[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 52 (Monday, December 30, 1996)]
[Pages 2542-2543]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13033--Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay and 
Allowances

December 27, 1996

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the laws cited 
herein, 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(a), 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 rates of basic pay for senior 
executives in the Senior Executive Service, as adjusted under 5 U.S.C. 
5382, are set forth on Schedule 4 attached hereto and made a part 
hereof.
    Sec. 3. Executive Salaries. The rates of basic pay or salaries for 
the following offices and positions, which remain unchanged pursuant to 
section 637 of the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government 
Appropriations Act, 1997, as incorporated in section 101(f) of Public 
Law 104-208, 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 
104-201, the rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203(a)), the rates of 
basic allowances for subsistence (37 U.S.C. 402), and 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)) are set forth on Schedule 8 attached hereto and made a part 
hereof.
    Sec. 5. Locality-Based Comparability Payments. (a) Pursuant to 
sections 5304 and 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. Effective Dates. Schedule 8 is effective on January 1, 1997. 
The other schedules contained herein are effective on the first day of 
the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 1997.
    Sec. 7. Prior Orders Superseded. Executive Order 12984 of December 
28, 1995, and Executive Order 12990 of February 29, 1996, are 
superseded.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
December 27, 1996.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., December 30, 
1996]

Note: This Executive order and the attached annexes will be published in 
the Federal Register on December 31.

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