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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 228 (Tuesday, November 26, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 93147-93148]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27662]

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Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 228 / Tuesday, November 26, 2024 / 
Rules and Regulations

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

5 CFR Part 532

[Docket ID: OPM-2024-0012]
RIN 3206-AO70

Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment of Calhoun, Alabama, as a 
Nonappropriated Fund Federal Wage System Wage Area

AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final 
rule to abolish the Calhoun, Alabama (AL), nonappropriated fund (NAF) 
Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area and define Calhoun County, AL, to 
the Cobb, Georgia, NAF FWS wage area, and Jefferson County, AL, to the 
Madison, AL, NAF FWS wage area. These changes are necessary because NAF 
FWS employment in the survey area is now below the minimum criterion of 
26 wage employees to maintain a wage area, and the local activities no 
longer have the capability to conduct local wage surveys.

DATES: 
    Effective date: This regulation is effective December 26, 2024.
    Applicability date: This change applies on the first day of the 
first applicable pay period beginning on or after December 26, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ana Paunoiu, by telephone at (202) 
606-2858 or by email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 30, 2024, OPM issued a proposed rule 
(89 FR 46830) to abolish the Calhoun, AL, NAF FWS wage area and define 
Calhoun County, AL, to the Cobb, GA, NAF FWS wage area, and Jefferson 
County, AL, to the Madison, AL, NAF FWS wage area. The Federal 
Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee, 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 proposed rule had a 30-day comment period, during which OPM 
received no comments. Therefore, this final rule adopts the proposed 
rule at 89 FR 46830 without change.

Expected Impact of This Rule

    Section 5343 of title 5, U.S. Code, provides OPM with the authority 
and responsibility to define the boundaries of NAF 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 final rule to impact approximately 21 NAF FWS employees. 
Considering the small number of employees affected, OPM does not 
anticipate this rule will substantially impact local economies or have 
a large impact in local labor markets. 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.

Regulatory Review

    Executive Orders 13563, 12866, and 14094 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 rule 
is not a ``significant regulatory action'' under the provisions of 
Executive Order 14094 and, therefore, was not reviewed by OMB.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

    The Acting Director of OPM certifies that this rule will not have a 
significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.

Federalism

    OPM has 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 rule meets the applicable standard set forth in Executive 
Order 12988.

Unfunded Mandates Act of 1995

    Section 202 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) 
requires that agencies assess anticipated costs and benefits before 
issuing any rule that would impose spending costs on State, local, or 
tribal governments in the aggregate, or on the private sector, in any 1 
year of $100 million in 1995 dollars, updated annually for inflation. 
That threshold is currently approximately $183 million. This rule will 
not result in the expenditure by State, local, or tribal governments, 
in the aggregate, or by the private sector, in excess of the threshold. 
Thus, no written assessment of unfunded mandates is required.

Congressional Review Act

    OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has determined 
this rule does not satisfy the criteria listed in 5 U.S.C. 804(2).

Paperwork Reduction Act

    This rule does not impose any 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.
Kayyonne Marston,
Federal Register Liaison.

    Accordingly, OPM is amending 5 CFR part 532 as follows:

PART 532--PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS

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1. The authority citation for part 532 continues to read as follows:

    Authority:  5 U.S.C. 5343, 5346; Sec.  532.707 also issued under 
5 U.S.C. 552.

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2. In appendix D to subpart B, amend the table by revising the wage 
area listing for the States of Alabama and Georgia to read as follows:

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Appendix D to Subpart B of Part 532--Nonappropriated Fund Wage and 
Survey Areas

          Definitions of Wage Areas and Wage Area Survey Areas
 
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                                 ALABAMA
                                 Madison
                               Survey Area
Alabama:
  Madison
                 Area of Application. Survey area plus:
Alabama:
  Jefferson
Tennessee:
  Coffee
  Davidson
  Hamilton
  Rutherford
                               Montgomery
                               Survey Area
Alabama:
  Montgomery
                 Area of Application. Survey area plus:
Alabama:
  Dale
  Dallas
  Macon
 
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                                 GEORGIA
                                 Chatham
                               Survey Area
Georgia:
  Chatham
                 Area of Application. Survey area plus:
Georgia:
  Glynn
  Liberty
South Carolina:
  Beaufort
                                  Cobb
                               Survey Area
Georgia:
  Cobb
                 Area of Application. Survey area plus:
Alabama:
  Calhoun
Georgia:
  Bartow
  De Kalb
  Fulton
                                Columbus
                               Survey Area
Georgia:
  Columbus
                 Area of Application. Survey area plus:
Georgia:
  Chattahoochee
                                Dougherty
                               Survey Area
Georgia:
  Dougherty
                    Area of Application. Survey area.
                                 HOUSTON
                               Survey Area
Georgia:
  Houston
                 Area of Application. Survey area plus:
Georgia:
  Laurens
                                 Lowndes
                               Survey Area
Georgia:
  Lowndes
                 Area of Application. Survey area plus:
Florida:
  Leon
                                Richmond
                               Survey Area
Georgia:
  Richmond
                 Area of Application. Survey area plus:
South Carolina:
  Aiken
 

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[FR Doc. 2024-27662 Filed 11-25-24; 8:45 am]
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