[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 52 (Monday, December 31, 2001)]
[Pages 1842-1843]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order--Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

December 28, 2001

    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 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 S. 1438, the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 (which I signed 
into law on December 28, 2001), 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 
sections 5304 and 5304a of title 5, United States Code, and in 
accordance with section 646(a) of the Treasury and General Government 
Appropriations Act, 2002, Public Law 107-67, 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

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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, 2002. 
The other schedules contained herein are effective on the first day of 
the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2002.
    Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13182 of December 
23, 2000, is superseded.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 December 28, 2001.

Note: At the time of publication, this Executive order had not been 
received by the Office of the Federal Register for assiignment of an 
Executive order number. An original was not available for verification 
of the content of this Executive order.