Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of the Raven Rock Mountain Complex to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington Federal Wage System Wage Area

91 FR 9170Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of the Raven Rock Mountain Complex to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington Federal Wage System Wage Area

91 FR 9170Office of Personnel Management.

91 FR 9170The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing to redefine the Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area coverage of the Raven Rock Mountain Complex (RRMC), which spans small portions of Washington County, Maryland, which is in the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area, and Adams County, Pennsylvania, which is in the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA wage area. OPM proposes to redefine the RRMC portion of Adams County from the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA wage area to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area so that all of the RRMC is in the same wage area. Portions of Adams County outside of RRMC would continue to be defined to the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA, wage area. This change would align wage area coverage for installations within the Pentagon Reservation and prevent pay disparities among FWS employees working at the RRMC.

91 FR 9170Send comments on or before April 27, 2026.

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91 FR 9170Ana Paunoiu by telephone at (202) 606-2858 or by email at paypolicy@opm.gov.

91 FR 9170OPM is proposing to redefine the FWS wage area coverage of the RRMC. Under 10 U.S.C. 2674, the land and facilities at RRMC are included within the definition of the Pentagon Reservation. Under 10 U.S.C. 2674(f)(1), the Pentagon Reservation consists of the Pentagon, the Mark Center Campus, and RRMC. RRMC is defined in 10 U.S.C. 2674(f)(5) as “that area of land (consisting of approximately 720 acres) and improvements thereon, including parking areas, at the Raven Rock Mountain Complex and its supporting facilities located in Maryland and Pennsylvania.” On January 21, 2025, OPM issued a final rule expanding the coverage of the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington FWS wage area, effective October 1, 2025. The expanded wage area covers the Pentagon Reservation, except for the Adams County portion of the RRMC. On July 30, 2025, the Department of Defense (DOD) requested that OPM amend the FWS regulations in Appendix C of 5 CFR part 532, subpart B, to provide that all of the RRMC be defined to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area so that the entirety of the Pentagon Reservation is defined to the same wage area. Under 5 CFR 532.211, criteria such as employment interchange measures and distance, population and employment similarities, and other relevant factors are considered when defining FWS wage area boundaries. Adams County is appropriately defined to the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA, wage area under these criteria. This proposed rule would make an exception to the standard regulatory requirements only for the RRMC portion of Adams County based on the other relevant factors criterion in the regulations cited by DOD.

91 FR 9170Employment interchange and distance. Employment interchange means the movement of workers (in-commuting and out-commuting) within a large metropolitan area. The employment interchange is calculated using commuting patterns data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau as part of the American Community Survey. The employment interchange data reported by the Census Bureau reflects social and economic integration in a region. Measured to nearby survey areas, Adams County shows a higher employment interchange measures percentage with the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA, wage area (46.12 percent) than with Washington-Baltimore-Arlington (28.95 percent). Road distances from RRMC also favor Harrisburg-York-Lebanon ( e.g., ~55.3 miles to Harrisburg vs. ~70.2 miles to Washington, DC; similar comparisons hold when measuring to host installations 1 ). 1 Under 5 CFR 532.201, the host installation is a local installation, designated by the lead agency to conduct wage survey activities and provide support facilities and clerical assistance for the local wage survey committee. DOD is the lead agency for the FWS. Transportation and geography. Major highways connect RRMC to both the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA, and Washington-Baltimore-Arlington survey areas; geographic features do not materially distinguish travel to one survey area over the other. Population and employment similarities. OPM uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau to compare the overall population, employment, and kinds and sizes of private industrial establishments of a county to the nearby survey areas. Comparative metrics for Adams County versus the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon and Washington-Baltimore-Arlington survey areas are mixed and do not clearly favor either wage area when considered as a whole.

91 FR 9170Other relevant factors. OPM issued a final rule (90 FR 7428) on January 21, 2025, amending the regulatory criteria in 5 CFR 532.211, pursuant to its authority to issue regulations governing the FWS in 5 U.S.C. chapter 53, subchapter IV. The amendments to the criteria used to define and maintain FWS wage areas led to several changes in wage area boundaries. One of these changes was the redefinition of Washington County, MD, from the Hagerstown-Martinsburg-Chambersburg, MD, wage area which was abolished and its constituent counties defined to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area. The final rule did not change the designation of Adams County, which remains in the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA, wage area. Based on information received from DOD, RRMC is located in two different counties: Washington County, MD, and Adams County, PA. As a result of moving Washington County to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area, RRMC FWS employees located in Washington County receive a higher rate of pay than RRMC FWS employees located in Adams County, PA. To support pay parity, DOD requested that OPM define the RRMC portion of Adams County to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area.

