ernmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the 
findings of the evaluation required by subpara-
graph (A). 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) AGENCY
BUSINESS.—The term ‘agency 
business’ means work performed by employees on 
behalf of an agency, or under the direction and con-
trol of the agency. 
‘‘(2) AGENCY
RESOURCES
PROVIDED
FOR 
UNION USE.—The term ‘agency resources provided 
for union use’ means the resources of an agency, 
other than the time of employees in a duty status, 
that such agency provides to labor representatives 
for purposes pertaining to matters covered by this 
chapter, including agency office space, parking 
space, equipment, and reimbursement for expenses 
incurred while on union time or otherwise per-
forming non-agency business, except that this term 
does not include any resource to the extent that such 
resource is used for agency business. 
‘‘(3) LABOR ORGANIZATION.—The term ‘labor 
organization’ means a labor organization recognized 
as an exclusive representative of employees of an 
agency under this chapter or as a representative of 
agency employees under any system established by 
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the Transportation Security Administration Admin-
istrator pursuant to section 111(d) of the Aviation 
and Transportation Security Act (49 U.S.C. 44935 
note). 
‘‘(4) HOURLY RATE OF PAY.—The term ‘hourly 
rate of pay’ means the total cost to an agency of em-
ploying an employee in a pay period or pay periods, 
including wages, salary, and other cash payments, 
agency contributions to employee health and retire-
ment benefits, employer payroll tax payments, paid 
leave accruals, and the cost to the agency for other 
benefits, divided by the number of hours such em-
ployee worked in such pay period or pay periods. 
‘‘(5) INTEREST RATE.—The term ‘interest rate’ 
means the average market yield of outstanding mar-
ketable obligations of the United States having ma-
turities of 30 years plus one percentage point. 
‘‘(6) 
LABOR
REPRESENTATIVE.—The 
term 
‘labor representative’ means an employee of an agen-
cy serving in any official or other representative ca-
pacity for a labor organization (including as any of-
ficer or steward of a labor organization) that is the 
exclusive representative of employees of such agency 
under this chapter or is the representative of em-
ployees under any system established by the Trans-
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portation Security Administration Administrator 
pursuant to section 111(d) of the Aviation and 
Transportation Security Act (49 U.S.C. 44935 
note). 
‘‘(7) UNION
TIME.—The term ‘union time’ 
means the time an employee of an agency who is a 
labor representative for a labor organization spends 
performing non-agency business while on duty, ei-
ther in service of such labor organization or other-
wise acting in the capacity as an employee represent-
ative, including official time authorized under sec-
tion 7131.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end the following new item: 
‘‘7136. Charging labor organizations for use of Federal resources.’’. 
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