Alternative Personnel Management System (APMS) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

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This notice (1) consolidates the original plan and the two subsequent amendments into a single document for better understanding and ease of use; (2) documents the procedures by which the equivalent of locality-based comparability payments are applied at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); (3) specifies how to determine the General Schedule (GS) grade and rates of pay for employees who leave the NIST alternative personnel management system; (4) allows NIST to remove from the pay-for-performance system any positions not filled by career or career-conditional appointment; and (5) corrects, simplifies, and clarifies the project plan.