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        H.R.514

                       One Hundred Fifth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
 the seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven


                                 An Act


 
To permit the waiver of District of Columbia residency requirements for 
certain employees of the Office of the Inspector General of the District 
                              of Columbia.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``District of Columbia Inspector 
General Improvement Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. WAIVER OF RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF 
              INSPECTOR GENERAL.

    Section 906 of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive 
Merit Personnel Act of 1978 (sec. 1-610.6, D.C. Code) is amended--
        (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``or subsection (d)'' after 
    ``subsection (c)''; and
        (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) At the request of the Inspector General (as described in 
section 208(a) of the District of Columbia Procurement Practices Act of 
1985), the Director of Personnel may waive the application of 
subsections (a) and (b) to employees of the Office of the Inspector 
General.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.

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