; or (B) working in the agency or agency component executive secretariat (or equivalent). (5) Conducting, on the Executive agency’s behalf, collective bargaining negotiations under chapter 71. (f) The Director shall determine whether to grant any petition under subsection (c) to place a position in Schedule F. Not later than December 31 of each year, the Director shall report to the President, through the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, concerning the number of petitions granted and denied for that year for each Executive agency. (g) Each Executive agency head shall, as necessary and appropriate, expeditiously petition the Federal Labor Relations Authority to determine whether any Schedule F position must be excluded from a collective bargaining unit under section 7112(b), paying particular attention to the question of whether incumbents in such positions are required or authorized to formulate, determine, or influence the policies of the agency. (h) In appointing an individual to a position in Schedule F, each Executive agency shall follow the principle of veteran preference as far as administratively feasible. (i) Each Executive agency shall establish rules to prohibit the same personnel practices prohibited by section 2302(b) with respect to any employee or applicant for employment in Schedule F of the excepted service. (j) The Director of the Office of Personnel Management may prescribe such regulations as are necessary to carry out this section. (k) In this section— (1) the term Director means the Director of the Office of Personnel Management; and (2) the term Executive agency has the meaning given that term in section 105, but does not include the Government Accountability Office. . (b) Clerical amendment The table of sections of subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Codes, is amended by adding after the item relating to section 3330e the following: 3330f. Schedule F of the excepted service. .