# Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of the Little Rock, AR, Southern Missouri, and Tulsa, OK, Appropriated Fund Federal Wage System Wage Areas > Briefs, arguments, decisions, and more. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3AE9-2629 ## Record - **Collection:** Federal Register - **Document type:** Rule - **Published:** February 9, 2009 - **Citation:** 74 FR 6351 ## Text OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT 5 CFR Part 532 RIN 3206-AL76 Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of the Little Rock, AR, Southern Missouri, and Tulsa, OK, Appropriated Fund Federal Wage System Wage Areas AGENCY: U.S. Office of Personnel Management. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule to redefine the geographic boundaries of the Little Rock, AR, Southern Missouri, and Tulsa, OK, appropriated fund Federal Wage System (FWS) wage areas. The final rule redefines Crawford and Sebastian Counties, AR, from the Little Rock wage area to the Tulsa wage area and Madison County, AR, and McDonald County, MO, from the Southern Missouri wage area to the Tulsa wage area. These changes are based on recent consensus recommendations of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee (FPRAC) to best match the counties proposed for redefinition to a nearby FWS survey area. FPRAC recommended no other changes in the geographic definitions of the Little Rock, Southern Missouri, and Tulsa FWS wage areas. DATES: Effective date: This regulation is effective on March 11, 2009. Applicability date: The affected employees in Crawford, Madison, and Sebastian Counties, AR, and McDonald County, MO, would be placed on the wage schedule for the Tulsa, OK, wage area on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after March 11, 2009. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Madeline Gonzalez, (202) 606-2838; e-mail pay-performance-policy@opm.gov ; or FAX: (202) 606-4264. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 8, 2008, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a proposed rule (73 FR 74374) to redefine the Little Rock, AR, Southern Missouri, and Tulsa, OK, appropriated fund Federal Wage System wage areas. This proposed rule would redefine Crawford and Sebastian Counties, AR, from the Little Rock wage area to the Tulsa wage area and Madison County, AR, and McDonald County, MO, from the Southern Missouri wage area to the Tulsa wage area. The proposed rule had a 30-day comment period, during which OPM received no 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. U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Kathie Ann Whipple, Acting Director. Accordingly, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management 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; § 532.707 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552. 2. In appendix C to subpart B, the wage area listing for the State of Arkansas is amended by revising the listing for Little Rock; for the State of Missouri, by revising the listing for Southern Missouri; and for the State of Oklahoma, by revising the listing for Tulsa, to read as follows: Appendix C to Subpart B of Part 532—Appropriated Fund Wage and Survey Areas *    *    *    *    * ARKANSAS Little Rock Survey Area Arkansas: Jefferson Pulaski Saline Area of Application. Survey area plus: Arkansas: Arkansas Ashley Baxter Boone Bradley Calhoun Chicot Clay Clark Cleburne Cleveland Conway Dallas Desha Drew Faulkner Franklin Fulton Garland Grant Greene Hot Spring Independence Izard Jackson Johnson Lawrence Lincoln Logan Lonoke Marion Monroe Montgomery Newton Ouachita Perry Phillips Pike Polk Pope Prairie Randolph Scott Searcy Sharp Stone Union Van Buren White Woodruff Yell *    *    *    *    * MISSOURI *    *    *    *    * Southern Missouri Survey Area Missouri: Christian Greene Laclede Phelps Pulaski Webster Area of Application. Survey area plus: Missouri: Barry Barton Benton Bollinger Butler Camden Cape Girardeau Carter Cedar Dade Dallas Dent Douglas Hickory Howell Iron Jasper Lawrence Madison Maries Miller Mississippi Moniteau Morgan New Madrid Newton Oregon Ozark Perry Polk Reynolds Ripley St. Clair Scott Shannon Stoddard Stone Taney Texas Vernon Wayne Wright Kansas: Cherokee Crawford *    *    *    *    * OKLAHOMA *    *    *    *    * Tulsa Survey Area Oklahoma: Creek Mayes Muskogee Osage Pittsburg Rogers Tulsa Wagoner Area of Application. Survey area plus: Oklahoma: Adair Cherokee Choctaw Craig Delaware Haskell Kay Latimer Le Flore McCurtain McIntosh Nowata Okfuskee Okmulgee Ottawa Pawnee Pushmataha Sequoyah Washington Arkansas: Benton Carroll Crawford Madison Sebastian Washington Missouri: McDonald *    *    *    *    * [FR Doc. E9-2629 Filed 2-6-09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6325-39-P --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3AE9-2629. Public record. Not legal advice.