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(2) the Federal Aviation Administration (or its
designee) concerning any service performed by an in-
dividual as an FAA police officer.
(f) REIMBURSEMENT TO COMPENSATE
FOR UN-
FUNDED LIABILITY.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Metropolitan Wash-
ington Airports Authority shall pay into the Civil
Service Retirement and Disability Fund an amount
(as determined by the Director of the Office of Per-
sonnel Management) equal to the amount necessary
to reimburse the Fund for any estimated increase in
the unfunded liability of the Fund (to the extent the
Civil Service Retirement System is involved), and for
any estimated increase in the supplemental liability
of the Fund (to the extent the Federal Employees’
Retirement System is involved), resulting from the
enactment of this section.
(2) PAYMENT
METHOD.—The Metropolitan
Washington Airports Authority shall pay the amount
so determined in 5 equal annual installments, with
interest (which shall be computed at the rate used
in the most recent valuation of the Federal Employ-
ees’ Retirement System).
SEC. 639. (a) For purposes of this section—
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(1) the term ‘‘comparability payment’’ refers to
a locality-based comparability payment under section
5304 of title 5, United States Code;
(2) the term ‘‘President’s pay agent’’ refers to
the pay agent described in section 5302(4) of such
title; and
(3) the term ‘‘pay locality’’ has the meaning
given such term by section 5302(5) of such title.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of section 5304 of
title 5, United States Code, for purposes of determining
appropriate pay localities and making comparability pay-
ment recommendations, the President’s pay agent may, in
accordance with succeeding provisions of this section,
make comparisons of General Schedule pay and non-Fed-
eral pay within any of the metropolitan statistical areas
described in subsection (d)(3), using—
(1) data from surveys of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics;
(2) salary data sets obtained under subsection
(c); or
(3) any combination thereof.
(c) To the extent necessary in order to carry out this
section, the President’s pay agent may obtain any salary
data sets (referred to in subsection (b)) from any organi-
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zation or entity that regularly compiles similar data for
businesses in the private sector.
(d)(1)(A) This paragraph applies with respect to the
5 metropolitan statistical areas described in paragraph (3)
which—
(i) have the highest levels of nonfarm employ-
ment (as determined based on data made available
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics); and
(ii) as of the date of enactment of this Act,
have not previously been surveyed by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics (as discrete pay localities) for pur-
poses of section 5304 of title 5, United States Code.
(B) The President’s pay agent, based on such com-
parisons under subsection (b) as the pay agent considers
appropriate, shall (i) determine whether any of the 5 areas
under subparagraph (A) warrants designation as a dis-
crete pay locality, and (ii) if so, make recommendations
as to what level of comparability payments would be ap-
propriate during 2002 for each area so determined.
(C)(i) Any recommendations under subparagraph
(B)(ii) shall be included—
(I) in the pay agent’s report under section
5304(d)(1) of title 5, United States Code, submitted
for purposes of comparability payments scheduled to
become payable in 2002; or
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(II) if compliance with subclause (I) is imprac-
ticable, in a supplementary report which the pay
agent shall submit to the President and the Con-
gress no later than March 1, 2001.
(ii) In the event that the recommendations are com-
pleted in time to be included in the report described in
clause (i)(I), a copy of those recommendations shall be
transmitted by the pay agent to the Congress contempora-
neous with their submission to the President.
(D) Each of the 5 areas under subparagraph (A) that
so warrants, as determined by the President’s pay agent,
shall be designated as a discrete pay locality under section
5304 of title 5, United States Code, in time for it to be
treated as such for purposes of comparability payments
becoming payable in 2002.
(2) The President’s pay agent may, at any time after
the 180th day following the submission of the report under
subsection (f), make any initial or further determinations
or recommendations under this section, based on any pay
comparisons under subsection (b), with respect to any area
described in paragraph (3).
(3) An area described in this paragraph is any metro-
politan statistical area within the continental United
States that (as determined based on data made available
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Office of Per-
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sonnel Management, respectively) has a high level of non-
farm employment and at least 2,500 General Schedule em-
ployees whose post of duty is within such area.
(e)(1) The authority under this section to make pay
comparisons and to make any determinations or rec-
ommendations based on such comparisons shall be avail-
able to the President’s pay agent only for purposes of com-
parability payments becoming payable on or after January
1, 2002, and before January 1, 2007, and only with re-
spect to areas described in subsection (d)(3).
(2) Any comparisons and recommendations so made
shall, if included in the pay agent’s report under section
5304(d)(1) of title 5, United States Code, for any year
(or the pay agent’s supplementary report, in accordance
with subsection (d)(1)(C)(i)(II)), be considered and acted
on as the pay agent’s comparisons and recommendations
under such section 5304(d)(1) for the area and the year
involved.
(f)(1) No later than March 1, 2001, the President’s
pay agent shall submit to the Committee on Government
Reform of the House of Representatives, the Committee
on Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and of the Senate, a report on the use of pay comparison
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data, as described in subsection (b)(2) or (3) (as appro-
priate), for purposes of comparability payments.
(2) The report shall include the cost of obtaining such
data, the rationale underlying the decisions reached based
on such data, and the relative advantages and disadvan-
tages of using such data (including whether the effort in-
volved in analyzing and integrating such data is commen-
surate with the benefits derived from their use). The re-
port may include specific recommendations regarding the
continued use of such data.
(g)(1) No later than May 1, 2001, the President’s
pay agent shall prepare and submit to the committees
specified in subsection (f)(1) a report relating to the ongo-
ing efforts of the Office of Personnel Management, the
Office of Management and Budget, and the Bureau of
Labor Statistics to revise the methodology currently being
used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in performing its
surveys under section 5304 of title 5, United States Code.
(2) The report shall include a detailed accounting of
any concerns the pay agent may have regarding the cur-
rent methodology, the specific projects the pay agent has
directed any of those agencies to undertake in order to
address those concerns, and a time line for the anticipated
completion of those projects and for implementation of the
revised methodology.