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DECISION
FILE: B-193991
8 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
A OF THE UNITEO STATES
VVWASHINGTO N. D. . 20548
DATE: August 21, 1979
MATTER OF: County-Committee Employee Appointed in Department
of Agriculture - Initial Pay Rate
DIGEST:
Under 5 U.S.C. § 5334(e) a county-committee employee
may receive a Department of Agriculture appointment at
the step of a GS grade not exceeding the highest basic
pay previously received in a county-committee position.
Consequently, when the highest previous basic pay falls
between two consecutive steps of a GS grade, an appoin-
tee's initial pay may not be at the higher of the two
steps.
An employee of a county-committee established under the Soil
Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) may
receive a Federal appointment with the Department of Agriculture at
the pay rate prescribed in 5 U.S.C. § 5334(e) (1976). The Secretary
of Agriculture asks whether that pay rate may be (1) at the step of
the General Schedule (GS) grade that does not exceed the highest
previous rate of pay received in the county-committee position or (2)
at the higher of two consecutive steps of the appointee's GS grade if
the highest previous county-committee rate was between the two steps.
The initial GS rate prescribed by 5 U.S.C. § 5334(e) for new
Department of Agriculture appointees formerly employed by the county
committees is:
the minimum rate of the appropriate [GS] grade,
or * * * any step of such grade .that does not
exceed the highest previous rate of basic pay
received by him [the new appointee] during service
with such county committee. (Emphasis and
brackets added.)
This language was added by section 1 of the act of June 29, 1968,
Pub. L. 90-367, 82 Stat. 277.
The House Report on the above legislation (H. Rept. No. 1371,
90th Cong., 2d Sess.), reprinted in the U.S. Code Cong. and Ad.
News 2433 says:
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