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Vol. 62, No. 192

Friday, October 3, 1997

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL

MANAGEMENT

5 CFR Part 532

RIN 3206–AI04

Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment

of the Orlando, Florida, Appropriated

Fund Wage Area

AGENCY: Office of Personnel

Management.

ACTION: Interim rule with request for

comments.

SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel

Management is issuing an interim rule

to remove the requirement that a fullscale wage survey be conducted in the

Orlando, Florida, Federal Wage System

appropriated fund wage area in

September 1997.

DATES: This interim rule is effective on

September 30, 1997. Comments must be

received on or before November 3, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments

to Donald J. Winstead, Assistant

Director for Compensation Policy,

Human Resources Systems Service,

Office of Personnel Management, Room

7H31, 1900 E Street NW., Washington,

DC 20415, or FAX: (202) 606–0824.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mark A. Allen, (202) 606–2848.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office

of Personnel Management is issuing the

first of two interim rules to abolish the

Orlando, Florida, appropriated fund

wage area. The Orlando wage area is

currently composed of Orange, Osceola,

Seminole, and Volusia Counties in

Florida. Because of the pending closure

of the Orlando Naval Training Station,

the Department of Defense, the lead

agency for the Orlando wage area, is

unable to conduct the wage survey that

is scheduled to begin in the Orlando

wage area in September 1997. This

interim rule removes the requirement

that a full-scale wage survey be

conducted in the Orlando wage area in

September 1997. The appropriate

disposition of the four counties of the

Orlando wage area is currently under

consideration by the Federal Prevailing

Rate Advisory Committee. Once the

Committee has completed its

discussions, an additional interim rule

will be published to move those four

counties to another wage area.

The Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory

Committee reviewed this

recommendation and by consensus

recommended approval.

Waiver of Notice of Proposed

Rulemaking and Delayed Effective Date

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(3)(B), I

find that good cause exists for waiving

the general notice of proposed

rulemaking. Also, pursuant to section

553(d)(3) of title 5, United States Code,

I find that good cause exists for making

this rule effective in less than 30 days.

The notice is being waived and the

regulation is being made effective in less

than 30 days so that advance

preparations otherwise required for the

1997 Orlando wage area survey may be

canceled.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

I certify that these regulations will not

have a significant economic impact on

a substantial number of small entities

because they affect only Federal

agencies and employees.

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.

Janice R. Lachance,

Acting Director.

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 A to Subpart B of Part 532—

[Amended]

2. Appendix A to subpart B is

amended by removing the entry for

Orlando in the listing for the State of

Florida.

[FR Doc. 97–26217 Filed 10–2–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

7 CFR Part 0

Employee Responsibilities and

Conduct

AGENCY: Department of Agriculture.

ACTION: Final rule.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Agriculture (Department) is repealing its

internal standards of conduct

regulations as part of the National

Performance Review (NPR) program to

eliminate unnecessary regulations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: These regulations are

effective October 3, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David L. Spradlin, Program Manager for

Employee Relations, Office of Human

Resources Management, U.S.

Department of Agriculture, Room 18–

W—Stop 9601, 1400 Independence

Avenue, SW., Washington, D.C. 20250–

9601, telephone (202) 720–3327.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

Removal of 7 CFR Part 0 promotes the

goal of the NPR to reduce the number

of Federal regulations. Also, the

Department employee responsibilities

and conduct regulations largely have

been superseded by the Office of

Government Ethics (OGE) executive

branch financial disclosure regulations

at 5 CFR Part 2634, ‘‘Executive Branch

Financial Disclosure, Qualified Trusts,

and Certificates of Divestiture,’’ and by

the executive branch-wide standards at

5 CFR Part 2635, ‘‘Standards of Ethical

Conduct for Employees of the Executive

Branch.’’ Therefore, the Department is

repealing all of existing 7 CFR Part 0.

II. Matters of Regulatory Procedure

Administrative Procedure Act

The Department has found that good

cause exists under 5 U.S.C. 553 for

waiving, as unnecessary and contrary to

public interest, the general notice of

proposed rulemaking and the 30-day

delay in effectiveness as to this final

rule. This rulemaking is related to

Department personnel.