This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

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Vol. 74, No. 9 

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

5 CFR Part 532 

RIN 3206–AL77 

Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition 

of Certain Appropriated Fund Federal 

Wage System Wage Areas 

AGENCY: U.S. Office of Personnel 

Management. 

ACTION: Proposed rule with request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Office of Personnel 

Management (OPM) is issuing a 

proposed rule that would redefine the 

geographic boundaries of several 

appropriated fund Federal Wage System 

wage areas for pay-setting purposes. 

Based on recent reviews of Metropolitan 

Statistical Area boundaries in a number 

of wage areas, OPM proposes 

redefinitions affecting the following 

wage areas: Birmingham, AL; Denver, 

CO; Wilmington, DE; Washington, DC; 

Atlanta, GA; Columbus, GA; Macon, 

GA; Chicago, IL; Bloomington-BedfordWashington, IN; Indianapolis, IN; 

Louisville, KY; Baltimore, MD; 

Hagerstown-Martinsburg-Chambersburg, 

MD; St. Louis, MO; Southern Missouri; 

Omaha, NE; New York, NY; 

Philadelphia, PA; Scranton-WilkesBarre, PA; Eastern South Dakota; 

Richmond, VA; and Milwaukee, WI. 

DATES: We must receive comments on or 

before February 13, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments 

to Charles D. Grimes III, Deputy 

Associate Director for Performance and 

Pay Systems, Strategic Human 

Resources Policy Division, U.S. Office of 

Personnel Management, Room 7H31, 

1900 E Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20415–8200; e-mail pay-performancepolicy@opm.gov; or FAX: (202) 606– 

4264. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Madeline Gonzalez, (202) 606–2838; email pay-performance-policy@opm.gov; 

or FAX: (202) 606–4264. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. 

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 

is issuing a proposed rule to redefine 

the geographic boundaries of several 

appropriated fund Federal Wage System 

(FWS) wage areas. These changes are 

based on recommendations of the 

Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory 

Committee (FPRAC), the statutory 

national labor-management committee 

responsible for advising OPM on 

matters affecting the pay of FWS 

employees. From time to time, FPRAC 

reviews the boundaries of wage areas 

and provides OPM with 

recommendations for changes if the 

Committee finds that changes are 

warranted. 

There are currently 132 FWS wage 

areas in the United States and the 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for bluecollar employees who are paid from 

appropriated funds. Each wage area is 

comprised of a survey area where a lead 

agency, the Department of Defense, 

measures local prevailing wage levels in 

a local labor market. Because it is not 

feasible to include every part of the 

United States in a survey area, those 

parts that are not in a survey area are 

combined with a nearby survey area to 

form a wage area’s area of application. 

OPM considers the following 

regulatory criteria under 5 CFR 532.211 

when defining FWS wage area 

boundaries: 

1. Distance, transportation facilities, 

and geographic features; 

2. Commuting patterns; and 

3. Similarities in overall population, 

employment, and the kinds and sizes of 

private industrial establishments. 

In addition, OPM regulations at 5 CFR 

532.211 do not permit splitting 

Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) 

for the purpose of defining a wage area, 

except in very unusual circumstances 

(e.g., organizational relationships among 

closely located Federal activities). 

The Office of Management and Budget 

defines MSAs and maintains and 

updates the definitions of MSA 

boundaries following each decennial 

census. MSAs are composed of counties 

and are defined on the basis of a central 

urbanized area-a contiguous area of 

relatively high population density. 

Additional surrounding counties are 

included in MSAs if they have strong 

social and economic ties to central 

counties. 

When the boundaries of wage areas 

were first established in the 1960s, there 

were fewer MSAs than there are today 

and the boundaries of the then existing 

MSAs were much smaller. Most MSAs 

were contained within the boundaries of 

a wage area. MSAs have expanded each 

decade and in some cases now extend 

beyond the boundaries of the wage area. 

