[Federal Register: May 5, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 88)]
[Rules and Regulations]
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
`606-2848, by FAX at (202) 606-0824, or by email at jdhopkin@opm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 27, 1999, the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) published a proposed rule (64 FR 72292) to
remove Eagle, Garfield, Lake, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, and Routt Counties,
Colorado, from the Southern and Western Colorado appropriated fund FWS
wage area and add them to the Denver FWS wage area as areas of
application. We do not conduct wage surveys in areas of application.
Instead, we apply the results that we obtain from surveys in the other
counties in the applicable wage area. We also proposed to remove Mesa
County, CO, from the Southern and Western Colorado FWS wage area and
add it to the Utah FWS wage area as an area of application. Finally, we
proposed to change the name of the Southern and Western Colorado FWS
wage area to Southern Colorado.
Under section 5343 of title 5, United States Code, OPM is
responsible for defining FWS wage areas. For this purpose, we follow
the regulatory criteria in section 532.211 of title 5, Code of Federal
Regulations. The Southern and Western Colorado wage area meets all of
the regulatory requirements to remain a separate wage area. About 1,800
FWS employees currently work in this wage area. The wage area's host
activity, the United States Air Force Academy, has the capability to
host annual local wage surveys. In addition, we find more than
sufficient local private industry wage data in local wage surveys of
the Southern and Western Colorado wage area to satisfy our regulatory
requirements.
We are moving Eagle, Garfield, Lake, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, and Routt
Counties to the Denver wage area based on our analysis of the
regulatory criteria. The distance criterion for these counties favors
the Denver wage area more than the Southern and Western Colorado wage
area. The transportation facilities and geographic features criteria
for these counties strongly favor the Denver wage area because the most
favorable route by road from these counties goes through the present
Denver wage area before reaching the Southern and Western Colorado
survey area. All the other criteria we studied did not favor one wage
area more than another.
For Mesa County, CO, the distance to the closest city criterion
favors the Utah wage area, while the distance to the closest host
installation criterion favors the Denver wage area. The transportation
facilities and geographic features criteria favor the Utah wage area.
The kinds and sizes of industry and population criteria also favor the
Utah wage area. All of the other criteria we studied had indeterminate
findings. Colorado National Monument, located in Mesa County, is
administratively in the same National Park Service region as most of
the National Parks in Utah. Arches National Park is in the Utah wage
area and is just across the State line from Colorado National Monument.
We are placing Colorado National Monument in the same wage area as
Arches National Park because of the organizational relationships and
geographic proximity of National Park Service facilities in this
region.
The Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee, the national labor-
management committee responsible for advising OPM on matters concerning
the pay of FWS employees, reviewed and recommended these changes by
consensus. The proposed rule had a 30-day public comment period, during
which OPM did not receive any comments.
Regulatory Flexibility Act
I certify that these regulations will not have a significant
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities because they
will affect only Federal agencies and employees.
List of Subjects in 5 CFR Part 532
Administrative practice and procedure, Freedom of information,
Government employees, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Wages.
Office of Personnel Management.
Janice R. Lachance,
Director.
Accordingly, the Office of Personnel Management amends 5 CFR part
532 as follows:
PART 532--PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS
1. The authority citation for part 532 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5343, 5346; Sec. 532.707 also issued under 5
U.S.C. 552.
2. Appendix A to subpart B of part 532 is amended for the State of
Colorado by revising the wage area ``Southern & Western Colorado'' to
read ``Southern Colorado''.
3. Appendix C to subpart B is amended by revising the wage area
listings for the States of Colorado and Utah, to read as follows:
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Appendix C to Subpart B of Part 532--Appropriated Fund Wage and
Survey Areas
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Colorado
Denver
Survey Area
Colorado:
Adams
Arapahoe
Boulder
Denver
Douglas
Gilpin
Jefferson
Area of Application. Survey area plus:
Colorado:
Clear Creek
Eagle
Elbert
Garfield
Grand
Jackson
Lake
Larimer
Logan
Morgan
Park
Phillips
Pitkin
Rio Blanco
Routt
Sedgwick
Summit
Washington
Weld
Yuma
Southern Colorado
Survey Area
Colorado:
El Paso
Pueblo
Teller
Area of Application. Survey area plus:
Colorado:
Alamosa
Archuleta
Baca
Bent
Chaffee
Cheyenne
Conejos
Costilla
Crowley
Custer
Delta
Dolores
Fremont
Gunnison
Hinsdale
Huerfano
Kiowa
Kit Carson
Las Animas
Lincoln
Mineral
Montrose
Otero
Ouray
Pitkin
Prowers
Rio Grande
Saguache
San Juan
San Miguel
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Utah
Survey Area
Utah:
Box Elder
Davis
Salt Lake
Tooele
Utah
Weber
Area of Application. Survey area plus:
Utah:
Beaver
Cache
Carbon
Daggett
Duchesne
Emery
Garfield
Grand
Iron
Juab
Millard
Morgan
Piute
Rich
San Juan (Only includes the Canyonlands National Park portion.)
Sanpete
Sevier
Summit
Uintah
Wasatch
Washington
Wayne
Colorado:
Mesa
Moffat
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