[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 247 (Wednesday, December 24, 2014)]
[Presidential Documents]
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                Executive Order 13686 of December 19, 2014

                
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

                Section 1. Statutory Pay Systems. The rates of basic 
                pay or salaries of the statutory pay systems (as 
                defined in 5 U.S.C. 5302(1)), as adjusted under 5 
                U.S.C. 5303, are set forth on the schedules attached 
                hereto and made a part hereof:

                    (a) The General Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5332(a)) at 
                Schedule 1;
                    (b) The Foreign Service Schedule (22 U.S.C. 3963) 
                at Schedule 2; and
                    (c) The schedules for the Veterans Health 
                Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
                (38 U.S.C. 7306, 7404; section 301(a) of Public Law 
                102-40) at Schedule 3.

                Sec. 2. Senior Executive Service. The ranges of rates 
                of basic pay for senior executives in the Senior 
                Executive Service, as established pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 
                5382, are set forth on Schedule 4 attached hereto and 
                made a part hereof.

                Sec. 3. Certain Executive, Legislative, and Judicial 
                Salaries. The rates of basic pay or salaries for the 
                following offices and positions are set forth on the 
                schedules attached hereto and made a part hereof:

                    (a) The Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5312-5318) at 
                Schedule 5;
                    (b) The Vice President (3 U.S.C. 104) and the 
                Congress (2 U.S.C. 4501) at Schedule 6; and
                    (c) Justices and judges (28 U.S.C. 5, 44(d), 135, 
                252, and 461(a)) at Schedule 7.

                Sec. 4. Uniformed Services. The rates of monthly basic 
                pay (37 U.S.C. 203(a)) for members of the uniformed 
                services, as adjusted under 37 U.S.C. 1009, and the 
                rate of monthly cadet or midshipman pay (37 U.S.C. 
                203(c)) are set forth on Schedule 8 attached hereto and 
                made a part hereof.

                Sec. 5. Locality-Based Comparability Payments. (a) 
                Pursuant to section 5304 of title 5, United States 
                Code, and my authority to implement an alternative 
                level of comparability payments under section 5304a of 
                title 5, United States Code, locality-based 
                comparability payments shall be paid in accordance with 
                Schedule 9 attached hereto and made a part hereof.

                    (b) The Director of the Office of Personnel 
                Management shall take such actions as may be necessary 
                to implement these payments and to publish appropriate 
                notice of such payments in the Federal Register.

                Sec. 6. Administrative Law Judges. Pursuant to section 
                5372 of title 5, United States Code, the rates of basic 
                pay for administrative law judges are set forth on 
                Schedule 10 attached hereto and made a part hereof.

                Sec. 7. Effective Dates. Schedule 8 is effective 
                January 1, 2015. The other schedules contained herein 
                are effective on the first day of the first applicable 
                pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2015.

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                Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13655 
                of December 23, 2013, is superseded as of the effective 
                dates specified in section 7 of this order.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    December 19, 2014.

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Administrative Conference of the United States
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals:
    Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery, 77441


Agriculture Department
See Food Safety and Inspection Service
See Foreign Agricultural Service
See Forest Service


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals, 77495-77496


Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals, 77496-77498


Children and Families Administration
RULES
Standards To Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Sexual Abuse and Sexual 
          Harassment Involving Unaccompanied Children, 77768-77800


Coast Guard
PROPOSED RULES
Safety Zones:
    Annual Events, Captain of the Port Lake Michigan Zone, 77415-77424


Commerce Department
See Economic Development Administration
See International Trade Administration
See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals, 77453-77454


Comptroller of the Currency
RULES
Credit Risk Retention, 77602-77766


Council on Environmental Quality
NOTICES
Economic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines:
    Water and Related Land Resources Implementation Studies, 77460-
            77461
Guidance:
    Federal Departments and Agencies on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas 
            Emissions and the Effects of Climate Change in NEPA 
            Reviews, 77802-77831


Defense Department
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Independent Review Panel on Military Medical Construction 
            Standards, 77461-77462


Disability Employment Policy Office
NOTICES
Charter Amendments:
    Advisory Committee on Increasing Competitive Integrated Employment 
            for Individuals With Disabilities, 77528-77529
Meetings:
    Advisory Committee on Increasing Competitive Integrated Employment 
            for Individuals With Disabilities, 77529-77530