FPRAC recently reviewed several 

wage areas where boundaries subdivide 

certain MSAs and concurred by 

consensus with the changes described 

in this proposed rule. These changes 

would be effective on the first day of the 

first applicable pay period beginning on 

or after 30 days following publication of 

the final regulations. FPRAC 

recommended no other changes in the 

geographic definitions of the wage areas. 

Birmingham-Hoover, AL MSA: Bibb, 

Blount, Chilton, Jefferson, St. Clair, 

Shelby, and Walker Counties, AL, 

comprise the Birmingham-Hoover, AL 

MSA. Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, and 

Walker Counties are part of the 

Birmingham survey area, Bibb and 

Blount Counties are part of the 

Birmingham area of application, and 

Chilton County is part of the Columbus 

area of application. OPM proposes to 

redefine Chilton County to the 

Birmingham area of application so that 

the entire Birmingham-Hoover, AL MSA 

is in one wage area. There are currently 

no FWS employees working in Chilton 

County. 

Denver-Aurora, CO MSA: Adams, 

Arapahoe, Broomfield, Clear Creek, 

Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin, 

Jefferson, and Park Counties, CO, 

comprise the Denver-Aurora, CO MSA. 

Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, 

Gilpin, and Jefferson Counties are part 

of the Denver, CO, survey area and Clear 

Creek, Elbert, and Park are part of the 

Denver area of application. Broomfield 

County is currently undefined. 

The municipality of Broomfield was 

incorporated in 1961 in the southeastern 

corner of Boulder County, CO. On 

November 15, 2001, Broomfield County 

officially separated from Boulder 

County and became the 64th county of 

Colorado. The boundaries of the City of 

Broomfield and the County of 

Broomfield are identical. 

OPM proposes to define Broomfield 

County as part of the Denver survey 

area. There are three FWS employees 

working in Broomfield County. 

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, 

DC-MD-VA-WV MSA: Washington, DC; 

Calvert, Charles, Frederick, 


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Montgomery, and Prince George’s 

Counties, MD; Arlington, Clarke, 

Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince 

William, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and 

Warren Counties, VA; Alexandria, 

Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, 

Manassas, and Manassas Park Cities, 

VA; and Jefferson County, WV, 

comprise the Washington-ArlingtonAlexandria, DC-MD-VA-WV MSA. 

Washington, DC; Charles, Frederick, 

Montgomery, and Prince George’s 

Counties, MD; Arlington, Fairfax, 

Loudoun, and Prince William Counties, 

VA; and Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls 

Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park 

Cities, VA; are part of the Washington 

survey area. Calvert and St. Mary’s 

Counties, MD, and Fauquier, King 

George, and Stafford Counties, VA, are 

part of the Washington area of 

application. Spotsylvania County and 

Fredericksburg City, VA, are part of the 

Richmond area of application. Clarke 

and Warren Counties, VA, and Jefferson 

County, WV, are part of the HagerstownMartinsburg-Chambersburg area of 

application. OPM proposes to redefine 

Clarke, Spotsylvania, and Warren 

Counties, VA, Fredericksburg City, VA, 

and Jefferson County, WV, to the 

Washington area of application so that 

the entire Washington-ArlingtonAlexandria, DC-MD-VA-WV MSA is in 

one wage area. There are no FWS 

employees working in Clarke and 

Spotsylvania Counties, but there are 31 

FWS employees working in Warren 

County, 9 FWS employees working in 

Fredericksburg City, and 50 FWS 

employees working in Jefferson County. 

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA 

MSA: Barlow, Barrow, Butts, Carroll, 

Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, 

Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, 

Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, 

Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, 

Meriwether, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, 

Pike, Rockdale, Spalding, and Walton 

Counties, GA, comprise the AtlantaSandy Springs-Marietta, GA MSA. 

