[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 180 (Wednesday, September 17, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54504-54505]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-23687]


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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT


Federal Salary Council

AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Salary Council will meet at the time and location 
shown below. The Council is an advisory body composed of 
representatives of Federal employee organizations and experts in the 
fields of labor relations and pay policy. The Council makes 
recommendations to the President's Pay Agent (the Secretary of Labor 
and the Directors of the Office of Management and Budget and the Office 
of Personnel Management) about the locality pay program for General

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Schedule employees under section 5304 of title 5, United States Code. 
The Council's recommendations cover the establishment or modification 
of locality pay areas, the coverage of salary surveys, the process of 
comparing Federal and non-Federal rates of pay, and the level of 
comparability payments that should be paid.
    The Council will continue its review of the new metropolitan 
statistical areas announced by the Office of Management and Budget in 
June 2003, new commuting pattern data, and other information related to 
establishing or modifying locality pay area boundaries begun at the 
Council's September 3, 2003 meeting. The Council anticipates completing 
its discussion of whether any changes should be recommended in locality 
pay area boundaries and which geographic locations should be surveyed 
for locality pay purposes. The Council will also review the results of 
pay comparisons and formulate its recommendations to the President's 
Pay Agent on pay comparison methods, locality pay rates, and locality 
pay area boundaries for 2005. The Council anticipates it will complete 
its work for this year at this meeting and has not scheduled any 
additional meetings for 2003. The public may submit written materials 
about the locality pay program to the Council at the address shown 
below. The meeting is open to the public.

DATES: October 7, 2003, at 1 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E Street NW., Room 5303 
(Pendleton Room), Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donald J. Winstead, Deputy Associate 
Director for Pay and Performance Policy, Office of Personnel 
Management, 1900 E Street NW., Room 7H31, Washington, DC 20415-8200. 
Phone (202) 606-2838; FAX (202) 606-0824; or email at [email protected].

    For the President's Pay Agent:
Kay Cole James,
Director.
[FR Doc. 03-23687 Filed 9-16-03; 8:45 am]
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