Economic Development Administration
NOTICES
Trade Adjustment Assistance Eligibility; Petitions, 77454


Education Department
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals:
    Evaluation of the Comprehensive Technical Assistance Centers, 
            77462-77463
    Impacts of a Detailed Checklist on Formative Feedback to Teachers, 
            77462


Employment and Training Administration
NOTICES
Worker Adjustment Assistance Eligibility; Amended Certifications:
    Cargill Meat Solutions Corp., et al., Milwaukee, WI, 77530
    SMC Electrical Products, Inc., et al., Barboursville, WV, 77530
    Whirlpool Corp., et al., Fort Smith, AK, 77530-77531
Worker Adjustment Assistance Eligibility; Certifications:
    Plexus Corp., Neenah Operations, et al., Neenah, WI, 77531
Worker Adjustment Assistance Eligibility; Investigations, 77532
Worker and Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance Eligibility; 
          Determinations, 77532-77533


Energy Department
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New 
            Mexico, 77463
    President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 77463-
            77464
Requests for Information:
    Excess Uranium Management; Effects of DOE Transfers of Excess 
            Uranium on Domestic Uranium Mining, Conversion, and 
            Enrichment Industries, 77464-77465


Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Greenhouse Gas Reporting Programs:
    Addition of Global Warming Potentials to the General Provisions and 
            Amendments and Confidentiality Determinations for 
            Fluorinated Gas Production; Correction, 77391

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Identification of Nonattainment Classification and Deadlines for 
          Submission of State Implementation Plans:
    Provisions for the 1997 Fine Particle (PM2.5 and 2006 
            PM2.5 NAAQS; Correction, 77389-77391
Pesticide Tolerances:
    Zeta-cypermethrin, 77391-77394
Tolerance Requirements; Exemptions:
    Beauveria bassiana strain ANT-03, 77395-77396
NOTICES
Benefits of Neonicotinoid Seed Treatment to Soybean Production:
    Reopening of Comment Period, 77477
Registration Review Final and Interim Decisions, 77477-77480
Registration Review Proposed Interim Decisions, 77480-77483
Registration Reviews:
    Draft Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessments, 77483-77485
Requests for Nominations:
    Mobile Sources Technical Review Subcommittee, 77485-77486


Environmental Quality Council
See Council on Environmental Quality


Executive Office of the President
See Council on Environmental Quality
See Presidential Documents


Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness Directives:
    Alpha Aviation Concept Limited Airplanes, 77374-77376
    Pratt and Whitney Division Turbofan Engines; Correction, 77384-
            77385
    The Boeing Company Airplanes, 77376-77384
PROPOSED RULES
Aircraft Dispatcher Certification Courses:
    Establishment of Policy, 77413-77414
Airworthiness Directives:
    International Aero Engines AG Turbofan Engines, 77411-77413
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics Special Committee 213, 
            Enhanced Flight Vision Systems/Synthetic Vision Systems, 
            77594
    Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics Special Committee 222, 
            77593-77594
Requests for Nominations:
    Membership in the National Parks Overflights Advisory Group 
            Aviation Rulemaking Committee, 77594-77595


Federal Communications Commission
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals, 77486-77488


Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
RULES
Credit Risk Retention, 77602-77766
NOTICES
Charter Renewals:
    Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion, 77488


Federal Election Commission
RULES
Aggregate Biennial Contribution Limits, 77373-77374


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Applications:
    Kaiser-Frontier Midstream, LLC, 77466-77467
    Southern Natural Gas Co., LLC, 77465-77466
Combined Filings, 77467-77470
Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:
    Pepperell Hydroelectric Project; Pepperell Hydro Company, LLC, 
            77470-77471
Filings:
    Meserve, Richard A., 77471
    Southwestern Power Administration, 77472
    Western Area Power Administration, 77471-77472
Initial Market-Based Rate Filings Including Requests for Blanket 
          Section 204 Authorizations:
    Cottonwood Solar, LLC, 77474-77475
    Crawfordsville Energy, LLC, 77473
    Entergy Nuclear Generation Co., et al., 77472-77473
    North Energy Power, LLC, 77474
    Pacific Crest Power, LLC, 77474
    Ridgetop Energy, LLC, 77473-77474
Requests Under Blanket Authorizations:
    Cadeville Gas Storage, LLC, 77476
    Trailblazer Pipeline Co., LLC, 77475
Staff Attendances, 77476


