An agency may take the following personnel actions as exceptions to § 330.705:

Place a current or reinstate a former agency employee with RPL selection priority under subpart B of this part;

Effect a position change of a current permanent competitive service agency employee;

Appoint a 10-point veteran preference eligible through an appropriate appointing authority;

Reemploy a former agency employee with regulatory or statutory reemployment rights, including the reemployment of an injured worker who either has been restored to earning capacity by the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, or has received a notice that his or her compensation benefits will cease because of recovery from disabling injury or illness;

Appoint an individual for a period limited to 120 or fewer days, including all extensions;

Effect a personnel action under, or specifically in lieu of, part 351 of this chapter;

Appoint an individual under an excepted service appointing authority;

Convert an employee serving under an appointment that provides noncompetitive conversion eligibility to a competitive service appointment, including from:

A Veterans Recruitment Appointment under part 307 of this chapter;

An appointment under 5 U.S.C. 3112 and part 316 of this chapter of a veteran with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more; and

An excepted service appointment under part 213 of this chapter;

Transfer an employee between agencies under appropriate authority during an interagency reorganization, interagency transfer of function, or interagency mass transfer;

Reemploy a former agency employee who retired under a formal trial retirement and reemployment program and who requests reemployment under the program's provisions and applicable time limits;

Effect a personnel action pursuant to the settlement of a formal complaint, grievance, appeal, or other litigation;

Extend a time-limited appointment up to the maximum period allowed (including any OPM-approved extension past the regulatory limit on the time-limited appointment), if the original action was made subject to ICTAP selection priority and the original vacancy announcement stated that the appointment could be extended without further announcement;

Reappoint a former agency employee into a hard-to-fill position requiring unique skills and experience to conduct a formal skills-based agency training program;

Retain an individual whose position is brought into the competitive service under part 316 of this chapter and convert that individual, when applicable, under part 315 of this chapter;

Retain an employee covered by an OPM-approved variation under Civil Service Rule 5.1 (5 CFR 5.1);

Appoint an appointee of the Senior Executive Service into the competitive service under 5 U.S.C. 3594;

Assign or exchange an employee under a statutory program, such as subchapter VI of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code (also called the Intergovernmental Personnel Act), or the Information Technology Exchange Program under chapter 37 of title 5, United States Code;

Detail an employee to another agency;

Transfer employees under an OPM-approved interagency job swap plan designed to facilitate the exchange of employees between agencies to avoid or minimize involuntary separations;

Transfer or reinstate an ICTAP eligible who meets the agency's definition of “well-qualified”;

Transfer an employee voluntarily from one agency to another under a Memorandum of Understanding or similar agreement under appropriate authority resulting from an interagency reorganization, interagency transfer of function, or interagency realignment, when both the agencies and the affected employee agree to the transfer; or

Transfer or a position change of an employee under part 412 of this chapter.