[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR591.208]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 591--ALLOWANCES AND DIFFERENTIALS--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart B--Cost-of-Living Allowance and Post Differential--Nonforeign 
                                  Areas
 
Sec. 591.208  Post differential.

    (a) The post differential is based on:
    (1) Extraordinarily difficult living conditions;
    (2) Excessive physical hardship; or
    (3) Notably unhealthful conditions.
    (b) The places at which differentials are paid are--
    (1) American Samoa (including the island of Tutuila, the Manua 
Islands, and all other islands of the Samoa group east of longitude 171 
degrees west of Greenwich, together with Swains Island);
    (2) Guam;
    (3) The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands;
    (4) Johnston Island and Sand Island; and
    (5) Midway Islands and Wake Island.
    (c) New or revised post differential rates are published as notices 
in the Federal Register.

[55 FR 1373, Jan. 16, 1990, as amended at 59 FR 53725, Oct. 26, 1994]