Butts, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, 

Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, 

Gwinnett, Henry, Newton, Paulding, 

Rockdale, and Walton Counties are part 

of the Atlanta survey area; Bartow, 

Barrow, Carroll, Coweta, Dawson, 

Haralson, Heard, Pickens, Pike, and 

Spalding Counties are part of the 

Atlanta area of application; Jasper and 

Lamar Counties are part of the Macon 

area of application; and Meriwether 

County is part of the Columbus area of 

application. OPM proposes to redefine 

Jasper, Lamar, and Meriwether Counties 

to the Atlanta area of application so that 

the entire Atlanta-Sandy SpringsMarietta, GA MSA is in one wage area. 

There are no FWS employees working 

in Jasper and Lamar Counties, but there 

is one FWS employee working in 

Meriwether County. 

Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI 

MSA: Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, 

Kane, Kendall, McHenry, and Will 

Counties, IL; Jasper, Lake, Newton, and 

Porter Counties, IN; and Lake and 

Kenosha Counties, WI, comprise the 

Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI 

MSA. Cook, DuPage, Kane, McHenry, 

and Will Counties, IL, and Lake County, 

WI, are part of the Chicago survey area; 

DeKalb, Grundy, and Kendall, IL, and 

Jasper, Lake, Newton, and Porter 

Counties, IN, are part of the Chicago 

area of application; and Kenosha 

County, WI, is part of the Milwaukee 

area of application. OPM proposes to 

redefine Kenosha County to the Chicago 

area of application so that the entire 

Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI 

MSA is in one wage area. There are six 

FWS employees working in Kenosha 

County. 

Indianapolis, IN MSA: Boone, Brown, 

Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, 

Johnson, Marion, Morgan, Putnam, and 

Shelby Counties, IN, comprise the 

Indianapolis, IN MSA. Boone, Hamilton, 

Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, 

Morgan, and Shelby Counties are part of 

the Indianapolis survey area; Putnam 

County is part of the Indianapolis area 

of application; and Brown County is 

part of the Bloomington-BedfordWashington area of application. OPM 

proposes to redefine Brown County to 

the Indianapolis area of application so 

that the entire Indianapolis, IN MSA is 

in one wage area. There are no FWS 

employees working in Brown County. 

Sioux City, IA-NE-SD MSA: 

Woodbury County, IA, Dakota and 

Dixon Counties, NE, and Union County, 

SD, comprise the Sioux City, IA-NE-SD 

MSA. Woodbury County, IA, and 

Dakota and Dixon Counties, NE, are part 

of the Omaha area of application and 

Union County, SD, is part of the Eastern 

South Dakota area of application. OPM 

proposes to redefine Union County to 

the Omaha area of application so that 

the entire Sioux City, IA-NE-SD MSA is 

in one wage area. There are no FWS 

employees working in Union County. 

Louisville, KY-IN MSA: Clark, Floyd, 

Harrison, and Washington County, IN, 

and Bullitt, Henry, Jefferson, Meade, 

Nelson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, and 

Trimble Counties, KY, comprise the 

Louisville, KY-IN MSA. Clark, and 

Floyd Counties, IN, and Bullitt, 

Jefferson, and Oldham Counties, KY, are 

part of the Louisville survey area; 

Harrison County, IN, and Henry, Meade, 

Nelson, Shelby, Spencer, and Trimble 

Counties, KY, are part of the Louisville 

area of application; and Washington 

County, IN, is part of the BloomingtonBedford-Washington area of application. 

OPM proposes to redefine Washington 

County to the Louisville area of 

application so that the entire Louisville, 

KY-IN MSA is in one wage area. There 

are no FWS employees working in 

Washington County. 

Baltimore-Towson, MD MSA: Anne 

Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, 

Howard, and Queen Anne’s Counties, 

MD, and Baltimore City, MD, comprise 

the Baltimore-Towson, MD MSA. Anne 

Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, 

and Howard Counties and Baltimore 

City are part of the Baltimore survey 

area and Queen Anne’s County is part 

of the Wilmington area of application. 

