Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 247 / Wednesday, December 24, 2014 / Presidential Documents

Executive Order 13686 of December 19, 2014

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, 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. 4501) at Schedule 6; and

(c) Justices and judges (28 U.S.C. 5, 44(d), 135, 252, and 461(a)) 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, 2015. The other schedules contained herein are effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2015.

Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13655 of December 23, 2013, is superseded as of the effective dates specified in section 7 of this order.

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December 19, 2014.

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CONTENTS

Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 247 / Wednesday, December 24, 2014 / Contents

Administrative Conference of the United States

NOTICES

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

Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery, 77441

Agriculture Department

See Food Safety and Inspection Service

See Foreign Agricultural Service

See Forest Service

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 77495-77496

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 77496-77498

Children and Families Administration

RULES

Standards To Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment Involving Unaccompanied Children, 77768-77800

Coast Guard

PROPOSED RULES

Safety Zones:

Annual Events, Captain of the Port Lake Michigan Zone, 77415-77424

Commerce Department

See Economic Development Administration

See International Trade Administration

See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 77453-77454

Comptroller of the Currency

RULES

Credit Risk Retention, 77602-77766

Council on Environmental Quality

NOTICES

Economic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines:

Water and Related Land Resources Implementation Studies, 77460-

77461

Guidance:

Federal Departments and Agencies on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Effects of Climate Change in NEPA Reviews, 77802-77831

Defense Department

NOTICES

Meetings:

Independent Review Panel on Military Medical Construction Standards, 77461-77462

Disability Employment Policy Office

NOTICES

Charter Amendments:

Advisory Committee on Increasing Competitive Integrated Employment for Individuals With Disabilities, 77528-77529

Meetings:

Advisory Committee on Increasing Competitive Integrated Employment for Individuals With Disabilities, 77529-77530

Economic Development Administration

NOTICES

Trade Adjustment Assistance Eligibility; Petitions, 77454

Education Department

NOTICES

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

Evaluation of the Comprehensive Technical Assistance Centers, 77462-77463

Impacts of a Detailed Checklist on Formative Feedback to Teachers, 77462

Employment and Training Administration

NOTICES

Worker Adjustment Assistance Eligibility; Amended Certifications:

Cargill Meat Solutions Corp., et al., Milwaukee, WI, 77530

SMC Electrical Products, Inc., et al., Barboursville, WV, 77530

Whirlpool Corp., et al., Fort Smith, AK, 77530-77531

Worker Adjustment Assistance Eligibility; Certifications:

Plexus Corp., Neenah Operations, et al., Neenah, WI, 77531

Worker Adjustment Assistance Eligibility; Investigations, 77532

Worker and Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance Eligibility; Determinations, 77532-77533

Energy Department

See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

NOTICES

Meetings:

Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico, 77463

President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 77463-

77464

Requests for Information:

Excess Uranium Management; Effects of DOE Transfers of Excess Uranium on Domestic Uranium Mining, Conversion, and Enrichment Industries, 77464-77465

Environmental Protection Agency

RULES

Greenhouse Gas Reporting Programs:

Addition of Global Warming Potentials to the General Provisions and Amendments and Confidentiality Determinations for Fluorinated Gas Production; Correction, 77391

Identification of Nonattainment Classification and Deadlines for Submission of State Implementation Plans:

Provisions for the 1997 Fine Particle (PM2.5 and 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS; Correction, 77389-77391

Pesticide Tolerances:

Zeta-cypermethrin, 77391-77394

Tolerance Requirements; Exemptions:

Beauveria bassiana strain ANT-03, 77395-77396

NOTICES

Benefits of Neonicotinoid Seed Treatment to Soybean Production:

Reopening of Comment Period, 77477

Registration Review Final and Interim Decisions, 77477-77480

Registration Review Proposed Interim Decisions, 77480-77483

Registration Reviews:

Draft Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessments, 77483-77485

Requests for Nominations:

Mobile Sources Technical Review Subcommittee, 77485-77486

Environmental Quality Council

See Council on Environmental Quality

Executive Office of the President

See Council on Environmental Quality

See Presidential Documents

Federal Aviation Administration

RULES

Airworthiness Directives:

Alpha Aviation Concept Limited Airplanes, 77374-77376

Pratt and Whitney Division Turbofan Engines; Correction, 77384-

77385

The Boeing Company Airplanes, 77376-77384

PROPOSED RULES

Aircraft Dispatcher Certification Courses:

Establishment of Policy, 77413-77414

Airworthiness Directives:

International Aero Engines AG Turbofan Engines, 77411-77413

NOTICES

Meetings:

Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics Special Committee 213, Enhanced Flight Vision Systems/Synthetic Vision Systems, 77594

Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics Special Committee 222, 77593-77594

Requests for Nominations:

Membership in the National Parks Overflights Advisory Group Aviation Rulemaking Committee, 77594-77595

