85 FR 124 pgs. 38273-38274 - Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of the Little Rock, Arkansas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, Appropriated Fund Federal Wage System Wage Areas
Type: RULEVolume: 85Number: 124Pages: 38273 - 38274
Pages: 38273, 38274FR document: [FR Doc. 2020-12805 Filed 6-25-20; 8:45 am]
Agency: Personnel Management Office
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
5 CFR Part 532
RIN 3206-AN95
Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of the Little Rock, Arkansas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, Appropriated Fund Federal Wage System Wage Areas
AGENCY:
Office of Personnel Management.
ACTION:
Final rule.
SUMMARY:
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to redefine the geographic boundaries of the Little Rock, Arkansas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, appropriated fund Federal Wage System (FWS) wage areas. The final rule will redefine the Fort Chaffee portion of Franklin County, AR, to the Tulsa wage area. This change is based on a consensus recommendation of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee (FPRAC).
DATES:
Effective date: June 26, 2020.
Applicability date: This change applies on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after July 27, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Madeline Gonzalez, by telephone at (202) 606-2858 or by email at pay-leave-policy@opm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
On February 13, 2020, OPM issued a proposed rule (85 FR 8205) to redefine the Fort Chaffee portion of Franklin County, AR, from the Little Rock, AR, wage area to the Tulsa, OK, wage area.
FPRAC, the national labor-management committee responsible for advising OPM on matters concerning the pay of FWS employees, reviewed and recommended these changes by consensus.
The 30-day comment period ended on March 16, 2020. OPM received one comment supporting the move of the Fort Chaffee portion of Franklin County to the Tulsa wage area and asking OPM to define Monroe County, PA, from the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA, wage area to the New York, NY, wage area. The wage area definition of Monroe County is beyond the scope of this rule.
Regulatory Impact Analysis
This action is not a "significant regulatory action" under the terms of Executive Order (E.O.) 12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993) and is therefore not subject to review under E.O. 12866 and 13563 (76 FR 3821, January 21, 2011).
Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs
This rule is not an Executive Order 13771 regulatory action because this rule is not significant under E.O. 12866.
Regulatory Flexibility Act
OPM certifies that this rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities because they will affect only Federal agencies and employees.
Federalism
We have examined this rule in accordance with Executive Order 13132, Federalism, and have determined that this rule will not have any negative impact on the rights, roles and responsibilities of State, local, or tribal governments.
Civil Justice Reform
This regulation meets the applicable standard set forth in Executive Order 12988.
Unfunded Mandates Act of 1995
This rule will not result in the expenditure by State, local, and tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector, of $100 million or more in any year and it will not significantly or uniquely affect small governments. Therefore, no actions were deemed necessary under the provisions of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995.
Congressional Review Act
This action pertains to agency management, personnel, and organization and does not substantially affect the rights or obligations of nonagency parties and, accordingly, is not a "rule" as that term is used by the Congressional Review Act (Subtitle E of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA)). Therefore, the reporting requirement of 5 U.S.C. 801 does not apply.
Paperwork Reduction Act
This rule does not impose any new reporting or record-keeping requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act.
List of Subjects in 5 CFR Part 532
Administrative practice and procedure, Freedom of information, Government employees, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Wages.
Office of Personnel Management.
Alexys Stanley,
Regulatory Affairs Analyst.
Accordingly, OPM is amending 5 CFR part 532 as follows:
PART 532-PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS
1. The authority citation for part 532 continues to read as follows:
Authority:
5 U.S.C. 5343, 5346; §?532.707 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552.
Appendix C to Subpart B of Part 532-Appropriated Fund Wage and Survey Areas
2. In Appendix C to subpart B amend the table by revising the wage area listings for the States of Arkansas and Oklahoma to read as follows:
Definitions of Wage Areas and Wage Area Survey Areas
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| * * * * * |
| ARKANSAS |
| Little Rock |
| Survey Area |
| Arkansas: |
| Jefferson |
| Pulaski |
| Saline |
| Area of Application. Survey area plus: |
| Arkansas: |
| Arkansas |
| Ashley |
| Baxter |
| Boone |
| Bradley |
| Calhoun |
| Chicot |
| Clay |
| Clark |
| Cleburne |
| Cleveland |
| Conway |
| Dallas |
| Desha |
| Drew |
| Faulkner |
| Franklin (Does not include the Fort Chaffee portion) |
| Fulton |
| Garland |
| Grant |
| Greene |
| Hot Spring |
| Independence |
| Izard |
| Jackson |
| Johnson |
| Lawrence |
| Lincoln |
| Logan |
| Lonoke |
| Marion |
| Monroe |
| Montgomery |
| Newton |
| Ouachita |
| Perry |
| Phillips |
| Pike |
| Polk |
| Pope |
| Prairie |
| Randolph |
| Scott |
| Searcy |
| Sharp |
| Stone |
| Union |
| Van Buren |
| White |
| Woodruff |
| Yell |
| * * * * * |
| OKLAHOMA |
| Oklahoma City |
| Survey Area |
| Oklahoma: |
| Canadian |
| Cleveland |
| McClain |
| Oklahoma |
| Pottawatomie |
| Area of Application. Survey area plus: |
| Oklahoma: |
| Alfalfa |
| Atoka |
| Beckham |
| Blaine |
| Bryan |
| Caddo |
| Carter |
| Coal |
| Custer |
| Dewey |
| Ellis |
| Garfield |
| Garvin |
| Grady |
| Grant |
| Harper |
| Hughes |
| Johnston |
| Kingfisher |
| Lincoln |
| Logan |
| Love |
| Major |
| Marshall |
| Murray |
| Noble |
| Payne |
| Pontotoc |
| Roger Mills |
| Seminole |
| Washita |
| Woods |
| Woodward |
| Tulsa |
| Survey Area |
| Oklahoma: |
| Creek |
| Mayes |
| Muskogee |
| Osage |
| Pittsburg |
| Rogers |
| Tulsa |
| Wagoner |
| Area of Application. Survey area plus: |
| Arkansas: |
| Benton |
| Carroll |
| Crawford |
| Franklin (Only includes the Fort Chaffee portion) |
| Madison |
| Sebastian |
| Washington |
| Missouri: |
| McDonald |
| Oklahoma: |
| Adair |
| Cherokee |
| Choctaw |
| Craig |
| Delaware |
| Haskell |
| Kay |
| Latimer |
| LeFlore |
| McCurtain |
| McIntosh |
| Nowata |
| Okfuskee |
| Okmulgee |
| Ottawa |
| Pawnee |
| Pushmataha |
| Sequoyah |
| Washington |
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