OPM proposes to redefine Queen 

Anne’s County to the Baltimore area of 

application so that the entire BaltimoreTowson, MD MSA is in one wage area. 

There are no FWS employees working 

in Queen Anne’s County. 

Jefferson City, MO MSA: Callaway, 

Cole, Moniteau, and Osage Counties, 

MO, comprise the Jefferson City, MO 

MSA. Callaway, Cole, and Osage 

Counties are part of the St. Louis area 

of application and Moniteau County is 

part of the Southern Missouri area of 

application. OPM proposes to redefine 

Moniteau County to the St. Louis area 

of application so that the entire Jefferson 

City, MO MSA is in one wage area. 

There are no FWS employees working 

in Moniteau County. 

New York-Newark-Edison, NY-NJ-PA 

MSA: Bergen, Essex, Hudson, 

Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, 

Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, 

Sussex, and Union Counties, NJ; Bronx, 

Kings, Nassau, New York, Putnam, 

Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, 

and Westchester Counties, NY; and Pike 

County, PA, comprise the New YorkNewark-Edison, NY-NJ-PA MSA. 

Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, 

Morris, Passaic, Somerset, and Union 

Counties, NJ, and Bronx, Kings, Nassau, 

New York, Queens, Suffolk, and 

Westchester Counties, NY, are part of 

the New York survey area. Monmouth, 

Ocean (excluding the Fort Dix Military 

Reservation), and Sussex Counties, NJ, 

and Putnam, Richmond, and Rockland 

Counties, NY, are part of the New York 

area of application. Hunterdon County, 

NJ, is part of the Philadelphia area of 

application and Pike County, PA, is part 

of the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre area of 

application. OPM proposes to redefine 

Hunterdon County, NJ, and Pike 

County, PA, to the New York area of 

application so that the entire New YorkNewark-Edison, NY-NJ-PA MSA is in 

one wage area. There are no FWS 

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County, but there are five FWS 

employees working in Pike County. 

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ 

MSA: Warren County, NJ, and Carbon, 

Lehigh, and Northampton Counties, PA, 

comprise the Allentown-BethlehemEaston, PA-NJ MSA. Warren County, NJ, 

and Lehigh and Northampton Counties, 

PA are part of the Philadelphia area of 

application and Carbon County, PA, is 

part of the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre area 

of application. OPM proposes to 

redefine Carbon County to the 

Philadelphia area of application so that 

the entire Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, 

PA-NJ MSA is in one wage area. There 

are three FWS employees working in 

Carbon County. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

I certify that these regulations would 

not have a significant economic impact 

on a substantial number of small entities 

because they would 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. 

U.S. Office of Personnel Management. 

Michael W. Hager, 

Acting Director. 

Accordingly, the U.S. Office of 

Personnel Management is proposing to 

amend 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. 

2. Appendix C to subpart B is 

amended by revising the wage area 

listings for Birmingham, AL; Denver, 

CO; Wilmington, DE; Washington, DC; 

Atlanta, GA; Columbus, GA; Macon, 

GA; Chicago, IL; Bloomington-BedfordWashington, IN; Indianapolis, IN; 

Louisville, KY; Baltimore, MD; 

Hagerstown-Martinsburg-Chambersburg, 

MD; St. Louis, MO; Southern Missouri; 

Omaha, NE; New York, NY; 

Philadelphia, PA; Scranton-WilkesBarre, PA; Eastern South Dakota; 

Richmond, VA; and Milwaukee, WI, to 

read as follows: 

APPENDIX C TO SUBPART B OF PART 

532—APPROPRIATED FUND WAGE 

AND SURVEY AREAS 

* * * * * 

ALABAMA 

* * * * * 

Birmingham 

Survey Area 

Alabama: 

Jefferson 

St. Clair 

Shelby 

Tuscaloosa 

Walker 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Alabama: 

Bibb 

Blount 

Chilton 

Cullman 

Fayette 

Greene 

Hale 

Lamar 

Marengo 

Perry 

Pickens 

* * * * * 

COLORADO 

Denver 

Survey Area 

Colorado: 

