page_title: Title 42 appointment
section_title: Environmental Protection Agency
hierarchical_section_title: Title 42 appointment / Characteristics / Environmental Protection Agency
caption_attribution_description: English: Main entrance of U.S. EPA Headquarters; the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building on 12th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. The pylon and elevator entrance for the Federal Triangle Metro station is seen on the left.
context_page_description: A Title 42 appointment is an excepted service employment category in the United States federal civil service. It allows scientists and special consultants to be hired as part of the Public Health Service or Environmental Protection Agency under a streamlined process "without regard to the civil-service laws". Courts have ruled that, although Title 42 appointments are exempt from hiring and compensation provisions of civil service laws, they are still entitled to protections relating to termination, including appeals to the Merit Systems Protection Board.
  Title 42 hiring authority was first enacted in 1944 as part of the Public Health Service Act, and was extended to the Environmental Protection Agency on a limited basis in 2006. It is named after Title 42 of the United States Code, which contains its legal basis, and is contrasted with Title 5 employments which are normal civil service appointments.
context_section_description: Beginning in 2006, the Environmental Protection Agency has been able to make Title 42 appointments in its Office of Research and Development.  This authority was given because existing types of positions were too restricted to either administrative management, advisory functions, and laboratory research, with little flexibility to combine more than one of these; and because the hiring processes were too slow and the salaries uncompetitive.
  The authority is generally used to appoint scientists and senior managers; as of 2014, most of the Title 42 appointments were for Division Directors or National Program Directors.  The number of Title 42 appointments has been subject to a cap; since 2014 the cap has been 50 appointees at any one time.  As of 2013, Title 42 appointees were paid in a band of $130,810–250,000.
caption: The Environmental Protection Agency was given authority to make a limited number of Title 42 appointments in 2006.
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