91 FR 9171Washington County, MD, is part of the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area (CSA). 2 Adams County, PA, is part of the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA CSA. Under OPM regulations at 5 CFR 532.211(b), it is permissible for CSAs to be split between FWS wage areas only in very unusual circumstances, such as federal installations overlapping two or more CSAs and wage areas. 2 The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defines, maintains, and periodically updates the definitions of CSA boundaries. The most recent OMB definitions of CSAs are in OMB Bulletin No. 23-01 (available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/OMB-Bulletin-23-01.pdf ), which was issued on July 21, 2023. OPM recognizes that application of the employment interchange, distance, transportation, and population and employment similarity criteria in 5 CFR 532.211(d)(1) and (2) does not support redefining Adams County, Pennsylvania, as a whole to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington FWS wage area. As discussed above, those criteria generally favor the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA, wage area for Adams County when considered at the county level. However, under 5 CFR 532.211(d)(1), OPM may consider other factors relevant to the process of determining and establishing rates of pay for wage employees at prevailing wage levels. OPM is exercising that discretion in this case for the limited portion of Adams County comprising RRMC.

91 FR 9171RRMC is uniquely situated as part of the Pentagon Reservation, as defined in 10 U.S.C. 2674(f). Congress has statutorily designated RRMC, together with the Pentagon and the Mark Center Campus, as a single Federal reservation. RRMC is operated as an integrated component of the Pentagon Reservation, with centralized management, shared mission functions, and unified personnel administration.

91 FR 9171As a result of OPM's January 21, 2025, final rule redefining Washington County, Maryland, to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area, the Pentagon Reservation is currently divided between two FWS wage areas solely due to the county boundary that bisects RRMC. OPM routinely treats federal installations overlapping two or more CSAs and wage areas as an unusual circumstance warranting redefinition of a portion of a CSA in another wage area only as necessary to place a complete Federal installation in a single wage area. For example, the Shenandoah National Park (approximately 105 miles long) overlaps the following counties: Albemarle, Augusta, Greene, Madison, Page, Rappahannock, Rockingham, and Warren Counties, VA. Albemarle and Greene Counties are part of the Charlottesville, VA CSA which is included in its entirety in the Richmond, VA, wage area. Augusta and Rockingham Counties, VA, are part of the Harrisonburg-Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA CSA, which is included in its entirety in the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area. Rappahannock and Warren Counties are part of the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington CSA, which is included in its entirety in the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area. Madison County, VA, is not part of a CSA or MSA, but it is part of the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area. To avoid paying FWS employees at the Shenandoah National Park from different wage schedules, OPM defined this installation in its entirety to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area. Augusta and Rockingham Counties, not including the Shenandoah National Park portions, continue to be defined to the Richmond wage area to avoid splitting the Charlottesville, VA CSA, appropriately included in the Richmond wage area.

91 FR 9171Splitting Federal installations has the effect of applying different prevailing wage schedules to employees working at the same integrated Federal installation based solely on the side of the county boundary on which their duty station is located. In this case, the pay disparity referenced by DOD adversely affects attracting and retaining qualified prevailing rate employees on the Pennsylvania side of the installation. This proposal would correct a wage-area boundary that inadvertently split RRMC, a single, integrated Federal installation. OPM finds that maintaining different FWS wage area definitions within a single, statutorily defined Federal reservation undermines the accuracy and integrity of prevailing rate determinations for that installation. In this circumstance, the application of county-level labor market criteria to RRMC does not adequately reflect the relevant labor market for purposes of establishing prevailing wage rates for RRMC employees, whose employment conditions are determined by the Pentagon Reservation as a whole rather than by the surrounding county. Accordingly, OPM has tentatively determined that redefining the RRMC portion of Adams County to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area is warranted under 5 CFR 532.211(d)(1) as a narrowly tailored exception. Adams County, PA, except for the RRMC portion, would continue to be defined to the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon wage area. Washington County, MD, would continue to be defined to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area.

