[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 11 (Monday, March 21, 2005)]
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Executive Order 13374--Amendments to Executive Order 12293--The Foreign 
Service of the United States

March 14, 2005

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 402 of the 
Foreign Service Act of 1980, as amended (22 U.S.C. 3962), and in order 
to adjust the basic salary rates for each class of the Senior Foreign 
Service, 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. Pursuant to section 402 of the Foreign Service Act (22 
U.S.C. 3962), and subject to any restrictions therein, there are 
established the following salary classes with titles for the Senior 
Foreign Service, at the following ranges of basic rates of pay:
(a)          Career Minister
            Range from 100 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay for 
            senior-level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376 to 100 percent of 
            the rate payable for level II of the Executive Schedule.
(b)          Minister-Counselor
            Range from 100 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay for 
            senior-level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376 to 107 percent of 
            the rate payable for level III of the Executive Schedule.
(c)          Counselor
            Range from 100 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay for 
            senior-level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376 to 102 percent of 
            the rate payable for level III of the Executive Schedule.''
    Sec. 2. Section 2 of Executive Order 12293, as amended, is amended 
by striking ``the Director of the International Communication Agency, 
the Director of the United States International Development Cooperation 
Agency'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``the Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development''.
    Sec. 3. Executive Order 13325 of January 23, 2004, is revoked.
    Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any 
right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by any party at 
law or in equity against the United States, its departments, agencies, 
entities, officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 March 14, 2005.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., March 16, 
2005]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
March 17.