[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 5 (Monday, February 2, 2004)]
[Pages 139-140]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13325--Amendment to Executive Order 12293, the Foreign 
Service of the United States

January 23, 2004

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the Foreign Service 
Act of 1980, as amended, and in order to adjust the basic salary rates 
for each class of the Senior Foreign Service in light of the changes 
made to the manner in which members of the Senior Executive Service will 
be paid pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2004 (Public Law 108-136), it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Section 4 of Executive Order 12293 of February 23, 1981, 
as amended, is amended to read as follows:
    ``Sec. 4. (a) In accord with Section 402 of the Act (22 U.S.C. 
3962), there are established the following salary classes with titles 
for the Senior Foreign Service, at the following ranges of basic rates 
of pay.
 (1)         Career Minister
             Range from 94 percent of the rate payable to level III of 
            the Executive Schedule to 100 percent of the rate payable to 
            level III of the Executive Schedule.
 (2)         Minister-Counselor
             Range from 90 percent of the rate payable to level III of 
            the Executive Schedule to 100 percent of the rate payable to 
            level III of the Executive Schedule.
 (3)         Counselor
             Range from 120 percent of the rate payable to GS-15/Step 1 
            to 100 percent of rate payable to level III of the Executive 
            Schedule.
    (b) Upon conversion to a rate of basic pay within the range of rates 
established for the applicable salary class by this section as of the 
first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after 
January 1, 2004, a member of the Senior Foreign Service shall receive 
the rate of basic pay to which he or she was entitled immediately before 
that date, including any locality-based comparability payment authorized 
under 5 U.S.C. 5304(h)(2)(C) that the member was receiving immediately 
before that date. On the same date, or on a later date specified by the 
Secretary of State (or the heads of the other agencies that utilize the 
Foreign Service personnel system (collectively the ``Secretary'')), the 
Secretary may increase the member's rate of basic pay upon a 
determination that the member's performance or contribution to the 
mission of the agency so warrant and that the member is otherwise 
eligible for such a pay adjustment under Section 402 of the Foreign 
Service Act.''
    Sec. 2. Effective Date. The salary rates contained herein are 
effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning 
on or after January 1, 2004.
                                                George W. Bush
The White House,
January 23, 2004.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., January 27, 
2004]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
January 28. This item was not

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