Federal Communications Commission

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 77486-77488

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

RULES

Credit Risk Retention, 77602-77766

NOTICES

Charter Renewals:

Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion, 77488

Federal Election Commission

RULES

Aggregate Biennial Contribution Limits, 77373-77374

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

NOTICES

Applications:

Kaiser-Frontier Midstream, LLC, 77466-77467

Southern Natural Gas Co., LLC, 77465-77466

Combined Filings, 77467-77470

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

Pepperell Hydroelectric Project; Pepperell Hydro Company, LLC, 77470-77471

Filings:

Meserve, Richard A., 77471

Southwestern Power Administration, 77472

Western Area Power Administration, 77471-77472

Initial Market-Based Rate Filings Including Requests for Blanket Section 204 Authorizations:

Cottonwood Solar, LLC, 77474-77475

Crawfordsville Energy, LLC, 77473

Entergy Nuclear Generation Co., et al., 77472-77473

North Energy Power, LLC, 77474

Pacific Crest Power, LLC, 77474

Ridgetop Energy, LLC, 77473-77474

Requests Under Blanket Authorizations:

Cadeville Gas Storage, LLC, 77476

Trailblazer Pipeline Co., LLC, 77475

Staff Attendances, 77476

Federal Highway Administration

NOTICES

ET-Plus Guardrail End Terminal, 77595-77596

Federal Housing Finance Agency

RULES

Credit Risk Retention, 77602-77766

Federal Railroad Administration

RULES

Monetary Threshold for Reporting Rail Equipment Accidents/Incidents for Calendar Year 2015, 77397-77399

Federal Reserve System

RULES

Credit Risk Retention, 77602-77766

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

NOTICES

Requests for Nominations:

Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group, 77599

Financial Stability Oversight Council

NOTICES

Asset Management Products and Activities, 77488-77495

Food and Drug Administration

RULES

Food Additives Permitted for Direct Addition to Food for Human Consumption:

Advantame, 77385-77387

Medical Device Classification Procedures:

Reclassification Petition: Content and Form; Technical Amendment, 77387-77388

PROPOSED RULES

Guidance:

Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Tissue-Based Products from Adipose Tissue: Regulatory Considerations, 77414-77415

NOTICES

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

Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Vouchers, 77498

Veterinary Feed Directive, 77498-77500

Authorizations of Emergency Use of In Vitro Diagnostic Devices for Detection of Ebola Zaire Virus; Availability, 77500-77515

Guidance:

Bioequivalence Recommendations for Methylphenidate Hydrochloride Extended-Release Oral Suspension, 77515-77516

Meetings:

General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee, 77516

Food Safety and Inspection Service

NOTICES

Meetings:

National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection, 77441-

77443

Foreign Agricultural Service

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 77443-77444

Forest Service

NOTICES

Assessment Reports of Ecological, Social, and Economic Sustainability, Conditions, and Trends:

Rio Grande National Forest, 77444-77445

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Big Bar Ranger District, CA, Burnt Ranch Fire Resilient Community Project, 77449-77453

Intermountain Region, Payette National Forest, Council Ranger District, ID, Middle Fork Weiser River Landscape Restoration Project, 77447-77448

King Fire Restoration Project, Eldorado National Forest, Placer and El Dorado Counties, CA, 77445-77447

Geological Survey

NOTICES

Federal Geographic Data Committee Geographic Information Framework Data Standards:

Public Review of the Draft Part 2, Digital Orthoimagery, 77522-

77523

Health and Human Services Department

See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

See Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

See Children and Families Administration

See Food and Drug Administration

See National Institutes of Health

NOTICES

Meetings:

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee, 77495

Homeland Security Department

See Coast Guard

Housing and Urban Development Department

RULES

Credit Risk Retention, 77602-77766

NOTICES

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

Congregate Housing Services Program, 77519

Management Reviews of Multifamily Housing Programs, 77518

Report of Additional Classification and Rate, 77517-77518

Federal Property Suitable as Facilities to Assist the Homeless, 77519-

77521

Interior Department

See Geological Survey

See Land Management Bureau

NOTICES

Request for Nominees:

U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Advisory Committee, 77521-77522

Internal Revenue Service

RULES

Filing of Form 5472, 77388-77389

International Trade Administration

NOTICES

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

Termination of the Suspension Agreement on Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products from the Russian Federation, 77455-77457

Welded Line Pipe from the Republic of Korea and the Republic of Turkey, 77454-77455

Export Trade Certificates of Review, 77457-77458

Meetings:

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee, 77458-

77459

International Trade Commission

NOTICES

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

Electrolytic Manganese Dioxide from Australia and China, 77525-

77526

Investigations; Determinations, Modifications, and Rulings, etc.:

