrical Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-850
<p>
   Computer Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-854
<p>
   Electronics Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-855
<p>
   Electronics Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-856
<p>
   Biomedical Engineering Series
<p>
   GS-858
<p>
   Aerospace Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-861
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page269/93)00000">
<p>
   Naval Architecture Series*
<p>
   GS-871
<p>
   Ship Surveying Series
<p>
   GS-873
<p>
   Mining Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-880
<p>
   Petroleum Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-881
<p>
   Agricultural Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-890
<p>
   Ceramic Engineering Series
<p>
   GS-892
<p>
   Chemical Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-893
<p>
   Welding Engineering Series
<p>
   GS-894
<p>
   Industrial Engineering Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-895
<p>
   Industrial Engineering Series*
<p>
   GS-896
<p>
   Engineering and Architecture Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-899
<p>
   GS-900**--LEGAL AND KINDRED GROUP
<p>
   Law Clerk Series
<p>
   GS-904
<p>
   General Attorney Series*
<p>
   GS-905
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page279/93)00000">
<p>
   Estate Tax Examining Series
<p>
   GS-920
<p>
   Hearings and Appeals Series
<p>
   GS-930
<p>
   Clerk of Court Series
<p>
   GS-945
<p>
   Paralegal Specialist Series*
<p>
   GS-950
<p>
   Pension Law Specialist Series
<p>
   GS-958
<p>
   Contact Representative Series*
<p>
   GS-962
<p>
   Legal Instruments Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-963
<p>
   Land Law Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-965
<p>
   Passport and Visa Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-967
<p>
   Legal Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   GS-986
<p>
   Tax Law Specialist Series
<p>
   GS-987
<p>
   General Claims Examining Series
<p>
   GS-990
<p>
   Workers' Compensation Claims Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-991
<p>
   Loss and Damage Claims Examining Series
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page289/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-992
<p>
   Social Insurance Claims Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-993
<p>
   Unemployment Compensation Claims Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-994
<p>
   Dependents and Estates Claims Examining Series
<p>
   GS-995
<p>
   Veterans Claims Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-996
<p>
   Claims Clerical Series*
<p>
   GS-998
<p>
   Legal Occupations Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-999
<p>
   GS-1000--INFORMATION AND ARTS GROUP
<p>
   General Arts and Information Series
<p>
   GS-1001
<p>
   Interior Design Series**
<p>
   GS-1008
<p>
   Exhibits Specialist Series*
<p>
   GS-1010
<p>
   Museum Curator Series*
<p>
   GS-1015
<p>
   Museum Specialist and Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-1016
<p>
   Illustrating Series*
<p>
   GS-1020
<p>
   Office Drafting Series*
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page299/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1021
<p>
   Public Affairs Series*
<p>
   GS-1035
<p>
   Language Specialist Series*
<p>
   GS-1040
<p>
   Language Clerical Series*
<p>
   GS-1046
<p>
   Music Specialist Series
<p>
   GS-1051
<p>
   Theater Specialist Series
<p>
   GS-1054
<p>
   Art Specialist Series
<p>
   GS-1056
<p>
   Photography Series*
<p>
   GS-1060
<p>
   Audiovisual Production Series*
<p>
   GS-1071
<p>
   Writing and Editing Series*
<p>
   GS-1082
<p>
   Technical Writing and Editing Series*
<p>
   GS-1083
<p>
   Visual Information Series*
<p>
   GS-1084
<p>
   Editorial Assistance Series*
<p>
   GS-1087
<p>
   Information and Arts Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-1099
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page309/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1100--BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY GROUP
<p>
   General Business and Industry Series
<p>
   GS-1101
<p>
   Contracting Series*
<p>
   GS-1102
<p>
   Industrial Property Management Series*
<p>
   GS-1103
<p>
   Property Disposal Series*
<p>
   GS-1104
<p>
   Purchasing Series*
<p>
   GS-1105
<p>
   Procurement Clerical and Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-1106
<p>
   Property Disposal Clerical and Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-1107
<p>
   Public Utilities Specialist Series
<p>
   GS-1130
<p>
   Trade Specialist Series*
<p>
   GS-1140
<p>
   Commissary Store Management Series*
<p>
   GS-1144
<p>
   Agricultural Program Specialist Series*
<p>
   GS-1145
<p>
   Agricultural Marketing Series*
<p>
   GS-1146
<p>
   Agricultural Market Reporting Series*
<p>
   GS-1147
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page319/93)00000">
<p>
   Industrial Specialist Series*
<p>
   GS-1150
<p>
   Production Control Series*
<p>
   GS-1152
<p>
   Financial Analysis Series*
<p>
   GS-1160
<p>
   Crop Insurance Administration Series*
<p>
   GS-1161
<p>
   Crop Insurance Underwriting Series*
<p>
   GS-1162
<p>
   Insurance Examining Series**
<p>
   GS-1163
<p>
   Loan Specialist Series*
<p>
   GS-1165
<p>
   Internal Revenue Officer Series*
<p>
   GS-1169
<p>
   Realty Series*
<p>
   GS-1170
<p>
   Appraising Series*
<p>
   GS-1171
<p>
   Housing Management Series*
<p>
   GS-1173
<p>
   Building Management Series*
<p>
   GS-1176
<p>
   Business and Industry Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-1199
<p>
   GS-1200--COPYRIGHT, PATENT, AND TRADE-MARK GROUP
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page329/93)00000">
<p>
   Patent Technician Series
<p>
   GS-1202
<p>
   Copyright Series
<p>
   GS-1210
<p>
   Copyright Technician Series
<p>
   GS-1211
<p>
   Patent Administration Series
<p>
   GS-1220
<p>
   Patent Advisor Series*
<p>
   GS-1221
<p>
   Patent Attorney Series*
<p>
   GS-1222
<p>
   Patent Classifying Series*
<p>
   GS-1223
<p>
   Patent Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-1224
<p>
   Design Patent Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-1226
<p>
   Copyright and Patent Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-1299
<p>
   GS-1300--PHYSICAL SCIENCES GROUP
<p>
   General Physical Science Series*
<p>
   GS-1301
<p>
   Health Physics Series*
<p>
   GS-1306
<p>
   Physics Series
<p>
   GS-1310
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page339/93)00000">
<p>
   Physical Science Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-1311
<p>
   Geophysics Series*
<p>
   GS-1313
<p>
   Hydrology Series*
<p>
   GS-1315
<p>
   Hydrologic Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-1316
<p>
   Chemistry Series*
<p>
   GS-1320
<p>
   Metallurgy Series*
<p>
   GS-1321
<p>
   Astronomy and Space Science Series*
<p>
   GS-1330
<p>
   Meteorology Series*
<p>
   GS-1340
<p>
   Meteorological Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-1341
<p>
   Geology Series*
<p>
   GS-1350
<p>
   Oceanography Series*
<p>
   GS-1360
<p>
   Navigational Information Series*
<p>
   GS-1361
<p>
   Cartography Series*
<p>
   GS-1370
<p>
   Cartographic Technician Series*
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page349/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1371
<p>
   Geodesy Series*
<p>
   GS-1372
<p>
   Land Surveying Series*
<p>
   GS-1373
<p>
   Geodetic Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-1374
<p>
   Forest Products Technology Series
<p>
   GS-1380
<p>
   Food Technology Series
<p>
   GS-1382
<p>
   Textile Technology Series
<p>
   GS-1384
<p>
   Photographic Technology Series*
<p>
   GS-1386
<p>
   Document Analysis Series
<p>
   GS-1397
<p>
   Physical Science Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-1399
<p>
   GS-1400--LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES GROUP
<p>
   Librarian Series*
<p>
   GS-1410
<p>
   Library Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-1411
<p>
   Technical Information Services Series*
<p>
   GS-1412
<p>
   Archivist Series*
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page359/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1420
<p>
   Archives Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-1421
<p>
   Library and Archives Student Trainee
<p>
   GS-1499
<p>
   GS-1500--MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS GROUP
<p>
   Actuary Series*
<p>
   GS-1510
<p>
   Operations Research Series*
<p>
   GS-1515
<p>
   Mathematics Series*
<p>
   GS-1520
<p>
   Mathematics Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-1521
<p>
   Mathematical Statistician Series*
<p>
   GS-1529
<p>
   Statistician Series*
<p>
   GS-1530
<p>
   Statistical Assistant Series*
<p>
   GS-1531
<p>
   Cryptography Series
<p>
   GS-1540
<p>
   Cryptanalysis Series
<p>
   GS-1541
<p>
   Computer Science Series*
<p>
   GS-1550
<p>
   Mathematics and Statistics Student Trainee Series
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page369/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1599
<p>
   GS-1600**--EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES, AND SERVICES GROUP
<p>
   General Facilities and Equipment Series*
<p>
   GS-1601
<p>
   Cemetery Administration Series*
<p>
   GS-1630
<p>
   Facility Management Series*
<p>
   GS-1640
<p>
   Printing Management Series*
<p>
   GS-1654
<p>
   Laundry and Dry Cleaning Plant Management Series*
<p>
   GS-1658
<p>
   Steward Series
<p>
   GS-1667
<p>
   Equipment Specialist Series*
<p>
   GS-1670
<p>
   Equipment and Facilities Management Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-1699
<p>
   GS-1700--EDUCATION GROUP
<p>
   General Education and Training Series*
<p>
   GS-1701
<p>
   Education and Training Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-1702
<p>
   Education and Vocational Training Series*
<p>
   GS-1710
<p>
   Training Instruction Series*
<p>
   GS-1712
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page379/93)00000">
<p>
   Vocational Rehabilitation Series*
<p>
   GS-1715
<p>
   Education Program Series*
<p>
   GS-1720
<p>
   Public Health Educator Series
<p>
   GS-1725
<p>
   Education Research Series*
<p>
   GS-1730
<p>
   Education Services Series*
<p>
   GS-1740
<p>
   Instructional Systems Series*
<p>
   GS-1750
<p>
   Education Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-1799
<p>
   GS-1800--INVESTIGATION GROUP
<p>
   General Inspection, Investigation, and Compliance Series*
<p>
   GS-1801
<p>
   Compliance Inspection and Support Series*
<p>
   GS-1802
<p>
   General Investigating Series*
<p>
   GS-1810
<p>
   Criminal Investigating Series*
<p>
   GS-1811
<p>
   Game Law Enforcement Series
<p>
   GS-1812
<p>
   Air Safety Investigating Series*
<p>
   GS-1815
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page389/93)00000">
<p>
   Immigration Inspection Series*
<p>
   GS-1816
<p>
   Mine Safety and Health Series*
<p>
   GS-1822
<p>
   Aviation Safety Series*
<p>
   GS-1825
<p>
   Securities Compliance Examining Series
<p>
   GS-1831
<p>
   Agricultural Commodity Warehouse Examining Series*
<p>
   GS-1850
<p>
   Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Inspection Series*
<p>
   GS-1854
<p>
   Consumer Safety Inspection Series*
<p>
   GS-1862
<p>
   Food Inspection Series*
<p>
   GS-1863
<p>
   Public Health Quarantine Inspection Series*
<p>
   GS-1864
<p>
   Customs Patrol Officer Series*
<p>
   GS-1884
<p>
   Import Specialist Series*
<p>
   GS-1889
<p>
   Customs Inspection Series*
<p>
   GS-1890
<p>
   Customs Entry and Liquidating Series*
<p>
   GS-1894
<p>
   Customs Warehouse Officer Series*
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page399/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1895
<p>
   Border Patrol Agent Series*
<p>
   GS-1896
<p>
   Customs Aid Series
<p>
   GS-1897
<p>
   Admeasurement Series
<p>
   GS-1898
<p>
   Investigation Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-1899
<p>
   GS-1900--QUALITY ASSURANCE, INSPECTION, AND GRADING GROUP
<p>
   Quality Assurance Series*
<p>
   GS-1910
<p>
   Agricultural Commodity Grading Series*
<p>
   GS-1980
<p>
   Agricultural Commodity Aid Series
<p>
   GS-1981
<p>
   Quality Inspection Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-1999
<p>
   GS-2000**--SUPPLY GROUP
<p>
   General Supply Series*
<p>
   GS-2001
<p>
   Supply Program Management Series*
<p>
   GS-2003
<p>
   Supply Clerical and Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-2005
<p>
   Inventory Management Series*
<p>
   GS-2010
<p>
   Distribution Facilities and Storage Management Series*
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page409/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-2030
<p>
   Packaging Series*
<p>
   GS-2032
<p>
   Supply Cataloging Series*
<p>
   GS-2050
<p>
   Sales Store Clerical Series*
<p>
   GS-2091
<p>
   Supply Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-2099
<p>
   GS-2100--TRANSPORTATION GROUP
<p>
   Transportation Specialist Series
<p>
   GS-2101
<p>
   Transportation Clerk and Assistant Series*
<p>
   GS-2102
<p>
   Transportation Industry Analysis Series*
<p>
   GS-2110
<p>
   Railroad Safety Series*
<p>
   GS-2121
<p>
   Motor Carrier Safety Series*
<p>
   GS-2123
<p>
   Highway Safety Series*
<p>
   GS-2125
<p>
   Traffic Management Series*
<p>
   GS-2130
<p>
   Freight Rate Series*
<p>
   GS-2131
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page419/93)00000">
<p>
   Transportation Loss and Damage Claims Examining Series
<p>
   GS-2135
<p>
   Cargo Scheduling Series**
<p>
   GS-2144
<p>
   Transportation Operations Series
<p>
   GS-2150
<p>
   Dispatching Series**
<p>
   GS-2151
<p>
   Air Traffic Control Series*
<p>
   GS-2152
<p>
   Air Traffic Assistance Series*
<p>
   GS-2154
<p>
   Marine Cargo Series*
<p>
   GS-2161
<p>
   Aircraft Operation Series*
<p>
   GS-2181
<p>
   Air Navigation Series*
<p>
   GS-2183
<p>
   Aircrew Technician Series*
<p>
   GS-2185
<p>
   Transportation Student Trainee Series
<p>
   GS-2199
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   INTRODUCTION
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.010000>
<FIELD id=033>
<node value="PAGE(Page429/93)00000">
<p>
   Definitions of Occupational Groups and Series
<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform work which cannot be included in
other occupational groups either because the duties are unique, or
because they are complex and come in part under various groups.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-006--Correctional Institution Administration Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve responsibility for
managing, or participating in the overall management of, correctional
institutions, correctional systems, or correctional programs, and
positions which involve responsibility for advising on, reviewing, and
evaluating the management of such institutions, systems, or programs.
Work in this series requires knowledge of (1) penological theories,
principles, and techniques and (2) the problems, methods, and techniques
of institutional management.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page439/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-007--Correctional Officer Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions involving the correctional treatment,
custody, and supervision of criminal offenders in correctional
institutions or community-based correctional treatment or rehabilitation
facilities.  Positions in this series have as their paramount
requirement the knowledge and application of correctional skills and
techniques.
<p>
   GS-011--Bond Sales Promotion Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform work involved in
promoting and maintaining the sales of United States Savings Bonds and
Stamps by originating and developing promotional themes, ideas, and
programs, by planning, organizing, and directing the work of committees,
groups, and other persons participating in the conduct of bond and stamp
drives, programs, and campaigns, and by other means.
<p>
   GS-018--Safety and Occupational Health Management Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve the management,
administration, or operation of a safety and occupational health program
or performance of administrative work concerned with safety and
occupational health activities and includes the development,
implementation, and evaluation of related program functions.  The
primary objective of this work is the elimination or minimization of
human injury and property and productivity (()) losses, caused by
harmful contact incidents, through the design of effective management
policies, programs, or practices.  Safety and occupational health
management work requires application of the knowledge of:  (a) the
principles, standards, and techniques of safety and occupational health
management;  and (b) pertinent elements of engineering, physical
science, ergonomics, psychology, industrial hygiene, physiology,
sociology, and other scientific and technological fields, which
contribute to the achievement of comprehensive safety and occupational
health objectives.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page449/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-019--Safety Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve support work in accident
prevention, including inspecting safety conditions, investigating and
compiling data on accidents, and providing information on safety
standards and techniques.  Positions require a practical knowledge of
work processes and equipment, environmental conditions, and established
safety standards, protective devices and accident prevention measures.
<p>
   GS-020--Community Planning Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional positions concerned with community
planning and with developing the art and science of planning to apply to
communities such as urban or rural neighborhoods, villages, Indian
reservations, cities, counties, (()) regions, States, or the nation.
Community planning work requires knowledge of planning concepts,
principles, techniques, and practices;  the social, economic, political,
and physical elements involved in human settlements;  and the dynamics
of change within these elements.  Planners identify community needs,
resources, and problems, and assist citizens to make decisions on goals,
policies, priorities, plans, programs, and methods of implementation
designed to create a physical, economic, and social environment in which
the human activities desired by the members of the community may
flourish.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page459/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-021--Community Planning Technician Series
<p>
   This series includes positions of technicians who apply practical
knowledge of community planning methods and techniques.  They collect,
select, compute, adjust, and process data;  prepare charts, exhibits,
and reports;  and perform related duties supporting professional
planning work.  The positions require technical rather than professional
knowledges and abilities for full performance and, therefore, do not
require education and training equivalent in scope and nature to that
required for professional positions in community planning.
<p>
   GS-023--Outdoor Recreation Planning Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions whose primary concerns are planning,
advising on, and coordinating the use of land, water (()) and related
resources to provide opportunities for the creative use of leisure time
outdoors, with due regard to protecting and enhancing the quality of the
outdoor environment for the enjoyment of people.  The work requires
application of knowledge of (a) pertinent aspects of economics,
sociology, and other social sciences in the assessment of demand for
outdoor recreation, (b) the practices of natural resource conservation
involved in the development and coordination of programs to provide
recreation resources, and (c) the techniques of area planning.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page469/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-025--Park Ranger Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to supervise,
manage, and/or perform work in the conservation and use of Federal park
resources.  This involves functions such as park conservation;  natural,
historical, and cultural resource management;  and the development and
operation of interpretive and recreational programs for the benefit of
the visiting public.  Duties characteristically include assignments such
as:  forest and structural fire control;  protection of property from
natural or visitor related depredation;  dissemination to visitors of
general, historical, or scientific information;  folk-art and craft
demonstration;control of traffic and visitor use of facilities;
enforcement of laws and regulations;  investigation of violations,
complaints, trespass/encroachment, and accidents;  search and rescue
missions;  and management activities related to (()) resources such as
wildlife, lakeshores, seashores, forests, historic buildings,
battlefields, archeological properties, and recreation areas.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page479/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-028--Environmental Protection Specialist Series
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which involve (1)
providing advice and assistance to state and local government agencies
on matters relating to the development, execution, and maintenance of
adequate environmental protection plans and programs, and the
development and review of related grant proposals;  (2) reviewing,
analyzing, and recommending modifications where necessary, of plans
developed by states to implement various provisions of Federal
environmental standards;  (3)developing and analyzing data and preparing
reports relating to the responsiveness of implementation plans for state
environmental protection programs, the type and level of local and
regional environmental planning, and similar activities;  (4) reviewing,
analyzing, and coordinating preparation of, or preparing comments on
environmental impact statements;  (5) developing and/or analyzing
proposals for new or revised environmental protection regulations and
determining their impact on air, water, and land resources;  and (6)
conducting studies to identify environmental problems, and performing
analytical work which contributes to the effectiveness of environmental
plans, programs, and methods.  The work requires the exercise of
discretion and independent judgment in the application of (()) knowledge
of the principles, practices, and techniques of environmental planning
and protection.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page489/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-029--Environmental Protection Assistant Series
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve performing a variety of
technical support work in connection with the operation of environmental
protection programs.
<p>
   This work may take the form of assisting higher level environmental
protection personnel in an area of assignment or it may involve
independent performance of limited assignments in a prescribed segment
of an environmental protection program.  This work requires the ability
to apply established instructions, rules, regulations, and procedures
relevant to environmental protection activities.
<p>
   GS-030--Sports Specialist Series
<p>
   This series covers positions that require a knowledge of the physical
and psychological factors in individual and team sports, and of the
nature, purpose, and organization of recreational or competitive
individual and team sports activities.  Sports specialists (1) plan,
supervise, administer or carry out sports programs;  (2) conduct clinics
or seminars to train coaches or officials;  (3) train and develop
athletes in individual or team sports;  (4) plan, organize or conduct
tournaments or competitions (()) from the intramural to the
international levels;  or (5) perform other functions requiring
knowledge or skill in sports.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page499/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-050--Funeral Directing Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise or perform work, at a hospital or other station, involved
in planning and directing details relating to funeral and burial
services of deceased persons, including responsibility for the embalming
and preparation of decedents in accordance with policies, procedures,
and public health regulations, or to administer or participate in the
administration of the mortuary program of a Federal agency.
<p>
   GS-060--Chaplain Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the duties of which are to advise
on, administer, supervise, or perform professional work involved in a
program of spiritual welfare and religious guidance for patients of
Government hospitals and homes, for inmates of Government correctional
and penal or other institutions, or for persons in other Government
activities where civilian chaplain service is needed.  Positions are
classifiable to this series when the nature of duties and
responsibilities is such that ordination by a recognized ecclesiastical
body is a basic requirement.
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<p>
   GS-062--Clothing Design Series*
<p>
   This series includes classes of positions which involve
nonprofessional technical work in the design, development, testing,
standardization, and improvement of clothing (including headgear,
footgear, and handgear) for performance, appearance, comfort, and
economical production.
<p>
   GS-072--Fingerprint Identification Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that involve classifying, searching,
verifying, and filing fingerprints and other vestigial prints (such as
footprints or palm prints) for identifying persons.  The work requires a
knowledge of the methods used in fingerprint classification and
identification.
<p>
   GS-080--Security Administration Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the primary duties of which are
analytical, planning, advisory, operational, or evaluative work which
has as its principal purpose the development and implementation of
policies, procedures, standards, training, and methods for identifying
and protecting information, personnel, property, facilities, operations,
or material from unauthorized disclosure, misuse, theft, assault,
vandalism, espionage, sabotage, or loss.  Duties involve the management,
supervision, or performance of work in:  (1) developing, evaluating,
(()) maintaining, and/or operating systems, policies, devices,
procedures, and methods used for safeguarding information, property,
personnel, operations, and materials;  and/or (2) developing and
implementing policies and procedures for analyzing and evaluating the
character, background, and history of employees, candidates for
employment, and other persons having or proposed to be granted access to
classified or other sensitive information, materials, or work sites.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-081--Fire Protection and Prevention Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that supervise or perform work to
control and extinguish fires, rescue persons endangered by fire, and
reduce or eliminate potential fire hazards.  It also covers fire service
positions that control hazardous materials incidents;  train personnel
in fire protection and prevention;  operate fire communications
equipment;  develop and implement fire protection and prevention plans,
procedures, and standards;  and advise on improvements to structures for
better fire prevention.  Positions in this series require a knowledge of
firefighting and fire prevention theory and techniques, a knowledge of
fixed and mobile firefighting equipment operation;  and/or the ability
to plan, direct, or carry out fire protection and prevention programs
and operations.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-082--United States Marshal Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions involving a range of law enforcement
responsibilities including serving of civil writs and criminal warrants
issued by Federal courts;  tracing and arresting persons wanted under
court warrants;  seizing and disposing of property under court orders;
safeguarding and transporting prisoners;  providing for the physical
security of court facilities and personnel;  providing for the physical
security of jurors and key Government witnesses and their families;
preventing civil disturbances or restoring order in riot and mob
violence situations;  and performing other special law enforcement
duties as directed by a court order or by the Department of Justice.
These positions require ability in locating and identifying wanted
persons or property, knowledge of court procedure, basic knowledge of
business records and practices, knowledge of Federal and State laws
which deputies must enforce, as well as relevant court decisions, and
ability to deal with persons from all levels of society.
<p>
   GS-083--Police Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the primary duties of which are the
performance or supervision of law enforcement work in the preservation
of the peace;  the prevention, detection, and investigation of crimes;
the arrest or apprehension of violators;  and the provision of
assistance to citizens in emergency situations, including the protection
of civil rights.  The purpose of police work is to assure compliance
with Federal, (()) State, county, and municipal laws and ordinances, and
agency rules and regulations pertaining to law enforcement work.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-084--Nuclear Materials Courier Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which involve performing
or supervising the safe and secure transportation of sensitive nuclear
materials owned or controlled by the Department of Energy.  The work
requires knowledge of laws, rules, regulations, methods, techniques, and
procedures governing:  the operation, control, and protection of
vehicles and their cargoes;  the use of tactical weapons and arrest
authority;  emergencies involving health and safety of personnel,
vehicles, and nuclear materials;  departmental and other Federal, State,
and local security authorities;  and similar knowledges involving the
protection, movement, and delivery of sensitive nuclear materials.
<p>
   GS-085--Security Guard Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the primary duties of which are the
performance or supervision of protective services work in guarding
Federally owned or leased buildings and property;  protecting Government
equipment and material;  and controlling access to Federal installations
by employees, visitors, residents, and patients.  The purpose of
security guard work is to protect and prevent loss of materials or
processes which are (()) important for national defense, for public
health or safety, or as national treasures.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-086--Security Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the primary duties of which are to
supervise or perform clerical and assistant tasks in support of
established security programs (e.g., personnel, physical, information,
or industrial security) when such work requires, in addition to general
administrative and/or clerical skills, practical knowledge of specific
security objectives, programs, methods, and procedures, and skills in
carrying out support tasks related to security administration.
<p>
   GS-090--Guide Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to provide or supervise nonprofessional interpretive and guide services
to visitors to parks, dams and other sites of public interest.  The work
involves giving formal talks, interpreting natural and historic
features, explaining engineering structures and related water resource
developments, answering questions, guiding tours, and providing
miscellaneous services to visitors.  Incidental duties are performed in
connection with responsibility for visitor safety and protection of
historic and scientific objects and natural or engineering features.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-095--Foreign Law Specialist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which perform professional work
requiring knowledge of law as it is practiced in one or more foreign
countries;  library objectives, functions, techniques, and services;
and, the political, economic, and social systems of particular foreign
countries.  Most positions also require the ability to translate and
interpret technical legal material from a foreign language into English
and from English into a foreign language.  Positions in this series
perform legal research, reference, and writing assignments requiring
expert analysis and interpretation of the legal systems of particular
foreign countries in terms of Anglo-American law concepts;  provide
definitive advice and assistance to the three branches of Government on
matters associated with foreign law;  and, provide other specialized
services in the acquisition, processing, and custody of foreign legal
collections.
<p>
   GS-099--General Student Trainee Series
<p>
   The student trainee series in each Occupational Group includes all
trainee positions which involve periods of pertinent formal education
and periods of employment in a Federal agency.  The education and
employment must be part of a formal student employment program.  The
level of education and experience completed by the student is a major
consideration in establishing the level of on-the-job training and work
assignments during (()) periods of employment.  This series definition
applies to the XX99 student trainee series for each Occupational Group.
Student trainee positions should be classified to the XX99 series for
the appropriate Occupational Group (GS-099, GS-199, GS-1599, etc.).
<table>
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<p>
   All positions classified to a student trainee series should be titled
Student Trainee followed by a parenthetical title consistent with the
occupational field involved;  for example:  Student Trainee (Personnel
Management), Student Trainee (Psychology), Student Trainee (Civil
Engineering).
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-000
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.010100>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
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<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work, subordinate technical work, or related
clerical work in one or more of the social sciences;  in psychology;  in
social work;  in recreational activities;  or in the administration of
public welfare and insurance programs.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-101--Social Science Series
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to advise on,
administer, supervise or perform research or other (()) professional and
scientific work in one or any combination of the social sciences when
such work is not classifiable in other series of this occupational
group.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-102--Social Science Aid and Technician Series
<p>
   This series covers positions involving nonprofessional work of a
technical, specialized, or support nature in one or more of the social
science or other occupational fields covered by this group when there is
no more appropriate series.  The positions require a practical
understanding of the objectives, policies, procedures, or regulatory
requirements pertaining to the work-- and the ability to apply skills or
knowledges of the occupation involved.  The work does not require full
professional competence (or equivalent professional-level preparation)
in the theories, principles, and concepts of the field.
<p>
   GS-105--Social Insurance Administration Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions primarily concerned with
administering, planning, managing, and conducting the Federal social
security old-age, survivors, disability, and/or health insurance
programs.  Included are those positions concerned with the development,
preparation, issuance, and interpretation of policies, methods, and
procedures for the conduct of such programs;  and also those positions
which involve representing the programs before the general public and
determining eligibility (()) for benefits when the work requires the
ability to deal effectively with the general public.  Positions in this
series require a knowledge of the broad concepts and technical
provisions of the old-age, survivors, disability insurance, and/or
health insurance programs established by the Social Security Act, as
amended.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-106--Unemployment Insurance Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions involving the development, promotion and
evaluation of unemployment insurance programs administered under
Federal-State joint arrangement.  Positions in this series require a
knowledge of the history, concepts, methods, and techniques of social
insurance and of the social and economic conditions under which such
programs operate.
<p>
   GS-107--Health Insurance Administration Series
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve managing, supervising, or
performing work concerned with the administration and operation of
national health insurance programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid.  This
includes interpreting program requirements and formulating policies,
methods, and procedures;  monitoring, reviewing, evaluating, and
assessing the integrity and quality of program operations;  preparing
and analyzing health care data related to the programs;  and performing
other related activities.
<table>
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<p>
   Positions included in this series primarily require knowledge of the
laws, regulations, principles, and operational requirements of national
health insurance programs;  knowledge of the interrelationships among
these programs and other related Federal and State programs;  and
analytical skills and abilities used in planning, developing, and
evaluating the operation and delivery of these programs to the public.
<p>
   GS-110--Economist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which require application of a
professional knowledge of economics in the performance of duties that
include:  research into economic phenomena, analysis of economic data,
and the preparation of interpretive reports;  advice and consultation on
economic matters to governmental officials and private organizations or
citizens;  and the performance of other professional work in economics
including supervision and the direction of economists engaged in the
various economics programs of the Federal Government.
<p>
   GS-119--Economics Assistant Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise or perform subordinate research and related work involved
in the collecting, compiling, verifying, analyzing, or reporting data,
where the work requires the application of specialized or technical
knowledges or skills in one or more (()) fields of economics, but does
not require full professional competence in economic theories,
principles, and concepts. Excluded are positions that require
application of knowledge of statistical clerical methods characteristic
of the Statistical Assistant Series, GS-1531.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-130--Foreign Affairs Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work in the departmental formulation and
direction of the foreign affairs of the (()) Government or in the study
and disposition of information bearing on international relations.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-131--International Relations Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional work in the
formulation and implementation of foreign policy of the United States in
the conduct of the relations, primarily of a political or
politico-economic nature, of the United States with other governments.
