Editing Excepted service (section)

=== Other hiring authorities ===
Several excepted service hiring authorities are not classified into the OPM schedules.  Some of the more prevalent include:

* [[Title 38 appointment]]s are for the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs|Department of Veterans Affairs]] to hire certain medical occupations.<ref name=":02" />  The [[National Institutes of Health]] also uses Title 38 appointments for health care occupations that provide direct patient care services or services incident to it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://policymanual.nih.gov/2300-550-1|title=NIH Policy Manual: Title 38 Premium Pay|last=|first=|date=|website=U.S. National Institutes of Health|access-date=2019-03-19}}</ref>
* A [[Title 42 appointment]] allows scientists and special consultants to be hired as part of the [[United States Public Health Service|Public Health Service]] or [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|Environmental Protection Agency]] under a streamlined process.<ref name=":03">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2012-07-12 |title=Pay for Consultants and Scientists Appointed under Title 42 |url=https://www.gao.gov/products/B-323357 |access-date=2019-03-03 |website=U.S. Government Accountability Office |series=B-323357 |pages=2–5, 17, 20 |via=}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2012-07-12 |title=HHS and EPA Can Improve Practices Under Special Hiring Authorities |url=https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-692 |access-date=2019-03-03 |website=U. S. Government Accountability Office |series=GAO-12-692 |pages=0–6, 11, 25 |issue=}}</ref>
* A [[United States National Guard|National Guard]] technician hiring authority is used for the [[Army Reserve Technician Program]] and [[Air Reserve Technician Program]].<ref name=":02" />
* There is a [[Veterans Recruitment Appointment]] authority.<ref name=":02" />
* There are also agency-wide excepted service authorities, of which the largest are the [[Transportation Security Administration]] and [[Federal Aviation Administration]].<ref name=":02" />
*The [[Senior Biomedical Research Service]], formally the Silvio O. Conte Senior Biomedical Research and Biomedical Product Assessment Service, is for scientific and technical experts in biomedical research, clinical research evaluation, and biomedical product assessment.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-06-03|title=HHS Instruction 42-3: Senior Biomedical Research and Biomedical Product Assessment Service|url=https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/asa/ohr/hr-library/42-3-sbrbpas/index.html|access-date=2020-11-22|website=U.S. Department of Health and Human Services|language=en}}</ref>  It was created by the [[Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990]]<ref>{{USBill|101|HR|5241}}, {{USPL|101|509}}</ref><ref name=":5" /> and implemented in 1995, because the [[National Institutes of Health]] concluded that the Senior Executive Service was not ideally suited for their purposes, and a personnel system more similar to academia was needed.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|last=Hooper|first=Celia|date=January–February 1995|title=Title 38, SBRS raise salary caps|url=https://nihsearch.cit.nih.gov/catalyst/back/95.01/title38.sbrs.html|access-date=2020-11-22|website=The NIH Catalyst}}</ref>  Initially there was a cap of 500 individuals in the Service,<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /> but the [[21st Century Cures Act]] increased this to 2000 individuals in 2016.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|last=Denigan-Macauley|first=Mary|date=2020-05-08|title=Biomedical Research: HHS Has Not Yet Used New Authorities to Improve Recruitment and Retention of Scientists|url=https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-531R|access-date=2020-11-22|website=U. S. Government Accountability Office|pages=|via=}}</ref>