Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

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Executive Order 13635 of December 27, 2012

Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 114(b) of the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (Public Law 112-175), which provides that any statutory adjustments to current levels in certain pay schedules for civilian Federal employees may take effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning after the date specified in section 106(3) of Public Law 112-175, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Statutory Pay Systems. The rates of basic pay or salaries of the statutory pay systems (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 5302(1)), as adjusted under 5 U.S.C. 5303, are set forth on the schedules attached hereto and made a part hereof:

(a) The General Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5332(a)) at Schedule 1;

(b) The Foreign Service Schedule (22 U.S.C. 3963) at Schedule 2; and

(c) The schedules for the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs (38 U.S.C. 7306, 7404; section 301(a) of Public Law 102-40) at Schedule 3.

Sec. 2. Senior Executive Service. The ranges of rates of basic pay for senior executives in the Senior Executive Service, as established pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5382, are set forth on Schedule 4 attached hereto and made a part hereof.

Sec. 3. Certain Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries. The rates of basic pay or salaries for the following offices and positions are set forth on the schedules attached hereto and made a part hereof:

(a) The Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5312-5318) at Schedule 5;

(b) The Vice President (3 U.S.C. 104) and the Congress (2 U.S.C. 31) at Schedule 6; and

(c) Justices and judges (28 U.S.C. 5, 44(d), 135, 252, and 461(a), and section 140 of Public Law 97-92) at Schedule 7.

Sec. 4. Uniformed Services. The rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203(a)) for members of the uniformed services, as adjusted under 37 U.S.C. 1009, and the rate of monthly cadet or midshipman pay (37 U.S.C. 203(c)) are set forth on Schedule 8 attached hereto and made a part hereof.

Sec. 5. Locality-Based Comparability Payments. (a) Pursuant to section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, and my authority to implement an alternative level of comparability payments under section 5304a of title 5, United States Code, locality-based comparability payments shall be paid in accordance with Schedule 9 attached hereto and made a part hereof.

(b) The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall take such actions as may be necessary to implement these payments and to publish appropriate notice of such payments in the Federal Register.

Sec. 6. Administrative Law Judges. Pursuant to section 5372 of title 5, United States Code, the rates of basic pay for administrative law judges are set forth on Schedule 10 attached hereto and made a part hereof.

Sec. 7. Effective Dates. Schedule 8 is effective January 1, 2013. The other schedules contained herein are effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning after the date specified in section 106(3) of Public Law 112-175.

Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13594 of December 19, 2011, is superseded as of the effective dates specified in section 7 of this order.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, December 27, 2012.

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CONTENTS

Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 2 / Thursday, January 3, 2013 / Contents

Agricultural Marketing Service

NOTICES

Standards for Grades of Eggplant, 283

Agriculture Department

See Agricultural Marketing Service

See Food Safety and Inspection Service

See Rural Utilities Service

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 281-283

Census Bureau

RULES

Resumption of the Population Estimates Challenge Program, 255-260

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 305-308

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

NOTICES

Medicare Program:

Hospital and Vendor Readiness for Electronic Health Records Hospital Inpatient Quality Data Reporting, 308-310

Coast Guard

RULES

Moving Security Zones around Escorted Vessels:

Lower Mississippi River, 261-263

Safety Zones:

TEMCO Grain Facilities; Columbia and Willamette Rivers, 263-266

Commerce Department

See Census Bureau

See International Trade Administration

See National Institute of Standards and Technology

See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

See Patent and Trademark Office

Defense Department

NOTICES

Meetings:

Defense Intelligence Agency Advisory Board, 295

Education Department

NOTICES

Membership:

National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, 295-296

Energy Department

See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Environmental Protection Agency

PROPOSED RULES

NPDES Permit Regulation and Effluent Limitations Guidelines Standards:

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, 277-278

NOTICES

Meetings:

Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board, 299

Executive Office of the President

See Presidential Documents

Federal Aviation Administration

PROPOSED RULES

Airworthiness Directives:

REIMS AVIATION S.A. Airplanes, 275-277

Federal Communications Commission

RULES

Radio Broadcasting Services:

Maysville, GA, 266-267

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

NOTICES

Combined Filings, 296-299

Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

NOTICES

Meetings; Sunshine Act, 299-300

Federal Reserve System

NOTICES

Changes in Bank Control:

Acquisitions of Shares of Bank or Bank Holding Company, 300

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies, 300

Federal Trade Commission

NOTICES

Proposed Consent Orders:

IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., 300-303

Fish and Wildlife Service

RULES

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

Designation of Critical Habitat for Southwestern Willow Flycatcher, 344-534

PROPOSED RULES

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

Reclassification of Continental U.S. Breeding Population of Wood Stork from Endangered to Threatened; Correction, 278-279