<p>
   GS-132--Intelligence Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions concerned with advising on,
administering, supervising, or performing work in the collection,
analysis, evaluation, interpretation, and dissemination of information
on political, economic, social, cultural, physical, geographic,
scientific, or military conditions, trends, and forces in foreign and
domestic areas which directly or indirectly affect the national
security.  These positions require a basic knowledge and understanding
of one or more of the natural or social sciences, engineering, or
military science, but do not demand, as a primary qualification
requirement, full knowledge of the current state of the art.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-134--Intelligence Aid and Clerk Series
<p>
   Positions in this series have duties involving subordinate or
clerical work in the field of intelligence.  These duties require the
application of knowledge concerning administrative or clerical
procedures and operations peculiar to the collection, production, or
dissemination of intelligence information.  Such information covers the
political, economic, social, cultural, physical, geographic, scientific,
or military trends or conditions in foreign or domestic areas that
affect the national security.
<p>
   GS-135--Foreign Agricultural Affairs Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional work in
market and economic analysis and interpretation, and foreign reporting,
in connection with the development of foreign markets for United States
agricultural commodities;  in analysis of the agricultural economy,
developments, trends, and conditions in foreign countries;  and in
representing the Government in matters affecting foreign agricultural
affairs.
<p>
   GS-136--International Cooperation Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research and operational
work in the planning, development, and implementation of foreign
economic assistance programs undertaken by the United (()) States.
These duties require a knowledge of economic, social, cultural, and
political conditions in the country of assignment and of United States
foreign policy.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-140--Manpower Research and Analysis Series
<p>
   This series includes positions involving the performance of
professional work in manpower research or in manpower programs
development and evaluation for the purpose of furthering the development
and utilization of the Nation's manpower resources. Such work requires
the application of concepts, principles and practices of sociology,
psychology, economics, and/or allied social sciences in implementing
national programs designed to equip the underemployed, the persistently
unemployed and other unemployed with necessary skills to provide an
opportunity for their full participation and utilization in the labor
force;  to increase the general employability of unemployed youth;  to
aid school dropouts or potential dropouts in continuing or resuming
their education;  and to insure sufficient availability of needed
manpower and occupational skills.
<p>
   GS-142--Manpower Development Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that involve specialized administrative
and technical work concerned with the implementation, promotion,
coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of federally funded programs
for the development and (()) utilization of manpower resources.  Some
positions in this occupation are involved in programs that deal with the
identification of and communication with disadvantaged persons requiring
employment assistance, the provision of necessary assistance and support
through counseling, education, and training and their placement into
suitable, stable employment. These positions require specialized
knowledge and application of manpower methods, practices, techniques,
and principles.  These positions do not require full professional
knowledge in one or more of the social or behavioral sciences or regular
application of the theories, principles, and practices of these
disciplines.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-150--Geography Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which involve
professional work in the field of geography, including the compilation,
synthesis, analysis, interpretation and presentation of information
regarding the location, distribution, and interrelationships of and
processes of change affecting such natural and human phenomena as the
physical features of the earth, climate, plant and animal life, and
man's settlements and institutions.
<p>
   GS-160--Civil Rights Analysis Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions primarily concerned with planning,
conducting, and reporting descriptive social science research in (())
the field of civil rights and equal opportunity when the paramount
qualification requirement for the position includes a broad knowledge of
the field of civil rights;  ability to apply accepted documentary and
field research techniques to study issues and policies affecting civil
rights;  consulting skill;  and a high degree of writing and oral
communication skill.  Positions in this series typically involve
research into specialized technical fields such as voting rights, public
accommodations, or equal employment requiring specialized knowledge of a
subject-matter area in addition to a broad knowledge of civil rights.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-170--History Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to advise on,
administer, supervise or perform research or other work in the field of
history when such work requires a professional knowledge of established
methods and techniques of historical research in the collection,
evaluation, analysis or presentation of historical facts.
<p>
   GS-180--Psychology Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involving professional work relating
to the behavior, capacities, traits, interests and activities of human
and animal organisms.  This work may involve any one or a combination of
the following functions:  (1) experimenting with or systematically
observing organisms to (()) develop scientific principles or laws
concerning the relationship of behavior to factors of environment,
experience, or physiology, or to develop practical applications of
findings;  (2) applying professional knowledges of psychological
principles, theories, methods, or data to practical situations and
problems;  and (3) providing consultative services or training in
psychological principles, theories, methods, and techniques to advance
knowledge of them and their appropriate use.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page669/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-181--Psychology Aid and Technician Series
<p>
   This series includes classes of positions which involve the
performance of nonprofessional technical work in connection with a
program of research or direct services in psychology. Positions in this
series involve a practical understanding of some of the principles,
methods and techniques of psychology, but do not require formal
education in psychology.  While positions in the lower grades of the
Psychology Series, GS-180, may involve performance of tasks similar to
work performed by incumbents in this series, work classifiable to the
GS-180 series is distinguished by the fact that it is performed as part
of a program of training and development, leading to acquisition of
broader knowledges, skills and insights into the overall principles and
theory of psychology, whereas work in the Psychology Aid and Technician
Series is performed for its immediate productive value, is typically
very limited in breadth, (()) and does not provide substantial
development of broader psychological skills, knowledges, and insights.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page679/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-184--Sociology Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve professional work
requiring a knowledge of sociology and sociological methods specifically
related to the establishment, validation, interpretation, and
application of knowledge about social processes.  Sociologists study
specialized areas such as:  changes in the character, size,
distribution, and composition of the population;  social mechanisms for
enforcing compliance with widely accepted norms and for controlling
deviance;  social phenomena having to do with human health and disease;
the structure and operation of organizations;  and the complex
interrelationship of the individual and society.
<p>
   Sociologists are concerned primarily with the study of patterns of
group and organizational behavior, social interaction, and social
situations in which interaction occurs.  The emphasis is on the patterns
of behavior that are characteristic of social groups, organizations,
institutions, and nations.  Some sociologists perform sociological
research, others apply sociological principles and findings, and some
perform a combination of both kinds of work.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-185--Social Work Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which require application of a
professional knowledge of the principles and practices of social work in
the performance of such assignments as providing direct services to
individuals and families, including work with individuals in groups.
Also included are positions concerned with teaching social work, doing
research on social work problems, training of social work students, and
providing consultation and advice to members of related professions and
community organizations on social work questions.
<p>
   GS-186--Social Services Aid and Assistant Series*
<p>
   This series covers nonprofessional positions in support of
counseling, guidance, and related social services work in social,
employment assistance, or similar programs.  The persons served by the
programs may be individuals or families in the community or individuals
in an institution, dormitory, or other Government facility.  Duties may
range from work that involves group leadership and giving practical
guidance on day-to-day activities to residents in a Government facility
to work that involves training or employment opportunities.  The work
requires skill to communicate effectively and work constructively with
members of the particular group involved.  The work also requires a
practical knowledge of program requirements and procedures, and a
practical understanding of some of the more routine methods and
techniques of counseling.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page699/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-187--Social Services Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which require application of
specialized program knowledge and service skills in providing assistance
to individuals and families served by social welfare programs.  This
work involves such functions as obtaining selected background
information through interviews and home visits, establishing eligibility
to make use of agency resources, helping individuals identify needs that
are related to services the agency can provide, explaining and
encouraging the use of agency and community resources as means of
dealing with identified problems, and making appropriate referrals to
sources of additional help.  These functions may be performed either (a)
in conjunction with professional social work, or (b) in conformity with
agency procedural instructions and standards of services.  Although
these positions require a specialized knowledge of the social service
program, they do not require a broad theoretical approach to social
problems acquired through professional education in social work or in
other recognized disciplines in the social sciences.
<p>
   GS-188--Recreation Specialist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions where the paramount requirement is for
a general knowledge of the goals, principles, methods and techniques of
the broad field of recreation in evaluating recreation needs and in
planning, organizing, advising on, and (()) administering recreational
activities and programs which promote the physical, creative, and social
development of participants.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page709/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-189--Recreation Aid and Assistant Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions requiring a practical knowledge of one
or more recreational activities, such as military or urban community
center activities, child care and youth center activities, senior
citizens recreation activities, outdoor recreation activities,
recreation craft centers and hobby shops, sports centers, music and
theater centers, and general recreation activities for special
populations such as students in Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding
schools and inmates of Federal correctional institutions.  This
practical knowledge, combined with skill in the maintenance and use of
recreation materials and equipment, is used in providing support and
assistance to recreation specialists or recreation program managers by
performing limited aspects of recreation work, and by working with
participants in well-organized and carefully monitored recreation
activities.
<p>
   GS-190--General Anthropology Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, supervise or perform research or other professional and
scientific work in the anthropological sciences except archeology.  This
work may be specialized in one or (()) several of the branches of the
scientific field which includes ethnology, physical anthropology, and
scientific linguistics.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page719/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-193--Archeology Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve professional work in
archeology, the scientific study of past human activities through the
physical remains of life and past human activities.  The work may
include research, field investigations, laboratory analysis, library
research, interpretation or consultative work, preparation of reports
for publication, curation and exhibition of collections, or development
and implementation of programs and projects which carry out such work.
Such work requires a knowledge of professional archeological principles,
theories, concepts, methods, and techniques.
<p>
   GS-199--Social Science Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-100
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   SOCIAL SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND WELFARE GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.010200>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page719/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform work involved in the
various phases of personnel management and industrial relations.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page729/93)00000">
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-201--Personnel Management Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which either (1) direct or assist in
directing a personnel management program, or (2) advise on, supervise,
perform or provide staff leadership and technical guidance for work
which involves two or more specialized personnel functions, or (3)
perform specialized personnel management work not covered by other
series in this group.
<p>
   GS-203--Personnel Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the primary duties of which are to
supervise, lead, or perform:  (1) clerical work requiring substantial
knowledge of civilian personnel terminology, requirements, procedures,
and functions to process documents (applications for employment,
promotion, Federal benefits and services, training, official personnel
actions, etc.), prepare recurring personnel reports, explain personnel
procedures, maintain master personnel and organizational records, and
provide miscellaneous clerical support in personnel-related units;  and
(2) limited technical work requiring substantial practical knowledge of
one or more civilian personnel management specialties such as staffing,
employee relations, and classification.  These positions do not require
the broad knowledge of Federal personnel systems or the depth of
knowledge (()) about personnel management concepts, principles, and
techniques which are characteristic of the recognized personnel
management specialist positions.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page739/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-204--Military Personnel Clerical and Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which require a knowledge of the
nature, requirements, and procedures of military personnel programs and
military personnel operations, in performing or supervising clerical and
technical support work.  The work is centered on the military
organization, the military personnel record, paper actions, and the
related application of a variety of military personnel legislation,
policy, directive issuances, and procedural requirements.
<p>
   GS-205--Military Personnel Management Series**
<p>
   This series covers positions which either (1) direct or assist in
directing a military personnel management program, or (2) advise on,
supervise, perform or provide staff leadership and technical guidance
for specialized military personnel management or military personnel
research work.  This work requires a thorough knowledge of the basic
concepts, principles and theories of personnel management and the
ability to adapt these to meet the unique organizational, staffing,
management, and mission requirements of military departments or
organizations.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-212--Personnel Staffing Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve the performance of
technical work in recruitment, examination, selection, or placement and
utilization of employees to staff Government organizations.  Positions
are included in this series when they involve, as a primary
responsibility, work which requires technical knowledge and skill in,
and use of judgment in the application of the principles, practices, and
techniques of personnel recruitment, examination, selection, and/or
placement.
<p>
   GS-221--Position Classification Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, direct, supervise, or perform work to (1) classify
positions according to their common characteristics of kind of work,
level of difficulty, degree of responsibility, qualification
requirements, and other factors established under Federal position
classification plans;  or (2) establish and maintain position
classification plans, including formulation of policies and procedures,
development of occupational structures and preparation of classification
standards, technical evaluation guides, and other reference material
concerning classification work processes and program operations;  or (3)
any combination of both.  The paramount qualification requirements of
positions included in this series are knowledges and skill in position
analysis and evaluation to determine appropriate pay system, (())
occupational grouping, title, and grade (or difficulty level) of
positions as well as knowledges of occupational characteristics;  and an
understanding of the relationship of position classification to
management problems and to other specialized fields of personnel
management.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-222--Occupational Analysis Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform work involved in ascertaining facts
concerning, analyzing, codifying, and describing the duties and
responsibilities of positions in or outside of the Federal service and
qualifications required for their full performance.
<p>
   GS-223--Salary and Wage Administration Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform work directly involved in (a)
determining salary or wage rates used in or outside of the Government
service or (b) salary or wage administration.
<p>
   GS-230--Employee Relations Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that involve the administration,
supervision, evaluation, or performance of technical work concerned with
establishing and maintaining employer-employee (()) relationships that
contribute to satisfactory productivity, motivation, morale, and
discipline.  Positions in this series are concerned with providing
guidance, consultation, and assistance to management and employees on
employee relations matters and advising on grievances and appeals,
adverse actions, employee discipline and related matters.  This work
requires a knowledge of the theories, principles, practices, and
techniques of employee relations;  and a knowledge of the objectives,
principles, and procedures of personnel management in the Federal
service.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-233--Labor Relations Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that involve the administration,
supervision, evaluation, or performance of technical work concerned with
labor relations in the Federal service.  This includes establishing and
maintaining effective relationships with labor organizations that
represent Federal employees, negotiating and administering labor
agreements and otherwise conferring with labor organizations on behalf
of management, and providing guidance, consultation, and staff
assistance to management on a variety of labor relations matters.
Included in this series are positions involved in the Governmentwide
administration of the Federal labor relations program, such as those
involved in policy development, agency guidance, and investigation and
resolution of certain complaints and appeals as required under the
Executive Orders governing Federal labor (()) relations.  Some positions
covered by this series also involve advising management on grievances
and appeals, adverse actions, employee discipline, and related matters
when these are dealt with as an integral part of the labor relations
program.  Positions covered by this series require as their paramount
qualifications a knowledge of the Executive Orders, regulations,
principles, practices, and techniques of labor relations;  and a
knowledge of the objectives, principles, and procedures of personnel
management in the Federal service.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-235--Employee Development Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that involve planning, administering,
supervising, or evaluating a program designed to train and develop
employees.  This series also covers positions that involve providing
guidance, consultation, and staff assistance to management concerning
employee training and development matters.  Positions covered by this
series require as their paramount qualifications an understanding of the
relationship of employee development and training to management problems
and to personnel management objectives, methods, and procedures;
analytical ability;  and a knowledge of the principles, practices, and
techniques of education or training.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-241--Mediation Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions which involve providing mediation
assistance to labor and management in the settlement or prevention of
industrial labor disputes connected with the formulation, revision,
termination, or renewal of collectivebargaining agreements.  The
paramount qualification requirement of all positions in this series is
ability and skill in applying the techniques of mediation in dealing
with the parties to a dispute.  The application of these techniques in
the settlement of industrial labor disputes requires knowledge of the
field of labor-management relations, particularly of collective
bargaining principles, practices, and processes;  understanding of
economic, industrial, and labor trends, and of current developments and
problems in the field of labor relations;  and knowledge of applicable
labor laws and precedent decisions.
<p>
   (This series applies only to mediator positions in the Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service and in the National Mediation Board.)
<p>
   GS-243--Apprenticeship and Training Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve the administration,
supervision, or performance of work primarily concerned with (a) the
promotion of apprenticeship and other on-the-job training programs and
standards to meet the needs for skilled manpower in industry, and (b)
providing technical advice and assistance on methods for improving and
obtaining more effective utilization of (()) worker skills on the job.
This work includes obtaining the cooperative support of, providing
consultative services to, and coordinating with management and labor,
educational, community, and other groups, and governmental agencies at
local, State, and Federal levels.  Positions in this series basically
require knowledge of the principles and practices of apprenticeship,
ability to analyze industrial processes and operations in order to
identify the manpower and training problems involved and to advise on
solutions, and knowledge of related industrial relations practices and
problems.
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<p>
   Also classifiable to this series are positions requiring application
of the same basic knowledges and abilities in supervising or performing
work primarily involving the review of apprenticeship standards and
training agreements for conformance with basic national standards.
<p>
   GS-244--Labor Management Relations Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve the administration,
supervision, or performance of work in the investigation, evaluation and
resolution of cases involving charges of unfair labor practices or
collective bargaining representation issues or disputes which arise
under the National Labor Relations Act.  Work in this series requires a
knowledge of the field of labor-management relations, of collective
bargaining processes, of applicable labor laws and precedent decisions,
and of the (()) regulations, policies and practices of the National
Labor Relations Board.  It also requires the ability to apply
investigative techniques, and to negotiate constructively and
persuasively.  This series excludes positions the duties of which
primarily involve the mediation of labor-management disputes arising out
of the formulation or revision of collective bargaining agreements;
such positions are classifiable in the Mediation Series, GS-241.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-246--Contractor Industrial Relations Series
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve industrial relations
matters affecting agency procurement of services and materials from
private contractors.  The work primarily involves such functions as:
advising agency officials on contractor industrial relations matters,
including the labor capability of proposed contractors in terms of
available manpower supply and skills;  representing the agency on
industrial relations matters to contractors, to labor organizations, and
to other agencies concerned;  administration of agency programs for
assuring contractor compliance with the labor provisions of applicable
laws, standards, and terms under a contract;  promoting harmonious labor
relations to protect agency interest (this includes aiding in the
prevention of friction between labor and the contractor, or expediting
the resolution of differences between them);  and obtaining labor and
management cooperation in the removal of critical materials from
strike-bound facilities.  The duties (()) require knowledge of governing
labor laws, regulations and standards, and of pertinent industrial
relations practices and labor relations.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-249--Wage and Hour Compliance Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that involve performing or supervising
(1) on-site efforts to obtain compliance by employers with wage and hour
and related laws, or (2) the establishment, revision, and interpretation
of wage and hour program policies and guidelines or the evaluation of
enforcement operations.  The work requires:  (a) thorough knowledge of
the laws enforced;  (b) ability to apply the varied techniques used to
obtain compliance, including investigation, negotiation and
conciliation, education and persuasion, and litigation;  and (c)
understanding of business organization, records systems, and practices
related to the laws administered.
<p>
   GS-260--Equal Employment Opportunity Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions primarily concerned with developing,
administering, evaluating, or advising on the Federal Government's
internal equal employment opportunity program within various Federal
agencies when the position requires knowledge of Federal equal
employment opportunity regulations and principles;  compliance and
enforcement skills;  administrative, management, and consulting skills;
and knowledge of Federal personnel (()) administration.  This includes
managers or coordinators of special emphasis programs designed to solve
the specialized employment problems of women, minorities, veterans, the
handicapped, persons over age forty, and others as they relate to
Federal employment.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-270--Federal Retirement Benefits Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve managing, supervising, or
performing administrative work concerned with retirement and insurance
benefits in the Federal service.  This includes positions responsible
for:  (1) analyzing, adjudicating, adjusting, and reconsidering
retirement, disability, and survivor benefits applications and claims;
(2) preparing agency positions and/or representing the agency in appeals
on retirement matters;  (3) auditing the annuitant and survivor rolls
and taking actions to prevent fraudulent payments;  (4) providing
guidance, consultation, and staff assistance to agencies, former
employees, annuitants, spouses, survivors, and eligible family members
regarding retirement and insurance;  (5) formulating and evaluating
program policies and functions;  (6) developing procedures, methods,
work aids, technical guides, and other reference material for program
operations;  and (7) developing and/or conducting program training.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-299--Personnel Management Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
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<p>
   September 1993
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<p>
   GS-200
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
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<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform work involved in management
analysis;  stenography, typing, correspondence, and secretarial work;
mail and file work;  the operation of office appliances;  the operation
of communications equipment, use of codes and ciphers, and procurement
of the most effective and efficient communications services;  the
operation of microform equipment, peripheral equipment, mail processing
equipment, duplicating equipment, and copier/duplicating equipment;  and
other work of a general clerical and administrative nature.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-301--Miscellaneous Administration and Program Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to perform,
supervise, or manage nonprofessional, two-grade interval work for which
no other series is appropriate.  The work requires analytical ability,
judgment, discretion, and knowledge of a substantial body of
administrative or program principles, concepts, policies, and
objectives.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-302--Messenger Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of position the primary duties of
which are to supervise or perform general messenger work, such as
receiving, delivering, and collecting incoming and outgoing mail or
other documents or items, including correspondence, memoranda,
publications, records, files, packages, and other similar material.
Positions in this series may also involve the performance of light
manual or mechanical work, or general office tasks of a simple and
routine nature, or the operation of a motor vehicle.
<p>
   GS-303--Miscellaneous Clerk and Assistant Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to perform or
supervise clerical, assistant, or technician work for which no other
series is appropriate.  The work requires knowledge of the procedures
and techniques involved in carrying out the work of an organization and
involves application of procedures and practices within the framework of
established guidelines.
<p>
   GS-304--Information Receptionist Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise or perform work involved in receiving and directing persons
who call or visit Government agencies, installations, or offices, and
giving them information in person (()) or by telephone concerning the
organization, functions, activities, and personnel of such agencies,
installations, or offices.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-305--Mail and File Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions involving the administration,
supervision, or performance of clerical work related to the processing
of incoming or outgoing mail and/or the systematic arrangement of
records for storage or reference purposes, the scheduled disposition of
records, and the performance of related work when such duties require
the application of established mail or file methods and procedures,
knowledge of prescribed systems for governing the flow and control of
communications, and/or the filing or storage and retrieval of records,
and knowledge of the organization and functions of the operating unit or
units serviced.
<p>
   GS-309--Correspondence Clerk Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise or perform work involved in the composition or review of
correspondence prepared for the purpose of obtaining or supplying
factual information when the work primarily requires skill in the
composition of letters and memoranda.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-312--Clerk-Stenographer and Reporter Series*
<p>
   This series covers all positions the duties of which are to perform
stenography or shorthand reporting work either solely or in combination
with clerical work, except when the clerical work requires such
specialized experience or training that it constitutes the paramount
qualification requirement for the position;  or to supervise work
characteristic of this series when stenographic or shorthand reporting
ability is an essential requirement of the supervisory position.
<p>
   GS-313--Work Unit Supervising Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise one or more work units when the work of the unit(s) is
properly classified in one-grade interval series.  Positions classified
in this series have as their paramount qualification requirement
supervisory knowledges and abilities and do not require prior
experience, knowledge, or skill in a specialized subject matter or
functional area.
<p>
   GS-318--Secretary Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the duties of which are to assist
one individual, and in some cases the subordinate staff of that
individual, by performing general office work auxiliary to the work of
the organization.  To be included in this series, a position must be the
principal office clerical or administrative support position in the
office, operating independently of any (()) other such position in the
office.  The duties require a knowledge of clerical and administrative
procedures and requirements, various office skills, and the ability to
apply such skills in a way that increases the effectiveness of others.
The duties do not require a technical or professional knowledge of a
specialized subject-matter area.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-319--Closed Microphone Reporting Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the principal duties of
which are to supervise or perform the work involved in the recording and
transcription of material spoken at conferences, hearings, or similar
proceedings when the recording duties require the ability to operate
closed microphone or similar mechanical equipment to reproduce the
spoken material on a disk, cylinder, or similar device.
<p>
   GS-322--Clerk-Typist Series*
<p>
   This series covers all positions the primary duties of which are to
perform typing work on either manual or electric typewriters.  This work
may be performed solely or in combination with general clerical work
that does not require prior specialized experience or training.
Included is typing work prepared from written material and voice
recordings.  Supervisory positions involved in supervising work
characteristic of this series are also included when typing ability is
an essential part of the job.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-326--Office Automation Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the primary duties of which are to
perform office automation work, which includes word processing, either
solely or in combination with clerical work, when such work is performed
in the context of general office clerical support.  Also included are
positions which supervise work characteristic of this series when the
knowledge, skills, and abilities for general office automation support
work are essential requirements of the supervisory position.  Positions
in this series require:  (1) knowledge of general office automation
software, practices, and procedures;  (2) competitive level proficiency
in typing;  and (3) ability to apply these knowledges and skills in the
performance of general office support work.
<p>
   GS-332--Computer Operation Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the paramount duties of which involve
operating or supervising the operation of the controls of the digital
computer system.  Also included are positions involving the operation of
peripheral equipment when:  (a) such equipment is used directly in
support of computer operations;  and (b) the operation of such equipment
is directly related to acquiring the knowledges and skills needed in
operating the control console of a computer system.  Positions in this
series require a knowledge of the functions of the various computer
features and the skill to read, interpret, and correctly respond (()) to
information in the form in which it is transmitted through the computer
system.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-334--Computer Specialist Series*
<p>
   The work in this series includes responsibility for analyzing,
managing, supervising, or performing work necessary to plan, design,
develop, acquire, document, test, implement, integrate, maintain, or
modify systems for solving problems or accomplishing work processes by
using computers.  Positions are included in this series when the primary
need is knowledge of information processing methodology/technology,
computer capabilities, and processing techniques.
<p>
   GS-335--Computer Clerk and Assistant Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions involving performance or supervision of
data processing support and services functions for users of digital
computer systems including such work as:  (1) receiving, maintaining,
and issuing data storage media for computer operations;  (2) collecting
and sequentially staging input media with associated program
instructions for processing;  (3) scheduling the use of computer time
for program processing;  (4) collecting, maintaining and distributing
program and systems documentation;  and (5) collecting raw information,
preparing flow charts, and coding in program languages;  or, (6) other
support (()) functions.  This work requires knowledge of external data
processing sequences, controls, procedures, or user and programming
languages, rather than indepth knowledge of computer requirements or
techniques associated with development and design of data processing
systems.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-340--Program Management Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to manage or direct, or to assist in a line capacity in managing or
directing, one or more programs, including appropriate supporting
service organizations, when the paramount qualification requirement of
the positions is management and executive knowledge and ability and when
the positions do not require competence in a specialized subject-matter
or functional area.  (Positions in which specialized subject matter or
functional competence is a necessary qualification requirement are
classifiable in whichever specialized or general series is most
appropriate.)
<p>
   GS-341--Administrative Officer Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions in which the employees are responsible
for providing or obtaining a variety of management services essential to
the direction and operation of an organization.  The paramount
qualifications required are extensive knowledge and understanding of
management principles, (()) practices, methods and techniques, and skill
in integrating management services with the general management of an
organization.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-342--Support Services Administration Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the primary duties of which
involve supervising, directing, or planning and coordinating a variety
of service functions that are principally worksupporting, i.e., those
functions without which the operations of an organization or services to
the public would be impaired, curtailed, or stopped.  Such service
functions include (but are not limited to) communications, procurement
of administrative supplies and equipment, printing, reproduction,
property management, space management, records management, mail service,
facilities and equipment maintenance, and transportation.
<p>
   GS-343--Management and Program Analysis Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which primarily serve as analysts and
advisors to management on the evaluation of the effectiveness of
government programs and operations or the productivity and efficiency of
the management of Federal agencies or both.  Positions in this series
require knowledge of:  the substantive nature of agency programs and
activities;  agency missions, policies, and objectives;  management
principles and processes;  and the analytical and evaluative methods and
techniques for (()) assessing program development or execution and
improving organizational effectiveness and efficiency.  Some positions
also require an understanding of basic budgetary and financial
management principles and techniques as they relate to long range
planning of programs and objectives.  The work requires skill in:
application of factfinding and investigative techniques;  oral and
written communications;  and development of presentations and reports.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-344--Management and Program Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involved in supervising or performing
clerical and technical work in support of management analysis and
program analysis, the purposes of which are to evaluate and improve the
efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity of organizations and
programs.  The work requires a practical knowledge of the purposes,
methods, and techniques of management analysis and/or program analysis
and the structures, functions, processes, objectives, products,
services, resource requirements, and similar features of Government
programs and organizations.
<p>
   GS-346--Logistics Management Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions concerned with directing, developing, or
performing logistics management operations that involve planning,
coordinating, or evaluating the logistical (()) actions required to
support a specified mission, weapons system, or other designated
program.  The work involves (1) identifying the specific requirements
for money, manpower, materiel, facilities, and services needed to
support the program and (2) correlating those requirements with program
plans to assure that the needed support is provided at the right time
and place.  Logistics work requires (1) knowledge of agency program
planning, funding, and management information systems, (2) broad
knowledge of the organization and functions of activities involved in
providing logistical support, and (3) ability to coordinate and evaluate
the efforts of functional specialists to identify specific requirements
and to develop and adjust plans and schedules for the actions needed to
meet each requirement on time.
<table>
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<p>
   Positions in this series require some degree of specialized knowledge
of some or all of the logistics support activities involved.  The
paramount qualification requirement, however, is the ability to
integrate the separate functions in planning or implementing a logistics
management program.  (Positions in which specialized knowledges of
logistics support functions are the paramount requirement are classified
in whichever specialized or general series is most appropriate.)
<table>
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<p>
   GS-350--Equipment Operator Series*
<p>
   This series covers all positions which involve supervising, leading
or operating microform equipment, peripheral equipment, mail processing
equipment, duplicating equipment, and copier/duplicating equipment
requiring a knowledge of the operating characteristics of the equipment
and controls, the skill and knowledge to set up and adjust the equipment
and controls to produce acceptable products or services on a timely
basis, and the skill to perform normal operator maintenance.
<p>
   GS-351--Printing Clerical Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve clerical duties
requiring knowledge of clerical procedures and operations peculiar to
the control, procurement, or providing of printing services.  For
instance, incumbents of positions in this series process requisitions
for procurement of printing, identify from agency guides established
specifications, estimate costs for standard recurring publications,
maintain control records for production or cost purposes, etc.  A
technical knowledge of printing as defined in the Printing Management
Series, GS-1654, is not required for performance of work in this series.