91 FR 9171On January 21, 2025, OPM published a final rule (90 FR 7428) changing the criteria used to define FWS wage area boundaries and making changes to certain wage areas. The final rule contained a few typographical errors and inadvertent omissions. This proposed rule would make several corrections and revisions to Appendix A to subpart B of part 532—Nationwide Schedule of Appropriated Fund Regular Wage Surveys and Appendix C to subpart B of part 532—Appropriated Fund Wage and Survey Areas, concerning formatting, spelling, typographical errors, inconsistencies, and omissions made in the final rule, as follows: This proposed rule would make the following revision to Appendix A: add the State of Connecticut, and a listing for the New Haven-Hartford wage area, with “DOD” as lead agency; “April” as the listing of the beginning month of survey; and “Odd” Fiscal Year of full-scale survey. The listing for the New Haven-Hartford wage area was inadvertently omitted in the final rule. This proposed rule would make the following revisions to Appendix C: • Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega Wage Area Add “until” between “effective” and “January” to read “(effective until January 2028)” for Talladega County, Alabama, in the area of application. Talladega County, AL, was moved from the Anniston-Gadsden survey area to the Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega area of application, effective October 1, 2025, until January 2028. This county will subsequently be moved from the Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega area of application to the Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega survey area effective for local wage surveys beginning in January 2028. The final rule inadvertently omitted the word “until.” • Washington-Baltimore-Arlington Wage Area Revise the name of “Berkley” County, West Virginia, to read “Berkeley.”

91 FR 9172• Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale Wage Area Add St. Lucie County, Florida, to the area of application of the Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale wage area. Due to a formatting error, St. Lucie County was listed as a separate wage area, instead of being part of the Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale wage area. Delete “St. Lucie” as a wage area entry. • Augusta Wage Area Replace “:” with “.” after “Survey area,” to read “Area of Application. Survey area.” for the Augusta wage area, in the State of Maine. The Augusta wage area does not have an area of application. As such, the correct punctuation is a period instead of a colon. • Chicago-Naperville Wage Area Delete “IL” from the title of the “Chicago-Naperville, IL” the wage area to read “Chicago-Naperville” to be consistent with how we list the titles of other wage areas. • Roanoke Wage Area Delete the Cities of Staunton and Waynesboro, Virginia, which were incorrectly included and duplicated in the area of application of the Roanoke wage area. These cities were moved to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area and were inadvertently not deleted from the Roanoke wage area. Delete Augusta (Does not include the Shenandoah National Park portion) County, VA, which was incorrectly included and duplicated in the area of application of the Roanoke wage area. The entire Augusta County was moved to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area, and the Shenandoah National Park portion was inadvertently not deleted from the Roanoke wage area.

91 FR 9172Section 5343 of title 5, U.S. Code, provides OPM with the authority and responsibility to define the boundaries of FWS wage areas. Any changes in wage area definitions can have the long-term effect of increasing pay for Federal employees in affected locations. OPM expects this rulemaking to impact around 50 FWS employees. Considering the small number of employees affected, OPM does not anticipate that this proposed rule will substantially impact local economies or have a large impact in local labor markets. However, OPM is requesting comment in this rulemaking regarding the impact. As this and future wage area changes may impact higher volumes of employees in geographical areas and could rise to the level of impacting local labor markets, OPM will continue to study the implications of such impacts in this or future rules as needed.

91 FR 9172OPM has examined the impact of this rulemaking as required by Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 which direct agencies to assess all costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, if regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public health and safety effects, distributive impacts, and equity). This rulemaking is not a “significant regulatory action” under Executive Order 12866. The rule is not an E.O. 14192 regulatory action because it is not significant under E.O. 12866.

91 FR 9172The Director of OPM certifies that this rule would not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.

91 FR 9172OPM has examined this rule in accordance with Executive Order 13132, Federalism, and has determined that this rule will not have any negative impact on the rights, roles and responsibilities of State, local, or Tribal governments.

91 FR 9172This rulemaking 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 in 1995 dollars, updated annually for inflation. That threshold is currently approximately $206 million. This rulemaking 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.

91 FR 9172This rulemaking does not impose any reporting or record-keeping requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act.

91 FR 9172Administrative practice and procedure, Freedom of information, Government employees, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Wages.

91 FR 9172The Director of OPM, Scott Kupor, reviewed and approved this document and has authorized the undersigned to electronically sign and submit this document to the Office of the Federal Register for publication. Office of Personnel Management Accordingly, OPM is proposing to amend 5 CFR part 532 as follows:

91 FR 91721. The authority citation for part 532 continues to read as follows:

91 FR 91725 U.S.C. 5343, 5346; § 532.707 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552. 2. In Appendix A to subpart B, amend the table by adding in alphabetic order by state the New Haven-Hartford wage survey listing for the State of Connecticut.

