[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 13 (Monday, March 31, 2003)]
[Page 353]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13291--Further Adjustment of Certain Rates of Pay

March 21, 2003

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered that 
Executive Order 13282 of December 31, 2002, is amended as follows:
    Section 1. Section 3(c) of Executive Order 13282 is amended to read 
as follows:
    ``(c) Justices and judges (28 U.S.C. 5, 44(d), 135, 252, and 461(a), 
section 140 of Public Law 97-92, and Public Law 108-6) at Schedule 7.''.
    Sec. 2. Section 5(a) of Executive Order 13282 is amended to read as 
follows:
    ``(a) Pursuant to section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, and 
in accordance with section 637 of Division J of Public Law 108-7, 
locality-based comparability payments shall be paid in accordance with 
Schedule 9 attached hereto and made a part hereof.''.
    Sec. 3. Executive Order 13282 is amended by striking Schedules 7 and 
9 attached thereto and inserting Schedules 7 and 9 attached hereto and 
made a part hereof.
    Sec. 4. The amendments made by this order are effective on the first 
day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 
2003.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 March 21, 2003.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:58 a.m., March 24, 
2003]

Note: This Executive order and attached schedules were published in the 
Federal Register on March 25. This item was not received in time for 
publication in the appropriate issue.