<p>
   GS-356--Data Transcriber Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that involve operating or supervising
the operation of keyboard controlled machines (such as card punch
machines, paper tape recording machines, magnetic (()) tape, or disc
encoders, optical character equipment, and computer controlled data
entry, update and remote inquiry devices) to transcribe or verify data
in a form that can be used in automated data processing systems.  The
work requires (1) skill in operating typewriter or a modified typewriter
style alphabetic and numeric keyboard with acceptable speed and
accuracy, and (2) ability to understand and apply machine operating and
data transcribing procedures.  Data transcribing work that is combined
with clerical work is covered by this series unless the clerical work
requires specialized experience or training that constitutes the
paramount qualification requirement of the position.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-357--Coding Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions engaged in supervising, verifying, or
performing work involved in coding information from schedules,
questionnaires, reports, documents, and other written source material,
according to codes involving numerical and alphabetical symbols, and
performing other incidental clerical tasks.  This series includes those
positions that require some knowledge of the information being coded in
addition to procedural knowledge, as well as those positions that
require only procedural coding knowledge.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-359--Electric Accounting Machine Operation Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the principal duties of
which are to supervise, or perform machine operation work and related
clerical work involved in processing data by means of electric
accounting machines (formerly known as mechanical tabulating equipment
and sometimes currently called unit record machines).  (See also the
Data Transcriber Series, GS-356 and the Electric Accounting Machine
Project Planning Series, GS-362 for other types of positions which
involve the same or related equipment.)
<p>
   GS-360--Equal Opportunity Compliance Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions performing, supervising, or managing
analytical, evaluative, and interpretive equal opportunity and civil
rights compliance work.  Positions in this series are concerned with the
application of civil rights and equal opportunity laws, regulations, and
precedent decisions to eliminate illegal discrimination and to remove
barriers to equal opportunity.  This work involves analyzing and solving
equal opportunity and civil rights problems through factfinding, problem
analysis, negotiation, and voluntary compliance programs.  The work
requires judgment in applying equal opportunity principles to solve
problems or recommend action.  Many positions in this series require
specialized knowledge and skill in investigating and resolving
allegations of discrimination.  This series also includes equal
opportunity or civil rights positions (()) of an analytical, evaluative,
and interpretive nature which are not properly classified in another
series.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-361--Equal Opportunity Assistance Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions supervising or performing technical
and substantive clerical work in support of equal opportunity and civil
rights programs or activities.  The paramount qualification requirement
is a practical knowledge of the methods, procedures, regulations, and
purposes of the equal opportunity or civil rights function the positions
support. These positions do not require the broad knowledge of equal
opportunity and civil rights principles, or the depth of skill in
analysis, interpretation, and decision-making characteristic of the
Equal Opportunity Compliance Series, Equal Employment Opportunity
Series, and Civil Rights Analysis Series.
<p>
   GS-362--Electric Accounting Machine Project Planning Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to plan or supervise the planning of the work process and sequence of
steps involved in recording and processing data by means of electric
accounting machines (formerly known as mechanical tabulating equipment
and sometimes currently called unit record machines).  Also included in
this series are certain positions which involve both planning and
supervision of planning work and also responsibility for supervising,
administering, or (()) directing an electric accounting machine program
or organization.  (See also the Data Transcriber Series, GS-356, and the
Electric Accounting Machine Operation Series, GS-359, for the other
types of positions which involve the same or related equipment.)
<table>
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<p>
   GS-382--Telephone Operating Series*
<p>
   This series includes one grade interval work that involves operating
or supervising the operation of telephone switchboard equipment to
connect incoming and outgoing calls.  The work involves routing the
calls to their proper destinations and providing telephone and
organizational information to callers.
<p>
   GS-390--Telecommunications Processing Series*
<p>
   This series includes one grade interval work that involves performing
or supervising the operation of equipment in transmitting, receiving,
and relaying messages.  The work requires knowledge of message-handling
procedures and use of computer hardware and software or other equipment
to send messages to their proper destinations.
<p>
   GS-391--Telecommunications Series*
<p>
   This occupation includes positions that involve 1) technical and
analytical work pertaining to the planning, development, acquisition,
testing, integration, installation, utilization, or (()) modification of
telecommunications systems, facilities, services, and procedures;  2)
managerial and staff work in the planning, implementation, or program
management of telecommunications programs, systems, and services or, 3)
line supervision over communications operations, when such work includes
responsibility for management functions such as planning, recommending
changes and determining organizational structure, staffing, training,
and budgetary requirements.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-392--General Telecommunications Series**
<p>
   This series includes one-grade interval positions that involve
performing or supervising miscellaneous telecommunications duties not
provided for in other series.  Positions in this series do not typically
involve substantial operation of telecommunications equipment to send
and receive messages, but do require knowledge of telecommunications
techniques to facilitate the flow of messages.
<p>
   GS-394--Communications Clerical Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise or perform communications clerical work required in support
of communications operations or in the maintenance of communications
records when the work requires knowledge of and ability to apply
communications instructions, rules, regulations, and procedures, but
does not require knowledge of the concepts, (()) methodology, and
techniques of communications or of technical communications principles.
Included in this series is such clerical work as:  keeping memorandum
records of communication operations and services, clerical processing
and maintaining records of frequency allocations, clerical processing
and maintaining records of call sign allocations, maintaining records of
communication publications, providing information to the public on
communication rates and tariffs, maintaining records of circuit usage
and equipment, and the compilation of summaries and reports and other
clerical work incident to the support of communication operations or the
maintenance of communication records.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-399--Administration and Office Support Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-300
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE, CLERICAL, AND OFFICE SERVICES GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.010400>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
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<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work or subordinate technical work in any of
the fields of science concerned with living organisms, their
distribution, characteristics, life processes, and adaptations and
relations to the environment;  the soil, its properties and
distribution, and the living organisms growing in (()) or on the soil;
and the management, conservation, or utilization thereof for particular
purposes or uses.
<table>
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<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-401--General Biological Science Series
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve professional work in
biology, agriculture, or related natural resource management when there
is no other more appropriate series.  Thus included in this series are
positions that involve (1) a combination of several professional fields
with none predominant, or (2) a specialized professional field not
readily identified with other existing series.
<p>
   GS-403--Microbiology Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which
involve the performance of scientific and professional work in the field
of microbiology.  Microbiology deals with the study of the
characteristics and life processes of microorganisms, the
interrelationships among microorganisms, their relationships to other
living forms, and their reactions to the environment in which they are
found.  This includes (a) work with the protozoa, bacteria, algae,
fungi, viruses, rickettsiae, microscopic parasites and similar
microscopic and submicroscopic forms;  (b) work in such fields as
immunology, medical parasitology, (()) physiology, serology, genetics,
taxonomy, and cytology as they relate to microorganisms;  (c) studies of
the form, structure, reproductive processes, genetics, taxonomy, and
cytology as they relate to microorganisms and the products of their
chemical activities;  (d) studies of the distribution of microorganisms
in natural and manmade environments (including agricultural and
nonagricultural products and food processing establishments), their
reaction to physical and chemical factors in the environment, their role
as pathogenic and immunizing agents, and their isolation, cultivation,
identification, and systematic classification;  and (e) work which
involves the development of scientific microbiological methods,
procedures, and techniques, and the production and use of microorganisms
in agricultural, industrial, medical, sanitary, and other practical
applications.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-404--Biological Science Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions that primarily require a practical
knowledge of the methods and techniques of one or more of the biological
or agricultural sciences when the work is not more appropriately
included in another technician series of the Biological Sciences Group,
GS-400.  Biological science technicians provide practical technical
support to production, research, operations, or program administration
efforts in laboratories, field, or other settings including greenhouses,
barns, caves, or wildlife refuges.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-405--Pharmacology Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are primarily to
administer, advise on, supervise, or perform research, analytical,
advisory, or other professional and scientific work in the discipline of
pharmacology.  Such work requires the application of a knowledge of the
history, sources, physical and chemical properties, biochemical, toxic,
and physiological effects, mechanisms of action, absorption,
distribution, metabolism, biotransformation and excretion, and
therapeutic and other uses of drugs.
<p>
   Pharmacology:
<p>
         (1) involves the many aspects of the action of drugs or similar
      agents on living systems and their constituent parts, ranging from
      the intermolecular reactions of chemical compounds in a cell with
      drugs, to the evaluation of the effectiveness of a drug or agent
      in the treatment of human disease;  and
<p>
         (2) requires intensive preparation and training in organic
      chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, and pharmacology;  the
      application and interpretation of a full range of methods,
      procedures, and techniques relative to the action of drugs or
      similar agents, but does not require full professional training in
      medicine or veterinary medicine.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-406--Agricultural Extension Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work in connection with extension and
instruction projects in some phase of agricultural or home economics.
<p>
   GS-408--Ecology Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve primarily advisory,
research, analytical, or other professional work in the science of
ecology.  Ecology utilizes a systems approach to study the
interrelationships of organisms with each other, with their physical and
chemical environment, and with society.  Such relationships are
considered primarily at the levels of individuals, populations,
communities, and ecosystems.  Ecologists analyze biological components
and processes in the context of ecosystems including environmental
factors, physicalchemical relationships, and social relationships.  They
use quantitative and systems analysis techniques to predict effects of
planned or natural changes in ecosystems and to develop understanding of
and solutions to ecological problems.
<p>
   GS-410--Zoology Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve work in the field of
zoology, including classification, structure, ecology, parasitological
phenomena, evolution and the life history of (()) animals.  This work
requires professional education and training in the animal and related
natural sciences, and knowledge of the principles, methods, techniques,
and procedures applied in the investigation, and solution of zoological
problems.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1059/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-413--Physiology Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work in the field of human and animal
physiology, including studies of the functions, environmental response,
and biological activities and processes of the basic living organism and
its component parts.
<p>
   GS-414--Entomology Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to advise on,
administer, supervise, or perform professional and scientific work in
the field of entomology which requires a fundamental knowledge of the
principles of the biological and physical sciences which underlie the
field, and a specific knowledge of the application of these principles
to the solution of entomological problems.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-415--Toxicology Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are primarily to
administer, advise on, supervise, or perform research, analytical,
advisory, or other professional and scientific work in the discipline of
toxicology.  Such work involves the study of adverse effects of chemical
substances or similar agents on living organisms and/or the environment,
and the assessment of the probability of their occurrence under
specified conditions of use or exposure.
<p>
   Toxicology:
<p>
         (1) involves the study of the interaction of chemical and
      physical agents and biological systems, the exploration of the
      nature and mechanisms of adverse reactions, and the assessment of
      the likelihood that adverse effects will occur;  and
<p>
         (2) requires the application of scientific knowledges
      including, but not limited to, pathology, anatomy, chemistry,
      biochemistry, microbiology, physiology, pharmacology, toxicology,
      and materials sciences (e.g., as they pertain to the
      interrelationships of composition, structure, and properties), but
      does not require full preparation for practice in any one of those
      disciplines, or full professional training in medicine or
      veterinary medicine.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-421--Plant Protection Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions that primarily require a practical
knowledge of the methods and techniques of plant protection and
quarantine.  Plant protection technicians provide technical support in
research efforts;  in the establishment and enforcement of plant
quarantines governing the movement of insects, plant diseases,
nematodes, and other plant pests of economic importance;  or in the
survey, detection, field identification, control or eradication of plant
pests.  The duties require the application of a practical knowledge of
the types and characteristics of plant pests, quarantine procedures,
pest control and eradication methods, and plant pest survey techniques.
<p>
   GS-430--Botany Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve research or other
professional scientific work in the field of botany, including plant
taxonomy, morphology, ecology, and ethnobotany.  This work requires full
professional education and training in the plant sciences and a
fundamental knowledge of the principles, methods, techniques,
procedures, and relationships of the science of botany and of the
application of this knowledge in the investigation, analysis, and
solution of botanical problems.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1089/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-434--Plant Pathology Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work in the investigation of the cause,
nature, prevalence, and severity of parasitic, nonparasitic, and virus
diseases attacking plants;  experimentation in and the establishment of
methods for the prevention and control of such diseases;  or the
relation of such diseases to practices involved in the propagation,
planting, cultivation, transportation, and storage of plants and plant
products;  or any combination thereof.
<p>
   GS-435--Plant Physiology Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve research or other
professional and scientific work pertaining to one or more of such vital
functions as plant growth, nutrition, respiration, and reproduction that
are essential to the life of the plant or its use.  This includes work
on the internal processes such as assimilation, photosynthesis,
translocation, or transpiration that are involved in vital functions;
or on the influence which one or more environmental factors, such as
humidity, water, light, mineral nutrients, and temperature have on these
functions and processes.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1099/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-436--Plant Protection and Quarantine Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, and perform professional and
scientific work in the establishment and enforcement of agricultural
quarantines governing movement of plant pests of economic significance
into or within the United States, and in the survey, detection,
regulation, and control or eradication of plant pests.  These duties
require the application of professional training and knowledge in one or
more of the biological and agricultural sciences such as plant
pathology, entomology, nematology, horticulture and related sciences.
Most positions also require practical knowledge of the transportation
and shipping industries, farming, nursery and related operations, and
inspection, quarantine and control techniques as applied to plants,
plant products, animal byproducts and other items of agricultural
quarantine interest.
<p>
   GS-437--Horticulture Series**
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work in the behavior, breeding, or culture
(or any combination thereof) of fruits, vegetables, flowers, or
ornamental trees and shrubs, and in allied problems of their production,
storage, and handling.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1109/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-440--Genetics Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional research in
the principles and mechanisms of transmission of characters by
inheritance, including in some instances the application of these
principles in planning breeding programs.
<p>
   GS-454--Rangeland Management Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that require primarily professional
knowledge and competence in rangeland management to perform work
involving the preservation, development, and management of rangelands.
This includes the ability to analyze and protect the natural resources,
to develop programs and standards for rangeland use and conservation,
and to advise State officials, and private and Indian landowners in
rangeland management practices.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1119/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-455--Range Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions that primarily require a practical
knowledge of the methods and techniques of range conservation and
related resource management fields.  Range technicians provide practical
technical support in range research efforts;  in the marketing of the
range resource;  and in the scientific management, protection, and
development of grasslands and other range resources.
<p>
   GS-457--Soil Conservation Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involving the performance of
professional work in the conservation of soil, water, and related
environmental resources to achieve sound land use.  Conservation work
requires knowledge of:  (a) soils and crops;  and (b) the pertinent
elements of agronomy, engineering, hydrology, range conservation,
biology, and forestry;  and (c) skill in oral and written communication
methods and techniques sufficient to impart these knowledges to selected
client groups.
<p>
   GS-458--Soil Conservation Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions that require a practical knowledge
of the methods and techniques of soil, water, and environmental
conservation as they relate to agricultural operations and land use
measures.  Soil conservation technicians (()) advise property holders on
the effectiveness of applying soil and water conservation practices or
assist in research efforts.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1129/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-459--Irrigation System Operation Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve the management or
operation of irrigation systems, where the work requires primarily
knowledge of the methods and procedures used in distributing,
controlling, and measuring irrigation water.
<p>
   GS-460--Forestry Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which require primarily professional
knowledge and competence in forestry science.  The work includes
development, production, conservation, and utilization of the natural
resources of forests and associated lands;  the inventory, planning,
evaluation, and management of each forest resource including timber,
soil, land, water, wildlife and fish habitat, minerals, forage, and
outdoor recreation including wilderness, in relationship with each other
to meet both present and future public and local private needs and
demands;  the protection of resources against fire, insects, disease,
floods, erosion, and other depredations;  the valuation, management and
protection of forest lands and properties;  the interpretation and
communication of principles, facts and legislation upon which the
management of forest land rests;  and the development of new, improved,
or more economic scientific (()) methods, practices, or techniques
necessary to perform such work.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1139/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-462--Forestry Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions that primarily require a practical
knowledge of the methods and techniques of forestry and other
biologically based resource management fields.  Forestry technicians
provide practical technical support in forestry research efforts;  in
the marketing of forest resources;  or in the scientific management,
protection, and development of forest resources.
<p>
   GS-470--Soil Science Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve professional and
scientific work in the investigation of soils, their management, and
their adaptation for alternative uses.  Such work requires knowledge of
chemical, physical, mineralogical and biological properties and
processes of the soils and their relationships to climatic,
physiographic, and biologic influences.
<p>
   GS-471--Agronomy Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which
involve the performance of professional and scientific work in the field
of agronomy, including the application of the fundamental principles of
the plant, soil, and related sciences, (()) (and those affecting the
water relationships involved) to the improvement, production,
management, and utilization of field crops, pasture and cover crops,
turf, and related types of vegetation;  to soil and crop management;  to
the development and use of weed controls and plant regulators;  and to
related fields.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1149/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-475--Agricultural Management Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involving performance of a broad range
of professional agricultural functions associated with providing
supervised credit and technical assistance programs for agricultural
enterprises and related rural activities.  The work requires performance
of broad technical and financial functions to assist farmers, ranchers,
and other rural residents in the planning, development, operations, and
maintenance of agricultural enterprises.  Positions in this series
perform duties such as:  advising farmers and ranchers of the
operational and financial implications of key decisions concerning their
enterprises;  determining the survivability of agricultural enterprises;
 approving and supervising loans under various programs;  and verifying
information supplied by borrowers.  Positions in this series require:
professional knowledge of agriculture and related biological and
physical sciences;  knowledge of credit and finance principles and
practices;  and knowledge of the purposes, provisions, procedures, and
implications of the various loan programs of the agency.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1159/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-480--General Fish and Wildlife Administration Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions which involve
professional and scientific work in administering, directing, or
exercising administrative and technical control over programs,
regulatory activities, projects, or operations which are concerned with
the conservation and management of fishery resources, wildlife
resources, or fish and wildlife resources.
<p>
   GS-482--Fishery Biology Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which require professional knowledge
and competence in the science of fishery biology to perform work:  (a)
developing, conserving, managing, and administering fishery resources;
and (b) evaluating the impact of construction projects and other
socioeconomic activities that present potential or actual adverse
effects on fishery resources and their habitat.  The work also requires
an ability to determine, establish, and apply biological facts,
principles, methods, techniques, and procedures that are necessary for
the production and/or management of aquatic resources in their natural
habitat and/or within facilities and systems that have been constructed
for their benefit and public use.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1169/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-485--Wildlife Refuge Management Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which require primarily professional
knowledge and competence in the management, administration, and
scientific operation of public lands and waters designated as national
wildlife refuges.  The work requires biological analyses, planning, and
evaluation, and has as its principal purpose the conservation,
protection, and propagation of wildlife species and the manipulation and
utilization of their required habitat.  The work involves a variety of
activities in land, water, and habitat management, land planning,
resource identification and allocation, administration, public
relations, supervision, and other activities involving wildlife resource
utilization, protection, inventory and evaluation, and maintenance of
grasslands, marshes, and soils.  The work also involves management
considerations of land exploration and public, commercial, industrial,
and agrarian land use.
<p>
   GS-486--Wildlife Biology Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which require professional knowledge
and competence in the science of wildlife biology to perform work
involving:  (a) the conservation, propagation, management, protection,
and administration of wildlife species;  or (b) the determination,
establishment, and application of biological facts, principles, methods,
techniques, and procedures necessary for the conservation and management
of wildlife resources and habitats. The work requires professional
knowledge of the distribution, habits, life histories, and
classification (()) of birds, mammals, and other forms of wildlife.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1179/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-487--Animal Science Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve research or other
professional and scientific work in the field of animal science
including nutritional, biophysical, biochemical, and physiological
relationships.  This work requires full professional education and
training in the biological and agricultural sciences and a fundamental
knowledge of the principles, methods, techniques, and relationships in
the field of animal science and the application of this knowledge in the
investigation, analysis, and solution of animal science problems.
<p>
   GS-493--Home Economics Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions that require application of
professional knowledge of home economics pertaining to foods and
nutrition, selection and use of household equipment, textiles, clothing
and other products used in family care, and household management
practices.
<p>
   GS-499--Biological Science Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-400
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.010500>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1189/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional, technical,
or related clerical work of an accounting, budget administration,
related financial management, or similar nature.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-501--Financial Administration and Program Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to perform,
supervise, or manage nonprofessional, two-grade interval work properly
classified to the Accounting and Budget Group, GS-500, when no other
series is appropriate.
<p>
   GS-503--Financial Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to perform or
supervise clerical or assistant work in support of accounting, auditing,
budgeting, or financial management functions when no other established
series in the Accounting and Budget Group, GS-500, is appropriate.  The
work requires a knowledge of the procedures and techniques involved in
carrying out the work of an organization and involves application of
procedures and practices within the framework of established guidelines.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1199/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-505--Financial Management Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to manage or direct a program for the management of the financial
resources of an organizational segment, field establishment, bureau,
department, independent agency, or other organizational entity of the
Federal Government when the duties and responsibilities include:  (a)
developing, coordinating, and maintaining an integrated system of
financial staff services including at least accounting, budgeting, and
management-financial reporting, and sometimes also one or more of such
related staff services as auditing, credit analysis, management
analysis, etc.; (b) exercising effective control over the financial
resources of the organization;  (c) coordinating and synthesizing
financial and management data so as to interpret the composite financial
results of operations to all levels of the organization's management;
(d) advising on, developing, coordinating, and carrying out financial
policies, procedures, and plans;  (e) reviewing, analyzing, evaluating,
and reporting upon program accomplishments in financial terms;  and (f)
advising and assisting the management officials of the organization
served by supplying financial management advice required to make
management decisions, establish organizational goals and objectives, and
in all respects to manage the organization.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1209/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-510--Accounting Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the duties of which are to advise
on or administer, supervise, or perform professional accounting work
relating to the financial activities of governmental,
quasi-governmental, or private sector organizations.  The work includes
the design, development, operation, or inspection of accounting systems;
 the prescription of accounting standards, policies, and requirements;
the examination, analysis, and interpretation of accounting data,
records, or reports;  or the provision of accounting or financial
management advice and assistance to management.
<p>
   GS-511--Auditing Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the duties of which are to advise
on, supervise, or perform work consisting of a systematic examination
and appraisal of financial records, financial and management reports,
management controls, policies and practices affecting or reflecting the
financial condition and operating results of an activity;  or analytical
work related to the development and execution of audit policies and
programs when such work requires the application of professional
accounting knowledges, standards, and principles.
<p>
   GS-512--Internal Revenue Agent Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the duties of which are to
administer, supervise, or perform work involved in determining, (())
redetermining, and advising on liability for Federal taxes when such
work requires a knowledge of professional accounting, and in addition, a
knowledge of pertinent tax laws, regulations, procedures, and related
matters.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1219/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-525--Accounting Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes account maintenance clerical and accounting
technician support positions requiring a basic understanding of
accounting systems, policies, and procedures in performing or
supervising the examination, verification, and maintenance of accounts
and accounting data.  Also included are positions which perform
technical audit functions, develop or install revised accounting
procedures, or perform similar quasi-professional accounting work.
Positions in this series require a knowledge of existing accounting
systems, standard accounting codes, classifications, and terminology;
and understanding of agency accounting policies, procedures, and
requirements;  and the ability to apply various accounting methods,
forms and techniques, but less than the broad understanding and
theoretical knowledge of accounting acquired through professional
education and training.
<p>
   GS-526--Tax Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve technical work concerning
tax liability requiring discretion and independent (()) judgment in the
application of (a) knowledge of pertinent tax laws, regulations, and
procedures;  (b) analytical methods;  (c) skill in personal contacts
with taxpayers and their representatives;  and (d) at the full working
level, knowledge of elementary accounting.  The work includes
examination or audit of tax returns to reach decisions on correct tax
liability, or technical assistance and advice to the public on tax
liability issues.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1229/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-530--Cash Processing Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve clerical work in the
receipt, disbursement, examination, deposit, custody, or other clerical
processing of cash items, when this includes (1) direct handling of the
cash items and (2) use of cash accountability control methods.  The work
requires application of a knowledge of (a) the negotiability, validity,
and genuineness of cash items, (b) the acceptability requirements of
supporting documents, and (c) cash processing procedures of Federal
agencies and commercial institutions.
<p>
   GS-540--Voucher Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform work consisting of the examination
for accuracy, legality, compliance with regulations, and justification
of vouchers, invoices, claims, and other (()) requests for payment for
(1) goods and services provided to or by the Government;  (2)
satisfaction of breach of contract or default in fulfilling contractual
obligations;  (3) reimbursement of expenditures made by beneficiaries
for such purposes as medical and domiciliary care and treatment, burial
expenses, and education and training;  (4) reimbursement of expenditures
for travel and transportation;  or (5) other transactions when such
examination of the request for payment is not classifiable in another
series.
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<p>
   GS-544--Civilian Pay Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions concerned with the determination of
pay, the maintenance of payroll records, and the compilation of related
reports pertaining to civilian employees of the Federal Government,
and/or with the establishment, maintenance, review, and disposition of
time and leave records for civilian employees of the Federal Government.
 Positions in the Civilian Pay Series require (1) substantial knowledge
of civilian pay and/or leave rules, regulations, procedures, programs,
and systems requirements, and (2) usually, a knowledge of those civilian
personnel rules and regulations that affect pay.
<p>
   GS-545--Military Pay Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions whose primary duties are to supervise,
lead, or perform work to establish, maintain, correct, (()) and close
pay accounts for active, reserve, or retired armed forces personnel and
their annuitants. Work in this series requires a knowledge of military
pay entitlement laws, regulations, and procedures.
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<p>
   GS-560--Budget Analysis Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the paramount duties of which are
to perform, advise on, or supervise work in any of the phases or systems
of budget administration in use in the Federal service, when such work
also primarily requires knowledge and skill in the application of
related laws, regulations, policies, precedence, methods and techniques
of budgeting.
<p>
   GS-561--Budget Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the principal duties of which are
to perform clerical and technical work in support of budget analysis and
administration when such work requires primarily knowledge of the
procedures which facilitate budgeting as conducted in the Federal
service. Work in this series requires practical understanding and skill
in the application of administrative rules, regulations, and procedures
associated with recording, reporting, processing, and keeping track of
budgetary transactions, e.g., the credit, receipt, transfer, allotment,
withdrawal, obligation or outlay of funds.
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<p>
   GS-570--Financial Institution Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to direct,supervise, advise on, or perform examinations of financial
institutions such as banks, savings, or building and loan associations,
cooperative banks, home financing institutions, cooperative savings and
lending organizations, and similar institutions for such purposes as
determining:  financial condition;  quality of assets;  extent of
liabilities;  operating results, trends, and policies;  extent of
compliance with provisions of charters, by-laws, and regulatory laws and
regulations;  accuracy of financial records;  and whether irregularities
have occurred. Some positions also include furnishing advice and
assistance concerning the organization, operation, and policies of such
institutions.  Work characteristic of this series requires some, but
less than full, professional knowledge of accounting and auditing
principles, procedures, and techniques;  and knowledge of the laws and
regulations controlling the organization and operation of such
institutions and the operating methods, procedures, and practices of
financial institutions.
<p>
   GS-592--Tax Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the paramount duties of which are
to perform or supervise work in the Internal Revenue Service involving
the processing of original tax returns, establishing (()) tax account
records or changing such records based on later information affecting
taxes and refunds;  collecting some taxes and/or obtaining tax returns;
computing or verifying tax, penalty and interest;  and determining
proper tax liability. This work requires knowledge of standardized
processing and collection procedures to record tax information and
knowledge of applicable portions of tax laws and tax rulings to accept,
request proof of or reject a variety of taxpayer claims, credits and
deductions.
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<p>
   GS-593--Insurance Accounts Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform work involved in the processing and
adjusting of individual insurance accounts.  Included in this series is
such work as:  examining account records to determine that all previous
actions have been made according to laws, regulations, and procedures;
effecting non-standard adjustments which cannot be automatically
processed by the equipment;  and preparing and processing a variety of
documents necessary for the maintenance of individual accounts,
including the preparation of input documents for maintenance of the
accounts by an automatic data processing system.  Work characteristic of
this series requires a thorough understanding of Federal life insurance
laws, rules, and regulations, as well as established precedents.
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<p>
   GS-599--Financial Management Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
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<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
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<p>
   September 1993
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<p>
   GS-500
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   ACCOUNTING AND BUDGET GROUP**
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<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
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<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work, subordinate technical work, or related
clerical work in the several branches of medicine, surgery, and
dentistry or in related patient care services such as dietetics,
nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, pharmacy, and others.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-601--General Health Science Series
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve research or other
professional and scientific work which is specifically health-oriented
in character, when the work is of such generalized or miscellaneous
specialized nature that the positions are not more appropriately
classifiable in any of the existing series in this or any other Group.
The work requires a background of knowledges, skills and techniques
gained from professional training in a health science or allied
scientific field, but has no paramount, rigid or continuing requirement
for the knowledges, skills and techniques characterizing any of the (())
established series which reflect one or more of the academic disciplines
or recognized professions.  Such work may cut across and require
understanding of scientific methods and techniques common to several
recognized professional fields in the health, medical or allied sciences
(e.g., work in the field of health research administration requiring
knowledge of research methodology common to a number of different
scientific fields);  and/or the work may represent a new, emerging or
miscellaneous professional occupational area of a health science not
readily identifiable with established series.  This series is not
intended for use for interdisciplinary professional positions (and the
paramount qualification needed to perform the work) which are readily
identifiable with existing series.
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<p>
   GS-602--Medical Officer Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional and
scientific work in one or more fields of medicine.  Positions are
classifiable to this series when the nature of duties and
responsibilities is such that the degree of Doctor of Medicine or Doctor
of Osteopathy is a fundamental requirement.  Most positions in this
series require a current license to practice medicine and surgery in a
State or Territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia.
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<p>
   GS-603--Physician's Assistant Series
<p>
   This series covers positions which involve assisting a physician by
providing diagnostic and therapeutic medical care and services under the
guidance of the physician.  The work requires knowledge of specific
observation and examination procedures, and ability to perform
diagnostic and therapeutic tasks.  The work does not include the full
scope of interpretation of medical findings requiring the full
professional background of the licensed physician.  Physician's
assistants assist in the examination and observation of patients by
performing such duties as taking case histories, conducting physical
examinations, and ordering laboratory studies during hospital rounds and
clinic visits.  As directed by a physician, physician's assistants carry
out special procedures;  for example, they give injections or other
medication, apply or change dressing, perform lumbar punctures, or
suture minor lacerations.
<p>
   GS-610--Nurse Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that require a professional knowledge
of nursing.  Positions involve providing care to patients in hospitals,
clinics, occupational health units, homes, schools and communities;
administering anesthetic agents and supportive treatments to patients
undergoing surgery or other medical procedures;  promoting better health
practices;  teaching;  performing research in one or more phases of the
field of nursing;  or consulting and advising nurses who provide direct
care to patients.
