Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of the St. Louis, MO; Southern Missouri; Cleveland, OH; and Pittsburgh, PA, Appropriated Fund Federal Wage System Wage Areas

78 FR 21515Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of the St. Louis, MO; Southern Missouri; Cleveland, OH; and Pittsburgh, PA, Appropriated Fund Federal Wage System Wage Areas

78 FR 21515U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

78 FR 21515The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule to redefine the geographic boundaries of the St. Louis, MO; Southern Missouri; Cleveland, OH; and Pittsburgh, PA, appropriated fund Federal Wage System (FWS) wage areas. The final rule redefines Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, and Perry Counties, MO, from the Southern Missouri wage area to the St. Louis wage area and Mercer County, PA, from the Pittsburgh wage area to the Cleveland wage area. These changes are based on recent consensus recommendations of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee to best match the counties proposed for redefinition to a nearby FWS survey area. This final rule makes two additional corrections. It renames the Champaign-Urbana, IL, wage area as the Central Illinois wage area and updates the name of the White Sands Proving Ground in the Albuquerque, NM, and El Paso, TX, wage areas to White Sands Missile Range.

78 FR 21515This regulation is effective on May 13, 2013.

78 FR 21515On November 15, 2012, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a proposed rule (77 FR 68073) to redefine Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, and Perry Counties, MO, from the Southern Missouri wage area to the St. Louis wage area and Mercer County, PA, from the Pittsburgh wage area to the Cleveland wage area. These changes are based on recent consensus recommendations of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee to best match the above counties to a nearby FWS survey area. This final rule makes two additional corrections. It renames the Champaign-Urbana, IL, wage area as the Central Illinois wage area and updates the name of the White Sands Proving Ground in the Albuquerque, NM, and El Paso, TX, wage areas to White Sands Missile Range. These corrections do not affect the pay of any FWS employees. The proposed rule had a 30-day comment period during which OPM received no comments.

78 FR 21515I 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.

78 FR 21515Administrative practice and procedure, Freedom of information, Government employees, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Wages. U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Accordingly, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management amends 5 CFR part 532 as follows:

78 FR 215151. The authority citation for part 532 continues to read as follows:

78 FR 215155 U.S.C. 5343, 5346; § 532.707 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552.

78 FR 215152. In appendix A to subpart B of part 532, under the State of Illinois, revise “Champaign-Urbana” wage area to read “Central Illinois”. 3. In appendix C to subpart B of part 532, under the State of Illinois, revise “Champaign-Urbana” wage area to read “Central Illinois”, and revise the wage area listings for the St. Louis, MO; Southern Missouri; Albuquerque, NM; Cleveland, OH; Pittsburgh, PA, and El Paso, TX, wage areas to read as follows:

78 FR 21515* * * * * MISSOURI * * * * * St. Louis Survey Area Illinois: Clinton Madison Monroe St. Clair Missouri: (city) St. Louis Missouri: (counties) Franklin Jefferson St. Charles St. Louis Area of Application. Survey area plus: 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 Missouri: Audrain Bollinger Boone Callaway Cape Girardeau Clark Cole Crawford Gasconade Knox Lewis Lincoln Marion Moniteau Monroe Montgomery Osage Perry Pike Ralls Randolph St. Francois Ste. Genevieve Scotland Shelby Warren Washington Southern Missouri Survey Area Missouri: Christian Greene Laclede Phelps Pulaski Webster Area of Application. Survey area plus: Kansas: Cherokee Crawford Missouri: Barry Barton Benton Butler Camden Carter Cedar Dade Dallas Dent Douglas Hickory Howell Iron Jasper Lawrence Madison Maries Miller Mississippi Morgan New Madrid Newton Oregon Ozark Polk Reynolds Ripley St. Clair Scott Shannon Stoddard Stone Taney Texas Vernon Wayne Wright * * * * * NEW MEXICO Albuquerque Survey Area New Mexico: Bernalillo Sandoval Area of Application. Survey area plus: New Mexico: Catron Cibola Colfax Curry De Baca Guadalupe Harding Lincoln (Does not include White Sands Missile Range portion) Los Alamos Mora Quay Rio Arriba Roosevelt San Miguel Santa Fe Socorro (Does not include White Sands Missile Range portion) Taos Torrance Union Valencia * * * * * OHIO * * * * * Cleveland Survey Area Ohio: Cuyahoga Geauga Lake Medina Area of Application. Survey area plus: Ohio: Ashland Ashtabula Carroll Columbiana Erie Huron Lorain Mahoning Ottawa Portage Sandusky Seneca Stark Summit Trumbull Wayne Pennsylvania: Mercer * * * * * PENNSYLVANIA * * * * * Pittsburgh Survey Area Ohio:Pennsylvania: Allegheny Beaver Butler Washington Westmoreland Area of Application. Survey area plus: Ohio: Belmont Harrison Jefferson Tuscarawas

78 FR 21516Pennsylvania: Armstrong Bedford Blair Cambria Cameron Centre Clarion Clearfield Clinton Crawford Elk (Does not include the Allegheny National Forest portion) Erie Fayette Forest (Does not include the Allegheny National Forest portion) Greene Huntingdon Indiana Jefferson Lawrence Potter Somerset Venango West Virginia: Brooke Hancock Marshall Ohio * * * * * TEXAS * * * * * El Paso Survey Area New Mexico: Dona Ana Otero Texas: El Paso Area of Application. Survey area plus: New Mexico: Chaves Eddy Grant Hidalgo Lincoln (Only White Sands Missile Range portion) Luna Sierra Socorro (Only White Sands Missile Range portion) Texas: Culberson Hudspeth * * * * *