Certain Snowmobiles with Engines Having Exhaust Temperature-

Controlled Engine Technology and Components Thereof, 77526

Meetings; Sunshine Act, 77526-77527

Labor Department

See Disability Employment Policy Office

See Employment and Training Administration

NOTICES

Delegation of Authority and Assignment of Responsibility; Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, 77527-77528

Land Management Bureau

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 77523-77524

Meetings:

Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area Advisory Council, 77524

Southeast Oregon Resource Advisory Council, 77524-77525

Southwest Colorado Resource Advisory Council, 77524

Plats of Surveys:

Colorado, 77525

Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Foundation

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 77534

National Archives and Records Administration

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 77534-77535

National Institutes of Health

NOTICES

Exclusive Licenses:

Anti-tyrosine Kinase-like Orphan Receptor 1 Immunotoxins for the Treatment of Human Cancers, 77517

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RULES

Vessel Monitoring Systems:

Requirements for Enhanced Mobile Transceiver Unit and Mobile Communication Service Type-Approval, 77399-77410

PROPOSED RULES

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic:

Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; Amendment 16, 77425-77426

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization Program, 77427-77440

Fisheries Off West Coast States; Coastal Pelagic Species Fisheries:

Amendment 14 to the Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery Management Plan, 77426

NOTICES

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

Permits for Incidental Taking of Endangered or Threatened Species, 77459-77460

Meetings:

Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee, 77460

National Science Foundation

NOTICES

Meetings:

Advisory Committee for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 77535

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 77535-77537

Meetings:

Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards Subcommittee on Plant Operations and Fire Protection, 77537

Peace Corps

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 77537-77538

Postal Regulatory Commission

PROPOSED RULES

Periodic Reporting, 77424-77425

Postal Service

NOTICES

Meetings; Sunshine Act, 77538

Product Changes:

Priority Mail Express Negotiated Service Agreement, 77538

Priority Mail Negotiated Service Agreement, 77538

Presidential Documents

EXECUTIVE ORDERS

Government Agencies and Employees:

Rates of Pay; Adjustment (EO 13686), 77361-77372

Ukraine, Crimea Region; Blocking Property and Transactions (EO 13685), 77357-77359

Securities and Exchange Commission

RULES

Credit Risk Retention, 77602-77766

NOTICES

Applications:

Forum Funds II and Acuitas Investments, LLC, 77538-77542

Forum Funds II and CVR Portfolio Funds, LLC, 77542-77545

SSgA Funds Management, Inc., et al., 77545-77548

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

BATS Exchange, Inc., 77552-77555, 77557-77573, 77576-77577

BATS Y-Exchange, Inc., 77548-77550, 77555-77557

BOX Options Exchange, LLC, 77579-77583

ICE Clear Credit, LLC, 77578-77579

NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC, 77587-77588

New York Stock Exchange, LLC, 77573-77575

NYSE Arca, Inc., 77583-77586

NYSE MKT, LLC, 77550-77552

Trading Suspension Orders:

Treaty Energy Corp., 77588

Small Business Administration

NOTICES

Conflict of Interest Exemptions:

Escalate Capital Partners SBIC I, L.P., 77589

State Department

NOTICES

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

Training/Internship Placement Plan, 77589

Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibitions:

Latin America in Construction -- Architecture 1955-1980, 77590

Designations as Global Terrorists:

Ajnad Misr a.k.a. Egypts Soldiers, et al., 77590

Ibrahim al-Rubaysh a.k.a. Ibrahimj Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh, et al., 77590

Meetings:

Shipping Coordinating Committee, 77591

Surface Transportation Board

NOTICES

Acquisition Exemptions:

Peru Land Acquisition 2, LLC from Rail Line of the City of Peru, IL., 77597

Exemptions for Transactions within a Corporate Family:

Pioneer Railcorp, Pioneer Railroad Services, Inc., and Decatur Junction Railway Co., 77597

Leases and Operation Exemptions:

Illinois Railway, LLC from Rail Line of Peru Land Acquisition 2, LLC, 77598

Susquehanna River Basin Commission

NOTICES

Actions Taken at December 5, 2014, Meeting, 77591-77592

Transportation Department

See Federal Aviation Administration

See Federal Highway Administration

See Federal Railroad Administration

See Surface Transportation Board

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 77592-77593

Treasury Department

See Comptroller of the Currency

See Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

See Internal Revenue Service

NOTICES

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 77598-77599

Veterans Affairs Department

NOTICES

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

Eligibility Verification Reports, 77599-77600

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Separate Parts In This Issue

Part II

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 77602-77766

Federal Housing Finance Agency, 77602-77766

Federal Reserve System, 77602-77766

Housing and Urban Development Department, 77602-77766

Securities and Exchange Commission, 77602-77766

Treasury Department, Comptroller of the Currency, 77602-77766

Part III

Health and Human Services Department, Children and Families Administration, 77768-77800

Part IV

Council on Environmental Quality, 77802-77831

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