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<p>
   GS-620--Practical Nurse Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions which involve a variety of nursing care
and practices which do not require full professional nurse education,
but are represented by the licensing of practical and vocational nurses
by a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia.
<p>
   GS-621--Nursing Assistant Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions which involve a variety of personal
care, nursing care, or related procedures which do not require (a) the
knowledges and skills represented by the licensure of practical and
vocational nurses by a State, territory, or the District of Columbia, or
(b) fully professional nurse education.
<p>
   GS-622--Medical Supply Aide and Technician Series*
<p>
   This series contains positions the duties of which are to provide
wards, clinics, operating rooms, and other hospital facilities with
medical supplies, instruments, sets, and equipment.  Duties require a
knowledge of aseptic techniques and sterilization practices;  the care,
functioning, and uses of supplies, equipment, sets, and instruments;
and methods for the preparation, storage, and issue of sterile and
nonsterile medical supplies and the maintenance of adequate stock
levels.
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<p>
   GS-625--Autopsy Assistant Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the paramount duties
and responsibilities of which are to provide technical assistance and
related services to pathologists or physicians during autopsies and/or
inquests. Characteristic of positions in this series is some knowledge
of human anatomy and of embalming processes, and skill in dissecting
procedures.
<p>
   GS-630--Dietitian and Nutritionist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that advise on, administer, supervise,
or perform work in human nutrition requiring the application of
professional knowledge of dietetics or nutrition directed toward the
maintenance and improvement of human health.
<p>
   Dietetics is an essential component of the health sciences, usually
with emphasis on providing patient care services in hospitals or other
treatment facilities.  The work of the dietitian includes food service
management, assessing nutritional needs of individuals or community
groups, developing therapeutic diet plans, teaching the effects of
nutrition on health, conducting research regarding the use of diet in
the treatment of disease, or consulting on or administering a dietetic
program.
<p>
   Nutrition is the science of food and nutrients, their uses,
processes, and balance in relation to health and disease.  The (()) work
of nutritionists emphasizes the social, economic, cultural, and
psychological implications of food usually associated with public health
care services or with food assistance and research activities.  The work
includes directing, promoting, and evaluating nutritional components of
programs and projects;  developing standards, guides, educational and
informational material for use in Federally funded or operated nutrition
programs;  participating in research activities involving applied or
basic research;  or providing training and consultation on nutrition.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-631--Occupational Therapist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions requiring professional knowledge of
the concepts, principles and practices of occupational therapy to
provide clinical services, supervise or train students and therapist, or
perform research with people who have impaired capacities for performing
activities appropriate to their age group.  The work requires knowledge
of the structure and function of the human body, environmental
influences, human development, physical and psychosocial dysfunctions,
and skill in developing treatment plans to teach new skills, restore
performance, or learn compensating skills.
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<p>
   GS-633--Physical Therapist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve professional work
requiring the application of a knowledge of the concepts, principles,
and practices of physical therapy for the treatment or prevention of
physical disability or disease.  Physical therapists plan and carry out
treatment utilizing therapeutic exercise, massage, and physical agents
such as air, water, electricity, sound, and radiant energy.  Therapists
perform tests and measurements involving manual or electrical means;
and interpret results.  Therapists also devise adaptations of equipment
to meet the specific needs of patients.
<p>
   GS-635--Corrective Therapist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve professional work
requiring the application of a knowledge of the concepts, principles,
and practices of physical education and rehabilitation therapy, using
physical exercise to maintain the health or to achieve physical or
mental rehabilitation of patients.  Corrective therapists plan and carry
out treatment in which they use or adapt various types of physical
exercise, physical activities, and equipment.  They evaluate patients
for muscle strength, endurance, coordination, and balance;  provide
individual or group instruction for physical reconditioning or for
resocialization of patients;  and devise adaptations of equipment to
meet the specific needs of patients.
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<p>
   GS-636--Rehabilitation Therapy Assistant Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve treating, instructing or
working with patients in carrying out therapeutic activities prescribed
for their physical or mental rehabilitation.  Rehabilitation therapy
assistants work in such fields of therapy as occupational, physical,
corrective, manual arts, and educational.  The work requires the ability
to apply a practical knowledge of therapeutic methods and techniques but
does not require a full professional knowledge of the concepts,
principles, and practices of the specialized field of therapy.
<p>
   GS-637--Manual Arts Therapist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve professional work
requiring the application of a knowledge of the concepts, principles,
and practices of industrial arts education and rehabilitation therapy to
plan and carry out treatment for the physical or mental rehabilitation
of patients.  Manual arts therapists evaluate vocational potential of
patients;  devise projects and equipment to maintain or improve skills
of patients and promote recovery;  and evaluate patient's ability to
work in an actual or simulated work environment.  Some manual arts
therapists participate in the rehabilitation of blind patients.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-638--Recreation/Creative Arts Therapist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve professional work
requiring application of either (1) a knowledge of the concepts, (())
principles, and practices of recreation therapy, and the use of
recreational modalities;  or (2) a knowledge of the concepts,
principles, and practices of a specialized creative arts therapy field
(i.e., art, dance, music, and psychodrama) and the use of appropriate
specialized activity modalities to maintain the physical and/or mental
health or to achieve the physical and or mental rehabilitation of
patients.  These therapists evaluate the history, interests, aptitudes,
and skills of patients by interviews, inventories, tests, and
measurements, and use such findings, along with medical records and the
therapy orders of physicians or nurses, to develop and implement therapy
activities for individual patients.  These several therapy approaches
are directed toward achieving such therapeutic objectives as diminishing
emotional stress of patients, providing a sense of achievement,
channeling energies and interests into acceptable forms of behavior,
aiding physical and mental rehabilitation, and promoting successful
community reentry.
<p>
   GS-639--Educational Therapist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve professional work
requiring the application of knowledge of the concepts, principles, and
practices of education and rehabilitation therapy.  Educational
therapists plan and carry out treatment which involves the use of
educational situations, equipment, and methods to rehabilitate patients.
 They evaluate the learning ability or educational level of patients by
use of educational (()) tests and measurements.  Some educational
therapists participate in the rehabilitation of blind patients.  The
activities of educational therapists are directed to achieving
therapeutic objectives such as diminishing emotional stress of a
patient, providing a sense of achievement, and channeling energies into
acceptable forms of behavior.
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<p>
   GS-640--Health Aid and Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involving nonprofessional work of
technical, specialized, or support nature in the field of health or
medicine when the work is of such generalized, specialized or
miscellaneous nature that there is no other more appropriate series.
Such work is either (1) characteristic of two or more specialized
nonprofessional series in the Medical, Dental, and Public Health Group,
GS-600, when no one type of work controls the qualification
requirements, or (2) sufficiently new, unique, or miscellaneous that it
is not specifically included in a specialized nonprofessional series in
the Group.
<p>
   GS-642--Nuclear Medicine Technician Series
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve using radionuclides
(exclusive of sealed radiation sources) for diagnostic, therapeutic, and
investigative purposes.  Such positions require a technical knowledge of
the principles and practices of nuclear medicine and the ability to
perform tests and examinations using (()) radionuclides, radiation
detectors, scanning apparatus, and related equipment in medical
laboratories and clinics.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-644--Medical Technologist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which require professional knowledge
and competence in the field of medical technology.  Medical technology
involves performing, advising on, or supervising clinical laboratory
testing of human blood, urine, and other body fluids or tissues, using
manual or automated techniques;  confirming test results and developing
data which may be used by physicians in determining the presence and
extent of disease or in support of medical research;  modifying or
designing laboratory procedures;  establishing and monitoring quality
control systems and measures;  and providing instruction in the basic
theory, technical skills, and application of laboratory test procedures.
 Medical technology includes work in such areas as hematology,
bacteriology, mycology, virology, parasitology, immunology, serology,
immunohematology (blood banking), clinical chemistry (including
endocrinology and toxicology), and urinalysis as they relate to clinical
laboratory practice.
<p>
   GS-645--Medical Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve nonprofessional
technical work in clinical (medical) laboratories in performing tests
and examinations in one or more areas of work such as (()) chemistry,
blood banking, hematology, or microbiology.  The reports of findings of
tests and examinations may be used by physicians in diagnosis, care and
treatment of patients, or in support of medical research.  The work
requires a practical knowledge of the techniques of medical laboratory
practice in one or more areas of clinical laboratory work (e.g., blood
banking, chemistry, hematology, microbiology) and of the chemistry,
biology, and anatomy involved.
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<p>
   GS-646--Pathology Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve technical work
subordinate to the work of pathologists or other physicians (or other
professional personnel) who make the final diagnostic examinations of
specimens of human tissues and/or cell preparations.  Technician work in
histopathology involves preparing thin sections of tissue specimens
including fixing, clearing, infiltrating, embedding, sectioning,
staining, and mounting.  Technician work in cytology involves preparing,
staining, and examining microscopically specimens of body fluids,
secretions, and exudations from any part of the body to determine
whether cellular structure is normal, atypical, or abnormal.  Positions
in this series require a practical knowledge of the techniques of
anatomical laboratory practice in one or both of the areas of laboratory
work (i.e., histopathology and cytology) and of the chemistry, biology,
and anatomy involved.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-647--Diagnostic Radiologic Technologist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions requiring the performance or
supervision of technical work in the field of diagnostic radiologic
examinations, performed under the direction of a physician.  The work
involves the operation of radiologic equipment in a hospital or clinic
environments as part of the diagnostic plan for patients.
<p>
   GS-648--Therapeutic Radiologic Technologist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve supervision or
performance of technical work which is subordinate to the work of
radiotherapists or other professional or scientific personnel and which
involves the operation of ionizing radiation equipment and sealed
radiation sources as part of a therapeutic treatment plan for patients.
<p>
   GS-649--Medical Instrument Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that perform diagnostic examinations
or medical treatment procedures as part of the diagnostic or treatment
plan for patients.  The work involves operating or monitoring diagnostic
and therapeutic medical instruments and equipment associated with
cardiac catheterization, pulmonary examinations and evaluations, heart
bypass surgery, electrocardiography, electroencephalography, (())
hemodialysis, and ultrasonography.  Positions in this series require a
knowledge of the capabilities and operating characteristics of one or
more kinds of instruments and a practical knowledge of human anatomy and
physiology.  Positions also require a practical understanding of medical
data generated by patient/equipment connections.  Some positions also
require a practical knowledge of chemistry, pharmacology, physics, and
mathematics.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-650--Medical Technical Assistant Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise and perform technical work which is subordinate to
professional work in medicine and dentistry, in penal and correctional
institutions.
<p>
   GS-651--Respiratory Therapist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve the supervision or
performance of technical work concerned with administering therapeutic
and diagnostic respiratory care and life support to patients with
cardiopulmonary deficiencies and abnormalities.  The work involves:
Operating and monitoring respiratory equipment such as continuous and
intermittent ventilators, medical gas delivery apparatus, incentive
breathing/hyperinflation devices, environmental control systems, and
aerosol devices;  administering medical gases, humidification, (())
aerosols, and respiratory medications;  maintaining clearance of
patient's natural and artificial airways;  obtaining blood samples and
interpreting blood gas data;  and providing primary assistance in
cardiopulmonary resuscitation.  Positions in this series require a
knowledge of the operating characteristics and daily maintenance of
respiratory equipment and devices and practical knowledge of human
anatomy, physiology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-660--Pharmacist Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions which involve professional and
scientific work in the field of pharmacy.  The work typically involves
the compounding of prescriptions of physicians, dentists, and other
licensed practitioners;  the formulation, preparation, bulk compounding,
selection, dispensing and preservation of drugs, medicines, and
chemicals;  research and investigation in developing special vehicles or
variations of standard formulas to meet the needs of individual patients
and in developing original techniques of compounding and making
available for use new investigational drugs;  advising on drug therapy
and usage;  or performing administrative, consultive, or staff advisory
work concerning the administration of a pharmacy program for hospital,
clinic, or other medical care facility.  Some positions involve the
evaluation of drug proposals submitted by private industry and the
surveillance of marketed drugs for safety and efficacy.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-661--Pharmacy Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve technical support work
in a pharmacy under the supervision of a registered pharmacist.  The
work requires application of a practical knowledge of:  Pharmaceutical
nomenclature;  characteristics, strengths, and dosage forms of
pharmaceuticals;  pharmaceutical systems of weights and measures;
operation and care of pharmacy equipment;  and pharmaceutical procedures
and techniques.
<p>
   GS-662--Optometrist Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that require the application of
professional optometric knowledges and skills in examining and analyzing
the eye for diseases and defects and prescribing correctional lenses or
exercises.  Except for positions not involving patient care
responsibility (e.g., research optometrist) positions in this series
require a current license to practice optometry in a State or Territory
of the United States or in the District of Columbia.
<p>
   GS-664--Restoration Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, supervise, or perform technical work involving the
development, design, fabrication, fitting to patients, and repair of
custom-made medically prescribed appliances which are (()) used
primarily for cosmetic and restorative purposes.  The prime objective of
the work is to compensate for loss or damage to various areas of the
human body by restoring a normal appearance that will facilitate the
patient's social and vocational rehabilitation.  This objective is
attained through the use of painting, sculpting, molding, and casting
techniques, working with a wide variety of materials, in the fabrication
of appliances which are as natural in appearance (size, form, texture,
translucence, color, etc.) as the original tissues of the patient's
normal feature or body member.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-665--Speech Pathology and Audiology Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions involving professional work in the study
and/or treatment of human communications disorders, as reflected in
impaired hearing, voice, language, or speech.  The work requires
professional knowledge of the nature of these disorders, their causes,
and methods of therapeutic treatment.  The work involves any one or a
combination of the following functions:  (1) providing direct clinical
services in the evaluation and resolution of communications disorders;
(2) providing graduate level training in communications disorders;  (3)
planning and administering a comprehensive program for evaluating and
treating communications disorders;  and (4) planning, administering, and
performing laboratory and clinical research in communications disorders.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-667--Orthotist and Prosthetist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve designing, fabricating,
or fitting orthotic or prosthetic devices to preserve or restore
function to patients with disabling conditions of the limbs and spine or
with partial or total absence of limbs.  The work requires:  (1)
knowledge of anatomy, physiology, body mechanics, the application and
function of orthoses (braces and orthopedic shoes) and prostheses
(artificial limbs), and of the materials available for the fabrication
of such devices;  (2) skill in the use of tools and specialized
equipment;  and (3) the ability to deal effectively with patients and
their problems and to work with other members of the medical team.
<p>
   GS-668--Podiatrist Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to perform professional work involved in the care and treatment of the
feet, including work in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of foot
diseases and disorders by physical, medical, and/or surgical methods;
the writing of prescriptions for topical medications, corrective
exercises, corrective footwear and other purposes;  and/or investigative
research for analytical evaluations and experimental purposes when such
work requires the application of professional podiatry knowledges and
skills.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-669--Medical Records Administration Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to manage,
advise on, preserve, analyze, and supervise the use of diagnostic and
therapeutic medical records.  Medical records administration personnel
develop medical records policies and procedures and provide advice on
the use of medical records.  The work requires a knowledge of medical
records administration and management skills and abilities.
<p>
   GS-670--Health System Administration Series*
<p>
   Positions in this series have full line responsibility for the
administrative management of a health care delivery system which may
range from a nationwide network including many hospitals to a major
subdivision of an individual hospital.  The fundamental responsibility
of health system administrators is to effectively use all available
resources to provide the best possible patient care.  This requires an
understanding of the critical balance between the administrative and
clinical functions in the health care delivery system, and ability to
coordinate and control programs and resources to achieve this balance.
These positions require the ability to apply the specialized principles
and practices of health care management in directing a health care
delivery system.  They do not require the services of a qualified
physician.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-671--Health System Specialist Series*
<p>
   Positions in this series provide support to health care management
officials by analyzing, evaluating, advising on and/or coordinating
health care delivery systems and operations.  Such positions may be
located within an operating health care facility or at a higher
organizational echelon.  In addition to a high degree of analytical
ability, positions in this series require specialized knowledge of the
basic principles and practices related to the management of health care
delivery systems. These positions do not have line authority.
<p>
   GS-672--Prosthetic Representative Series
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to administer,
supervise, or perform work concerned with rendering prosthetic and
sensory aids services to disabled patients.  Included in this series is
such work as (1) planning, developing, and directing a prosthetic and
sensory aids program at either the national, regional, or local level;
(2) serving as an advisor to physicians with regard to selection,
prescription, and acquisition of prosthetic devices involving furnishing
information concerning such matters as new developments in the field of
prosthetics, and sources of supply for such devices;  (3) counseling and
advising patients and their families and representatives regarding
eligibility for and the use of prosthetic and sensory aids;  (4)
interpreting prescriptions of (()) medical officers in order to make
certain that proper prosthetic devices are selected for, or by, the
patients;  (5) authorizing the purchase, fabrication, or repair of
prosthetic devices;  (6) maintaining continuous liaison with
manufacturers and dealers of prosthetic supplies, inspecting their
facilities and services, and participating in the award of prosthetic
appliance contracts;  (7) participating in investigative studies by
selecting patients as pilot wearers of newly developed prosthetic items,
evaluating the usefulness of such items, and preparing data for the use
of research project leaders or manufacturers;  and (8) as required,
giving technical and administrative advice and assistance on prosthetic
problems to outlying stations.
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<p>
   This work requires the application and interpretation of laws
concerning benefits available to disabled patients and of the
regulations, procedures, and practices based thereon, and, in addition,
a specialized knowledge of the medical and psychological problems
directly related to the use of prosthetic devices;  and a specialized
knowledge and understanding of the fabrication and satisfactory fitting
of prosthetic devices.  (These positions are filled by persons who have
a major disability and who have demonstrated their ability to wear and
use successfully a major prosthetic device.)
<p>
   This series does not include classes of positions described in, and
classifiable to, the Contact Representative Series, GS-962;  Orthotist
and Prosthetist Series, GS-667;  Restoration Technician (()) Series,
GS-664;  or Speech Pathology and Audiology Series, GS-665, although
incidental performance of some elements of the work of these series will
not remove a position from the Prosthetic Representative Series.
<p>
   GS-673--Hospital Housekeeping Management Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions requiring application of
administrative ability and technical knowledge in supervising or
performing work in the development, coordination, direction, and
management of hospital housekeeping programs.  The major concern of such
programs is the maintenance of environmental sanitation within
acceptable levels of bacteriological, as well as visual, cleanliness.
<p>
   GS-675--Medical Records Technician Series*
<p>
   This occupation includes positions involving technical work concerned
with processing and maintaining medical records for compliance with
regulatory requirements.  Included in this series are positions that
review, analyze, code, abstract, and compile or extract medical records
data.  The work requires a practical knowledge of medical records
procedures and references and the organization and consistency of
medical records.  Positions also require a basic knowledge of human
anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-679--Medical Clerk Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the primary duties of which are to
perform clerical work in support of the care and treatment given to
patients in a ward, clinic or other such unit of a medical facility.
This work includes functions such as serving as a receptionist,
performing recordkeeping duties, performing clerical duties relating to
patient care and treatment, and providing miscellaneous support to the
medical staff of the unit.  This work requires a practical knowledge of
the medical facility's organization and services, the basic rules and
regulations governing visitors and patient treatment and a practical
knowledge of the standard procedures, medical records and a medical
terminology of the unit supported.
<p>
   GS-680--Dental Officer Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involved advising on,
administering, supervising, or performing professional and scientific
work in the field of dentistry.  Dentistry is concerned with the
prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, injuries and
deformities of the teeth, the jaws, organs of the mouth, and other
structures and connective tissues associated with the oral cavity and
the masticatory system.  The work of this series requires the degree of
Doctor of Dental Surgery or Doctor of Dental Medicine.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-681--Dental Assistant Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to receive and
prepare patients for dental treatment;  to prepare materials and
equipment for use by the dentist;  to assist a dentist at chairside or
bedside in the treatment of patients;  to perform reversible intra-oral
procedures under the supervision of the dentist;  to perform dental
radiography work;  and to keep records of appointments, examinations,
treatments and supplies.  This work requires a practical knowledge of
standardized procedures and methods used in dentistry, and skill in the
techniques and procedures of dental assistance.
<p>
   GS-682--Dental Hygiene Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the duties of which are to
perform, under the supervision and direction of a dentist, prophylactic
dental treatment which includes application of topical medication and
dental health education for patients within a clinical setting.
<p>
   GS-683--Dental Laboratory Aid and Technician Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that involve technical work in the
fabrication and repair of dental prosthetic appliances on prescription
of a dentist.  This work requires a technical knowledge of dental
anatomy and skill in the use of dental (()) laboratory materials and
equipment.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-685--Public Health Program Specialist Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions that direct, supervise, or perform
work which involves providing advice and assistance to State and local
governments and to various public, nonprofit, and private entities on
program and administrative matters relating to the development,
implementation, operation, administration, evaluation, and funding by
public health activities which may be financed in whole or in part by
Federal funds;  or, conducting studies and performing other analytical
work related to the planning development, organization, administration,
evaluation, and delivery of public health programs;  or, other similar
public health program work.  Positions in this series require
specialized knowledge of the principles, practices, methods, and
techniques of administering public health programs, but do not require
full professional education and training in medical, social, or other
disciplines.
<p>
   GS-688--Sanitarian Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve planning, developing,
administering, evaluating, and promoting programs concerned with the
elimination and prevention of environmental health hazards.  Also
included are positions which involve developing and revising health
laws, rules, and regulations.  These positions require a (()) broad
knowledge of any one or a combination of the health, agricultural,
physical or biological sciences sufficient to understand the basic
concepts, principles, methods, and techniques of environmental health;
and a practical knowledge of health laws, rules, and regulations.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-690--Industrial Hygiene Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, manage, or perform professional and
scientific work in industrial hygiene, including the identification and
evaluation of conditions affecting the health and efficiency of
employees, or the citizens of the adjacent community, the formulation
and recommendation of measures to eliminate or control occupational
health hazards, and the promotion of occupational health programs for
instructing and motivating managers and employees in the prevention as
well as correction of potential health hazards.
<p>
   GS-696--Consumer Safety Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional positions concerned with enforcing
the laws and regulations protecting consumers from foods, drugs,
cosmetics, fabrics, toys, and household products and equipment that are
impure, unwholesome, ineffective, improperly or deceptively labeled or
packaged, or in some other way dangerous or defective.  These positions
require knowledge of (()) various scientific fields such as chemistry,
biology, pharmacology, and food technology.  Consumer safety officers
identify substances and sources of adulteration and contamination, and
evaluate manufacturing practices, production processes, quality control
systems, laboratory analyses, and clinical investigation programs.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-698--Environmental Health Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve investigating,
evaluating, and providing information on sanitation practices,
techniques, and methods for the purpose of identifying, preventing, and
eliminating environmental health hazards.  Positions in this occupation
require a practical knowledge of basic environmental health concepts,
principles, methods, and techniques, including survey and inspection
techniques and control and eradication methods.
<p>
   GS-699--Medical and Health Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-600
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   MEDICAL, HOSPITAL, DENTAL, AND PUBLIC HEALTH GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.010700>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
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<p>
   This group includes positions which advise on, administer, manage,
supervise, or perform professional or technical support (()) work in the
various branches of veterinary medical science.
<table>
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<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-701--Veterinary Medical Science Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve professional veterinary
work to investigate, inspect, and deal with animal diseases, animal
pollution, contamination of food of animal origin, health and safety of
imported animals and animal products, safety and efficacy of many
animal, as well as human, drugs and biological products, and cooperative
enforcement activities involving both the public and private sectors.
Such positions require the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine or an
equivalent degree;  a knowledge of current, advanced, or specialized
veterinary medical arts and science principles and practices of the
profession;  and the ability to apply that knowledge in programs
established to protect and improve the health, products, and environment
of or for the Nation's livestock, poultry, or other species for the
benefit of human, as well as animal, well-being.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-704--Animal Health Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions that primarily involve performing
technical work concerned with animal health in support of veterinarians
or veterinary medical programs.  The duties performed include
inspection, quarantine, identification, collection of specimens,
vaccination, appraisal and disposal of diseased animals, and
disinfection for the control and eradication of infectious and
communicable animal diseases.  Performance of the work requires a
practical knowledge of normal and certain abnormal animal health
conditions, agency policy and guidelines applicable to the work, and
related animal health laws and regulations.
<p>
   GS-799--Veterinary Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-700
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.010800>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
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<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional,
scientific, or technical work concerned with engineering or
architectural projects, facilities, structures, systems, processes,
equipment, devices, material or methods.  Positions in this group
require knowledge of the science or art, or both, by which materials,
natural resources, and power are made useful.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<table>
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<p>
   GS-801--General Engineering Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work of a special or miscellaneous character
which is not specifically classifiable in any other engineering series,
but which involves the application of a knowledge of such engineering
fundamentals as the strength and strain analysis of engineering
materials and structures, the physical and chemical characteristics of
engineering materials such as elastic limits, maximum unit stresses,
coefficients of expansion, workability, hardness, tendency to fatigue,
resistance to corrosion, engineering adaptability, engineering methods
of construction and processing, etc.; or positions involving
professional work in several branches of engineering.
<p>
   GS-802--Engineering Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes technical positions that require primarily
application of a practical knowledge of (a) the methods and techniques
of engineering or architecture;  and (b) the construction, application,
properties, operations, and limitations of engineering systems,
processes, structures, machinery, devices, and materials.  The positions
do not require professional knowledges and abilities for full
performance and therefore do not require training equivalent in type and
scope to that represented by the completion of a professional curriculum
leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering or architecture.  Excluded
from this series are positions that are specifically (()) covered by a
more specialized technical series.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-803--Safety Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that require the performance of
professional engineering work to eliminate or control hazardous
conditions resulting from human error, equipment and machine operations
which may lead to injury to persons and damage to property.  The work
requires the application of:  (a) advanced mathematical techniques;  (b)
professional engineering principles, methods, and techniques;  (c)
safety related elements of the physical sciences, ergonomics, psychology
and physiology;  and (d) safety principles, standards, practices, and
analytical techniques.
<p>
   GS-804--Fire Protection Engineering Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work in the investigation or development of
fire prevention projects, the design, construction, inspection, testing,
operation, or maintenance of firefighting or fire prevention apparatus,
appliances, devices and systems, or the testing of fire resistent
materials.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1589/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-806--Materials Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional positions in engineering, or in
engineering and physical science, which are concerned primarily with the
properties, processing, uses, and inservice behavior of engineering
materials, where the work performed and the qualifications required are
such that the position is not more characteristic of a series
appropriate to some other academic discipline.  The work is
characterized by the following three qualification requirements:  (1) a
highly developed knowledge of materials and their properties,
processing, uses, and behavior under environmental influences;  (2) an
understanding of and the ability to utilize advances of the fundamental
materials sciences, e.g., as they pertain to the interrelationships of
composition, structure, and properties;  and (3) knowledge of and
ability to apply pertinent engineering principles and practices
including considerations such as cost, availability, fabrication,
performance, and use.
<p>
   GS-807--Landscape Architecture Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to perform or
supervise professional work in the planning and design of land areas and
concurrent landscape construction and maintenance for integrated
developments to meet specific human needs.  It involves the analysis of
land characteristics, operational requirements, land use intensities,
and commensurate land values and includes the efficient correlation of
ground and water forms, plant forms, structures, roads, and walks to
serve esthetic, (()) functional, economic, and other interrelated
purposes.  Positions in this series require professional landscape
architectural planning and design ability and require knowledge of the
allied physical planning fields of architectural and civil engineering,
and the biological sciences of agronomy, plant ecology, horticulture,
and botany as they affect land development.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-808--Architecture Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which involve
professional architectural work which typically requires:  (a) knowledge
of architectural principles, theories, concepts, methods, and
techniques;  (b) a creative and artistic sense;  and (c) an
understanding and skill to use pertinent aspects of the construction
industry, engineering and the physical sciences related to the design
and construction of new or the improvement of existing buildings.
<p>
   GS-809--Construction Control Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve on site inspection of
construction or the monitoring and control of construction operations.
Positions in this occupation require application of (a) practical
knowledge of engineering methods and techniques;  (b) knowledge of
construction practices, methods, techniques, costs, materials, and
equipment;  and (c) ability to read and interpret engineering and
architectural plans and specifications.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1609/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-810--Civil Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series included professional positions in the field of civil
engineering, typically requiring application of general knowledge of the
physical sciences and mathematics underlying engineering, and
specialized knowledge of (a) mechanics of solids, particularly of soils,
(b) hydraulics, (c) theory of structure, (d) strength of materials, (e)
engineering geology, and (f) surveying.  Positions in this series have
responsibility for management, supervision or performance of (1)
planning, designing, constructing, and/or maintaining structures and
facilities that provide shelter, support transportation systems, and
control natural resources;  (2) investigating, measuring, surveying and
mapping the earth's physical features and phenomena;  and (3) research
and development activities pertaining to (1) or (2).
<p>
   GS-817--Surveying Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which require primarily the
application of a technical knowledge of surveying methods, equipment,
and techniques in the measurement or determination of distances,
elevations, areas, angles, land boundaries, and other features of the
earth's surface. Specifically included are topographic, hydrographic,
geodetic, land, control, and construction surveying.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1619/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-818--Engineering Drafting Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve primarily portraying
engineering and architectural ideas and information through drawings.
The positions require a practical knowledge of drafting methods and
procedures, and skill in the application of drafting techniques.
<p>
   GS-819--Environmental Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve professional engineering
work to protect or improve air, land, and water resources in order to
provide a clean and healthful environment.  Such work requires the
application of (a) professional knowledge of the principles, methods,
and techniques of engineering concerned with facilities and systems for
controlling pollution and protecting quality of resources and the
environment, and (b) an understanding of and the ability to utilize
pertinent aspects of chemistry, biological sciences, and public health
that pertain to the control or elimination of pollutants.
<p>
   GS-828--Construction Analyst Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve technical work requiring
the application of a practical knowledge of both architectural design
and construction practices for housing. This work includes the
examination of drawings and specifications (()) for compliance with
standards and verification that construction complies with these
standards;  the estimation of costs of construction, extension,
alteration, remodeling, or repair of housing;  and the collection,
analysis, and development of basic cost information on housing
construction.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1629/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-830--Mechanical Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional positions in the field of
mechanical engineering typically requiring the application of
thermodynamics, mechanics, and other physical, mathematical and
engineering sciences to problems concerned with the production,
transmission, measurement, and use of energy, especially heat and
mechanical power.
