E9-10177. Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of Certain Appropriated Fund Federal Wage System Wage Areas
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AGENCY:
U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
ACTION:
Final rule.
SUMMARY:
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to redefine the geographic boundaries of several appropriated fund Federal Wage System wage areas for pay-setting purposes. Based on recent reviews of Metropolitan Statistical Area boundaries in a number of wage areas, OPM is redefining the following wage areas: Birmingham, AL; Denver, CO; Wilmington, DE; Washington, DC; Atlanta, GA; Columbus, GA; Macon, GA; Chicago, IL; Bloomington-Bedford-Washington, IN; Indianapolis, IN; Louisville, KY; Baltimore, MD; Hagerstown-Martinsburg-Chambersburg, MD; St. Louis, MO; Southern Missouri; Omaha, NE; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA; Eastern South Dakota; Richmond, VA; and Milwaukee, WI.
DATES:
Effective date: This regulation is effective on May 4, 2009. Applicability date: Agencies will place affected employees on their new wage schedule on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after June 3, 2009.
Start Further InfoFOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Madeline Gonzalez, (202) 606-2838; e-mail pay-performance-policy@opm.gov; or FAX: (202) 606-4264.
End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental InformationSUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
On January 14, 2009, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a proposed rule (74 FR 1948) to redefine the geographic boundaries of several appropriated fund Federal Wage System (FWS) wage areas. This proposed rule would redefine the following counties:
- Chilton County, AL, to the Birmingham, AL, area of application;
- Broomfield County, CO, to the Denver, CO, survey area;
- Clarke, Spotsylvania, and Warren Counties, VA; Fredericksburg City, VA; and Jefferson County, WV, to the Washington, DC, area of application;
- Jasper, Lamar, and Meriwether Counties, GA, to the Atlanta, GA, area of application;
- Kenosha County, WI, to the Chicago, IL, area of application;
- Brown County, IN, to the Indianapolis, IN, area of application;
- Union County, SD, to the Omaha, NE, area of application;
- Washington County, IN, to the Louisville, KY, area of application;
- Queen Anne's County, MD, to the Baltimore, MD, area of application;
- Moniteau County, MO, to the St. Louis, MO, area of application;
- Hunterdon County, NJ, and Pike County, PA, to the New York, NY, area of application; and
- Carbon County, PA, to the Philadelphia, PA, area of application.
The proposed rule had a 30-day comment period, during which OPM received no comments.
Regulatory Flexibility Act
I certify that these regulations will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities because they will affect only Federal agencies and employees.
Start List of SubjectsList of Subjects in 5 CFR Part 532
- Administrative practice and procedure
- Freedom of information
- Government employees
- Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Wages
End Signature Start Amendment PartJohn Berry,
Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Accordingly, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is amending 5 CFR part 532 as follows:
End Amendment Part Start PartPART 532—PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS
End Part Start Amendment Part1. The authority citation for part 532 continues to read as follows:
End Amendment Part Start Amendment Part2. Appendix C to subpart B is amended by revising the wage area listings for Birmingham, AL; Denver, CO; Wilmington, DE; Washington, DC; Atlanta, GA; Columbus, GA; Macon, GA; Chicago, IL; Bloomington-Bedford-Washington, IN; Indianapolis, IN; Louisville, KY; Baltimore, MD; Hagerstown-Martinsburg-Chambersburg, MD; St. Louis, MO; Southern Missouri; Omaha, NE; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA; Eastern South Dakota; Richmond, VA; and Milwaukee, WI, to read as follows:
End Amendment PartAppendix C to Subpart B of Part 532—Appropriated Fund Wage and Survey Areas