91 FR 9172* * * * * * * Connecticut New Haven-Hartford DoD April Odd. * * * * * * * 3. In Appendix C to subpart B—Appropriated Fund Wage and Survey Areas, amend the table by revising the wage area listing for the District of Columbia and for the States of Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Virginia to read as follows:

91 FR 9173Definitions of Wage Areas and Wage Area Survey Areas ALABAMA Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega Survey Area Alabama: Calhoun (effective for wage surveys beginning in January 2028) Etowah (effective for wage surveys beginning in January 2028) Jefferson St. Clair Shelby Talladega (effective for wage surveys beginning in January 2028) Tuscaloosa Walker Area of Application. Survey area plus: Alabama: Bibb Blount Calhoun (effective until January 2028) Chilton Clay Coosa Cullman Etowah (effective until January 2028) Fayette Greene Hale Lamar Marengo Perry Pickens Talladega (effective until January 2028) Winston Dothan Survey Area Alabama: Dale Houston Georgia: Early Area of Application. Survey area plus: Alabama: Barbour Coffee Geneva Henry Georgia: Clay Miller Seminole Huntsville Survey Area Alabama: Limestone Madison Marshall Morgan Area of Application. Survey area plus: Alabama: Colbert DeKalb Franklin Lauderdale Lawrence Marion Tennessee: Giles Lincoln Wayne Montgomery-Selma Survey Area Alabama: Autauga Elmore Montgomery Area of Application. Survey area plus: Alabama: Bullock Butler Crenshaw Dallas Lowndes Pike Wilcox DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington-Baltimore-Arlington Survey Area District of Columbia: Washington, DC Maryland (city): Baltimore (effective for wage surveys beginning in July 2027) Maryland (counties): Anne Arundel (effective for wage surveys beginning in July 2027) Baltimore (effective for wage surveys beginning in July 2027) Carroll (effective for wage surveys beginning in July 2027) Charles Frederick Harford (effective for wage surveys beginning in July 2027) Howard (effective for wage surveys beginning in July 2027) Montgomery Prince George's Washington (effective for wage surveys beginning in July 2027) Pennsylvania:

91 FR 9173Franklin (effective for wage surveys beginning in July 2027) Virginia (cities): Alexandria Fairfax Falls Church Manassas Manassas Park Virginia (counties): Arlington Fairfax King George (effective for wage surveys beginning in July 2027) Loudoun Prince William West Virginia: Berkeley (effective for wage surveys beginning in July 2027) Area of Application. Survey area plus: Maryland (city): Baltimore (effective until July 2027) Maryland (counties): Allegany Anne Arundel (effective until July 2027) Baltimore (effective until July 2027) Calvert Caroline Carroll (effective until July 2027) Dorchester Garrett Harford (effective until July 2027) Howard (effective until July 2027) Kent Queen Anne's St. Mary's Talbot Washington (effective until July 2027) Pennsylvania: Adams (Only includes the Raven Rock Mountain Complex) Franklin (effective until July 2027) Fulton Virginia (cities): Fredericksburg Harrisonburg Staunton Waynesboro Winchester Virginia (counties): Albemarle (Only includes the Shenandoah National Park portion) Augusta Caroline Clarke Culpeper Fauquier Frederick Greene (Only includes the Shenandoah National Park portion) King George (effective until July 2027) Madison Orange Page Rappahannock Rockingham Shenandoah Spotsylvania Stafford Warren Westmoreland West Virginia: Berkeley (effective until July 2027) Hampshire Hardy Jefferson Mineral Morgan FLORIDA Cocoa-Beach Survey Area Florida: Brevard Area of Application. Survey area. Jacksonville Survey Area Florida: Alachua Baker Clay Columbia (effective for wage surveys beginning in January 2027) Duval Nassau Orange (effective for wage surveys beginning in January 2027) St. Johns Sumter (effective for wage surveys beginning in January 2027) Georgia: Camden Area of Application. Survey area plus: Florida:

