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PUBLIC LAW 92-392-AUG. 19, 1972

[86 STAT.

80 Stat. 444.

Chairman is entitled to a rate of pay equal to the maximum rate currently paid, from time to time, under the General Schedule. Members who represent employee organizations are not entitled to pay from the Government of the United States for services rendered to the Committee, "(^^) '^^^ Civil Service Commission shall provide such clerical and professioual persouuel as the Chairman of the Committee considers appropriate and necessary to carry out its functions under this subchapter. Such personnel shall be responsible to the Chairman of the Committee. "§5348. Crews of vessels "(a) Except as provided by subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the pay of officers and members of crews of vessels excepted from chapter 51 of this title by section 5102(c)(8) of this title shall be fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates and practices in the maritime industry. "(b) Vessel employees of the Panama Canal Company may be paid in accordance with the wage practices of the maritime industry. "(c) Vessel employees in an area where inadequate maritime industry practice exists and vessel employees of the Corps of Engineers shall have their pay fixed and adjusted under the provisions of this subchapter other than this section, as appropriate. "§ 5349. Prevailing rate employees; legislative, judicial, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and government of the District of Columbia " (a) The pay of employees, described under section 5102(c)(7) of this title, in the Admmistrative Office of the United States Courts, the Library of Congress, the Botanic Garden, the Government Printing Office, the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the government of the District of Columbia, shall be fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates and in accordance with such provisions of this subchapter, including ^Y\Q provisions of section 5344, relating to retroactive pay, and section 5345, relating to retention of pay, as the pay-fixing authority of each ^^^^^ agency may determine. Subject to section 213(f) of title 29, the rates may not be less than the appropriate rates provided for by section 206(a)(1) of title 29. If the pay-fixing authority concerned determines that the provisions of section 5345 of this title should apply to any employee under his jurisdiction, then the employee concerned shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements of paragraph (2) of section 5345(a) of this title if the tenure of his appointment is substantially equivalent to the tenure of any appointment referred to in such paragraph. "(b) Subsection (a) of this section does not modify or otherwise affect section 5102(d) of this title, section 305 of title 44, and section

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5 USC 5332 note.

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so Stat. 443.

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84 Stat. 693. 180 of title 31.". 58 Stat. 648. (b) The aualysis of subchapter IV of chapter 53 of title 5, United %. States Code, is amended to read as follows: "SUBCHAPTER IV—PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS . ^riio,'^

"5341. ".5342. "5843. '•5344. "5345. "5346.

Policy. Definitions; application. Prevailing rate determinations; wage schedules; night differentials. Effective date of wage increase; retroactive pay. Retained rate of pay on reduction in grade or reassignment. Job grading system.

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