Adams 

Arapahoe 

Boulder 

Broomfield 

Denver 

Douglas 

Gilpin 

Jefferson 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Colorado: 

Clear Creek 

Eagle 

Elbert 

Garfield 

Grand 

Jackson 

Lake 

Larimer 

Logan 

Morgan 

Park 

Phillips 

Pitkin 

Rio Blanco 

Routt 

Sedgwick 

Summit 

Washington 

Weld 

Yuma 

* * * * * 

DELAWARE 

Wilmington 

Survey Area 

Delaware: 

Kent 

New Castle 

Maryland: 

Cecil 

New Jersey: 

Salem 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Delaware: 

Sussex 

Maryland: 

Caroline 

Dorchester 

Kent 

Somerset 

Talbot 

Wicomico 

Worcester (Does not include the 

Assateague Island portion.) 

* * * * * 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

Washington, DC 

Survey Area 

District of Columbia: 

Washington, DC 

Maryland: 

Charles 

Frederick 

Montgomery 

Prince George’s 

Virginia (cities): 

Alexandria 

Fairfax 

Falls Church 

Manassas 

Manassas Park 

Virginia (counties): 

Arlington 

Fairfax 

Loudoun 

Prince William 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Maryland: 

Calvert 

St. Mary’s 

Virginia (city): 

Fredericksburg 

Virginia (counties): 

Clarke 

Fauquier 

King George 

Spotsylvania 

Stafford 

Warren 

West Virginia: 

Jefferson 

* * * * * 

GEORGIA 

* * * * * 

Atlanta 

Survey Area 

Georgia: 

Butts 

Cherokee 

Clayton 

Cobb 

De Kalb 

Douglas 

Fayette 

Forsyth 

Fulton 

Gwinnett 

Henry 

Newton 

Paulding 

Rockdale 

Walton 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Georgia: 


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Banks 

Barrow 

Bartow 

Carroll 

Chattooga 

Clarke 

Coweta 

Dawson 

Fannin 

Floyd 

Franklin 

Gilmer 

Gordon 

Greene 

Habersham 

Hall 

Haralson 

Heard 

Jackson 

Jasper 

Lamar 

Lumpkin 

Madison 

Meriwether 

Morgan 

Murray 

Oconee 

Oglethorpe 

Pickens 

Pike 

Polk 

Rabun 

Spalding 

Stephens 

Towns 

Union 

White 

Whitfield 

* * * * * 

Columbus 

Survey Area 

Georgia (counties): 

Chattahoochee 

Georgia (consolidated government): 

Columbus 

Alabama: 

Autauga 

Elmore 

Lee 

Macon 

Montgomery 

Russell 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Georgia: 

Harris 

Marion 

Quitman 

Schley 

Stewart 

Talbot 

Taylor 

Webster 

Alabama: 

Bullock 

Butler 

Chambers 

Coosa 

Crenshaw 

Dallas 

Lowndes 

Pike 

Tallapoosa 

Wilcox 

Macon 

Survey Area 

Georgia: 

Bibb 

Houston 

Jones 

Laurens 

Twiggs 

Wilkinson 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Georgia: 

Baldwin 

Bleckley 

Crawford 

Crisp 

Dodge 

Dooly 

Hancock 

Johnson 

Macon 

Monroe 

Montgomery 

Peach 

Pulaski 

Putnam 

Telfair 

Treutlen 

Upson 

Washington 

Wheeler 

Wilcox 

* * * * * 

ILLINOIS 

* * * * * 

Chicago 

Survey Area 

Illinois: 

Cook 

Du Page 

Kane 

Lake 

McHenry 

Will 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Illinois: 

Boone 

De Kalb 

Grundy 

Iroquois 

Kankakee 

Kendall 

La Salle 

Lee 

Livingston 

Ogle 

Stephenson 

Winnebago 

Indiana: 

