(a) ETS Responsibility. - (i) The ETS shall ensure that these rules are enforced, and that the provisions of these rules are applied uniformly and fairly throughout the Executive Branch.
(b) Agency Responsibility. - (i) Agency heads are responsible for the application of these rules within their agency, and shall ensure that all agency employees comply with the provisions of these rules. Agency heads are responsible for the actions of their agency employees, when the employees are conducting any State agency business electronically on behalf of the agency.
- (ii) Agency heads shall ensure that, as necessary, employees of the agency are knowledgeable of pertinent provisions of these rules, when such knowledge is required for proper execution of their duties.