Comment Number: OL-10501406
Received: 2/25/2005 6:53:10 AM
Subject: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment
Title: National Security Personnel System
CFR Citation: 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901
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Comments:

People who work in lower cost of living areas will be penalized to pay for people who work in the high cost of living areas within the same localities and the same agency. If that is the case, more thought should be given to move the agency headquarters into low cost of living areas first, then look at pay banding employees later. Budgets would go farther if you move out of the D.C. metropolitan areas into southern West Virginia or Louisiana, where the cost of office space is low to keep the overhead low, allowing the budgets to go further