Benton 

Jasper 

Lake 

La Porte 

Newton 

Porter 

Pulaski 

Starke 

Wisconsin: 

Kenosha 

INDIANA 

Bloomington-Bedford-Washington 

Survey Area 

Indiana: 

Daviess 

Greene 

Knox 

Lawrence 

Martin 

Monroe 

Orange 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Indiana: 

Crawford 

Dubois 

Gibson 

Jackson 

Owen 

Perry 

Pike 

Posey 

Spencer 

Vanderburgh 

Warrick 

Illinois: 

Edwards 

Gallatin 

Hardin 

Lawrence 

Richland 

Wabash 

White 

Kentucky: 

Crittenden 

Daviess 

Hancock 

Henderson 

Livingston 

McLean 

Ohio 

Union 

Webster 

* * * * * 

Indianapolis 

Survey Area 

Indiana: 

Boone 

Hamilton 

Hancock 

Hendricks 

Johnson 

Marion 

Morgan 

Shelby 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Indiana: 

Bartholomew 

Brown 

Clay 

Clinton 

Decatur 

Delaware 

Fayette 

Fountain 

Henry 

Madison 

Montgomery 

Parke 

Putnam 

Rush 

Sullivan 

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Vermillion 

Vigo 

Warren 

* * * * * 

KENTUCKY 

* * * * * 

Louisville 

Survey Area 

Kentucky: 

Bullitt 

Hardin 

Jefferson 

Oldham 

Indiana: 

Clark 

Floyd 

Jefferson 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Kentucky: 

Breckinridge 

Grayson 

Hart 

Henry 

Larue 

Meade 

Nelson 

Shelby 

Spencer 

Trimble 

Indiana: 

Harrison 

Jennings 

Scott 

Washington 

* * * * * 

MARYLAND 

* * * * * 

Baltimore 

Survey Area 

Maryland: 

Baltimore City 

Anne Arundel 

Baltimore 

Carroll 

Harford 

Howard 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Maryland: 

Queen Anne’s 

Hagerstown-Martinsburg-Chambersburg 

Survey Area 

Maryland: 

Washington 

Pennsylvania: 

Franklin 

West Virginia: 

Berkeley 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Maryland: 

Allegany 

Garrett 

Pennsylvania: 

Fulton 

Virginia (cities): 

Harrisonburg 

Winchester 

Virginia (counties): 

Culpeper 

Frederick 

Greene 

Madison 

Page 

Rappahannock 

Rockingham 

Shenandoah 

West Virginia: 

Hampshire 

Hardy 

Mineral 

Morgan 

* * * * * 

MISSOURI 

St. Louis 

Survey Area 

Missouri: 

St. Louis City 

Franklin 

Jefferson 

St. Charles 

St. Louis 

Illinois: 

Clinton 

Madison 

Monroe 

St. Clair 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Missouri: 

Audrain 

Boone 

Callaway 

Clark 

Cole 

Crawford 

Gasconade 

Knox 

Lewis 

Lincoln 

Marion 

Moniteau 

Monroe 

Montgomery 

Osage 

Pike 

Ralls 

Randolph 

St. Francois 

Ste. Genevieve 

Scotland 

Shelby 

Warren 

Washington 

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 

Southern Missouri 

Survey Area 

Missouri: 

Christian 

Greene 

Laclede 

Phelps 

Pulaski 

Webster 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Missouri: 

Barry 

Barton 

Benton 

Bollinger 

Butler 

Camden 

Cape Girardeau 

Carter 

Cedar 

Dade 

Dallas 

Dent 

Douglas 

Hickory 

Howell 

Iron 

Jasper 

Lawrence 

McDonald 

Madison 

Maries 

Miller 

Mississippi 

Morgan 

New Madrid 

Newton 

Oregon 

Ozark 

Perry 

Polk 

Reynolds 

Ripley 

St. Clair 

Scott 

Shannon 

Stoddard 

Stone 

Taney 

Texas 

Vernon 

Wayne 

Wright 

Kansas: 

