Office of Personnel Management June 21, 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

On behalf of the President's Pay Agent, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is issuing final regulations on the locality pay program for General Schedule employees. Originally published on September 28, 2009, as an interim rule with a request for comments, the regulations moved the McGuire Air Force Base, NJ, and Fort Dix, NJ, Philadelphia locality pay area portions of the new Joint Base McGuire- Dix-Lakehurst, from the Philadelphia locality pay area to the New York locality pay area. We received no comments on the interim rule and adopt the final rule without change. We are also adding a corresponding note to the definition of the Philadelphia locality pay area to clarify that the Joint Base is not part of the Philadelphia locality pay area and changing titling of the Portland, OR, locality pay area to correspond to a change in the name of the Portland Metropolitan Statistical Area.

OPM proposes to update and amend OPM/GOVT-10, Employee Medical File System Records contained in its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended. This action is necessary to meet the requirements of the Privacy Act to publish in the Federal Register notice of the existence and character, as well as any new use or intended new use of records maintained by the agency. 5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(4) and (11).

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a revised information collection request (ICR) 3206-0236, Customer Satisfaction Surveys. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. chapter 35) as amended by the Clinger- Cohen Act (Pub. L. 104-106), OPM is soliciting comments for this collection.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing notice of adjusted present value factors applicable to retirees under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) who elect to provide survivor annuity benefits to a spouse based on post-retirement marriage and to retiring employees who elect the alternative form of annuity, owe certain redeposits based on refunds of contributions for service before October 1, 1990, or elect to credit certain service with nonappropriated fund instrumentalities. This notice is necessary to conform the present value factors to changes in demographic factors adopted by the Board of Actuaries of the Civil Service Retirement System.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing notice of revised normal cost percentages for employees covered by the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) Act of 1986.