<p>
   GS-840--Nuclear Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve professional engineering
work which is concerned primarily with the engineering principles and
considerations relating to the atomic nucleus and the systems,
processes, and materials required for the generation, controlled
release, and utilization of nuclear energy.  Nuclear engineering work
requires the application of professional engineering knowledges in the
research, development, design, construction, testing, installation,
monitoring, operation and maintenance of nuclear reactors (fission or
fusion) and other nuclear systems and immediate auxiliary or ancillary
(()) systems and equipment.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1639/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-850--Electrical Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional engineering positions which require
primarily application of knowledge of (a) the physical and engineering
sciences and mathematics, (b) electrical phenomena, and (c) the
principles, techniques, and practices of electrical engineering.  The
work pertains primarily to electrical circuits, circuit elements,
equipment, systems, and associated phenomena concerned with electrical
energy for purposes such as motive power, heating, illumination,
chemical processes, or the production of localized electric or magnetic
fields.
<p>
   GS-854--Computer Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional engineering positions which require
primarily the application of knowledge of (a) fundamentals and
principles of professional engineering, (b) computer hardware, systems
software, and computer system architecture and integration, and (c)
mathematics, including calculus, probability, statistics, discrete
structures, and modern algebra.  The work pertains primarily to the
research, design, development, testing, evaluation, and maintenance of
computer hardware and software systems in an integrated manner.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1649/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-855--Electronics Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional engineering positions which require
primarily application of knowledge of (a) the physical and engineering
sciences and mathematics, (b) electronic phenomena, and (c) the
principles, techniques, and practices of electronics engineering.  The
work pertains primarily to electronic circuits, circuit elements,
equipment, systems, and associated phenomena concerned with
electromagnetic or acoustical wave energy or electrical information for
purposes such as communication, computation, sensing, control,
measurement, and navigation.
<p>
   GS-856--Electronics Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that require (a) the knowledge of the
techniques and theories characteristic of electronics such as a
knowledge of basic electricity and electronic theory, algebra, and
elementary physics, (b) the ability to apply that knowledge to duties
involved in engineering functions such as design, development,
evaluation, testing, installation and maintenance of electronic
equipment, and (c) a knowledge of the capabilities, limitations,
operations, design characteristics, and functional use of a variety of
types and models of electronic equipment and systems.  Such knowledge is
related to but less than a full professional knowledge of electronics
engineering.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1659/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-858--Biomedical Engineering Series
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve professional work in
biomedical engineering.  The work requires the application of
engineering concepts and methodology to investigate problems and
phenomena of living systems to advance the understanding of these
systems and improve medical practices;  to develop materials,
instruments, diagnostic and therapeutic devices, and other equipment
applicable in the study of life systems and the practice of medicine;
and to improve health service delivery systems for communities and
within individual institutional components (hospitals, clinics, or other
activities).  Biomedical engineering work requires in addition to
knowledge and skill in engineering disciplines a background in
physiology and anatomy, and a practical facility in specialized subject
matter areas such as computer applications, electronics, or mathematics.
<p>
   GS-861--Aerospace Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional aerospace engineering positions
involved in planning, research, development, design, test and
evaluation, analysis, production, fabrication, operation, type
certification, and/or maintenance of aerospace vehicles or integrally
associated equipment.  It also includes positions involved in
investigating phenomena encountered in aerospace flight, monitoring and
analyzing unknown or unfamiliar aerospace vehicles, piloting aerospace
vehicles, developing aviation safety (()) standards and regulations, and
positions providing staff leadership and guidance related to aerospace
engineering programs.  The work requires application of scientific and
engineering principles in the field of aeronautics and astronautics,
such as aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, astrodynamics, computational fluid
dynamics, fluid mechanics, flight dynamics, flight structures,
thermodynamics, flight propulsion, and energy conversion and use.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1669/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-871--Naval Architecture Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional engineering
work in the field of naval architecture which primarily concerns the
form, strength, stability, performance, and operational characteristics
of ships.  The work of positions in this series includes research,
design, development, construction, investigation, testing, arrangement,
installation, and maintenance for all types of ships.  This work
involves the consideration and application of naval architectural
principles and concepts;  the making of stability and buoyancy
calculations and developing data for launching, loading, operation, and
drydocking of ships in a safe, efficient, and economical manner;  and
naval architectural investigations and development of data and criteria
leading to improved ship design.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1679/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-873--Ship Surveying Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform work primarily concerned with
surveying Government-owned vessels, Government-operated vessels, or
both, or privately owned and operated merchant vessels, including
components installed thereon, to determine condition and need for an
extent of work required to place the vessels in condition to meet
specified requirements.  Work of this series includes in combination (1)
the preparation of specifications, including estimates of labor and
material costs to cover work determined to be necessary as a result of
surveys, (2) the inspection and acceptance of the work accomplished to
place the vessel in the condition specified, and (3) other work, such as
preparation of reports, incidental to ship surveying.  This series does
not include work primarily concerned with inspection of the
construction, assembly, modification, conversion, overhaul, or repair of
vessels or inspections involved in the procurement of vessels, chiefly
to assure compliance with contracts, plans, and specifications.
<p>
   GS-880--Mining Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that require primarily the application
of professional knowledge of mining engineering.  The work requires the
ability to apply the principles of mathematics, chemistry, geology,
physics, and engineering to mining technology.  It also requires general
knowledge of construction and excavation methods, materials handling,
and the processes (()) involved in preparing mined materials for use.
Mining engineer positions are concerned with the search for, efficient
removal, and transportation of ore to the point of use;  conservation
and development of mineral lands, materials, and deposits;  and the
health and safety of mine workers.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1689/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-881--Petroleum Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that require primarily the application
of a professional knowledge of petroleum engineering.  The work is
concerned with exploration and development of oil and natural gas
fields;  production, transportation, and storage of petroleum, natural
gas, and helium;  investigation, evaluation, and conservation of these
resources;  regulation of transportation and sale of natural gas;
valuation of production and distribution facilities for tax, regulatory,
and other purposes;  and research on criteria, principles, methods, and
equipment.
<p>
   GS-890--Agricultural Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional positions which require primarily
the application of the principles of engineering in combination with
knowledge of one or more fields of agriculture.  The work involves
research, development, design, test, evaluation, and application of the
fundamentals of engineering to aid in the solution of agricultural
problems in such areas as farm structures, soil and water conservation,
mechanical power (()) and machinery, and electric power and processing.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1699/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-892--Ceramic Engineering Series
<p>
   This series includes professional engineering positions concerned
with the development or adaptation of materials, methods, and processes
used in the manufacture of ceramic products;  and with the design,
construction and operation of industrial processes and equipment used in
their production.  Ceramic products may be considered as those composed
of nonmetallic, inorganic minerals which are subjected to high
temperature during manufacture or use;  and include crystalline
materials with desired physical properties, cementitious materials,
abrasives, refractories, porcelain enamels, structural clay products,
whiteware, and glass products.
<p>
   GS-893--Chemical Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve professional work in
chemical engineering, including research, development, design,
operation, evaluation, and improvement of processes, plants, equipment,
methods, or products.  The work involves changes in the chemical
composition or physical state of materials and requires primarily
application of knowledge of the principles and practices of chemical
engineering, chemistry, and other scientific and engineering
disciplines.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1709/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-894--Welding Engineering Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, advise on, coordinate, or perform engineering
research or other professional engineering work involving the
application of welding and engineering principles to the solution of
problems in the development and improvement of welding equipment and
processes, the design of welding sequences and welded structures, the
establishment and maintenance of standards and quality controls for
welding, the giving of advice to design and construction engineers on
the production applicability of welding, and similar work regarding
metallic joining or cutting processes allied to welding.
<p>
   GS-895--Industrial Engineering Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes nonprofessional technical positions engaged in
industrial engineering work.  Industrial engineering technician
positions are concerned primarily with planning, designing, analyzing,
improving, and installing integrated work systems comprised of men,
materials, and equipment, for use in producing products, rendering
services, repairing equipment, or moving and storing supplies and
equipment.  The work typically involves studies of engineered time
standards, methods engineering, layout design of work centers, control
systems, materials handling, or manpower utilization.  It requires a
knowledge of the principles and techniques of industrial (())
engineering and practical knowledge of pertinent industrial and related
work processes, facilities, methods, and equipment.
<table>
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<p>
   896--Industrial Engineering Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve professional work in
industrial engineering.  Industrial engineering is that branch of
engineering concerned with the planning, design, analysis, improvement,
and installation of integrated systems of employees, materials, and
equipment to produce a product or render a service.  The work requires
application of specialized professional knowledge and skill in the
mathematical, physical, and social sciences together with the principles
and methods of engineering analysis and design to specify, predict, and
evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems.
<p>
   GS-899--Engineering and Architecture Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-800
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE**
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.010900>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
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<p>
   This group includes positions which advise on, administer, supervise,
or perform work of a legal or kindred nature.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<table>
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<p>
   GS-904--Law Clerk Series
<p>
   This series includes positions of law clerk trainees performing
professional legal work requiring graduation from a recognized law
school or equivalent experience, pending admission to the bar.
<p>
   GS-905--General Attorney Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional legal positions involved in
preparing cases for trial and/or the trial of cases before a court or an
administrative body or persons having quasi-judicial power;  rendering
legal advice and services with respect to questions, regulations,
practices, or other matters falling within the purview of a Federal
Government agency (this may include conducting investigations to obtain
evidentiary data);  preparing interpretative and administrative orders,
rules, or regulations to give effect to the provisions of governing
statutes or other requirements of law;  drafting, negotiating, or
examining contracts or other legal documents required by the agency's
activities;  drafting, preparing formal comments, or otherwise making
substantive recommendations with respect to proposed legislation;
editing and preparing for publication statutes enacted by Congress,
opinions or discussions of a court, commission, or board;  drafting and
reviewing decisions for consideration and adoption by agency officials.
Included also are positions, not covered by the Administrative Procedure
Act, (()) involved in hearing cases arising under contracts or under the
regulations of a Federal Government agency when such regulations have
the effect of law, and rendering decisions or making recommendations for
disposition of such cases.  The work of this series requires admission
to the bar.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-920--Estate Tax Examining Series
<p>
   This series includes positions concerned with determining liability
for Federal estate or gift taxes.  Such work requires knowledge of
State, local, and Federal laws and regulations relating to estate and
gift taxation;  knowledge of accounting principles and theory;
knowledge of business methods and practices;  and knowledge of property
valuation and investigative techniques.
<p>
   GS-930--Hearings and Appeals Series
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve the adjudication of
cases that typically include the conduct of formal or informal hearings
that accord appropriate due process, arising under statute or under the
regulations of a Federal agency when the hearings are not subject to the
Administrative Procedure Act;  or involve the conduct of appellate
reviews of prior decisions.  The work requires the ability to review and
evaluate investigative reports and case records, conduct hearings in an
orderly and impartial manner, determine credibility of witnesses, sift
and (()) evaluate evidence, analyze complex issues, apply agency rules
and regulations and court decisions, prepare clear and concise
statements of fact, and exercise sound judgment in arriving at
decisions.  Some positions require application of a substantive
knowledge of agency policies, programs, and requirements in fields such
as personnel management or environmental protection.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1749/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-945--Clerk of Court Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform clerical, administrative, and
related work in connection with proceedings instituted before courts of
justice under the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia Government or
of a department or independent establishment in the executive branch of
the United States Government, and in connection with the business
operations of such courts.
<p>
   GS-950--Paralegal Specialist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions not requiring professional legal
competence which involve various legal assistance duties, of a type not
classifiable in some other series in the Legal and Kindred Group, in
connection with functions such as hearings, appeals, litigation, or
advisory services.  The specialists analyze the legal impact of
legislative developments and administrative and judicial decisions,
opinions, determinations, and rulings on agency programs;  conduct
research for the (()) preparation of legal opinions on matters of
interest to the agency;  perform substantive legal analysis of requests
for information under the provisions of various acts;  or other similar
legal support functions which require discretion and independent
judgment in the application of a specialized knowledge of laws,
precedent decisions, regulations, agency policies and practices, and
judicial or administrative proceedings.  Such knowledge is less than
that represented by graduation from a recognized law school, and may
have been gained from formalized, professionally instructed agency or
educational institution training or from professionally supervised
on-the-job training.  While the paramount knowledge requirements of this
series are legal, some positions also require a practical knowledge of
subject matter areas related to the agency's substantive programs.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1759/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-958--Pension Law Specialist Series
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve administering,
supervising, or performing work requiring specialized knowledge of the
provisions governing the administration of employee pension and welfare
plans and the management of plan funds.  This knowledge is used to:  (1)
interpret such laws as the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
(ERISA), certain provisions of the Federal Employees' Retirement System
Act (FERSA) relating to the Thrift Savings Plan, pertinent amendments,
and tax law, as well as relevant court decisions, regulations, rulings,
opinions, and (()) appeal decisions;  (2) prepare associated
regulations, rulings, advisory opinions, appeal decisions, exemptions,
and other technical guides;  (3) examine legislative and public policy
issues which affect the management, investment practices, assets, and
viability of the nation's employee benefit plans;  (4) formulate
statutory, regulatory, and policy proposals;  and/or (5) provide policy
and technical guidance on matters of enforcement.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1769/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-962--Contact Representative Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that primarily involve personal
contacts with the public for the purposes of (1) providing information
on rights, benefits, privileges, or obligations under a body of law;
(2) explaining pertinent legal provisions, regulations, and related
administrative practices and their application to specific cases;  and
(3) assisting individuals in developing needed evidence and preparing
required documents, or in resolving errors, delays, or other problems in
obtaining benefits or fulfilling obligations.  The work requires (1) a
high degree of skill in oral communication;  and (2) a good working
knowledge of, and ability to apply, governing laws, regulations,
precedents, and agency procedures, but less than the degree of legal
training equivalent to that represented by graduation from a recognized
law school.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1779/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-963--Legal Instruments Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions primarily concerned with the
examination of legal instruments and supporting documents, other than
claims, to determine whether a requested action complies with certain
provisions of various laws.  The work requires the application of
particular regulatory and procedural knowledge that is based on those
laws.
<p>
   GS-965--Land Law Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to administer,
supervise, or perform quasi-legal work involved in processing,
adjudicating and advising on applications and claims for rights,
privileges, gratuities, or other benefits authorized under the various
public land, mineral leasing, and mining laws.  The work requires a
knowledge of governing public laws and agency policies and procedures
regarding the application of these laws, but does not require full
professional legal training.
<p>
   GS-967--Passport and Visa Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve managing, supervising, or
performing administrative work concerned with adjudicating applications
for United States passports or visas, including related work involving
determining citizenship or fitness of noncitizens for admission to the
United States.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1789/93)00000">
<p>
   The work requires knowledge of legal and regulatory provisions
governing U.S. citizenship, nationality, and/or visas;  and principles,
system, and operations related to the issuance of passports or other
citizenship registration, certificates, or visas.
<p>
   GS-986--Legal Clerical and Assistance Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involving legal clerical, assistance,
or technical work not classifiable in any other series in the Legal and
Kindred Group, GS-900.  The work requires specialized knowledge of
processes, procedures, and practices to support legal activities.
<p>
   GS-987--Tax Law Specialist Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions, not classifiable in
any other series, the principal duties of which are to administer,
supervise, or perform quasi-legal technical tax work requiring analysis
and application of tax principles and specialized knowledges of the
Internal Revenue Code and related laws, court decisions, regulations,
and precedent rulings of the Internal Revenue Service, not requiring
legal training equivalent to that represented by graduation from a
recognized law school;  in such functions as (1) interpreting the
Internal Revenue Code, related laws, regulations, rulings, and
precedents, (2) preparing regulations, rulings, and technical guides,
and (3) making or reviewing determinations and decisions in such
matters.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1799/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-990--General Claims Examining Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform quasi-legal work in developing,
examining, adjusting, reconsidering, or authorizing the settlement of
claims for which separate series have not been provided.
<p>
   GS-991--Workers' Compensation Claims Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes quasi-legal positions concerned with work
involving the examination, development, and adjudication of claims for
compensation (monies and medical services) under the Federal Employees'
Compensation Act, and/or the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers'
Compensation Act, and/or their statutory extensions.  Such work requires
a comprehensive knowledge of the workers' compensation program, and an
extensive lay medical knowledge of impairments and diseases.
<p>
   GS-992--Loss and Damage Claims Examining Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform quasi-legal work involved in
developing, examining, adjusting, reconsidering, or authorizing the
settlement of claims, by or against the Government, exclusive of claims
arising under insurance contracts, because of (1) loss, damage, or
rifling of United (()) States mail, or abandonment, capture, loss,
damage, or destruction of personal or real property, other than
Government materials or supplies in the custody of or under the control
of contractors, storekeepers, warehousemen, shippers, transit companies,
or others, or under contracts of insurance, and (2) injury or death of
individuals where such claims work is not properly classifiable in other
series in the Legal and Kindred Group, GS-900.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1809/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-993--Social Insurance Claims Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes (1) positions the duties of which are to advise
on, supervise, or perform quasi-legal work involved in developing,
examining, adjusting, adjudicating, authorizing, or reconsidering claims
for retirement, survivor, or disability benefits under the Social
Security and/or Railroad Retirement Acts, or (2) positions the duties of
which consist of studying and preparing operating policies and
procedures as they relate to the processing of claims under these
programs.
<p>
   GS-994--Unemployment Compensation Claims Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform quasi-legal work involved in
developing, examining, adjusting, reconsidering, or authorizing the
settlement of claims for unemployment compensation, including sickness
benefits.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1819/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-995--Dependents and Estates Claims Examining Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform quasi-legal work involved in
developing, examining, adjusting, reconsidering, or authorizing the
settlement of claims (1) for the payment of monetary allowances or
gratuities based upon dependency on an active or deceased former
military serviceman, and (2) for assets of a deceased or incompetent
person which are in the possession of a Government agency.
<p>
   GS-996--Veterans Claims Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to administer,
supervise, or perform quasi-legal work involved in developing,
examining, adjusting, reconsidering, or authorizing the settlement of
claims filed by veterans, their dependents and beneficiaries, in regard
to disability compensation, disability, pension, death pension, death
compensation, National Service Life Insurance and U.S. Government Life
Insurance, as well as other Veterans Administration administered
benefits.
<p>
   GS-998--Claims Clerical Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve clerical work in the
examination, review, or development of claims by or against the Federal
Government.  Included are (a) clerical positions (()) concerned with
examining and developing claims cases for adjudication;  (b) clerical
positions concerned with determining and verifying entitlement to
benefits, where the legal requirements are clear and the examination
process is routine;  (c) clerical positions concerned with examining,
developing, and verifying post-entitlement actions regarding established
beneficiaries;  and (d) clerical positions concerned with answering
general or routine inquiries about benefits or procedures for filing
claims.  The work in this series requires ability to apply established
instructions, rules, regulations, and procedures relative to claims
examining activities.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1829/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-999--Legal Occupations Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-900
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   LEGAL AND KINDRED GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.011000>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1829/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes positions which involve professional, artistic,
technical, or clerical work in (1) the communication of information and
ideas through verbal, visual, or pictorial means, (2) the collection,
custody, presentation, display, and interpretation of art works,
cultural objects, and other artifacts, or (3) a branch of fine or
applied arts such as industrial design, interior design, or musical
composition.  Positions in this group require writing, editing, and
language (()) ability;  artistic skill and ability;  knowledge of
foreign languages;  the ability to evaluate and interpret informational
and cultural materials;  or the practical application of technical or
esthetic principles combined with manual skill and dexterity;  or
related clerical skills.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1839/93)00000">
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-1001--General Arts and Information Series
<p>
   This series includes all positions the duties of which are to
administer, supervise, or perform (1) any combination of work
characteristic of two or more series in this group where (a) no one type
of work is series controlling, (b) the paramount qualification
requirements are not characteristic of another series in the group, and
(c) the combination of work is not specifically provided for in another
series, or (2) other work typical of this group for which no other
series has been established.
<p>
   GS-1008--Interior Design Series**
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to perform,
supervise, or manage work related to the design of interior environments
in order to promote employee productivity, health, and welfare, and/or
the health and welfare of the public.  Typical duties include
investigating, identifying, and (()) documenting client needs;
analyzing needs, proposing options and, working with the client,
developing specific solutions;  developing design documents, including
contract working drawings and specifications;  and, as appropriate,
managing design projects performed in-house or by contract.  The work
requires applying knowledges from a variety of such fields as (a)
interior construction (building systems and components, building codes,
equipment, materials, and furnishings, working drawings and
specification, codes and standards);  (b) contracting (cost estimates,
bid proposals, negotiations, contract awards, site visits during
construction, pre- and post-occupancy evaluations);  (c) facility
operation (maintenance requirements, traffic patterns, security and fire
protection);  (d) aesthetics (sense of scale, proportion, and form;
color, texture, and finishes;  style and visual imagery);  (e)
psychology (privacy and enclosure;  effects of environmental components
(color, texture, space, etc.) on mood, alertness, etc.);  and, as
appropriate, (f) management (design project and resource coordination).
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1849/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1010--Exhibits Specialist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which supervise or perform work
involved in planning, constructing, installing, and operating exhibits,
the preparation of gallery space for exhibits, the preservation of
historic buildings, or the restoration or preparation of items to be
exhibited.  The work requires a combination of artistic abilities,
technical knowledge and (()) skills, and ability to understand the
subject matter concepts which assigned exhibits projects are intended to
convey.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1859/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1015--Museum Curator Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the primary duties of
which are to administer, supervise, or perform professional work related
to research, collections and exhibits in Federal museums, when such work
is not classifiable in other professional, scientific, or historical
series.
<p>
   GS-1016--Museum Specialist and Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which
include technical and specialized work in connection with the operation
of public museums or the management of museum collections.
<p>
   GS-1020--Illustrating Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which supervise or perform work
involved in laying out or executing illustrations in black and white or
in color, and with retouching photographs.  The work requires artistic
ability, the skill to draw freehand or with drawing instruments, and the
ability to use art media such as pen-and-ink, pencils, tempera,
acrylics, oils, wash, watercolor, pastels, air brush, or
computer-generated graphics.  It also (()) requires knowledge of the
subject matter being depicted sufficient to create accurate visual
representations.  Knowledge of basic art principles such as color, line,
form, and space is required to produce appropriately composed
illustrations.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1869/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1021--Office Drafting Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involving the supervision or
performance of drafting work for charts, diagrams, floor plans, office
forms, and other types of graphic presentation of statistical,
administrative, or related data.  Positions in this series require skill
in the application of drafting techniques, ability to read statistical
tables and make arithmetical computations, and knowledge of the various
types of graphic presentation that are appropriate for portrayal of
statistical, administrative, and related data.
<p>
   GS-1035--Public Affairs Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions responsible for administering,
supervising, or performing work involved in establishing and maintaining
mutual communication between Federal agencies and the general public and
various other pertinent publics including internal or external, foreign
or domestic audiences.  Positions in this series advise agency
management on policy formulation and the potential public reaction to
proposed policy, and identify and carry out the public communication
requirements inherent in (()) disseminating policy decisions.  The work
involves identifying communication needs and developing informational
materials that inform appropriate publics of the agency's policies,
programs, services and activities, and plan, execute, and evaluate the
effectiveness of information and communications programs in furthering
agency goals.  Work in the series requires skills in written and oral
communications, analysis, and interpersonal relations.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1879/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1040--Language Specialist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the primary duties of which are to
administer, supervise, or perform work in rendering from a foreign
language into English or from English into a foreign language the spoken
or written word where the ultimate objective is accurate translations
and/or interpretations.
<p>
   GS-1046--Language Clerical Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to supervise
or perform translating and/or interpreting work from and into English
where the level of language knowledges and skills required is sufficient
only for mutual understanding of basic concepts, phrases, and words, or
where the level is limited in breadth because of the routine, repetitive
nature of the interpreting and translating assignments, and/or clerical
duties are performed in conjunction with such translating or (())
interpreting.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1889/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1051--Music Specialist Series
<p>
   This series covers positions that require a knowledge of one or more
of the music arts such as vocal or instrumental music;  composition,
theory, and harmony;  arranging and orchestration;  choral or
instrumental conducting;  classical or modern dance styles including
choreography and notation;  or musicology.  Music specialists (1) plan,
supervise, administer, or carry out educational, recreational, cultural,
or other programs in music such as creative music clinics or workshops,
or electronic music experiments, (2) produce, stage, direct, or conduct
musical productions, concerts, or recitals, (3) instruct or serve as a
specialist in conducting;  composing;  arranging;  interpreting
classical, modern, ethnic or cultural dance forms;  choreography;
musicology;  or choral or instrumental music, or (4) perform other
functions requiring knowledge or skill in music.
<p>
   GS-1054--Theater Specialist Series
<p>
   This series covers positions that require a knowledge of the
techniques of producing, staging, rehearsing, or performing in
theatrical productions;  of technical production;  or of theatrical
history and literature.  Theater specialists (1) plan, supervise,
administer, or carry out educational, recreational, cultural, or other
programs in theater, such as children's theater or creative (())
dramatics;  (2) produce, stage, or direct theatrical productions;  (3)
instruct or serve as a specialist in direction;  technical production;
dance production;  performance techniques;  playwriting;  play or music
theater production;  or theater administration, management or promotion;
 or (4) perform other functions requiring knowledge and skill in the
theater arts.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1899/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1056--Art Specialist Series
<p>
   This series covers positions that require a knowledge of the theories
and techniques of one or more art forms.  Art specialists (1) plan,
supervise, administer, or carry out educational, recreational, cultural,
or other programs in art, (2) demonstrate the techniques and instruct in
one or more of the arts, or (3) perform other functions requiring
knowledge and skill in one or more art forms.
<p>
   GS-1060--Photography Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve supervising or performing
work in operating still, television (video), or motion picture cameras,
and in processing photographic film and negatives.  The work requires,
in addition to a knowledge of the equipment, techniques, and processes
of photography, either (1) working knowledge of the subject matter to be
photographed, and/or (2) artistic ability in selecting, arranging, and
lighting subjects or in processing work.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1909/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1071--Audiovisual Production Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve supervising or performing
work in the production of videotaped and live television programs;  live
and prerecorded radio broadcasts;  motion picture films;  broadcast type
closed circuit teleconferences;  and other similar productions, such as
slide shows with sound accompaniments. The work requires the ability to
plan, organize, and direct the work of writers, editors, actors,
narrators, musicians, set designers, audio and lighting technicians,
camera operators, and other associated technical personnel to produce,
select, and arrange the actions, sounds, and visual effects required for
the finished production.
<p>
   GS-1082--Writing and Editing Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve writing and editing
materials, such as reports, regulations, articles, newsletters,
magazines, news releases, training materials, brochures, interpretive
handbooks, pamphlets, guidebooks, scholarly works, reference works,
speeches, or scripts. The work requires the acquisition of information
on a variety of subjects in the course of completing assignments. The
work requires the development, analysis, and selection of appropriate
information and presentation of the information in a form and at a level
suitable for the intended audience.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1919/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1083--Technical Writing and Editing Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve writing or editing
technical materials, such as reports of research findings;  scientific
or technical articles, news releases, and periodicals;  regulations in
technical areas;  technical manuals, specifications, brochures, and
pamphlets;  or speeches or scripts on scientific or technical subjects.
Technical writers and technical editors draw on a substantial knowledge
of a particular subject-matter area, such as the natural or social
sciences, engineering, law, or other fields.  The work involves the
development of information and analysis to select and present
information on the specialized subject in a form and at a level suitable
for the intended audience.
<p>
   GS-1084--Visual Information Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which supervise or perform work
involved in communicating information through visual means.  Work in
this series includes the design and display of such visual materials as
photographs, illustrations, diagrams, graphs, objects, models, slides,
and charts used in books, magazines, pamphlets, exhibits, live or video
recorded speeches or lectures, and other means of communicating.  The
work requires knowledge of and ability to apply the principles of visual
design;  knowledge of the technical characteristics associated with
various methods of visual display;  and the ability to present subject
matter (()) information in a visual form that will convey the intended
message to, or have the desired effect on, the intended audience.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1929/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1087--Editorial Assistance Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that involve editorial support work in
preparing manuscripts for publication and verifying factual information
in them.  Such support work includes editing manuscripts for basic
grammar and clarity of expression as well as marking copy for format.
These positions require skill in using reference works to verify
information and knowledge of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and good
English usage.
<p>
   GS-1099--Information and Arts Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-1000
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   INFORMATION AND ARTS GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.011100>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1929/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform work pertaining to and
requiring a knowledge of business and trade practices, characteristics
and use of equipment, products, or property, or industrial production
methods and processes, including the conduct of investigations and
studies;  the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information;
the (()) establishment and maintenance of contacts with industry and
commerce;  the provision of advisory services;  the examination and
appraisement of merchandise or property;  and the administration of
regulatory provisions and controls.  Series in this group are:
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1939/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1101--General Business and Industry Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform (1) any combination of work
characteristic of two or more series in this group where no one type of
work is series controlling and where the combination is not specifically
included in another series;  or (2) other work properly classified in
this group for which no other series has been provided.
<p>
   GS-1102--Contracting Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that manage, supervise, perform, or
develop policies and procedures for professional work involving the
procurement of supplies, services, construction, or research and
development using formal advertising or negotiation procedures;  the
evaluation of contract price proposals;  and the administration or
termination and close out of contracts.  The work requires knowledge of
the legislation, regulations, and methods used in contracting;  and
knowledge of business and industry practices, sources of supply, cost
factor, and (()) requirements characteristics.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1949/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1103--Industrial Property Management Series*
<p>
   This occupation includes positions which primarily require a
knowledge of business and industrial practices, procedures, and systems
for the management and control of Government-owned property.  These
positions involve technical work in the administration of contract
provisions relating to control of Government property in the possession
of contractors, from acquisition through disposition.  Also included are
positions that involve providing staff leadership and technical guidance
over property administration matters.
<p>
   GS-1104--Property Disposal Series*
<p>
   This series includes administrative, managerial, and technical work
required to redistribute, donate, sell, abandon, destroy, and promote
the use of excess and surplus personal property.  Employees must know:
(a) characteristics, proper identities, and uses of property items;  (b)
merchandising and marketing methods and techniques;  and/or (c) property
disposal policies, programs, regulations, and procedures.