Cherokee 

Crawford 

* * * * * 

NEBRASKA 

Omaha 

Survey Area 

Nebraska: 


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Douglas 

Lancaster 

Sarpy 

Iowa: 

Pottawattamie 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Nebraska: 

Adams 

Antelope 

Arthur 

Blaine 

Boone 

Boyd 

Brown 

Buffalo 

Burt 

Butler 

Cass 

Cedar 

Chase 

Cherry 

Clay 

Colfax 

Cuming 

Custer 

Dakota 

Dawson 

Dixon 

Dodge 

Dundy 

Fillmore 

Franklin 

Frontier 

Furnas 

Gage 

Garfield 

Gosper 

Grant 

Greeley 

Hall 

Hamilton 

Harlan 

Hayes 

Hitchcock 

Holt 

Hooker 

Howard 

Jefferson 

Johnson 

Kearney 

Keith 

Keya Paha 

Knox 

Lincoln 

Logan 

Loup 

McPherson 

Madison 

Merrick 

Nance 

Nemaha 

Nuckolls 

Otoe 

Pawnee 

Perkins 

Phelps 

Pierce 

Platte 

Polk 

Red Willow 

Richardson 

Rock 

Saline 

Saunders 

Seward 

Sherman 

Stanton 

Thayer 

Thomas 

Thurston 

Valley 

Washington 

Wayne 

Webster 

Wheeler 

York 

Iowa: 

Adams 

Audubon 

Buena Vista 

Cass 

Cherokee 

Clay 

Crawford 

Fremont 

Harrison 

Ida 

Mills 

Monona 

Montgomery 

O’Brien 

Page 

Palo Alto 

Plymouth 

Pocahontas 

Sac 

Shelby 

Sioux 

Taylor 

Woodbury 

South Dakota: 

Union 

* * * * * 

NEW YORK 

* * * * * 

New York 

Survey Area 

New York: 

Bronx 

Kings 

Nassau 

New York 

Queens 

Suffolk 

Westchester 

New Jersey: 

Bergen 

Essex 

Hudson 

Middlesex 

Morris 

Passaic 

Somerset 

Union 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

New York: 

Putnam 

Richmond 

Rockland 

New Jersey: 

Hunterdon 

Monmouth 

Ocean (Excluding the Fort Dix Military 

Reservation) 

Sussex 

Pennsylvania: 

Pike 

* * * * * 

PENNSYLVANIA 

* * * * * 

Philadelphia 

Survey Area 

Pennsylvania: 

Bucks 

Chester 

Delaware 

Montgomery 

Philadelphia 

New Jersey: 

Burlington 

Camden 

Gloucester 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Pennsylvania: 

Carbon 

Lehigh 

Northampton 

New Jersey: 

Atlantic 

Cape May 

Cumberland 

Mercer 

Ocean (Fort Dix Military Reservation only) 

Warren 

* * * * * 

Scranton-Wilkes-Barre 

Survey Area 

Pennsylvania: 

Lackawanna 

Luzerne 

Monroe 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Pennsylvania: 

Bradford 

Columbia 

Lycoming (Excluding Allenwood Federal 

Prison Camp) 

Sullivan 

Susquehanna 

Wayne 

Wyoming 

* * * * * 

SOUTH DAKOTA 

Eastern South Dakota 

Survey Area 

South Dakota: 

Minnehaha 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

South Dakota: 