Food and Drug Administration

PROPOSED RULES

Nicotine Replacement Therapies and Smoking-Cessation Products:

Report to Congress on Innovative Products and Treatments for Tobacco Dependence; Public Hearing, 277

NOTICES

Guidance for Industry on Providing Regulatory Submissions in Electronic Format:

Certain Human Pharmaceutical Product Applications, etc. Using Electronic Common Technical Document Specifications, 310-

311

Food Safety and Inspection Service

NOTICES

2013 Rate Changes for Basetime, Overtime, Holiday, and Laboratory Services Rates, 283-285

General Services Administration

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies; Data.gov Feedback Mechanisms, 304-305

Proposal to Lease Space, GSA Form 1364, 303-304

Health and Human Services Department

See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

See Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

See Food and Drug Administration

See National Institutes of Health

See Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Homeland Security Department

See Coast Guard

See U.S. Customs and Border Protection

RULES

Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers of Inadmissibility for Certain Immediate Relatives, 536-578

Housing and Urban Development Department

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Continuum of Care Program Application - Technical Submission, 315-

316

Order of Succession for the Office of Housing, 316-317

Redelegation of Authority to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Counseling, 317-318

Interior Department

See Fish and Wildlife Service

See Land Management Bureau

International Trade Administration

NOTICES

Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews; Results, Extensions, Amendments, etc.:

Circular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes from Turkey, 286-287

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Orders, Findings, or Suspended Investigations:

Advance Notification of Sunset Reviews, 287-288

Opportunity to Request Administrative Review, 288-290

Land Management Bureau

NOTICES

Filings of Plats of Surveys:

Eastern States; North Carolina, 318-319

Maritime Administration

NOTICES

Requested Administrative Waivers of Coastwise Trade Laws:

Vessel HALCYON, 337

Mine Safety and Health Federal Review Commission

See Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NOTICES

Meetings:

National Conference on Weights and Measures, 290-292

Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, 292

National Institutes of Health

NOTICES

Meetings:

Center for Scientific Review, 312-313

National Cancer Institute, 312-314

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 314

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RULES

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

Inseason Adjustment to 2013 Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Pollock, Atka Mackerel, and Pacific Cod Total, 270-274

Inseason Adjustment to 2013 Gulf of Alaska Pollock and Pacific Cod Total Allowable Catch Amounts, 267-270

Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery:

2013-2014 Biennial Specifications and Management Measures, 580-644

PROPOSED RULES

Atlantic Highly Migratory Species:

2006 Consolidated Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan; Amendment 5, 279-280

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 319-320

Applications:

Arkansas Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2; Creation of Holding Company and Transfer of Facility Operating Licenses, etc., 328-330

Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Unit 1; Creation of Holding Company and Transfer of Facility Operating License, etc., 325-328

River Bend Station, Unit 1; Creation of Holding Company and Transfer of Facility Operating License, etc., 320-322

Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3; Creation of Holding Company and Transfer of Facility Operating License and Opportunity for Hearing, 323-325

Patent and Trademark Office

NOTICES

Roundtable Events for Partnership for Enhancement of Quality of Software-Related Patents, 292-295

Presidential Documents

EXECUTIVE ORDERS

Government Agencies and Employees:

Rates of Pay; Adjustment (EO 13635), 649-660

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS

Government Agencies and Employees:

Federal Employee Pay Schedules and Rates (Memorandum of December 21, 2012), 645-647

Public Debt Bureau

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 341

Rural Utilities Service

NOTICES

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Healy Power Generation Unit 2, Healy, AK, 285-286

Securities and Exchange Commission

NOTICES

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

ICE Clear Europe Ltd., 330-335

New York Stock Exchange LLC, 335-337

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

NOTICES

Laboratories and Instrumented Initial Testing Facilities that Meet Minimum Standards, etc., 314-315

Surface Transportation Board

NOTICES

Abandonment Exemptions:

CSX Transportation, Inc., Ewing Township, Mercer County, NJ, 338

Acquisitions and Operation Exemptions:

Buckeye Hammond Railroad, LLC from Buckeye Partners, L.P., 338-339

Transportation Department

See Federal Aviation Administration

See Maritime Administration

See Surface Transportation Board

Treasury Department

See Public Debt Bureau

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 339-341

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

NOTICES

Reopenings of Application Periods:

Air Cargo Advance Screening Pilot Program, 315

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Separate Parts In This Issue

Part II

Interior Department, Fish and Wildlife Service, 344-534

Part III

Homeland Security Department, 536-578

Part IV

Commerce Department, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 580-644

Part V

Presidential Documents, 645-647, 649-660

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