* * * * *End Supplemental InformationALABAMA * * * * * Birmingham Survey Area Alabama: Jefferson St. Clair Shelby Tuscaloosa Walker Area of Application. Survey area plus: Alabama: Bibb Blount Chilton Cullman Fayette Greene Hale Lamar Marengo Perry Pickens * * * * * COLORADO Denver Survey Area Colorado: Adams Arapahoe Boulder Broomfield Denver Douglas Gilpin Jefferson Area of Application. Survey area plus: Colorado: Clear Creek Eagle Start Printed Page 20406 Elbert Garfield Grand Jackson Lake Larimer Logan Morgan Park Phillips Pitkin Rio Blanco Routt Sedgwick Summit Washington Weld Yuma * * * * * DELAWARE Wilmington Survey Area Delaware: Kent New Castle Maryland: Cecil New Jersey: Salem Area of Application. Survey area plus: Delaware: Sussex Maryland: Caroline Dorchester Kent Somerset Talbot Wicomico Worcester (Does not include the Assateague Island portion.) * * * * * DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington, DC Survey Area District of Columbia: Washington, DC Maryland: Charles Frederick Montgomery Prince George's Virginia (cities): Alexandria Fairfax Falls Church Manassas Manassas Park Virginia (counties): Arlington Fairfax Loudoun Prince William Area of Application. Survey area plus: Maryland: Calvert St. Mary's Virginia (city): Fredericksburg Virginia (counties): Clarke Fauquier King George Spotsylvania Stafford Warren West Virginia: Jefferson * * * * * GEORGIA * * * * * Atlanta Survey Area Georgia: Butts Cherokee Clayton Cobb De Kalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Henry Newton Paulding Rockdale Walton Area of Application. Survey area plus: Georgia: Banks Barrow Bartow Carroll Chattooga Clarke Coweta Dawson Fannin Floyd Franklin Gilmer Gordon Greene Habersham Hall Haralson Heard Jackson Jasper Lamar Lumpkin Madison Meriwether Morgan Murray Oconee Oglethorpe Pickens Pike Polk Rabun Spalding Stephens Towns Union White Whitfield * * * * * Columbus Survey Area Georgia (counties): Chattahoochee Georgia (consolidated government): Columbus Alabama: Autauga Elmore Lee Macon Montgomery Russel Area of Application. Survey area plus: Georgia: Harris Marion Quitman Schley Stewart Talbot Taylor Webster Alabama: Bullock Butler Chambers Coosa Crenshaw Dallas Lowndes Pike Tallapoosa Wilcox Macon Survey Area Georgia: Bibb Houston Jones Laurens Twiggs Wilkinson Area of Application. Survey area plus: Georgia: Baldwin Bleckley Crawford Crisp Dodge Dooly Hancock Johnson Macon Monroe Montgomery Peach Pulaski Putnam Telfair Treutlen Upson Washington Wheeler Wilcox * * * * * ILLINOIS Start Printed Page 20407 * * * * * Chicago Survey Area Illinois: Cook Du Page Kane Lake McHenry Will Area of Application. Survey area plus: Illinois: Boone De Kalb Grundy Iroquois Kankakee Kendall La Salle Lee Livingston Ogle Stephenson Winnebago Indiana: Benton Jasper Lake La Porte Newton Porter Pulaski Starke Wisconsin: Kenosha INDIANA Bloomington-Bedford-Washington Survey Area Indiana: Daviess Greene Knox Lawrence Martin Monroe Orange Area of Application. Survey area plus: Indiana: Crawford Dubois Gibson Jackson Owen Perry Pike Posey Spencer Vanderburgh Warrick Illinois: Edwards Gallatin Hardin Lawrence Richland Wabash White Kentucky: Crittenden Daviess Hancock Henderson Livingston McLean Ohio Union Webster * * * * * Indianapolis Survey Area Indiana: Boone Hamilton Hancock Hendricks Johnson Marion Morgan Shelby Area of Application. Survey area plus: Indiana: Bartholomew Brown Clay Clinton Decatur Delaware Fayette Fountain Henry Madison Montgomery Parke Putnam Rush Sullivan Tippecanoe Tipton Vermillion Vigo Warren * * * * * KENTUCKY * * * * * Louisville Survey Area Kentucky: Bullitt Hardin Jefferson Oldham Indiana: Clark Floyd Jefferson Area of Application. Survey area plus: Kentucky: Breckinridge Grayson Hart Henry Larue Meade Nelson Shelby Spencer Trimble Indiana: Harrison Jennings Scott Washington * * * * * MARYLAND * * * * Baltimore Survey Area Maryland: Baltimore City Anne Arundel Baltimore Carroll Harford Howard Area of Application. Survey area plus: Maryland: Queen Anne's Hagerstown-Martinsburg-Chambersburg Survey Area Maryland: Washington Pennsylvania: Franklin West Virginia: Berkeley Area of Application. Survey area plus: Maryland: Allegany Garrett Pennsylvania: Fulton Virginia (cities): Harrisonburg Winchester Virginia (counties): Culpeper Frederick Greene Madison Page Rappahannock Rockingham Shenandoah West Virginia: Hampshire Hardy Mineral Morgan * * * * * MISSOURI * * * * * St. Louis Survey Area Missouri: St. Louis City Franklin Jefferson St. Charles St. Louis Illinois: Clinton Madison Monroe Start Printed Page 20408 St. Clair Area of Application. Survey area plus: Missouri: Audrain Boone Callaway Clark Cole Crawford Gasconade Knox Lewis Lincoln Marion Moniteau Monroe Montgomery Osage Pike Ralls Randolph St. Francois Ste. Genevieve Scotland Shelby Warren Washington Illinois: Alexander Bond Calhoun Clay Effingham Fayette Franklin Greene Hamilton Jackson Jefferson Jersey Johnson Macoupin Marion Massac Montgomery Morgan Perry Pike Pope Pulaski Randolph Saline Scott Union Washington Wayne Williamson Southern Missouri Survey Area Missouri: Christian Greene Laclede