Aurora 

Beadle 

Bennett 

Bon Homme 

Brookings 

Brown 

Brule 

Buffalo 

Campbell 

Charles Mix 

Clark 

Clay 

Codington 

Corson 

Davison 

Day 

Deuel 

Dewey 


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Douglas 

Edmunds 

Faulk 

Grant 

Gregory 

Haakon 

Hamlin 

Hand 

Hanson 

Hughes 

Hutchinson 

Hyde 

Jerauld 

Jones 

Kingsbury 

Lake 

Lincoln 

Lyman 

McCook 

McPherson 

Marshall 

Mellette 

Miner 

Moody 

Potter 

Roberts 

Sanborn 

Spink 

Stanley 

Sully 

Todd 

Tripp 

Turner 

Walworth 

Washabaugh 

Yankton 

Ziebach 

Iowa: 

Dickinson 

Emmet 

Lyon 

Osceola 

Minnesota: 

Jackson 

Lincoln 

Lyon 

Murray 

Nobles 

Pipestone 

Rock 

* * * * * 

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 

Amelia 

Brunswick 

Buckingham 

Caroline 

Charlotte 

Cumberland 

Essex 

Fluvanna 

Greensville 

King and Queen 

King William 

Lancaster 

Louisa 

Lunenberg 

Mecklenburg 

Middlesex 

Northumberland 

Nottoway 

Orange 

Prince Edward 

Richmond 

Sussex 

Westmoreland 

* * * * * 

WISCONSIN 

* * * * * 

Milwaukee 

Survey Area 

Wisconsin: 

Milwaukee 

Ozaukee 

Washington 

Waukesha 

Area of Application. Survey Area Plus 

Wisconsin: 

Brown 

Calumet 

Door 

Fond du Lac 

Kewaunee 

Manitowoc 

Outagamie 

Racine 

Sheboygan 

Walworth 

Winnebago 

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BILLING CODE 6325–39–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Natural Resources Conservation 

Service 

7 CFR Part 625 

RIN 0578–AA52 

Healthy Forests Reserve Program 

AGENCY: Natural Resources 

Conservation Service (NRCS), United 

States Department of Agriculture 

(USDA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule; request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: On May 17, 2006, NRCS 

published an interim final rule for the 

Healthy Forests Reserve Program 

(HFRP) and received 11 comment 

letters. NRCS proposes to amend this 

rule to incorporate changes associated 

with enactment of the Food, 

Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 

(the 2008 Act). The 2008 Act authorizes 

$9,750,000 for each of the fiscal years 

2009 through 2012 to carry out the 

program. As a result of the 2008 Act, 

NRCS will allow land enrollment 

through permanent easements, or 

easements for a maximum duration 

allowed under state law and continue to 

allow enrollment through 10-year costshare agreements; and allow enrollment 

of land owned by tribes or members of 

tribes in 30-year contracts or 10-year 

cost-share agreements, or any 

combination of both. Forty percent of 

program expenditures in any fiscal year 

will be used for restoration cost-share 

agreement enrollment and 60 percent of 

program expenditures in any fiscal year 

will be for easement enrollment. 

In addition to changes associated with 

the 2008 Act, NRCS is addressing 

comments received on the interim final 

rule and proposing additional changes 

that improve program implementation 

based on the experience gained from the 

HRFP implementation under the interim 

final rule. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before February 13, 2009. Comments 

will be made available to the public or 

posted publicly in their entirety. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments 

using any of the following methods: 

Government-wide rulemaking Web 

site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov 

and follow the instructions for sending 

comments electronically. 

NRCS Web site: Go to http:// 

www.nrcs.usda.gov and follow the 

instructions for sending comments 

electronically. 

Mail: Easements Programs Division, 

Natural Resources Conservation Service, 

Healthy Forests Reserve Program 

Comments, P.O. 2890, Room 6819–S, 

Washington, DC 20013. 

Fax: 1–202–720–4265 

Hand Delivery: Room 6819–S of the 

USDA South Office Building, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250, between 9 a.m. 

and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal Holidays. Please ask the 

guard at the entrance to the South Office 

Building to call 202–720–4527 in order 

to be escorted into the building. 

This proposed rule may be accessed 

via Internet. Users can access the NRCS 

homepage at http:// 

www.nrcs.usda.gov/; select Farm Bill 


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