Federal Highway Administration
NOTICES
ET-Plus Guardrail End Terminal, 77595-77596


Federal Housing Finance Agency
RULES
Credit Risk Retention, 77602-77766


Federal Railroad Administration
RULES
Monetary Threshold for Reporting Rail Equipment Accidents/Incidents for 
          Calendar Year 2015, 77397-77399


Federal Reserve System
RULES
Credit Risk Retention, 77602-77766


Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
NOTICES
Requests for Nominations:
    Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group, 77599


Financial Stability Oversight Council
NOTICES
Asset Management Products and Activities, 77488-77495


Food and Drug Administration
RULES
Food Additives Permitted for Direct Addition to Food for Human 
          Consumption:
    Advantame, 77385-77387
Medical Device Classification Procedures:
    Reclassification Petition: Content and Form; Technical Amendment, 
            77387-77388

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PROPOSED RULES
Guidance:
    Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Tissue-Based Products from 
            Adipose Tissue: Regulatory Considerations, 77414-77415
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals:
    Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Vouchers, 77498
    Veterinary Feed Directive, 77498-77500
Authorizations of Emergency Use of In Vitro Diagnostic Devices for 
          Detection of Ebola Zaire Virus; Availability, 77500-77515
Guidance:
    Bioequivalence Recommendations for Methylphenidate Hydrochloride 
            Extended-Release Oral Suspension, 77515-77516
Meetings:
    General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel of the Medical Devices 
            Advisory Committee, 77516


Food Safety and Inspection Service
NOTICES
Meetings:
    National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection, 77441-
            77443


Foreign Agricultural Service
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals, 77443-77444


Forest Service
NOTICES
Assessment Reports of Ecological, Social, and Economic Sustainability, 
          Conditions, and Trends:
    Rio Grande National Forest, 77444-77445
Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:
    Big Bar Ranger District, CA, Burnt Ranch Fire Resilient Community 
            Project, 77449-77453
    Intermountain Region, Payette National Forest, Council Ranger 
            District, ID, Middle Fork Weiser River Landscape 
            Restoration Project, 77447-77448
    King Fire Restoration Project, Eldorado National Forest, Placer and 
            El Dorado Counties, CA, 77445-77447


Geological Survey
NOTICES
Federal Geographic Data Committee Geographic Information Framework Data 
          Standards:
    Public Review of the Draft Part 2, Digital Orthoimagery, 77522-
            77523


Health and Human Services Department
See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
See Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
See Children and Families Administration
See Food and Drug Administration
See National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee, 77495


Homeland Security Department
See Coast Guard


Housing and Urban Development Department
RULES
Credit Risk Retention, 77602-77766
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals:
    Congregate Housing Services Program, 77519
    Management Reviews of Multifamily Housing Programs, 77518
    Report of Additional Classification and Rate, 77517-77518
Federal Property Suitable as Facilities to Assist the Homeless, 77519-
          77521


Interior Department
See Geological Survey
See Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Request for Nominees:
    U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Advisory 
            Committee, 77521-77522


Internal Revenue Service
RULES
Filing of Form 5472, 77388-77389


International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:
    Termination of the Suspension Agreement on Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled 
            Carbon-Quality Steel Products from the Russian Federation, 
            77455-77457
    Welded Line Pipe from the Republic of Korea and the Republic of 
            Turkey, 77454-77455
Export Trade Certificates of Review, 77457-77458
Meetings:
    Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee, 77458-
            77459


International Trade Commission
NOTICES
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:
    Electrolytic Manganese Dioxide from Australia and China, 77525-
            77526
Investigations; Determinations, Modifications, and Rulings, etc.:
    Certain Snowmobiles with Engines Having Exhaust Temperature-
            Controlled Engine Technology and Components Thereof, 77526
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 77526-77527


Labor Department
See Disability Employment Policy Office
See Employment and Training Administration
NOTICES
Delegation of Authority and Assignment of Responsibility; 
          Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, 77527-77528


Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals, 77523-77524
Meetings:
    Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area Advisory Council, 
            77524
    Southeast Oregon Resource Advisory Council, 77524-77525
    Southwest Colorado Resource Advisory Council, 77524
Plats of Surveys:
    Colorado, 77525

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Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Foundation
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals, 77534


