Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of Guaynabo-San Jaun, PR, Nonappropriated Fund Wage Area

summary: The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim

regulations to redefine the Guaynabo-San Juan, Puerto Rico,

nonappropriated fund Federal Wage System wage area by adding Salinas

Municipality as an area of application for pay-setting purposes. No

employee's wage rate will be reduced as a result of this change.

dates: This interim rule becomes effective on October 4, 1995.

Comments must be received by November 3, 1995.

addresses: Send or deliver comments to Donald J. Winstead, Assistant

Director for Compensation Policy, Human Resources Systems Services,

U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Room 6H31, 1900 E Street NW.,

Washington, DC 20415, or FAX: (202) 606-0824.

for further information contact: Paul Shields, (202) 606-2848.

supplementary information: The Department of Defense (DOD) notified the

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that the Camp Santiago Army and

Air Force Exchange Service employs nine Federal Wage System (FWS)

nonappropriated fund (NAF) workers in Salinas Municipality, Puerto

Rico. With the consensus approval of the DOD Wage Committee, DOD

recommended that Salinas Municipality be added to the area of

application of the Guaynabo-San Juan, Puerto Rico, NAF wage area.

Salinas Municipality is not presently defined to a wage area for

NAF pay-setting purposes and does not meet the regulatory criteria for

establishing a new NAF wage area under 5 CFR 532.219. Thus, Salinas

Municipality must be defined as an area of application to an existing

wage area.

There is only one NAF wage area for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin

Islands--the Guaynabo-San Juan, Puerto Rico, NAF wage area. It

currently has two survey municipalities in Puerto Rico and an area of

application made up to six Puerto Rico municipalities and two islands

of the U.S. Virgin Islands. There are no alternative NAF wage areas to

which Salinas Municipality could be defined, given the large separation

between the island of Puerto Rico and mainland NAF wage areas. With

this change, the wage rates of the nine NAF employees covered would

continue to be set using the Guaynabo-San Juan wage schedule.

The Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee reviewed this

recommendation and by consensus recommended approval.

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(3)(B), I find that good cause exists

for waiving the general notice of proposed rulemaking. Also, pursuant

to section 553(d)(3) of title 5, United States Code, I find that good

cause exists for making this rule effective in less than 30 days. The

notice is being waived and the regulation is being made effective in

less than 30 days so that the positions of these employees will be

included within an FWS wage area and appropriate wage rates authorized

for their pay.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

I certify that these regulations will not have a significant

economic impact on a substantial number of small entities because they

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.

U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Lorraine A. Green,

Deputy Director.

Accordingly, OPM is amending 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.

Appendix D to Subpart B of Part 532 [Amended]

2. Appendix D to subpart B is amended by revising the list for

Guaynabo-San Juan, Puerto Rico, to read as follows:

Appendix D to Subpart B of Part 532--Nonappropriated Fund Wage and

Survey Areas

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Puerto Rico

Guaynabo-San Juan

Survey area

Puerto Rico: (municipalities)

Guaynabo

San Juan

Area of application. Survey area plus:

Puerto Rico: (municipalities)

Aguadilla

Isabela

Ponce

Salinas

Toa Baja

Ceiba

Vieques

U.S. Virgin Islands:

St. Croix

St. Thomas

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[FR Doc. 95-24637 Filed 10-3-95; 8:45 am]

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