Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of the Southern and Western Colorado Appropriated Fund Wage Areas

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The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a proposed rule that would redefine Eagle, Garfield, Lake, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, and Routt Counties, Colorado, from the Southern and Western Colorado appropriated fund Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area to the area of application of the Denver wage area, and redefine Mesa County, CO, from the Southern and Western Colorado FWS wage area to the area of application of the Utah FWS wage area. In addition, we propose to change the name of the Southern and Western Colorado FWS wage area to Southern Colorado. The redefinition of Eagle, Garfield, Lake, Mesa, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, and Routt Counties, CO, would more accurately reflect the regulatory criteria used to define FWS wage areas. The change in the wage area name to the Southern Colorado FWS wage area would more accurately describe the geographic coverage of the redefined wage area.