Phelps Pulaski Webster Area of Application. Survey area plus: Missouri: Barry Barton Benton Bollinger Butler Camden Cape Girardeau Carter Cedar Dade Dallas Dent Douglas Hickory Howell Iron Jasper Lawrence McDonald Madison Maries Miller Mississippi Morgan New Madrid Newton Oregon Ozark Perry Polk Reynolds Ripley St. Clair Scott Shannon Stoddard Stone Taney Texas Vernon Wayne Wright Kansas: Cherokee Crawford * * * * * NEBRASKA Omaha Survey Area Nebraska: Douglas Lancaster Sarpy Iowa: Pottawattamie Area of Application. Survey area plus: Nebraska: Adams Antelope Arthur Blaine Boone Boyd Brown Buffalo Burt Butler Cass Cedar Chase Cherry Clay Colfax Cuming Custer Dakota Dawson Dixon Dodge Dundy Fillmore Franklin Frontier Furnas Gage Garfield Gosper Grant Greeley Hall Hamilton Harlan Hayes Hitchcock Holt Hooker Howard Jefferson Johnson Kearney Keith Keya Paha Knox Lincoln Logan Loup McPherson Madison Merrick Nance Nemaha Nuckolls Otoe Pawnee Perkins Phelps Pierce Platte Polk Red Willow Richardson Rock Saline Saunders Seward Sherman Stanton Thayer Thomas Thurston Valley Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler York Iowa: Adams Audubon Buena Vista Cass Cherokee Clay Crawford Fremont Harrison Ida Mills Monona Montgomery O'Brien Page Palo Alto Plymouth Start Printed Page 20409 Pocahontas Sac Shelby Sioux Taylor Woodbury South Dakota: Union * * * * * NEW YORK * * * * * New York Survey Area New York: Bronx Kings Nassau New York Queens Suffolk Westchester New Jersey: Bergen Essex Hudson Middlesex Morris Passaic Somerset Union Area of Application. Survey area plus: New York: Putnam Richmond Rockland New Jersey: Hunterdon Monmouth Ocean (Excluding the Fort Dix Military Reservation) Sussex Pennsylvania: Pike * * * * * PENNSYLVANIA * * * * * Philadelphia Survey Area Pennsylvania: Bucks Chester Delaware Montgomery Philadelphia New Jersey: Burlington Camden Gloucester Area of Application. Survey area plus: Pennsylvania: Carbon Lehigh Northampton New Jersey: Atlantic Cape May Cumberland Mercer Ocean (Fort Dix Military Reservation only) Warren * * * * * Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Survey Area Pennsylvania: Lackawanna Luzerne Monroe Area of Application. Survey area plus: Pennsylvania: Bradford Columbia Lycoming (Excluding Allenwood Federal Prison Camp) Sullivan Susquehanna Wayne Wyoming * * * * * SOUTH DAKOTA Eastern South Dakota Survey Area South Dakota: Minnehaha Area of Application. Survey area plus: South Dakota: Aurora Beadle Bennett Bon Homme Brookings Brown Brule Buffalo Campbell Charles Mix Clark Clay Codington Corson Davison Day Deuel Dewey Douglas Edmunds Faulk Grant Gregory Haakon Hamlin Hand Hanson Hughes Hutchinson Hyde Jerauld Jones Kingsbury Lake Lincoln Lyman McCook McPherson Marshall Mellette Miner Moody Potter Roberts Sanborn Spink Stanley Sully Todd Tripp Turner Walworth Washabaugh Yankton Ziebach Iowa: Dickinson Emmet Lyon Osceola Minnesota: Jackson Lincoln Lyon Murray Nobles Pipestone Rock * * * * * VIRGINIA * * * * * Richmond Survey Area Virginia (cities): Colonial Heights Hopewell Petersburg Richmond Virginia (counties): Charles City Chesterfield Dinwiddie Goochland Hanover Henrico New Kent Powhatan Prince George Area of Application. Survey area plus: Virginia (cities): Charlottesville Emporia Virginia (counties): Albemarle Amelia Brunswick Buckingham Caroline Charlotte Cumberland Essex Fluvanna Greensville King and Queen King William Lancaster Louisa Lunenberg Start Printed Page 20410 Mecklenburg Middlesex Northumberland Nottoway Orange Prince Edward Richmond Sussex Westmoreland * * * * * WISCONSIN * * * * * Milwaukee Survey Area Wisconsin: Milwaukee Ozaukee Washington Waukesha Area of Application. Survey area plus: Wisconsin: Brown Calumet Door Fond du Lac Kewaunee Manitowoc Outagamie Racine Sheboygan Walworth Winnebago [FR Doc. E9-10177 Filed 5-1-09; 8:45 am]
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Document Information
- Comments Received:
- 0 Comments
- Published:
- 05/04/2009
- Department:
- Personnel Management Office
- Entry Type:
- Rule
- Action:
- Final rule.
- Document Number:
- E9-10177
- Pages:
- 20405-20410 (6 pages)
- RINs:
- 3206-AL77: Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of Certain Appropriated Fund Federal Wage System Wage Areas
- RIN Links:
- https://www.federalregister.gov/regulations/3206-AL77/prevailing-rate-systems-redefinition-of-certain-appropriated-fund-federal-wage-system-wage-areas-
- Topics:
- Administrative practice and procedure, Freedom of information, Government employees, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Wages
- PDF File:
- e9-10177.pdf
- CFR: (1)
- 5 CFR 532