<p>
   GS-1105--Purchasing Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve supervising or (())
performing work to acquire supplies, services, and construction by
purchase, rental, or lease through (a) delivery orders and/or (b) small
purchase procedures.  The work requires knowledge of policies and
procedures for delivery orders and small purchases.  This work also
requires knowledge of commercial supply sources and common business
practices related to sales, prices, discounts, units of measurement,
deliveries, stocks, and shipments.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1959/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1106--Procurement Clerical and Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve performing or supervising
clerical and technical work that supports the procurement of supplies,
services, and/or construction.  Procurement clerks and technicians
prepare, control, and review procurement documents and reports;  verify
or abstract information contained in documents and reports;  contact
vendors to get status of orders and expedite delivery;  maintain various
procurement files;  resolve a variety of shipment, payment, or other
discrepancies;  or perform other similar work in support of procurement
programs and operations.  The work requires a practical knowledge of
procurement procedures, operations, regulations, and programs.
<p>
   GS-1107--Property Disposal Clerical and Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involved in supervising or (())
performing support work related to the utilization, donation, sale, and
other disposition of excess and surplus personal property.  It requires
knowledge of property disposal operations and programs and the ability
to apply regulations, practices, and procedures.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1969/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1130--Public Utilities Specialist Series
<p>
   This series includes positions that require application of knowledges
concerning the business practices, rate structures, and operating
characteristics of public utilities, in carrying out such functions as:
(1) analysis of utility rate schedules to determine their reasonableness
and applicability;  (2) investigation and analysis of the business
management organization and financial structure of public utilities in
connection with licensing or regulatory actions, including preparation
and presentation of testimony before regulatory bodies;  (3) purchase or
sale by the Government of utility resources and services;  and (4)
related functions that require the kind of knowledges indicated above.
The utilities with which these positions deal are primarily concerned
include telecommunications, electric and gas power, water, steam, and
sewage disposal.
<p>
   GS-1140--Trade Specialist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to (())
administer, supervise, or perform promotional, advisory, or analytical
functions pertaining to the commercial distribution of goods and
services.  The work performed concerns, and requires a practical
knowledge of, market structures and trends, competitive relationships,
retail and wholesale trade practices, distribution channels and costs,
business financing and credit practices, trade restrictions and
controls, and principles of advertising and consumer motivation.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1979/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1144--Commissary Store Management Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the incumbents of which manage,
supervise the management of, or advise on the operation of commissary
stores or departments thereof, or overall commissary operations.  These
positions require primarily knowledge of commercial retail food
merchandising and food store management.
<p>
   GS-1145--Agricultural Program Specialist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involving work in developing,
reviewing, administering, and coordinating programs for direct
farmer-producer participation in production adjustment, price support,
land conservation, and similar programs.  The work requires a knowledge
of agricultural stabilization, conservation, and related programs;
farming customs and practices;  crop cultivation;  production and
marketing methods;  and related agricultural activities.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1989/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1146--Agricultural Marketing Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involving management, research,
analytical, regulatory, or other specialized work concerned with the
marketing of one or more agricultural commodities or products.  The work
requires a practical knowledge of marketing functions and practices,
including, for example, a knowledge of or experience with the commodity
exchanges and markets, agricultural trade, or the practices and methods
involved in various agricultural marketing or agribusiness operations,
or a knowledge of the requirements of one or more statutory provisions
relating to an agricultural marketing program.
<p>
   GS-1147--Agricultural Market Reporting Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions primarily concerned with
collection, analysis and dissemination of current information on
available supplies, movement, demand, prices, marketing trends, and
other facts relating to the marketing of agricultural products.  This
work, in its various aspects, requires:  (a) knowledge of the methods
and practices characteristic of markets in the assigned commodity area;
(b) ability to establish and maintain sound working relationships with
the industry;  and (c) knowledge of the physical characteristics,
production factors, and quality grading or inspection criteria of the
assigned group of commodities.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page1999/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1150--Industrial Specialist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which require primarily a practical
knowledge of the nature and operations of an industry or industries, and
the materials, facilities and methods employed by the industry or
industries in producing commodities.  These positions involve the
administration, supervision, or performance of one or more of the
following functions:  (1) developing and carrying out plans for the
expansion, conversion, integration or utilization of industrial
production facilities, either to meet mobilization or strategic
requirements or to strengthen the industrial economy;  (2) furnishing
technical information, assistance, and advice concerning facilities,
machinery, methods, materials and standards for industrial production
(which may include exploration, extraction, refining, manufacturing and
processing operations);  (3) developing and/or administering provisions
or regulations covering such matters as materials allocation, tariffs,
export-import control, etc.; (4) conducting surveys of industrial plants
to evaluate capacity and potential for production of specific
commodities;  (5) planning, evaluating, and maintaining technical
surveillance over Government production operations, either in contractor
plants or in Government-operated plants;  or (6) performing related
functions which require essentially similar knowledges as the functions
listed above.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2009/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1152--Production Control Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involved in the supervision or
performance of planning, estimating, scheduling, and expediting the use
of labor, machines, and materials in specific manufacturing or
remanufacturing operations that employ mechanical or automated
production systems and methods in the fabrication, rebuilding, overhaul,
refurbishing, or repair of any type of Government-owned, controlled, or
operated equipment, systems, facilities, and supplies.
<p>
   GS-1160--Financial Analysis Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the duties of which are to direct
or perform analytical and evaluative work requiring a comprehensive
knowledge of (1) the theory and principles of finance applicable to the
full range of financial operations and transactions involved in the
general activities of the various types of business corporate
organizations;  (2) the financial and management organization,
operations, and practices of such corporate organizations;  (3)
pertinent statutory or regulatory provisions;  and (4) related basic
economic, accounting, and legal principles.
<p>
   1161--Crop Insurance Administration Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to administer,
supervise, or perform program development, sales, loss adjustment, or
other technical work in a crop insurance (()) program.  Work in this
series requires specialized knowledge of (a) applicable Federal crop
insurance principles, procedures, and techniques and (b) agriculture,
agricultural practices, and related business, social and economic
conditions.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2019/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1162--Crop Insurance Underwriting Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to administer,
supervise, or perform work involved in classifying land, establishing
crop insurance premiums, or other technical work related to underwriting
insurance policies in a crop insurance program.  Work in this series
requires the application of training and knowledge in one or more
agricultural or biological sciences such as agronomy, soil sciences,
agricultural economics, agricultural management, horticulture, etc., as
well as requiring knowledge of applicable Federal crop insurance
principles, procedures and techniques.
<p>
   GS-1163--Insurance Examining Series**
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to direct,
supervise, or perform work involved in insuring persons or property,
determining that adequate insurance to protect Government or private
interests has been provided, settling claims arising under insurance
contracts, or performing other similar insurance examining work when the
duties performed are of a technical, nonclerical nature, requiring (a)
knowledge of (()) insurance principles, procedures, and/or practices;
the commercial insurance market;  commercial insurance operations;  or
similar specialized insurance knowledges, (b) knowledge of pertinent
statutory or regulatory provisions;  related administrative regulations,
and (c) some knowledge of contract law and of other laws related to the
particular kind of insurance involved but not legal training equivalent
to that represented by graduation from a recognized law school.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2029/93)00000">
<p>
   GS1 1165--Loan Specialist Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the duties of which are to direct
or perform analytical and evaluative work which requires knowledge of
(1) credit risk factors and lending principles involved in loans of
specialized types granted, insured, or guaranteed by the Federal
Government;  (2) financial structures and practices of business
organizations concerned with such loans;  and (3) pertinent statutory,
regulatory, and administrative provisions.
<p>
   GS-1169--Internal Revenue Officer Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involved in administering,
supervising, or performing work related to collecting delinquent taxes,
surveying for unreported taxes, and securing delinquent returns.  The
work requires application of a knowledge of (1) general or specialized
business practices;  (2) pertinent tax (()) laws, regulations,
procedures, and precedents;  (3) judicial processes, laws of evidence,
and the interrelationship between Federal and State laws with respect to
collection and assessment processes;  and (4) investigative techniques
and methods.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2039/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1170--Realty Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the primary duties of which are to
perform, advise on, plan, or direct one or more of the following
functions:  (1) acquisition of real property;  (2) management of real
property in (a) the administration of Federally owned, Indian-owned,
leased, or consigned space or property, or (b) preparation for disposal;
 or (3) disposal of real property.  The work requires a knowledge of
real estate laws, principles, practices, and markets.
<p>
   GS-1171--Appraising Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that involve supervising or performing
work in appraising and reviewing the appraisals of real or personal
property or property interests. These positions require technical
knowledge and skill in the application of the principles, practices, and
techniques of appraisal.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2049/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1173--Housing Management Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions the duties of which are (1) to manage or
assist in managing one or more family housing projects, billeting
facilities, or other accommodations such as transient or permanent
individual and family living quarters, dormitory facilities and
restricted occupancy buildings including adjacent service facilities and
surrounding grounds;  and/or (2) to administer, supervise, or perform
work involved in the evaluation of housing management programs, the
development of administrative procedures, and the provision of technical
assistance to onsite housing management.  Positions in this occupation
require a variety of housing management and administrative knowledges
and related practical skills and abilities in such housing activities
as:  operations and maintenance, procurement of services, cost
management and financial planning, assignments and utilization,
occupancy changes and periodic inspections, scheduled and special
requirement surveys, new construction and improvements, control of
furnishings and equipment, master planning, and management-tenant
relations.  While some positions may involve administrative or indirect
supervision of trade or craft work, an intensive practical knowledge of
skilled trade and craft work techniques and processes is not required.
<p>
   GS-1176--Building Management Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that involve management of buildings and
other facilities to provide organizations with appropriate office space
and essential building services.  Employees in this series typically
perform one or more of the following functions:(()) (1) applying
business knowledges to directly manage, or assist in managing, the
operation of one or more buildings and the surrounding property;  (2)
directing comprehensive building management programs;  or (3) performing
staff level work in the study of building management methods and the
development of standard building management practices.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2059/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1199--Business and Industry Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-1100
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.011200>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2059/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional scientific,
technical, and legal work involved in the cataloging and registration of
copyrights, in the classification and issuance of patents, in the
registration of trade-marks, in the prosecution of applications for
patents before the Patent Office, and in the giving of advice to
Government officials on patent matters.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2069/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1202--Patent Technician Series
<p>
   This series includes positions that have responsibility for
supervising or performing technical work in support of professional
evaluation and examination of patent applications, including searching
for, selecting, evaluating and presenting pertinent background data and
documents.  The duties of positions in this series require the
application of (a) an understanding of the basic principles and
practices in a narrow field of physical science or engineering, and (b)
quasi-legal knowledges of precedents, practices and procedures under
patent laws governing the processing of patent applications.  They do
not require full professional competence equivalent to that represented
by completion of a full 4-year accredited college curriculum leading to
a bachelor's degree in engineering or one of the physical sciences.
<p>
   1210--Copyright Series
<p>
   This series includes positions that require the exercise of
discretion and independent judgment in the application of a broad
knowledge of copyright law, precedents, regulations, and practices.  The
duties include examining, registering, cataloging, disseminating
information, and certifying original and renewal copyrights.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2079/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1211--Copyright Technician Series
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve technical work in
connection with examination, cataloging, registration, dissemination of
information, processing and certification of original and renewal
copyrights.  The work requires the ability to apply established rules,
regulations and procedures.
<p>
   GS-1220--Patent Administration Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional scientific,
technical, and legal work involved in the administration of the patent
and trade-mark laws through the issuance of patents for inventions in
the various arts and through the registration of trade-marks.
<p>
   GS-1221--Patent Adviser Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involving professional scientific or
engineering work and, in addition, legal work pertaining to the analysis
of inventions and the evaluation of the patentability thereof.  This
entails preparing and prosecuting applications for patents;  preparing
and presenting briefs and arguments and prosecuting appeals and
interferences before the Patent Office;  making infringement
investigations, and rendering opinions on the validity of patents, in
order to protect the Government's interest in such inventions.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2089/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1222--Patent Attorney Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involved with performing professional
legal, scientific, and technical work concerning patents, including
rendering opinions on validity and infringement of patents, negotiation
of patent licenses, settlement of patent claims, negotiation of patent
clauses in contracts, providing professional legal advice to contracting
officers and other procurement personnel on patent matters, and the
preparation and/or presentation of briefs and arguments before the
Patent Office or before the Federal Courts.  Also included in this
series are positions which, in addition to the foregoing, may be
involved with performing similar professional legal functions regarding
trade-marks.  The work of this series requires training equivalent to
that represented by graduation (with a degree in one of the scientific
or engineering disciplines) from an accredited college or university, in
addition to a degree from a recognized law school and admission to the
bar.
<p>
   GS-1223--Patent Classifying Series*
<p>
   This series includes all professional, scientific, and technical
positions which are primarily concerned with developing and/or
administering systems for the classification, for patent purposes, of
the technological knowledge eobodied in United States patents and
related material.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2099/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1224--Patent Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional,
scientific, technological, and legal work involved in the examination
and disposition of applications for patents, exclusive of design
patents, to determine the grant or denial of patents based on such
applications, and in the adjudication of petitions and appeals from
decisions of such applications.  Such work in its various aspects
involves the utilization of the basic and advanced concepts of the
natural sciences, the techniques of all branches of engineering and of
the industrial arts, and the application of those aspects of procedural
and substantive law generally, and of the statutory and case law applied
to patents specifically, which are applicable to the patent examination
process.
<p>
   GS-1226--Design Patent Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise or perform professional, technical and legal work involved
in the granting or denial of applications for design patents.  Such work
involves the employment of basic concepts of the natural sciences,
techniques of the industrial arts, fundamentals of aesthetic and
functional design, and the application of statutes and precedent
decisions in design patent matters.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2109/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1299--Copyright and Patent Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-1200
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   COPYRIGHT, PATENT, AND TRADE-MARK GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.011300>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2109/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work or subordinate technical work in any of
the fields of science concerned with matter, energy, physical space,
time, nature of physical measurement, and fundamental structural
particles;  and the nature of the physical environment.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-1301--General Physical Science Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve professional work in the
physical sciences when there is no other more appropriate series, that
is, the positions are not elsewhere classifiable.  Thus, included in
this series are positions that involve:  (1) a combination of several
physical science fields with no one predominant or (2) a specialized
field of physical science not identified with other existing series.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2119/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1306--Health Physics Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that require primarily application of
professional knowledge and competence in health physics, which is
concerned with the protection of persons and their environment from
unwarranted exposure to ionizing radiation.
<p>
   GS-1310--Physics Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work in the investigation and applications
of the relations between space, time, matter, and energy in the areas of
mechanics, sound, optics, heat, electricity, magnetism, radiation, or
atomic and nuclear phenomena.
<p>
   GS-1311--Physical Science Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve nonprofessional
technical work in the physical sciences and which are not specifically
included in other series in the Physical Sciences Group.  Positions in
this series require a knowledge of the principles and techniques of
physical science, but do not require competence equivalent to that
represented by the completion of a full four-year college curriculum
leading to a bachelor's degree in physical science.  Positions in this
series involve work in the fields of astronomy, chemistry, geology,
geophysics, health physics, hydrology, metallurgy, oceanography,
physics, and other (()) physical sciences.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2129/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1313--Geophysics Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional scientific positions requiring
application of knowledge of the principles and techniques of geophysics
and related sciences in the investigation, measurement, analysis,
evaluation, and interpretation of geophysical phenomena and artificially
applied forces and fields related to the structure, composition, and
physical properties of the earth and its atmosphere.
<p>
   GS-1315--Hydrology Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve professional work in
hydrology, the science concerned with the study of water in the
hydrologic cycle.  The work includes basic and applied research on water
and water resources;  the collection, measurement, analysis, and
interpretation of information on water resources;  forecast of water
supply and water flows;  and development of new, improved or more
economical methods, techniques, and instruments.
<p>
   GS-1316--Hydrologic Technician Series*
<p>
   This occupation includes positions of hydrologic aids and technicians
who apply practical knowledge of hydrologic methods and techniques;  and
of the construction, application, operation, (()) and limitations of
instruments, equipment, and materials used in hydrologic investigations.
 They collect, select, compute, adjust, and process data;  prepare
charts and reports;  and perform related duties supporting professional
work in hydrology, the science concerned with the study of water, its
quantity, quality, availability, movement, and distribution.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2139/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1320--Chemistry Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions involving work that requires full
professional education and training in the field of chemistry.  This
work includes the investigation, analysis, and interpretation of the
composition, molecular structure, and properties of substances, the
transformations which they undergo, and the amounts of matter and energy
included in these transformations.
<p>
   GS-1321--Metallurgy Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that require primarily professional
education and training in the field of metallurgy, including ability to
apply the relevant principles of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and
engineering to the study of metals.  Metallurgy is the art and science
of extracting metals from their ores, refining them, alloying them and
preparing them for use, and studying their properties and behavior as
affected by the composition, treatment in manufacture, and conditions of
use.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2149/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1330--Astronomy and Space Science Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional positions requiring primarily
application of the principles and techniques of astronomy and physics in
the investigation and interpretation of the physical properties,
composition, evolution, position, distance, and motion of
extraterrestrial bodies and particles in space.
<p>
   GS-1340--Meteorology Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve professional work in
meteorology, the science concerned with the earth's atmospheric envelope
and its processes.  The work includes basic and applied research into
the conditions and phenomena of the atmosphere;  the collection,
analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of meteorological data to
predict weather and determine climatological conditions for specific
geographical areas;  the development of new or the improvement of
existing meteorological theory;  and the development or improvement of
meteorological methods, techniques, and instruments.  Positions in this
occupation require full professional knowledge and application of
meteorological methods, techniques, and theory.
<p>
   GS-1341--Meteorological Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that require application of (a)
<p>
   technical or practical knowledge of meteorological equipment, (())
methods, and techniques and (b) skill in the development and operation
of data collection, verification, information dissemination,
observation, and forecasting services and systems.  These positions do
not require full professional knowledge of meteorology.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2159/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1350--Geology Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional scientific positions applying a
knowledge of the principles and theories of geology and related sciences
in the collection, measurement, analysis, evaluation, and interpretation
of geologic information concerning the structure, composition, and
history of the earth.  This includes the performance of basic research
to establish fundamental principles and hypotheses and develop a fuller
knowledge and understanding of geology, and the application of these
principles and knowledges to a variety of scientific, engineering, and
economic problems.
<p>
   GS-1360--Oceanography Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional scientific positions engaged in the
collection, measurement, analysis, evaluation and interpretation of
natural and physical ocean phenomena, such as currents, circulations,
waves, beach and near-shore processes, chemical structure and processes,
physical and submarine features, depth, floor configuration, organic and
inorganic (()) sediments, sound and light transmission, color
manifestations, heat exchange, and similar phenomena, and their
interrelations with other marine phenomena (e.g., biota, weather,
geological structure, etc.) Oceanographers plan, organize, conduct, and
administer seagoing and land-based study and research of ocean phenomena
for the purpose of interpreting, predicting, utilizing and controlling
ocean forces and events.  This work requires a fundamental background in
chemistry, physics, and mathematics and appropriate knowledges in the
field of oceanography.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2169/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1361--Navigational Information Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions involving the
acquisition, collection, evaluation, selection, and preparation of vital
aeronautical or marine information for dissemination in official
publications concerning safe navigation and related operations,
requiring the technical and practical knowledges of air or marine
navigation and operations.
<p>
   GS-1370--Cartography Series*
<p>
   The Cartography Series, GS-1370, includes positions which require the
application of professional knowledge and skills in the mapping and
related sciences, and relevant mathematics and statistics to plan,
design, research, develop, construct, evaluate and modify mapping and
charting systems, products, and technology.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2179/93)00000">
<p>
   1371--Cartographic Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that require primarily a practical
knowledge of the processes, practices, methods, and techniques involved
in the construction of new or revision of existing maps, charts, and
related cartographic products.  Cartographic aids and technicians
perform precompilation tasks (such as the investigation of source
materials, extension of basic geodetic control network, and the plotting
map projection and ground control on base sheets), manual or
photogrammetric compilation, assembling aerial photographs into mosaics,
drafting, digitizing, and editing or reviewing.  The positions do not
require full professional knowledges and abilities and, therefore, do
not require education equivalent in type and scope to that represented
by completion of a professional curriculum leading to a bachelor's
degree in cartography or a related science.
<p>
   GS-1372--Geodesy Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional positions requiring primarily
application of the principles and techniques of geodesy.  The work
includes determining the size and shape of the earth and its
gravitational field, measuring the intensity and direction of the force
of gravity, and determining the horizontal and vertical positions of
points on the earth and in space, where consideration of the curvature
of the earth is required.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2189/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1373--Land Surveying Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve professional work in land
surveying, which is concerned with establishing, investigating, and
reestablishing land and property boundaries, and with preparing plats
and legal descriptions for tracts of land.  The work requires
application of professional knowledge of the concepts, principles and
techniques of surveying, including underlying mathematics and physical
science, in combination with a practical knowledge of land ownership
laws.
<p>
   GS-1374--Geodetic Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to supervise
or perform technical work in the analysis, evaluation, processing,
computation, and selection of geodetic survey data.  These positions
require a practical knowledge of theories and techniques of geodesy
particularly as they relate to the identity, reliability, and usefulness
of geodetic control data but not a full professional knowledge of
geodesy as required in the execution and adjustment of geodetic surveys
or the mathematical transformation of geodetic datum systems.
<p>
   GS-1380--Forest Products Technology Series
<p>
   This series includes professional positions concerned with the
development, improvement, and utilization of wood or wood (()) products,
including the study of preservation and treatment methods, the
processing and production of wood products, the properties and structure
of wood, and the production of lumber.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2199/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1382--Food Technology Series
<p>
   This series includes professional positions concerned with the study
and analysis of problems related to the development, improvement, and
evaluation of food products;  their production, utilization, processing
and preservation;  and the utilization or disposal of by-products.
<p>
   GS-1384--Textile Technology Series
<p>
   This series includes classes of professional positions which involve
scientific and technological work concerned with textiles or fibers
(plant, animal, and synthetic), including investigation, development,
production, processing, evaluation, and application of fibers, yarns,
fabrics and finishes.
<p>
   GS-1386--Photographic Technology Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform work which requires
interdisciplinary knowledge and skills in those scientific and
engineering fields that comprise photographic technology.  This work
includes planning, research, design, (()) development, modification,
instrumentation, testing, and evaluation of photographic equipment and
techniques involved in the taking, processing, viewing, and printing of
photographic images.  The work requires the ability to apply a knowledge
of the scientific principles of photography and those aspects of
chemistry, physics, mathematics, and mechanical, electronic and
electrical engineering that relate to photographic technology.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2209/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1397--Document Analysis Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to direct, administer, supervise, advise on, or perform technical work
in examining and identifying questioned documents.  Examinations are
conducted in order to determine the genuineness or spuriousness of a
document or any of its parts;  decipher or restore eradicated or
obliterated writings and markings;  detect alterations, additions,
interlineations, or other tampering with the original document;
determine authorship of a signature or other writing;  determine the
validity of a date or the alleged age of a document or a particular
entry;  identify the particular machine used to produce a document;  or
identify the source of a document.  The work requires (1) knowledge of
the properties, characteristics, and techniques of analysis of
handwriting, typewriting, printing, and duplicating, and of inks,
papers, and other writing, printing, and recording instruments and
materials;  (2) knowledge and skill in the use of photographic and
laboratory equipment and techniques;  and (3) the ability to develop
evidence(()) and to present it convincingly in written reports or
orally.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2219/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1399--Physical Science Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-1300
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   PHYSICAL SCIENCES GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.011400>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2219/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional and
scientific work or subordinate technical work in the various phases of
library and archival science.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-1410--Librarian Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions involving work that primarily
requires a full professional knowledge of the theories, objectives,
principles, and techniques of librarianship.  An inherent requirement of
these positions is a knowledge of literature resources.  Some positions
also require a substantial knowledge of the subject matter involved
and/or a substantial knowledge of foreign languages.  Such work is
concerned with the collection, organization, preservation, and retrieval
of recorded knowledge in printed, written, audiovisual, film, wax,
near-print(()) methods, magnetic tape, or other media.  Typical library
functions include the selection, acquisition, cataloging, and
classification of materials, bibliographic and readers' advisory
services, reference and literature searching services, library
management and systems planning, or the development and strengthening of
library services.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2229/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1411--Library Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions that primarily require a practical
knowledge of the methods and techniques of library or related
information work in acquiring, organizing, preserving, accessing, and/or
disseminating information.  Library technicians provide technical
support by performing a wide variety of tasks providing direct services
to the public and indirect technical services such as materials
acquisition, copy cataloging, support of automated systems, or other
similar work in support of library or related information programs and
operations.  The work requires a practical knowledge of library or
related information services, tools, and methods and procedures.
<p>
   GS-1412--Technical Information Services Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which are primerily concerned with the
direction, administration, development, coordination, or performance of
work involved in processing and transmitting scientific, technological,
or other specialized information. (()) Duties performed require a broad
knowledge of one or more professional, scientific, or technical
disciplines or fields of interest sufficient to understand the
significance and relationship of the concepts and ideas contained in the
information;  a practical knowledge of documentation or library
techniques;  and, in some cases, a knowledge of foreign languages.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2239/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1420--Archivist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve professional archival
work in appraising, accessioning, arranging, describing, preserving,
publishing, or providing reference service from public records and
historic documents.  This work requires a professional knowledge of
archival principles and techniques, a comprehensive knowledge of the
history of the United States and the institutions and organizations of
the Federal Government, and a thorough understanding of the needs,
methods, and techniques of scholarly research.
<p>
   GS-1421--Archives Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve nonprofessional and
technical work in accessioning, arranging, describing, preserving,
using, and disposing of archives, noncurrent records, and related
material kept in record and manuscript depositories.  This work requires
the application of a practical or technical knowledge of archival
methods, procedures, and techniques, and in(()) some assignments a
knowledge of the adminisrative history of specific Federal
organizations, past or present.  The work does not require full
professional preparation in archival science, nor the application of a
full professional knowledge of the history of the United States.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2249/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1499--Library and Archives Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-1400
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.011500>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2259/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work or related clerical work in basic
mathematical principles, methods, procedures, or relationships,
including the development and application of mathematical methods for
the investigation and solution of problems;  the development and
application of statistical theory in the selection, collection,
classification, adjustment, analysis, and interpretation of data;  the
development and application of mathematical, statistical, and financial
principles to programs or problems involving life and property risks;
and any other professional and scientific or related clerical work
requiring primarily and mainly the understanding and use of mathematical
theories, methods, and operations.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-1510--Actuary Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve the application of
professional knowledge and experience in actuarial science (including
mathematics, statistics, and business, financial, and economic
principles) to programs or problems related to annuities, and to life,
health, or property risks and contingencies.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2269/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1515--Operations Research Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve professional and
scientific work requiring the design, development and adaptation of
mathematical, statistical, econometric, and other scientific methods and
techniques to analyze problems of management and to provide advice and
insight about the probable effects of alternative solutions to these
problems.  The primary requirement of the work is competence in the
rigorous methods of scientific inquiry and analysis rather than in the
subject matter of the problem.
<p>
   GS-1520--Mathematics Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the duties of which are to advise
on, administer, supervise, or perform work which requires professional
education and training in the field of mathematics.  This work includes
research on basic mathematical principles, methods, procedures,
techniques or relationships;  the development of mathematical methods in
the solution of a variety of scientific, engineering, economic and
military problems, where the exactitude of the relationships, the rigor
and economy of mathematical operations, and the logical necessity of the
results are the controlling considerations.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2279/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1521--Mathematics Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise or perform work in the reduction and computation of
quantitative data where such work requires the use of mathematical
techniques in connection with particular engineering and scientific
activities, but does not require professional knowledge of the
mathematical theories, assumptions, or principles upon which the
techniques are based.
<p>
   GS-1529--Mathematical Statistician Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the primary duties of
which are to advise on, administer, or perform professional work
requiring the design, development and adaptation of mathematical methods
and techniques to statistical processes, or research in the basic
theories and science of statistics.
<p>
   GS-1530--Statistician Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer or perform professional work, or to provide professional
consultation in the application of statistical theories, techniques and
methods to the gathering and/or interpretation of quantified
information.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2289/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1531--Statistical Assistant Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which require primarily the
application of knowledge of statistical methods, procedures, and
techniques, to the collection, processing, compilation, computation,
analysis, editing, and presentation of statistical data.  The work does
not require the application of professional knowledge of statistics or
other disciplines.
<p>
   GS-1540--Cryptography Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work in the construction and solution of
codes and ciphers, or in the design, construction, inspection, testing,
operation, and maintenance of new and improved cryptographic code and
cipher equipment and methods.
<p>
   GS-1541--Cryptanalysis Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise or perform subordinate technical work in the solution or
analysis of secret communication codes and ciphers.
<p>
   GS-1550--Computer Science Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional positions which primarily involve
the application of, or research into, computer science methods and
techniques to store, manipulate, transform or present information by
means of computer systems.  The primary (()) requirements of the work
are (a) professional competence in applying the theoretical foundations
of computer science, including computer system architecture and system
software organization, the representation and transformation of
information structure, and the theoretical models for such
representations and transformation;  (b) specialized knowledge of the
design characteristics, limitations, and potential applications of
systems having the ability to transform information, and of broad areas
of applications of computing which have common structures, processes,
and techniques;  and (c) knowledge of relevant mathematical and
statistical sciences.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2299/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1599--Mathematics and Statistics Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-1500
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.011600>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2299/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes positions the duties of which are to advise on,
manage, or provide instructions and information concerning the
operation, maintenance, and use of equipment, shops, buildings,
laundries, printing plants, power plants, cemeteries, or other
Government facilities, or other work involving services provided
predominantly by persons in trades, crafts, or manual labor operations.
Positions in this group require technical or managerial knowledge and
ability, plus a practical knowledge of (()) trades, crafts, or manual
labor operations.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2309/93)00000">
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-1601--General Facilities and Equipment Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions involving (1) a combination of work
characteristic of two or more series in the Equipment, Facilities, and
Services Group when no other series is appropriate for the paramount
knowledges and abilities required for the position, or (2) other
equipment, facilities, or services work properly classified in this
group for which no other series has been established.
