    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 51 (Monday, December 27, 1999)]
    [Pages 2651-2652]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Executive Order 13144--Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

    December 21, 1999

        By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
    the laws of the

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    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), in accordance with section 646(a) of
    the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2000, Public Law
    106-58, 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 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(a)-(b) of Public
    Law 106-65, the rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203(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 section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, and in
    accordance with section 646(a) of the Treasury and General Government
    Appropriations Act, 2000, Public Law 106-58, 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. The rates of basic pay for
    administrative law judges, as adjusted under 5 U.S.C. 5372(b)(4), are
    set forth on Schedule 10 attached hereto and made a part hereof.
        Sec. 7. Effective Dates. Schedule 8 is effective on January 1, 2000.
    The other schedules contained herein are effective on the first day of
    the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2000.
        Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Sections 1 through 7 of Executive
    Order 13106 of December 7, 1998, are superseded.
                                                William J. Clinton
    The White House,
    December 21, 1999.

    [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., December 22,
    1999]

    Note: This Executive order and the attached annexes were published in
    the Federal Register on December 23.