[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 52 (Monday, January 2, 1995)]
[Pages 2537-2538]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12944--Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay and 
Allowances

December 28, 1994

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 704 of 
Public Law 101-194, section 302 of the Federal Employees Pay 
Comparability Act of 1990, as incorporated in section 529 of Public Law 
101-509; section 301(a) of Public Law 102-40; section 630(a) of Public 
Law 103-329; section 601 of Public Law 103-337; section 31 of title 2, 
United States Code; section 104 of title 3, United States Code; sections 
5303, 5318, and 5382 of title 5, United States Code; section 3963 of 
title 22, United States Code; and section 461(a) of title 28, United 
States Code, 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)) 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. Pursuant to section 5382 of title 
5, United States Code, the rates of basic pay for senior executives in 
the Senior Executive Service are set forth on Schedule 4 attached hereto 
and made a part hereof.
    Sec. 3. Executive salaries. The rates of 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. 31) 
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. Pursuant to section 601 of Public Law 
103-337, the rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203(a)), the rates of 
basic allowances for subsistence (37 U.S.C. 402), the rates of basic 
allowances for quarters (37 U.S.C. 403(a)) for members of the uniformed 
services, and the rate of monthly cadet or midshipman pay (37 U.S.C. 
203(c)(1), as amended by section 601(c) of Public Law 103-337) are set 
forth on Schedule 8 attached hereto and made a part hereof.
    Sec. 5. Interim geographic adjustments. (a) Pursuant to section 302 
of the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990, as incorporated 
in section 529 of Public Law 101-509, employees under statutory pay 
systems covered under section 1 of this order and members of the United 
States Park Police who are assigned to a duty station located in one of 
the geographical areas listed in Schedule 9 shall be entitled, except as 
may be provided under subsection (b) of this section, to receive an 
interim geographic adjustment at the rate shown on Schedule 9, which is 
attached hereto and made a part hereof.
    (b)(1) The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe 
regulations governing the application of interim geographic adjustments 
to General Schedule employees, including the determination of what, if 
any, geographic adjustments shall be payable in the case of employees 
receiving special pay rates.
    (2) The Secretary of State shall prescribe regulations governing the 
application of in- 

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terim geographic adjustments to employees under the Foreign Service 
Schedule, consistent with the regulations and determinations prescribed 
under paragraph (1) of this subsection.
    (3) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall prescribe regulations 
governing the application of interim geographic adjustments to employees 
under the schedules for the Veterans Health Administration of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, consistent with the regulations and 
determinations prescribed under paragraph (1) of this subsection.
    (4) The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe regulations 
governing the application of interim geographic adjustments to members 
of the United States Park Police, consistent with the regulations and 
determinations prescribed under paragraph (1) of this subsection.
    (c) The Office of Personnel Management is hereby designated and 
empowered to exercise the authority of the President under section 
302(c)(1)(D) of the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990, as 
incorporated in section 529 of Public Law 101-509, to extend the 
application of interim geographic adjustments shown on Schedule 9, upon 
the request of an agency head, to employees who would not otherwise be 
covered.
    Sec. 6. Effective dates. The rates of monthly basic pay and 
allowances for subsistence and quarters for members of the uniformed 
services provided for at Schedule 8 are effective on January 1, 1995. 
The other schedules provided for herein are effective on the first day 
of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 
1995.
    Sec. 7. Executive Order No. 12826 of December 30, 1992, and 
Executive Order No. 12886 of December 23, 1993, are superseded.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
December 28, 1994.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:46 a.m., December 30, 
1994]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on December 29, and it will be published in the Federal 
Register, with its attached pay schedules, on January 3.