<p>
   GS-1630--Cemetery Administration Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to direct,
administer, manage, advise on, or supervise the overall operation of one
or more Federal cemeteries.
<p>
   GS-1640--Facility Management Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions that involve managing the operation and
maintenance of buildings, grounds, and other facilities such as posts,
camps, depots, power plants, parks, forests, and roadways.  Such work
requires (1) administrative and management skills and abilities and (2)
broad technical knowledge of the (()) operating capabilities and
maintenance requirements of various kinds of physical plants and
equipment.  While positions in this series typically involve directing
work performed by a variety of trades and labor employees and require
specialized knowledge of such work, they do not have as their paramount
qualification requirement an intensive knowledge of the specific trades
skills utilized.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2319/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1654--Printing Management Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions which involve planning,
administering, supervising, reviewing, evaluating, or performing work in
connection with the management of a program which provides printing
services.  Characteristic of positions in this series is the application
of a knowledge of the instructions which a printer must have before he
can reproduce manuscript received for publication;  knowledge of the
capabilities of printing equipment and processes;  and ability to manage
a printing production organization.  Positions in this series may, in
addition, involve supervision of related functions such as editing,
illustrating, and distributing printed materials.
<p>
   GS-1658--Laundry and Dry Cleaning Plant Management Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the duties of which are to advise
on or to manage and direct the operation of a laundry, a dry cleaning
plant, or a combined laundry and dry cleaning plant, (()) when the
duties require (1) skill in performing managerial functions associated
with the operation of a laundry and/or dry cleaning plants, and (2) a
combination of a practical knowledge of laundry and/or dry cleaning
equipment and processing operations.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2329/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1667--Steward Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to manage, supervise, or perform work involved in the operation of the
food supply service of a Government institution, including storeroom,
kitchen, dining room, meat shop, and bakery.
<p>
   GS-1670--Equipment Specialist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to supervise
or perform work involved in (1) collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and
developing specialized information about equipment;  (2) providing such
information together with advisory service to those who design, test,
produce, procure, supply, operate, repair, or dispose of equipment;
and/or (3) developing, installing, inspecting, or revising equipment
maintenance programs and techniques based on a practical knowledge of
the equipment, including its design, production, operational and
maintenance requirements.  Such duties require the application of an
intensive, practical knowledge of the characteristics, properties, and
uses of equipment of the type gained from (()) technical training,
education and experience in such functions as repairing, overhauling,
maintaining, construction, or inspecting equipment.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2339/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1699--Equipment and Facilities Management Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-1600
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES, AND SERVICES GROUP**
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.011700>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2339/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes positions which involve administering, managing,
supervising, performing, or supporting education or training work when
the paramount requirement of the position is knowledge of, or skill in,
education, training, or instruction processes.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-1701--General Education and Training Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that primarily involve professional
work in the field of education and training when the work is not more
appropriately covered by another professional series in this or any
other group.  Included are positions where (1) the work has
characteristics that may be identified with more (()) than one
professional education series with none predominant, (2) the combination
of professional knowledge required by the work is not specifically
covered by another series, or (3) the work is in a specialized
professional field not readily identifiable with other existing series
in this or any other group.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2349/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1702--Education and Training Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve nonprofessional work of a
technical, specialized, or support nature in the field of education and
training when the work is properly classified in this group and is not
covered by a more appropriate series.  The work characteristically
requires knowledge of program objectives, policies, procedures, or
pertinent regulatory requirements affecting the particular education or
training activity.  Employees apply a practical understanding or
specialized skills and knowledge of the particular education or training
activities involved, but the work does not require full professional
knowledge of education concepts, principles, techniques, and practices.
<p>
   GS-1710--Education and Vocational Training Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that require applying full
professional knowledge of the theories, principles, and techniques of
education and training to instructional and educational administration
work in education programs operated by (()) Federal agencies.  Some
positions also require specialized knowledge of one or more subjects in
which the instruction is given.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2359/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1712--Training Instruction Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions concerned with administration,
supervision, training program development, evaluation, or instruction in
a program of training when the paramount requirement of the work is a
combination of practical knowledge of the methods and techniques of
instruction and practical knowledge of the subject-matter being taught.
Positions in this series do not have either a paramount requirement of
professional knowledge and training in the field of education, or
mastery of a trade, craft, or laboring occupation.
<p>
   GS-1715--Vocational Rehabilitation Series*
<p>
   This series covers positions requiring the application of knowledge
of training programs and occupational information in relation to
vocational rehabilitation problems of the physically or mentally
disabled, or of other individuals whose backgrounds and lack of job
skills impairs their employability. The work involves planning training
programs for these individuals;  placing them in gainful employment;
and supervising them while in training and during adjustment to the job.
 The duties require knowledge of vocational training concepts and
practices;  of the (()) employment market;  of training facilities;  and
of skill demands and environmental condition in occupations and specific
jobs in relation to their suitability for the training and employment of
the persons served by the rehabilitation program.  The work also
involves the application of counseling techniques and methodology in
motivating these individuals and helping them to adjust successfully to
the training or work situation;  however, full professional counseling
knowledge is not required.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2369/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1720--Education Program Series*
<p>
   This series covers professional education positions that involve
promoting, coordinating, and improving education policies, programs,
standards, activities, and opportunities in accordance with national
policies and objectives.  Positions in this series primarily involve the
performance, supervision, or formulation and implementation of policy
concerning education problems and issues.  These positions require a
professional knowledge of education theories, principles, processes, and
practices at early childhood, elementary, secondary, or postsecondary
levels, or in adult or continuing education.  They also require a
knowledge of the Federal Government's interrelationships with State and
local educational agencies or with public and private postsecondary
institutions.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2379/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1725--Public Health Educator Series
<p>
   This series includes positions involved in administering,
supervising, or performing research or other professional work in public
health education. Positions are concerned with providing leadership,
advice, staff assistance, and consultation on health education programs.
 This includes analysis of behavioral and other situational factors
affecting good health practices of individuals, groups, and communities;
 the planning of health education programs designed to meet the needs of
particular individuals, groups, or communities;  the selection of
specialized educational methods, the preparation of educational
materials, and the carrying out of such education activities which will
best serve to stimulate the interest of individuals and groups in
scientific discoveries affecting health in the application of health
principles to daily living. Public health educators consult with State
and local health departments, and with national and local voluntary
agencies;  organize community groups to study health problems and
methods of disease prevention;  and assist in coordinating mass health
programs and in evaluating and improving health education programs.
<p>
   GS-1730--Education Research Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that primarily involve professional
education research work.  This includes the performance, leadership,
management, or supervision of scientific research to solve educational
problems or to develop new knowledge bearing on educational processes.
The paramount (()) requirements for this work are knowledge of and skill
in applying research principles and methods and a broad and thorough
knowledge of one or more scientific fields or interdisciplinary areas
related to the education research work being performed.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2389/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1740--Education Services Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, promote, conduct, or evaluate programs and
activities designed to provide individualized career-related or
self-development education plans.  The work requires knowledge of
education theories, principles, procedures, and practices of secondary,
adult, or continuing education.  Some positions require skill in
counseling students or enrollees to establish educational and
occupational objectives.
<p>
   GS-1750--Instructional Systems Series*
<p>
   This series includes professional positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, advise on, design, develop, or provide
educational or training services in formal education or training
programs.  The work requires knowledge of learning theory and the
principles, methods, practices and techniques of one or more specialties
of the instructional systems field.  The work may require knowledge of
one or more subjects or occupations in which educational or training
instruction is provided.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2399/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1799--Education Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-1700
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   EDUCATION GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.011800>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2399/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform investigation,
inspection, or enforcement work primarily concerned with alleged or
suspected offenses against the laws of the United States, or such work
primarily concerned with determining compliance with laws and
regulations.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-1801--General Inspection, Investigation, and Compliance Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the primary duties of which are to
administer, coordinate, supervise or perform inspectional,
investigative, analytical, or advisory work to assure understanding of
and compliance with Federal laws, regulations, or other mandatory
guidelines when such work is not more appropriately classifiable in
another series either in the investigation Group, GS-1800 or in another
occupational series.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2499/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1802--Compliance Inspection and Support Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which perform or supervise
inspectional or technical support work in assuring compliance with or
enforcement of Federal laws, regulations, or other mandatory guidelines
and which are not classifiable in another, more specific, occupational
series.  The work requires a knowledge of prescribed procedures,
established techniques, directly applicable guidelines, and pertinent
characteristics of regulated items or activities.
<p>
   GS-1810--General Investigating Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve planning and conducting
investigations covering the character, practices, suitability, or
qualifications of persons or organizations seeking, claiming, or
receiving Federal benefits, permits, or employment when the results of
the investigation are used to make or invoke administrative judgments,
sanctions, or penalties.  These positions require primarily a knowledge
of investigative techniques a knowledge of the laws, rules, regulations,
and objectives of the employing agency;  skill in interviewing,
following leads, researching records, and preparing reports;  and the
ability to elicit information helpful to the investigation from persons
in all walks of life.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-1811--Criminal Investigating Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve planning and conducting
investigations relating to alleged or suspected violations of criminal
laws.  These positions require primarily a knowledge of investigative
techniques and a knowledge of the laws of evidence, the rules of
criminal procedure, and precedent court decisions concerning
admissibility of evidence, constitutional rights, search and seizure and
related issues;  the ability to recognize, develop and present evidence
that reconstructs events, sequences, and time elements, and establishes
relationships, responsibilities, legal liabilities, conflicts of
interest, in a manner that meets requirements for presentation in
various legal hearings and court proceedings;  and skill in applying the
techniques required in performing such duties as maintaining
surveillance, performing undercover work, and advising and assisting the
U.S. Attorney in and out of court.
<p>
   GS-1812--Game Law Enforcement Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, coordinate, supervise, or perform inspectional,
investigative, or advisory work to assure public understanding of and
compliance with Federal statutes and regulations for the conservation of
fish and wildlife resources;  in obtaining information on the general
condition of such resources;  and in the conduct of operations for the
abatement of damage to agricultural crops caused by unusual
concentrations of wildlife.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-1815--Air Safety Investigating Series*
<p>
   Positions included in this series have duties involving the
investigation and prevention of accidents and incidents involving United
States aircraft anywhere in the world, and in the establishment of
programs and procedures to provide for the notification and reporting of
accidents.  The investigation includes a report of the facts,
conditions, and circumstances relating to each accident and a
determination of the probable cause of the accident along with
recommendations for remedial action designed to prevent similar
accidents in the future.  Special studies and investigations on matters
pertaining to safety in air navigation and the prevention of accidents
are conducted to ascertain what will best tend to reduce or eliminate
the possibility of, or recurrence of, accidents.  These duties and
responsibilities require the application of a broad technical knowledge
in the field of aviation, and experience or training which provides a
knowledge of investigative techniques and/or legal procedures and
practices.
<p>
   GS-1816--Immigration Inspection Series*
<p>
   This series includes inspection or examining work involving the
enforcement and administration of laws relating to the right of persons
to enter, reside in, or depart from the United States, Puerto Rico,
Guam, and the Virgin Islands.  Inspection work requires knowledge of
laws, regulations, procedures and policies (()) concerning entry of
persons to the United States and eligibility for various benefits under
the immigration laws;  ability to acquire information about citizenship
and status through interviewing persons and examining documents;
ability to make sound decisions to enter or exclude aliens from the
United States and to determine eligibility for benefits under the
immigration laws;  and sound judgment in detaining or apprehending
persons at the point of entry who are violating immigration or other
laws.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-1822--Mine Safety and Health Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the paramount duties of which are to
perform or supervise work in enforcing, developing, advising on, or
interpreting mine safety and health laws, regulations, standards, and
practices.  Coverage includes positions concerned with underground and
surface mining and milling operations associated with coal, and other
metal and nonmetal mines.  Positions in this series require:  (1)
practical knowledge of mining and/or milling methods and processes;  (2)
knowledge of safety and health practices, principles, programs, and
hazards applicable to the mining industry;  and (3) knowledge of current
laws, regulations, and standards for mine safety and health.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2449/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1825--Aviation Safety Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve primarily developing,
administering, or enforcing regulations and standards concerning civil
aviation safety, including (1) the airworthiness of aircraft and
aircraft systems;  (2) the competence of pilots, mechanics, and other
airmen;  and (3) safety aspects of aviation facilities, equipment, and
procedures.  These positions require knowledge and skill in the
operation, maintenance, or manufacture of aircraft and aircraft systems.
<p>
   GS-1831--Securities Compliance Examining Series
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to direct,
supervise, advise on, or perform examinations of registered
broker-dealers, investment advisers, and investment companies to
determine compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements of
securities acts.  The work requires the exercise of discretion and
independent judgment in the application of knowledge of the principles
and practices of securities compliance examination and a knowledge of
the laws and regulations relating to the control and operation of
institutions engaged in the trading of securities and the operation of
securities markets. The work includes such activities as (1) analyzing
financial reports, books, and records, to determine compliance with
accounting and auditing requirements, adequacy and accuracy of net
capital, overall financial responsibility, and compliance with
recordkeeping and other requirements of the securities acts and rules;
(2) examining and evaluating customer and broker accounts to determine
the existence of improper activity in the accounts;  (3) inspecting,
reviewing, and evaluating the efficiency and (()) adequacy of procedures
for safeguarding funds and securities, and overall supervisory
procedures;  (4) conducting conferences and interviews with members of
brokerage firms, security exchanges, investors, and members of the
general public;  (5) evaluating findings, making recommendations on
further actions and preparing written reports on the compliance of the
firm with statutory and regulatory requirements;  and (6) conducting
oversight examinations of self-regulatory organizations such as national
securities exchanges.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-1850--Agricultural Commodity Warehouse Examining Series*
<p>
   This series includes the administration, supervision, or performance
of work involved in (a) examining storage facilities licensed or to be
licensed under Federal law for storing agricultural commodities;  or (b)
in examining facilities approved or to be approved under Government
contract or agreement.
<p>
   GS-1854--Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Inspection Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions concerned with work involving the
qualification and inspection of establishments engaged in the production
or use of alcohol or tobacco products;  the assurance of full collection
of revenue on alcohol and tobacco products;  the development and
interpretation of regulations applicable to such establishments;  and
the development, analysis, and improvement of programs, procedures, and
techniques for (()) regulating establishments involved in producing and
using alcohol and tobacco products.  Positions in this series require
specialized knowledge of (a) the construction, equipment, and operations
of facilities in the alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and related industries
together with the laws and regulations that control them, (b)
inspectional or examining techniques applicable to these industries, and
(c) audit methods.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2469/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1862--Consumer Safety Inspection Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve primarily developing and
conducting inspections, investigations, and related sampling and data
collection activities in support of the laws and regulations protecting
consumers from foods, drugs, therapeutic devices, cosmetics, fabrics,
toys, and household products that are impure, unsanitary, unwholesome,
ineffective, improperly labeled, or dangerous.  These positions require
a practical knowledge of the agency's regulations and programs;  a
practical knowledge of chemical and biological processes and analytical
methods;  the characteristics of regulated products;  pertinent
manufacturing, storage, and distribution methods;  and techniques of
inspection, sampling, and field testing.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2479/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1863--Food Inspection Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve the inspection of
slaughter, processing, packaging, shipping, and storing of meat and meat
products, poultry and poultry products, fish and fish products;  meat
products derived from equines, and food establishments engaged in these
activities in order to determine compliance with law and regulations
which establish standards for the protection of the consumer by assuring
them that products distributed to them are wholesome, not adulterated,
and properly marked, labeled and packaged.  Performance of the work in
this series requires the knowledge of normal conditions of live and
slaughtered meat, poultry, and fish;  of standards of wholesomeness and
sanitation of meat, poultry and fish products;  and of the processing
and sanitation of the food production industry or industries inspected.
<p>
   GS-1864--Public Health Quarantine Inspection Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the duties of which are to
supervise or perform inspectional work in the enforcement of public
health quarantine and sanitary regulations governing the entrance of
persons and things into the United States or its possessions.  The work
involves (a) the inspection of persons for the possible presence of
quarantinable or communicable diseases and (b) the inspection of
carriers engaged in foreign transportation and their cargoes and of
vehicles, personal effects, and other things for the presence of disease
vectors, infestation, or conditions contrary to approved sanitary
procedures and practices.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2489/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1884--Customs Patrol Officer Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involved in law enforcement concerned
with (1) detecting and preventing the smuggling into or out of the
United States of contraband and controlled substances and materials;
(2) detecting and preventing theft, pilferage, or diversion of
merchandise, cargo, or other materials from areas under Customs
jurisdiction or custody;  and (3) detecting and apprehending suspected
violators of the criminal provisions of the Customs Laws of the United
States.  Enforcement duties are carried out by patrol and surveillance
at, around, and between international ports of entry of the United
States. Such work requires knowledge and understanding of Customs and
related laws, instructions, and precedent decisions;  ability to
evaluate information;  ability to make timely decisions and apply
judgment in taking prompt and appropriate actions in all situations and
the ability to effectively use basic investigative and law enforcement
procedures to enforce the Customs laws and other laws which the Customs
Patrol Officer may be called upon to enforce or to assist in enforcing.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2499/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1889--Import Specialist Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions supervising or performing work which
involves primarily the acceptance;  tariff classification;
appraisement;  allowance of specified types of drawback claims;  and, in
some circumstances, liquidation of formal entries of (()) imported
merchandise.  The major objectives of the work are to assess customs
duties and associated taxes to be paid on imported merchandise, and to
assure compliance with related laws and regulations.  The work requires
(a) knowledge of tariff and other import-related laws, regulations,
policies, and procedures and of related administrative and judicial
rulings;  (b) knowledge of the technical or physical characteristics,
commercial uses, and trade practices associated with imported
merchandise;  and (c) judgment in applying these knowledges in order to
make decisions on import admissibility, classification, and valuation of
merchandise, final settlement of duties and taxes due, and related
matters.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2499/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1890--Customs Inspection Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which involve inspection work in the
enforcement and administration of laws governing the importation or
exportation of merchandise.  The work requires knowledge of laws,
regulations, policies, and procedures concerning the entry, examination,
classification, and release of merchandise;  ability to obtain data
about the description, characteristics, value, and country of origin of
merchandise by questioning people, examining merchandise, and reviewing
documents;  ability to search baggage, persons, cargo, and carriers for
contraband;  ability to make sound decisions to admit and to hold or
release merchandise;  and sound judgment in detaining and apprehending
persons at the point of entry who are violating customs or other laws.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2509/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1894--Customs Entry and Liquidating Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform work involving the examination,
acceptance, processing, or issuance of documents required for the entry
of imported merchandise into the United States and the initial
classification of merchandise covered by the entries;  the determination
of customs duties and applicable internal revenue taxes accruing on such
merchandise;  the ascertainment of drawback to be paid on exported
articles manufactured with the use of duty-paid or tax-paid imported
merchandise or substituted domestic merchandise;  and the determination
of the validity of protests against liquidation decisions on formal
entries.
<p>
   GS-1895--Customs Warehouse Officer Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions responsible for maintaining effective
control of merchandise stored in customs bonded warehouses until import
fees are paid, or other arrangements for the release of the merchandise
are approved. These positions oversee all the activities in the
warehouse operations to insure compliance with customs regulations for
bonded warehouses and to protect the Government from loss of revenue.
Positions in this series require application of knowledges of laws and
regulations related to customs storage procedures as well as knowledge
of appropriate control, inspection and customs examination (())
techniques.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2519/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1896--Border Patrol Agent Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involved in enforcement work concerned
with (1) detecting and preventing the smuggling or illegal entry of
aliens into the United States;  (2) detecting and apprehending aliens in
violation of the conditions under which they were admitted;  (3)
detecting and apprehending aliens at interior points in the United
States who entered illegally;  (4) detecting and apprehending aliens
falsely claiming United States citizenship or legal status;  (5)
detecting and apprehending producers, vendors and users of counterfeit,
altered and genuine documents used to circumvent the immigration and
nationality laws of the United States;  and (6) enforcing criminal
provisions of the immigration and nationality laws and regulations of
the United States. Such work requires knowledge and understanding of the
statutes, regulations, instructions and precedent decisions pertaining
to the enforcement of the immigration and nationality laws, ability to
evaluate information rapidly, make timely decisions and take prompt and
appropriate actions, and the ability to use effectively basic
investigative and law enforcement procedures to enforce the immigration
and nationality laws and other laws which the Border Patrol Agent may be
called upon to enforce or assist in enforcing.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2529/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1897--Customs Aid Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise or perform work that is incidental or subordinate to entry,
liquidating, appraising, examining, marine officer, or other technical
customs work and which consists of (1) clerical duties requiring the
application of specialized knowledge of pertinent provisions of the
Tariff Act, the Navigation Laws, or other similar customs laws or (2)
quasi-technical duties requiring some, but less than full, technical
training in one or more kinds of technical customs work (except such
duties when performed as training for the full technical level).
<p>
   GS-1898--Admeasurement Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform work involved in ascertaining by
measurement and computation the gross and net tonnage of vessels,
requiring application of provisions of the Navigation Laws of the United
States, regulations, and rulings thereunder, Panama Canal rules, and
Suez Canal regulations.
<p>
   GS-1899--Investigation Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-1800
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   INVESTIGATION GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.011900>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2539/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, supervise, or perform administrative or technical work
primarily concerned with the quality assurance or inspection of
material, facilities, and processes;  or with the grading of commodities
under official standards.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-1910--Quality Assurance Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the duties of which are to
perform, administer, or advise on work concerned with assuring the
quality of products acquired and used by the Federal Government.  The
work of this series involves:  (1) the development of plans and programs
for achieving and maintaining product quality throughout the item's life
cycle;  (2) monitoring operations to prevent the production of defects
and to verify adherence to quality plans and requirements;  and (3)
analysis and investigation of adverse quality trends or conditions and
initiation of corrective action.  The duties of these positions require
analytical ability combined with knowledge and application of quality
assurance principles and techniques, and knowledge of pertinent product
characteristics and the associated manufacturing processes and
techniques.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2549/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-1980--Agricultural Commodity Grading Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions which administer, supervise, or
perform work concerned with examining and evaluating agricultural
products to determine their official U.S. grade and/or their
acceptability in terms of quality or condition in accordance with
official standards and related regulations.  The work often includes the
inspection or monitoring of the conditions under which the product is
processed, stored, or transported insofar as these factors affect
product quality.
<p>
   GS-1981--Agricultural Commodity Aid Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise or perform subordinate clerical work such as taking
samples, making tests or otherwise assisting in the grading or classing
of agricultural commodities in accordance with prescribed standards and
regulations.  (This series does not include positions the duties of
which are to perform subordinate work in one or more branches of
agricultural science.  Such positions are properly classified in the
Biological Technician Series, GS-404.  Neither does it include positions
the duties of which are to perform nonprofessional work in the physical
sciences.  Such positions are properly classified in the Physical
Science Technician Series, GS-1311.)
<p>
   GS-1999--Quality Inspection Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-1900
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   QUALITY ASSURANCE, INSPECTION, AND GRADING GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.012000>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2559/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes positions which involve work concerned with
furnishing all types of supplies, equipment, material, property (except
real estate), and certain services to components of the Federal
Government, industrial, or other concerns under contract to the
Government, or receiving supplies from the Federal Government.  Included
are positions concerned with one or more aspects of supply activities
from initial planning, including requirements analysis and
determination, through acquisition, cataloging, storage, distribution,
utilization to ultimate issue for consumption or disposal.  The work
requires a knowledge of one or more elements or parts of a supply
system, and/or supply methods, policies, or procedures.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-2001--General Supply Series**
<p>
   This series includes positions involving (1) a combination of supply
work covered by two or more two-grade interval series in the Supply
Group when no other series is appropriate for the paramount knowledge
and abilities required for the position;  or (2) other analytical or
administrative supply work not specifically covered by another series.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2569/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-2003--Supply Program Management Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve:  (1) management,
direction, or administration of a supply program that includes a mixture
of technical supply functions;  or (2) staff managerial, or
administrative work primarily concerned with analyzing, developing,
evaluating, or promoting improvements in the policies, plans, methods,
procedures, systems, or techniques of a supply program.
<p>
   GS-2005--Supply Clerical and Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions involved in supervising or performing
clerical or technical supply support work necessary to ensure the
effective operation of ongoing supply activities.  It requires knowledge
of supply operations and program requirements and the ability to apply
established supply policies, day-to-day servicing techniques,
regulations, or procedures.
<p>
   GS-2010--Inventory Management Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve analytical work in
managing, regulating, coordinating, or otherwise exercising control over
supplies, equipment, or other material.  The work includes one or more
phases of material management including initial planning, provisioning
and requirements determination, acquisition and distribution,
accountability, and ultimate issue (()) for consumption, retention, or
disposal.  The work requires knowledge of acquisition processes,
automated records and control systems, material substitution criteria,
and storage, issue, and disposal processes.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2589/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-2030--Distribution Facilities and Storage Management Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve analytical or managerial
work concerned with receiving, handling, storing, maintaining while in
storage, issuing, or physically controlling items within a storage and
distribution system.  Positions covered by this series require as their
primary qualification, knowledge of the principles, practices, and
techniques of managing the physical receipt, custody, care, and
distribution of material, including the selection of appropriate storage
sites, material handling equipment, and facilities.
<p>
   GS-2032--Packaging Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve planning, designing, and
developing packaging methods and techniques, and directing the use of
packages and packaging materials to protect supplies, materials, and
equipment between the time of purchase and use.  This occupation
requires knowledge of packaging and preservation methods, material,
regulations, specifications, and guidelines.  It also requires knowledge
of methods and techniques to prevent environmental and mechanical damage
during handling, shipping, (()) and storage.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2589/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-2050--Supply Cataloging Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve analytical work in the
development, maintenance, or revision of supply catalogs, manuals, stock
lists, item descriptions, and other documents which identify items of
supply.  Positions in this series require a knowledge of the physical
characteristics of supply items and of systems for cataloging and
classifying such supply items to insure proper identification for
management purposes.
<p>
   GS-2091--Sales Store Clerical Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise or perform checkout, sales clerk, customer assistance, or
other clerical duties which are involved in the retail sale of
merchandise or stock items and which require the application of clerical
knowledges, procedures, and/or practices that are peculiar to sales
store operations.
<p>
   GS-2099--Supply Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
<FIELD id=074>
<p>
   September 1993
<FIELD id=091>
<p>
   GS-2000
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   SUPPLY GROUP**
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
<DOC id=1729_00.10.012100>
<FIELD id=033>
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2599/93)00000">
<p>
   This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform clerical,
administrative, or technical work involved in the provision of
transportation service to the Government, the regulation of
transportation utilities by the Government, or the management of
Government-funded transportation programs, including transportation
research and development projects.
<p>
   Series in this group are:
<p>
   GS-2101--Transportation Specialist Series
<p>
   This series includes all administrative positions the duties of which
are to advise on, supervise, or perform work which involves two or more
specialized transportation functions or other transportation work not
specifically included in other series of this group.
<p>
   GS-2102--Transportation Clerk and Assistant Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve supervising or performing
work to arrange transportation for or perform other actions in
connection with the movement of freight, passengers, or personal
property by Government or commercial means.  This series also includes
other transportation support work not covered specifically by another
one grade interval series in the Transportation Group (e.g., fleet
management, safety or (()) regulatory program support, quality control
and inspection, carrier performance evaluation, or transportation report
analysis and preparation).  The work requires a practical knowledge of
the regulations and methods governing traffic management or
transportation programs.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2609/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-2110--Transportation Industry Analysis Series*
<p>
   This occupation includes positions that involve analytical,
evaluative, advisory, or similar work pertaining to regulation of the
transportation, industry with regard to operations, economics, equity in
industry practices, and protection of the public interest.  The work
requires a knowledge of transportation industry regulatory controls, of
the customs and competitive practices of carriers and of carrier
operations, services, and facilities. It also requires a general
knowledge of economics, statistics, law, business management and related
subject-matter areas, but does not require full training and
professional competence in any of those fields.
<p>
   GS-2121--Railroad Safety Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that are involved in developing,
administering, or enforcing railroad safety standards and regulation or
in investigating and preventing railroad accidents.  These positions
require (1) broad knowledge of railroad operating practices and
recordkeeping;  (2) practical knowledge of the (()) methods used in
installation, maintenance, or manufacture of railroad equipment, signal
systems, and track;  (3) knowledge of safety practices applicable to the
railroad industry and related laws, regulations, and standards;  and (4)
knowledge of the investigative techniques used in determining the cause
of accidents.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2619/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-2123--Motor Carrier Safety Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which are to administer,
supervise, or perform work involved in promoting or enforcing compliance
with Federal laws, standards, and regulations related to the safe
operation of commercial motor vehicles on the public highways.  Included
are positions concerned with promoting safe operating practices and
enforcing compliance by shippers of hazardous materials;  motor carrier
accident investigation and prevention;  developing regulations and
standards;  and providing technical assistance to the industry and other
jurisdictions involved in motor carrier safety.  The work requires:  (1)
comprehensive knowledge of the laws, standards, and regulations
governing motor carrier safety;  (2) knowledge of the safety principles
and practices applicable to the motor carrier industry;  (3) practical
knowledge of the competitive and operating practices, policies,
organization, equipment, facilities, and recordkeeping systems of motor
carriers;  and (4) knowledge of investigative techniques used in
compliance enforcement and accident investigation.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2629/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-2125--Highway Safety Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions the duties of which primarily involve:
 (1) development and administration of highway safety regulations,
standards and programs to elicit and promote governmental and public
support for highway safety;  (2) conducting studies or performing other
analytical work directed toward identification of current highway safety
problems and evaluation of the effectiveness of highway safety programs
and methods;  or (3) providing State and local governments with
technical assistance in planning, developing, monitoring, funding,
managing, promoting, or evaluating programs and systems to improve
vehicle, passenger, or pedestrian safety and to identify, control, or
eliminate the factors that influence highway accidents.  All positions
in this series require specialized knowledge of highway safety programs
and the factors that influence highway safety and the safe performance
and operation of motor vehicles.  Most positions also require a high
degree of analytical ability and a general knowledge of the principles
and processes of program management and intergovernmental relations.
