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Due to a lapse in appropriations, the NRC has ceased normal operations. However, excepted and exempted activities necessary to maintain critical health and safety functions—as well as essential progress on designated critical activities, including those specified in Executive Order 14300—will continue, consistent with the OMB-Approved NRC Lapse Plan.

Representations to the Government

The criminal law (18 USC 205) prohibits employees from representing a non-Federal party, with or without compensation, before any Federal agency or court on any particular matter in which the United States is a party or has a direct and substantial interest, such as a Government proceeding, application, contract, claim, rulemaking, or investigation. A similar statute (18 USC 203) prohibits employees from receiving any compensation for representational services by the employee or anyone else to a Federal agency or court on a particular Government matter.

Example: An NRC employee could not write to the NRC or any other Federal agency on behalf of a private organization to urge approval of its grant application, even if the employee were not receiving any fee for this service. It also makes no difference that the organization is a charity in which the employee has no financial interest or holds no office.

Page Last Reviewed/Updated Thursday, March 12, 2020

Page Last Reviewed/Updated Thursday, March 12, 2020