; or (B) working in the Executive agency or Executive agency component executive secretariat (or equivalent). (5) Conducting, on the Executive agency’s behalf, collective bargaining negotiations under chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code. (d) Petition decision The Director shall promptly determine whether to grant any petition under subsection (a). 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. (e) Collective bargaining exclusions Each 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) of title 5, United States Code, 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. (f) Prohibited personnel practices Agency heads shall establish rules to prohibit the personnel practices prohibited by section 2302(b) of title 5, United States Code, with respect to any employee or applicant for employment in schedule F of the excepted service. 5. Definitions In this Act: (1) Agency head The term agency head means the head of an Executive agency. (2) Director The term Director means the Director of the Office of Personnel Management. (3) Executive agency The term Executive agency has the meaning given such term in section 105 of title 5, United States Code, but excluding the Government Accountability Office. (4) Normally subject to change as a result of a Presidential transition The term normally subject to change as a result of a Presidential transition refers to positions whose occupants are, as a matter of practice, expected to resign upon a Presidential transition, including all