National Archives and Records Administration
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals, 77534-77535


National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Exclusive Licenses:
    Anti-tyrosine Kinase-like Orphan Receptor 1 Immunotoxins for the 
            Treatment of Human Cancers, 77517


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RULES
Vessel Monitoring Systems:
    Requirements for Enhanced Mobile Transceiver Unit and Mobile 
            Communication Service Type-Approval, 77399-77410
PROPOSED RULES
Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic:
    Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; Amendment 16, 77425-77426
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:
    Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization Program, 
            77427-77440
Fisheries Off West Coast States; Coastal Pelagic Species Fisheries:
    Amendment 14 to the Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery Management 
            Plan, 77426
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals:
    Permits for Incidental Taking of Endangered or Threatened Species, 
            77459-77460
Meetings:
    Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee, 77460


National Science Foundation
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Advisory Committee for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 77535


Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals, 77535-77537
Meetings:
    Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards Subcommittee on Plant 
            Operations and Fire Protection, 77537


Peace Corps
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals, 77537-77538


Postal Regulatory Commission
PROPOSED RULES
Periodic Reporting, 77424-77425


Postal Service
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 77538
Product Changes:
    Priority Mail Express Negotiated Service Agreement, 77538
    Priority Mail Negotiated Service Agreement, 77538


Presidential Documents
EXECUTIVE ORDERS
Government Agencies and Employees:
    Rates of Pay; Adjustment (EO 13686), 77361-77372
Ukraine, Crimea Region; Blocking Property and Transactions (EO 13685), 
          77357-77359


Securities and Exchange Commission
RULES
Credit Risk Retention, 77602-77766
NOTICES
Applications:
    Forum Funds II and Acuitas Investments, LLC, 77538-77542
    Forum Funds II and CVR Portfolio Funds, LLC, 77542-77545
    SSgA Funds Management, Inc., et al., 77545-77548
Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:
    BATS Exchange, Inc., 77552-77555, 77557-77573, 77576-77577
    BATS Y-Exchange, Inc., 77548-77550, 77555-77557
    BOX Options Exchange, LLC, 77579-77583
    ICE Clear Credit, LLC, 77578-77579
    NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC, 77587-77588
    New York Stock Exchange, LLC, 77573-77575
    NYSE Arca, Inc., 77583-77586
    NYSE MKT, LLC, 77550-77552
Trading Suspension Orders:
    Treaty Energy Corp., 77588


Small Business Administration
NOTICES
Conflict of Interest Exemptions:
    Escalate Capital Partners SBIC I, L.P., 77589


State Department
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals:
    Training/Internship Placement Plan, 77589
Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibitions:
    Latin America in Construction -- Architecture 1955-1980, 77590
Designations as Global Terrorists:
    Ajnad Misr a.k.a. Egypts Soldiers, et al., 77590
    Ibrahim al-Rubaysh a.k.a. Ibrahimj Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh, et 
            al., 77590
Meetings:
    Shipping Coordinating Committee, 77591


Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Acquisition Exemptions:
    Peru Land Acquisition 2, LLC from Rail Line of the City of Peru, 
            IL., 77597
Exemptions for Transactions within a Corporate Family:
    Pioneer Railcorp, Pioneer Railroad Services, Inc., and Decatur 
            Junction Railway Co., 77597
Leases and Operation Exemptions:
    Illinois Railway, LLC from Rail Line of Peru Land Acquisition 2, 
            LLC, 77598

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Susquehanna River Basin Commission
NOTICES
Actions Taken at December 5, 2014, Meeting, 77591-77592


Transportation Department
See Federal Aviation Administration
See Federal Highway Administration
See Federal Railroad Administration
See Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals, 77592-77593


Treasury Department
See Comptroller of the Currency
See Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
See Internal Revenue Service
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals, 77598-77599


Veterans Affairs Department
NOTICES
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and 
          Approvals:
    Eligibility Verification Reports, 77599-77600

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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 77602-77766
Federal Housing Finance Agency, 77602-77766
Federal Reserve System, 77602-77766
Housing and Urban Development Department, 77602-77766
Securities and Exchange Commission, 77602-77766
Treasury Department, Comptroller of the Currency, 77602-77766


Part III
Health and Human Services Department, Children and Families 
          Administration, 77768-77800


Part IV
Council on Environmental Quality, 77802-77831

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