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[CITE: 5USC5372b]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                      Subpart D--Pay and Allowances
 
                    CHAPTER 53--PAY RATES AND SYSTEMS
 
                SUBCHAPTER VII--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 5372b. Administrative appeals judges

    (a) For the purpose of this section--
        (1) the term ``administrative appeals judge position'' means a 
    position the duties of which primarily involve reviewing decisions 
    of administrative law judges appointed under section 3105; and
        (2) the term ``agency'' means an Executive agency, as defined by 
    section 105, but does not include the General Accounting Office.

    (b) Subject to such regulations as the Office of Personnel 
Management may prescribe, the head of the agency concerned shall fix the 
rate of basic pay for each administrative appeals judge position within 
such agency which is not classified above GS-15 pursuant to section 
5108.
    (c) A rate of basic pay fixed under this section shall be--
        (1) not less than the minimum rate of basic pay for level AL-3 
    under section 5372; and
        (2) not greater than the maximum rate of basic pay for level AL-
    3 under section 5372.

(Added Pub. L. 106-554, Sec. 1(a)(3) [title VI, Sec. 645(a)(1)], Dec. 
21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A-169.)

                       References in Text

    GS-15, referred to in subsec. (b), is contained in the General 
Schedule which is set out under section 5332 of this title.


                             Effective Date

    Pub. L. 106-554, Sec. 1(a)(3) [title VI, Sec. 645(b)], Dec. 21, 
2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A-170, provided that: ``The amendment made by 
subsection (a)(1) [enacting this section] shall apply with respect to 
pay for service performed on or after the first day of the first 
applicable pay period beginning on or after--
        ``(1) the 120th day after the date of the enactment of this Act 
    [Dec. 21, 2000]; or
        ``(2) if earlier, the effective date of regulations prescribed 
    by the Office of Personnel Management to carry out such amendment.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 7323 of this title.