91 FR 9173Bradford Citrus Columbia (effective until January 2027) Dixie Flagler Gilchrist Hamilton Lafayette Lake Levy Madison Marion Orange (effective until January 2027) Osceola Polk Putnam Seminole Sumter (effective until January 2027) Suwannee Taylor Union Volusia Georgia: Charlton Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale Survey Area Florida: Miami-Dade Palm Beach (effective for wage surveys beginning in May 2027) Area of Application. Survey area plus: Florida: Broward Collier Glades Hendry Highlands Indian River Lee Martin Monroe Okeechobee Palm Beach (effective until May 2027) St. Lucie Panama City Survey Area Florida: Bay Gulf Area of Application. Survey area plus: Florida: Calhoun Franklin Gadsden Holmes Jackson Jefferson Leon Liberty Wakulla Washington Georgia: Decatur Pensacola Survey Area Florida: Escambia Santa Rosa Area of Application. Survey area plus: Alabama: Baldwin Clarke Conecuh Covington Escambia Mobile Monroe Washington Florida: Okaloosa Walton Tampa-St. Petersburg Survey Area Florida: Hillsborough Pasco Pinellas Area of Application. Survey area plus: Florida: Charlotte De Soto Hardee Hernando Manatee Sarasota ILLINOIS Bloomington-Pontiac Survey Area Illinois: Champaign Menard Sangamon Vermilion Area of Application. Survey area plus: Illinois: Christian Clark Coles Crawford Cumberland De Witt Douglas Edgar Ford Jasper Livingston Logan McLean Macon Morgan Moultrie Piatt Scott Shelby Chicago-Naperville Survey Area Illinois: Cook Du Page Kane Lake McHenry Will Area of Application. Survey area plus: Illinois: Boone Bureau De Kalb Grundy Iroquois Kankakee Kendall La Salle Ogle Putnam Stephenson Winnebago Indiana: Jasper Lake La Porte Newton Porter Pulaski Starke Wisconsin: Kenosha MAINE Augusta Survey Area Maine: Kennebec Knox Lincoln Area of Application. Survey area.

91 FR 9173Central and Northern Maine Survey Area Maine: Aroostook Penobscot Area of Application. Survey area plus: Maine: Hancock Piscataquis Somerset Waldo Washington PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg-York-Lebanon Survey Area Pennsylvania: Cumberland Dauphin Lebanon Union (effective for wage surveys beginning in May 2026) York Area of Application. Survey area plus: Pennsylvania: Adams (Does not include the Raven Rock Mountain Complex) Clinton Juniata Lancaster Lycoming Mifflin Perry Snyder Union (effective until May 2026) Philadelphia-Reading-Camden Survey Area Delaware: Kent (effective for wage surveys beginning in October 2027) New Castle (effective for wage surveys beginning in October 2027) Maryland: Cecil (effective for wage surveys beginning in October 2027) New Jersey: Burlington (Excluding the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst portion) Camden Gloucester Salem (effective for wage surveys beginning in October 2027) Pennsylvania: Bucks Chester Delaware Montgomery Philadelphia Area of Application. Survey area plus: Delaware: Kent (effective until October 2027) New Castle (effective until October 2027) Sussex Maryland: Cecil (effective until October 2027) Somerset Wicomico Worcester (Does not include the Assateague Island portion) New Jersey: Atlantic Cape May Cumberland Salem (effective until October 2027) Pennsylvania: Berks Schuylkill Pittsburgh Survey Area Pennsylvania: Allegheny Beaver Butler Cambria (effective for wage surveys beginning in July 2027) Washington Westmoreland Area of Application. Survey area plus: Ohio: Belmont Harrison Jefferson Pennsylvania:

91 FR 9173Armstrong Bedford Blair Cambria (effective until July 2027) Cameron Centre Clarion Clearfield 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 Mercer Potter Somerset Venango West Virginia: Brooke Hancock Marshall Ohio Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Survey Area Pennsylvania: Lackawanna Luzerne Area of Application. Survey area plus: Pennsylvania: Bradford Columbia Montour Northumberland Sullivan Susquehanna Wyoming 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 (Does not include the Shenandoah National Park portion) Amelia Brunswick Buckingham Charlotte Cumberland Essex Fluvanna Greene (Does not include the Shenandoah National Park portion) Greensville King and Queen King William Lancaster Louisa Lunenburg Mecklenburg Nelson Northumberland Nottoway Prince Edward Richmond Sussex Roanoke Survey Area Virginia (cities): Radford Roanoke Salem Virginia (counties): Botetourt Craig Montgomery Roanoke Area of Application. Survey area plus: Virginia (cities): Buena Vista Covington Danville Galax Lexington Lynchburg Martinsville Virginia (counties): Alleghany Amherst Appomattox Bath Bedford Bland Campbell Carroll Floyd Franklin Giles Halifax Henry Highland Patrick Pittsylvania Pulaski Rockbridge Wythe Virginia Beach-Chesapeake Survey Area North Carolina: Currituck Pasquotank (effective for wage surveys beginning in May 2026) Virginia (cities):

91 FR 9173Chesapeake Hampton Newport News Norfolk Poquoson Portsmouth Suffolk Virginia Beach Williamsburg Virginia (counties): Gloucester James City York Area of Application. Survey area plus: Maryland: Worcester (Only includes the Assateague Island portion) North Carolina: Camden Chowan Dare Gates Hertford Pasquotank (effective until May 2026) Perquimans Tyrrell Virginia (city): Franklin Virginia (counties): Accomack Isle of Wight Mathews Middlesex Northampton Southampton Surry