<p>
   GS-2130--Traffic Management Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve (1) performing,
administering, or supervising technical and analytical work concerned
with planning, development, and execution of traffic (()) policies and
programs;  or (2) directing and managing programs to obtain the
economical and efficient transportation of freight, personal property,
and/or passengers.  Positions in this occupation primarily require a
knowledge of Federal traffic management principles and policies;
transportation industry operations, practices, and capabilities;
special handling or movement requirements associated with freight,
passengers, or other transportation operations;  and the relationship of
traffic management to other agency or organizational programs and
functions.
<table>
<node value="PAGE(Page2639/93)00000">
<p>
   GS-2131--Freight Rate Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform work involved in the procurement of
common carrier and other transportation service by rail, motor, air,
water, and miscellaneous means, for the domestic and foreign movement of
freight.  This requires:  the study and application of published
classification guides, rate tariffs, dockets, agreements, contracts, and
related carrier and Federal publications in the classification of
freight and the determination of appropriate rates and routes.  In
addition to positions which determine classification, rates, and/or
routes prior to shipment, this series includes positions engaged in the
preaudit or the postaudit of freight bills to determine the propriety of
the rates paid or to be paid.
<table>
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<p>
   GS-2135--Transportation Loss and Damage Claims Examining Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform work consisting of the examination,
development, review, or authorization of claims by or against the
Government arising from the loss or damage of goods and merchandise
while in the custody of carriers for transporting, when this work does
not include the determination of transportation rates nor the
development of loss and damage prevention measures as these duties are
described in the Freight Rate Series, GS-2131.
<p>
   GS-2144--Cargo Scheduling Series**
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise or perform work in controlling or scheduling the movement
of cargo into, out of, or through one or more terminals in the proper
amounts and time sequence in relationship to the priority of the cargo,
the terminals' ability of accommodate the cargo and/or the carriers'
ability to move the cargo.  This work requires the technical analysis of
the transportation considerations which effect the movement of cargo in
the proper relationships to the terminal and carrier capacity.
Extensive knowledge of transportation systems and of transportation
rules and regulations is required but technical knowledge of freight
classification and of common carriers' rates is not required.
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<p>
   GS-2150--Transportation Operations Series
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to administer, supervise, or perform work involving the planning,
directing, or operating of rail, motor, air, or water transportation
systems and service, including positions involving responsibility for
operation of both transportation service and terminal facilities.
<p>
   GS-2151--Dispatching Series**
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise or perform work involved in dispatching or scheduling motor
vehicles, trains, aircraft, or vessels used for the transportation of
passengers, mail, equipment, or supplies.  The duties of these positions
are primarily of an office or a clerical nature and involve assigning
vehicles, keeping records and reports, and providing route and
destination information and instructions to the drivers, engineers, or
pilots.
<p>
   GS-2152--Air Traffic Control Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions concerned with:  (a) the control of
air traffic to insure the safe, orderly and expeditious movement along
air routes and at airports when a knowledge of aircraft separation
standards and control techniques, and the ability to apply them
properly, often under conditions of great (()) stress, are required;
(b) the providing of preflight and in-flight assistance to aircraft
requiring a knowledge of the information pilots need to conduct safe
flights and the ability to present that information clearly and
concisely;  or (c) the development, coordination, and management of air
traffic control programs.  Positions in this occupation require an
extensive knowledge of the laws, rules, regulations and procedures
governing the movement of air traffic.
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<p>
   GS-2154--Air Traffic Assistance Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions that involve the performance of work
in support of air traffic control functions.  Positions in this series
require a knowledge of and skill in applying air traffic control
procedures, but do not require knowledge of aircraft separation
standards or the ability to provide preflight or in-flight safety or
weather briefings.
<p>
   GS-2161--Marine Cargo Series*
<p>
   This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are
to supervise, administer, monitor, or perform work involved in planning
and/or directing the loading and stowage of cargo aboard vessels and the
unloading of cargo from vessels.
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<p>
   GS-2181--Aircraft Operation Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions primarily involved in:  (1)
piloting or copiloting of aircraft to carry out various programs and
functions of Federal agencies;  (2) providing ground and flight
instruction and in-flight evaluation in the piloting of aircraft;  (3)
flight testing of developmental and modified aircraft and components;
(4) in-flight inspection and evaluation of air navigation facilities and
the environmental conditions affecting instrument flight procedures;
and (5) performing staff work concerned with planning, analyzing, or
administering agency aviation programs, where the work requires
primarily the application of pilot knowledge and skills.
<p>
   GS-2183--Air Navigation Series*
<p>
   This series includes positions responsible for assisting the pilot in
aircraft operations by determining, planning, and performing the
navigational aspects of the flight.  Positions in this series require
knowledge of the various methods of air navigation, and skill in using
navigational instruments, equipment, and systems in conjunction with
flight instruments to direct the movement and positioning of the
aircraft to accomplish a specific mission or assignment.  Some positions
may require knowledge of the use and deployment of fighter aircraft
ordnance;  skill to conduct preflight checks, recognize malfunctions,
and coordinate delivery with the pilot;  and knowledge of weapon
ballistics and skill to operate related avionics systems for fighter
aircraft.  Also included are positions responsible for (()) providing
ground and flight instruction in air navigation.
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<p>
   GS-2185--Aircrew Technician Series*
<p>
   This series includes all positions the primary duties of which are to
perform, instruct, or supervise flight crew work, particularly (1)
flight engineering work supporting the operation of heavy multiengine
aircraft, (2) controlling and operating aerial refueling systems aboard
tanker aircraft, and (3) loading, positioning, and securing cargo in
transport aircraft.
<p>
   GS-2199--Transportation Student Trainee Series
<p>
   See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series,
GS-099.
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<p>
   September 1993
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<p>
   GS-2100
<FIELD id=093>
<p>
   TRANSPORTATION GROUP
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series
</DOC>
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<p>
   Alphabetical Index to Definitions of Occupational Groups and Series
<center>
                        ALTERED FOR JURIS DISPLAY
<table>
<p>
                                                                Code GS
<p>
   ACCOUNTING AND BUDGET GROUP**...................................500
<p>
   Accounting Series*..............................................510
<p>
   Accounting Technician Series*...................................525
<p>
   Actuary Series*................................................1510
<p>
   Admeasurement Series...........................................1898
<p>
   Administration and Office Support Student Trainee Series........399
<p>
   Administrative Officer Series*..................................341
<p>
   Aerospace Engineering Series*...................................861
<p>
   Agricultural Commodity Aid Series..............................1981
<p>
   Agricultural Commodity Grading Series*.........................1980
<p>
   Agricultural Commodity Warehouse Examining Series*.............1850
<p>
   Agricultural Engineering Series*................................890
<p>
   Agricultural Extension Series...................................406
<p>
   Agricultural Management Series*.................................475
<p>
   Agricultural Market Reporting Series*..........................1147
<p>
   Agricultural Marketing Series*.................................1146
<p>
   Agricultural Program Specialist Series*........................1145
<p>
   Agronomy Series*................................................471
<p>
   Aircraft Operation Series*.....................................2181
<p>
   Aircrew Technician Series*.....................................2185
<p>
   Air Navigation Series*.........................................2183
<p>
   Air Safety Investigating Series*...............................1815
<p>
   Air Traffic Assistance Series*.................................2154
<p>
   Air Traffic Control Series*....................................2152
<p>
   Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Inspection Series*...............1854
<p>
   Animal Health Technician Series*................................704
<p>
   Animal Science Series*..........................................487
<p>
   Appraising Series*.............................................1171
<p>
   Apprenticeship and Training Series*.............................243
<p>
   Archeology Series*..............................................193
<p>
   Architecture Series*............................................808
<p>
   Archives Technician Series*....................................1421
<p>
   Archivist Series*..............................................1420
<p>
   Art Specialist Series..........................................1056
<p>
   Astronomy and Space Science Series*............................1330
<p>
   Audiovisual Production Series*.................................1071
<p>
   Auditing Series*................................................511
<p>
   Autopsy Assistant Series*.......................................625
<p>
   Aviation Safety Series*........................................1825
<p>
   Biological Science Student Trainee Series.......................499
<p>
   BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES GROUP.......................................400
<p>
   Biological Science Technician Series*...........................404
<p>
   Biomedical Engineering Series...................................858
<p>
   Bond Sales Promotion Series.....................................011
<p>
   Border Patrol Agent Series*....................................1896
<p>
   Botany Series*..................................................430
<p>
   Budget Analysis Series*.........................................560
<p>
   Budget Clerical and Assistance Series*..........................561
<p>
   Building Management Series*....................................1176
<p>
   BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY GROUP....................................1100
<p>
   Business and Industry Student Trainee Series...................1199
<p>
   Cargo Scheduling Series**......................................2144
<p>
   Cartographic Technician Series*................................1371
<p>
   Cartography Series*............................................1370
<p>
   Cash Processing Series*.........................................530
<p>
   Cemetery Administration Series*................................1630
<p>
   Ceramic Engineering Series......................................892
<p>
   Chaplain Series*................................................060
<p>
   Chemical Engineering Series*....................................893
<p>
   Chemistry Series*..............................................1320
<p>
   Civil Engineering Series*.......................................810
<p>
   Civil Rights Analysis Series*...................................160
<p>
   Civilian Pay Series*............................................544
<p>
   Claims Clerical Series*.........................................998
<p>
   Clerk of Court Series...........................................945
<p>
   Clerk-Stenographer and Reporter Series*.........................312
<p>
   Clerk-Typist Series*............................................322
<p>
   Closed Microphone Reporting Series*.............................319
<p>
   Clothing Design Series*.........................................062
<p>
   Coding Series*..................................................357
<p>
   Commissary Store Management Series*............................1144
<p>
   Communications Clerical Series*.................................394
<p>
   Community Planning Series*......................................020
<p>
   Community Planning Technician Series*...........................021
<p>
   Compliance Inspection and Support Series*......................1802
<p>
   Computer Clerk and Assistant Series*............................335
<p>
   Computer Engineering Series*....................................854
<p>
   Computer Operation Series*......................................332
<p>
   Computer Science Series*.......................................1550
<p>
   Computer Specialist Series*.....................................334
<p>
   Construction Analyst Series*....................................828
<p>
   Construction Control Series*....................................809
<p>
   Consumer Safety Inspection Series*.............................1862
<p>
   Consumer Safety Series*.........................................696
<p>
   Contact Representative Series*..................................962
<p>
   Contracting Series*............................................1102
<p>
   Contractor Industrial Relations Series..........................246
<p>
   Copyright and Patent Student Trainee Series....................1299
<p>
   COPYRIGHT, PATENT, AND TRADE-MARK GROUP........................1200
<p>
   Copyright Series...............................................1210
<p>
   Copyright Technician Series....................................1211
<p>
   Correctional Institution Administration Series*.................006
<p>
   Correctional Officer Series*....................................007
<p>
   Corrective Therapist Series*....................................635
<p>
   Correspondence Clerk Series*....................................309
<p>
   Criminal Investigating Series*.................................1811
<p>
   Crop Insurance Administration Series*..........................1161
<p>
   Crop Insurance Underwriting Series*............................1162
<p>
   Cryptanalysis Series...........................................1541
<p>
   Cryptography Series............................................1540
<p>
   Customs Aid Series.............................................1897
<p>
   Customs Entry and Liquidating Series*..........................1894
<p>
   Customs Inspection Series*.....................................1890
<p>
   Customs Patrol Officer Series*.................................1884
<p>
   Customs Warehouse Officer Series*..............................1895
<p>
   Data Transcriber Series*........................................356
<p>
   Dental Assistant Series*........................................681
<p>
   Dental Hygiene Series*..........................................682
<p>
   Dental Laboratory Aid and Technician Series*....................683
<p>
   Dental Officer Series*..........................................680
<p>
   Dependents and Estates Claims Examining Series..................995
<p>
   Design Patent Examining Series*................................1226
<p>
   Diagnostic Radiologic Technologist Series*......................647
<p>
   Dietitian and Nutritionist Series*..............................630
<p>
   Dispatching Series**...........................................2151
<p>
   Distribution Facilities and Storage Management Series*.........2030
<p>
   Document Analysis Series.......................................1397
<p>
   Ecology Series*.................................................408
<p>
   Economics Assistant Series......................................119
<p>
   Economist Series*...............................................110
<p>
   Editorial Assistance Series*...................................1087
<p>
   Education and Training Technician Series*......................1702
<p>
   Education and Vocational Training Series*......................1710
<p>
   EDUCATION GROUP................................................1700
<p>
   Education Program Series*......................................1720
<p>
   Education Research Series*.....................................1730
<p>
   Education Services Series*.....................................1740
<p>
   Education Student Trainee Series...............................1799
<p>
   Educational Therapist Series*...................................639
<p>
   Electric Accounting Machine Operation Series*...................359
<p>
   Electric Accounting Machine Project Planning Series*............362
<p>
   Electrical Engineering Series*..................................850
<p>
   Electronics Engineering Series*.................................855
<p>
   Electronics Technician Series*..................................856
<p>
   Employee Development Series*....................................235
<p>
   Employee Relations Series*......................................230
<p>
   ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE GROUP**............................800
<p>
   Engineering and Architecture Student Trainee Series.............899
<p>
   Engineering Drafting Series*....................................818
<p>
   Engineering Technician Series*..................................802
<p>
   Entomology Series*..............................................414
<p>
   Environmental Engineering Series*...............................819
<p>
   Environmental Health Technician Series*.........................698
<p>
   Environmental Protection Assistant Series.......................029
<p>
   Environmental Protection Specialist Series......................028
<p>
   Equal Employment Opportunity Series*............................260
<p>
   Equal Opportunity Assistance Series*............................361
<p>
   Equal Opportunity Compliance Series*............................360
<p>
   Equipment and Facilities Management Student Trainee Series.....1699
<p>
   EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES, AND SERVICES GROUP**....................1600
<p>
   Equipment Operator Series*......................................350
<p>
   Equipment Specialist Series*...................................1670
<p>
   Estate Tax Examining Series.....................................920
<p>
   Exhibits Specialist Series*....................................1010
<p>
   Facility Management Series*....................................1640
<p>
   Federal Retirement Benefits Series*.............................270
<p>
   Financial Administration and Program Series*....................501
<p>
   Financial Analysis Series*.....................................1160
<p>
   Financial Clerical and Assistance Series*.......................503
<p>
   Financial Institution Examining Series*.........................570
<p>
   Financial Management Series*....................................505
<p>
   Financial Management Student Trainee Series.....................599
<p>
   Fingerprint Identification Series*..............................072
<p>
   Fire Protection and Prevention Series*..........................081
<p>
   Fire Protection Engineering Series..............................804
<p>
   Fishery Biology Series*.........................................482
<p>
   Food Inspection Series*........................................1863
<p>
   Food Technology Series.........................................1382
<p>
   Foreign Affairs Series..........................................130
<p>
   Foreign Agricultural Affairs Series.............................135
<p>
   Foreign Law Specialist Series*..................................095
<p>
   Forest Products Technology Series..............................1380
<p>
   Forestry Series*................................................460
<p>
   Forestry Technician Series*.....................................462
<p>
   Freight Rate Series*...........................................2131
<p>
   Funeral Directing Series........................................060
<p>
   Game Law Enforcement Series....................................1812
<p>
   GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE, CLERICAL, AND OFFICE SERVICES GROUP.....300
<p>
   General Anthropology Series.....................................190
<p>
   General Arts and Information Series............................1001
<p>
   General Attorney Series*........................................905
<p>
   General Biological Science Series...............................401
<p>
   General Business and Industry Series...........................1101
<p>
   General Claims Examining Series.................................990
<p>
   General Telecommunications Series...............................392
<p>
   General Education and Training Series*.........................1701
<p>
   General Engineering Series......................................801
<p>
   General Facilities and Equipment Series*.......................1601
<p>
   General Fish and Wildlife Administration Series.................480
<p>
   General Health Science Series...................................601
<p>
   General Inspection, Investigation, and Compliance Series*......1801
<p>
   General Investigating Series*..................................1810
<p>
   General Physical Science Series*...............................1301
<p>
   General Student Trainee Series..................................099
<p>
   General Supply Series*.........................................2001
<p>
   General Telecommunication Series**..............................390
<p>
   Genetics Series.................................................440
<p>
   Geodesy Series*................................................1372
<p>
   Geodetic Technician Series*....................................1374
<p>
   Geography Series*...............................................150
<p>
   Geology Series*................................................1350
<p>
   Geophysics Series*.............................................1313
<p>
   Guide Series*...................................................090
<p>
   Health Aid and Technician Series*...............................640
<p>
   Health Insurance Administration Series..........................107
<p>
   Health Physics Series*.........................................1306
<p>
   Health System Administration Series*............................670
<p>
   Health System Specialist Series*................................671
<p>
   Hearings and Appeals Series.....................................930
<p>
   Highway Safety Series*.........................................2125
<p>
   History Series*.................................................170
<p>
   Home Economics Series*..........................................493
<p>
   Horticulture Series**...........................................437
<p>
   Hospital Housekeeping Management Series*........................673
<p>
   Housing Management Series*.....................................1173
<p>
   Hydrologic Technician Series*..................................1316
<p>
   Hydrology Series*..............................................1315
<p>
   Illustrating Series*...........................................1020
<p>
   Immigration Inspection Series*.................................1816
<p>
   Import Specialist Series.......................................1889
<p>
   Industrial Engineering Series*..................................896
<p>
   Industrial Engineering Technician Series*.......................895
<p>
   Industrial Hygiene Series*......................................690
<p>
   Industrial Property Management Series*.........................1103
<p>
   Industrial Specialist Series*..................................1150
<p>
   INFORMATION AND ARTS GROUP.....................................1000
<p>
   Information and Arts Student Trainee Series....................1099
<p>
   Information Receptionist Series*................................304
<p>
   Instructional Systems Series*..................................1750
<p>
   Insurance Accounts Series.......................................593
<p>
   Insurance Examining Series**...................................1163
<p>
   Intelligence Aid and Clerk Series...............................134
<p>
   Intelligence Series*............................................132
<p>
   Interior Design Series**.......................................1008
<p>
   Internal Revenue Agent Series*..................................512
<p>
   Internal Revenue Officer Series*...............................1169
<p>
   International Cooperation Series*...............................136
<p>
   International Relations Series..................................131
<p>
   Inventory Management Series*...................................2010
<p>
   INVESTIGATION GROUP............................................1800
<p>
   Investigation Student Trainee Series...........................1899
<p>
   Irrigation System Operation Series*.............................459
<p>
   Labor-Management Relations Examining Series*....................244
<p>
   Labor Relations Series*.........................................233
<p>
   Land Law Examining Series*......................................965
<p>
   Landscape Architecture Series*..................................807
<p>
   Land Surveying Series*.........................................1373
<p>
   Language Clerical Series*......................................1046
<p>
   Language Specialist Series*....................................1040
<p>
   Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Plant Management Series*..............1658
<p>
   Law Clerk Series................................................904
<p>
   LEGAL AND KINDRED GROUP.........................................900
<p>
   Legal Clerical and Assistance Series*...........................986
<p>
   Legal Instrument Examining Series*..............................963
<p>
   Legal Occupations Student Trainee Series........................999
<p>
   Librarian Series*..............................................1410
<p>
   LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES GROUP.....................................1400
<p>
   Library and Archives Student Trainee Series....................1499
<p>
   Library Technician Series*.....................................1411
<p>
   Loan Specialist Series*........................................1165
<p>
   Logistics Management Series*....................................346
<p>
   Loss and Damage Claims Examining Series.........................992
<p>
   Mail and File Series*...........................................305
<p>
   Management and Program Analysis Series*.........................343
<p>
   Management and Program Clerical and Assistance Series*..........344
<p>
   Manpower Development Series*....................................142
<p>
   Manpower Research and Analysis Series...........................140
<p>
   Manual Arts Therapist Series*...................................637
<p>
   Marine Cargo Series*...........................................2161
<p>
   Materials Engineering Series*...................................806
<p>
   Mathematical Statistician Series*..............................1529
<p>
   MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS GROUP...............................1500
<p>
   Mathematics and Statistics Student Trainee Series..............1599
<p>
   Mathematics Series*............................................1520
<p>
   Mathematics Technician Series*.................................1521
<p>
   Mechanical Engineering Series*..................................830
<p>
   Mediation Series*...............................................241
<p>
   Medical and Health Student Trainee Series.......................699
<p>
   Medical Clerk Series*...........................................679
<p>
   MEDICAL, HOSPITAL, DENTAL, AND PUBLIC HEALTH GROUP..............600
<p>
   Medical Instrument Technician Series*...........................649
<p>
   Medical Officer Series*.........................................602
<p>
   Medical Records Administration Series*..........................669
<p>
   Medical Records Technician Series*..............................675
<p>
   Medical Supply Aide and Technician Series*......................622
<p>
   Medical Technical Assistant Series*.............................650
<p>
   Medical Technician Series*......................................645
<p>
   Medical Technologist Series*....................................644
<p>
   Messenger Series*...............................................302
<p>
   Metallurgy Series*.............................................1321
<p>
   Meteorological Technician Series*..............................1341
<p>
   Meteorology Series*............................................1340
<p>
   Microbiology Series*............................................403
<p>
   Military Pay Series*............................................545
<p>
   Military Personnel Clerical and Technician Series*..............204
<p>
   Military Personnel Management Series**..........................205
<p>
   Mine Safety and Health Series*.................................1822
<p>
   Mining Engineering Series*......................................880
<p>
   Miscellaneous Administration and Program Series*................301
<p>
   Miscellaneous Clerk and Assistant Series*.......................303
<p>
   MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS GROUP (NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED)......000
<p>
   Motor Carrier Safety Series*...................................2123
<p>
   Museum Curator Series*.........................................1015
<p>
   Museum Specialist and Technician Series*.......................1016
<p>
   Music Specialist Series........................................1051
<p>
   Naval Architecture Series*......................................871
<p>
   Navigational Information Series*...............................1361
<p>
   Nuclear Engineering Series*.....................................840
<p>
   Nuclear Materials Courier Series*...............................084
<p>
   Nuclear Medicine Technician Series..............................642
<p>
   Nurse Series*...................................................610
<p>
   Nursing Assistant Series*.......................................621
<p>
   Occupational Analysis Series....................................222
<p>
   Occupational Therapist Series*..................................631
<p>
   Oceanography Series*...........................................1360
<p>
   Office Automation Clerical and Assistance Series*...............326
<p>
   Office Drafting Series*........................................1021
<p>
   Operations Research Series*....................................1515
<p>
   Optometrist Series*.............................................662
<p>
   Orthotist and Prosthetist Series*...............................667
<p>
   Outdoor Recreation Planning Series*.............................023
<p>
   Packaging Series*..............................................2032
<p>
   Paralegal Specialist Series*....................................950
<p>
   Park Ranger Series*.............................................025
<p>
   Passport and Visa Examining Series*.............................967
<p>
   Patent Administration Series...................................1220
<p>
   Patent Adviser Series*.........................................1221
<p>
   Patent Attorney Series*........................................1222
<p>
   Patent Classifying Series*.....................................1223
<p>
   Patent Examining Series*.......................................1224
<p>
   Patent Technician Series.......................................1202
<p>
   Pathology Technician Series*....................................646
<p>
   Pension Law Specialist Series...................................958
<p>
   Personnel Clerical and Assistance Series*.......................203
<p>
   PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS GROUP.............200
<p>
   Personnel Management Series*....................................201
<p>
   Personnel Management Student Trainee Series.....................299
<p>
   Personnel Staffing Series*......................................212
<p>
   Petroleum Engineering Series*...................................881
<p>
   Pharmacist Series*..............................................660
<p>
   Pharmacology Series*............................................405
<p>
   Pharmacy Technician Series*.....................................661
<p>
   Photographic Technology Series*................................1386
<p>
   Photography Series*............................................1060
<p>
   Physical Science Student Trainee Series........................1399
<p>
   Physical Science Technician Series*............................1311
<p>
   PHYSICAL SCIENCES GROUP........................................1300
<p>
   Physical Therapist Series*......................................633
<p>
   Physician's Assistant Series....................................603
<p>
   Physics Series.................................................1310
<p>
   Physiology Series...............................................413
<p>
   Plant Pathology Series..........................................434
<p>
   Plant Physiology Series*........................................435
<p>
   Plant Protection and Quarantine Series*.........................436
<p>
   Plant Protection Technician Series*.............................421
<p>
   Podiatrist Series...............................................668
<p>
   Police Series*..................................................083
<p>
   Position Classification Series*.................................221
<p>
   Practical Nurse Series*.........................................620
<p>
   Printing Clerical Series*.......................................351
<p>
   Printing Management Series*....................................1654
<p>
   Procurement Clerical and Technician Series*....................1106
<p>
   Production Control Series*.....................................1152
<p>
   Program Management Series.......................................340
<p>
   Property Disposal Clerical and Technician Series*..............1107
<p>
   Property Disposal Series*......................................1104
<p>
   Prosthetic Representative Series................................672
<p>
   Psychology Aid and Technician Series............................181
<p>
   Psychology Series*..............................................180
<p>
   Public Affairs Series*.........................................1035
<p>
   Public Health Educator Series..................................1725
<p>
   Public Health Program Specialist Series*........................685
<p>
   Public Health Quarantine Inspection Series*....................1864
<p>
   Public Utilities Specialist Series.............................1130
<p>
   Purchasing Series*.............................................1105
<p>
   QUALITY ASSURANCE, INSPECTION, AND GRADING GROUP...............1900
<p>
   Quality Assurance Series*......................................1910
<p>
   Quality Inspection Student Trainee Series......................1999
<p>
   Railroad Safety Series*........................................2121
<p>
   Rangeland Management Series*....................................454
<p>
   Range Technician Series*........................................455
<p>
   Realty Series*.................................................1170
<p>
   Recreation Aid and Assistant Series*............................189
<p>
   Recreation/Creative Arts Therapist Series*......................638
<p>
   Recreation Specialist Series*...................................188
<p>
   Rehabilitation Therapy Assistant Series*........................636
<p>
   Respiratory Therapist Series*...................................651
<p>
   Restoration Technician Series*..................................664
<p>
   Safety and Occupational Health Management Series*...............018
<p>
   Safety Engineering Series*......................................803
<p>
   Safety Technician Series*.......................................019
<p>
   Salary and Wage Administration Series...........................223
<p>
   Sales Store Clerical Series*...................................2091
<p>
   Sanitarian Series*..............................................688
<p>
   Secretary Series*...............................................318
<p>
   Securities Compliance Examining Series.........................1831
<p>
   Security Administration Series*.................................080
<p>
   Security Clerical and Assistance Series*........................086
<p>
   Security Guard Series*..........................................085
<p>
   Ship Surveying Series...........................................873
<p>
   Social Insurance Administration Series*.........................105
<p>
   Social Insurance Claims Examining Series*.......................993
<p>
   Social Science Aid and Technician Series........................102
<p>
   SOCIAL SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND WELFARE GROUP...................100
<p>
   Social Science Series...........................................101
<p>
   Social Science Student Trainee Series...........................199
<p>
   Social Services Aid and Assistant Series*.......................186
<p>
   Social Services Series*.........................................187
<p>
   Social Work Series*.............................................185
<p>
   Sociology Series*...............................................184
<p>
   Soil Conservation Series*.......................................457
<p>
   Soil Conservation Technician Series*............................458
<p>
   Soil Science Series*............................................470
<p>
   Speech Pathology and Audiology Series*..........................665
<p>
   Sports Specialist Series........................................030
<p>
   Statistical Assistant Series*..................................1531
<p>
   Statistician Series*...........................................1530
<p>
   Steward Series.................................................1667
<p>
   Supply Cataloging Series*......................................2050
<p>
   Supply Clerical and Technician Series*.........................2005
<p>
   SUPPLY GROUP**.................................................2000
<p>
   Supply Program Management Series*..............................2003
<p>
   Supply Student Trainee Series..................................2099
<p>
   Support Services Administration Series*.........................342
<p>
   Surveying Technician Series*....................................817
<p>
   Tax Examining Series*...........................................592
<p>
   Tax Law Specialist Series.......................................987
<p>
   Tax Technician Series*..........................................526
<p>
   Technical Information Services Series*.........................1412
<p>
   Technical Writing and Editing Series*..........................1083
<p>
   Telecommunications Processing Series*...........................390
<p>
   Telecommunications Series*......................................391
<p>
   Telephone Operating Series*.....................................382
<p>
   Textile Technology Series......................................1384
<p>
   Theater Specialist Series......................................1054
<p>
   Therapeutic Radiologic Technologist Series*.....................648
<p>
   Toxicology Series*..............................................415
<p>
   Trade Specialist Series*.......................................1140
<p>
   Traffic Management Series*.....................................2130
<p>
   Training Instruction Series*...................................1712
<p>
   Transportation Clerk and Assistant Series......................2102
<p>
   TRANSPORTATION GROUP...........................................2100
<p>
   Transportation Industry Analysis Series*.......................2110
<p>
   Transportation Loss and Damage Claims Examining Series.........2135
<p>
   Transportation Operations Series...............................2150
<p>
   Transportation Specialist Series...............................2101
<p>
   Transportation Student Trainee Series..........................2199
<p>
   Unemployment Compensation Claims Examining Series*..............994
<p>
   Unemployment Insurance Series*..................................106
<p>
   United States Marshal Series*...................................082
<p>
   Veterans Claims Examining Series*...............................996
<p>
   VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE GROUP................................700
<p>
   Veterinary Medical Science Series*..............................701
<p>
   Veterinary Student Trainee Series...............................799
<p>
   Visual Information Series*.....................................1084
<p>
   Vocational Rehabilitation Series*..............................1715
<p>
   Voucher Examining Series*.......................................540
<p>
   Wage and Hour Compliance Series*................................249
<p>
   Welding Engineering Series......................................894
<p>
   Wildlife Biology Series*........................................486
<p>
   Wildlife Refuge Management Series*..............................485
<p>
   Work Unit Supervising Series*...................................313
<p>
   Workers' Compensation Claims Examining Series*..................991
<p>
   Writing and Editing Series*....................................1082
<p>
   Zoology Series*.................................................410
<table>
<p>
   /*/ Standards published
<p>
   /**/ Flysheets published
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<p>
   September 1993
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<p>
   ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO DEFINITIONS OF OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS AND SERIES
<FIELD id=098>
<p>
   Handbook of Occupational Groups and Series

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