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CAPS Operating Procedures Manual - I. Introduction - A. Responsibilities - 1. AUTHORITY

Title VI of the Civil Service Reform Act, now codified in Title 5, United States Code (U.S.C.) Chapter 47, authorizes the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to conduct Demonstration Projects that experiment with new and different human resources management concepts to determine if they result in improved Federal human resources management.  The Demonstration Project became a permanent system on December 26, 2007, with the passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110-161) and was renamed the Commerce Alternative Personnel System (CAPS).