Comment Number: OL-10501582
Received: 2/27/2005 12:30:09 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:

Pay banding is how they plan to pay for this system. 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 within the same agency. If that is the case then more thought should be given to move the Head-Quarters of agencies into low cost of living areas first. Then pay band employees later. Budgets would go farther, if you move out of D.C. metropolitan areas and to southern West Virginia or Louisiana where the cost of office space is low to keep the overhead low, then budgets would go farther.