# 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 *[email protected]* ; 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.
**5 CFR Part 532**
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.
**5 CFR Part 532**
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**
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| Arkansas: | |
| Jefferson | |
| Pulaski | |
| Saline | |
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| 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 | |
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| Missouri: | |
| Christian | |
| Greene | |
| Laclede | |
| Phelps | |
| Pulaski | |
| Webster | |
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| 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 | |
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| Oklahoma: | |
| Creek | |
| Mayes | |
| Muskogee | |
| Osage | |
| Pittsburg | |
| Rogers | |
| Tulsa | |
| Wagoner | |
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| 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 | |
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