Nonforeign Area Cost-of-Living Allowances Price and Background Surveys; Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Samenvatting

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) seeks comments on its intention to request a reinstatement, with change, of two previously approved information collections for which approval has expired. OPM uses the two collections--a price survey and a background survey--to gather data to be used in determining cost-of-living allowances for certain Federal employees in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The price survey is conducted generally on an annual basis. The background survey is conducted approximately once every 5 years, but the survey is also conducted on a limited basis in preparation for each of the price surveys.