An Act to amend the National Forest and Public Lands of Nevada Enhancement Act of 1988 to adjust the boundary of the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada, and to amend chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize equal overtime pay provisions for all Federal employees engaged in wildland fire suppression operations.

Amends the National Forest and Public Lands of Nevada Enhancement Act of 1988 to modify the boundary of the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada, to include specified lands transferred by the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Interior.

Amends Federal civil service law to mandate time-and-a-half as the overtime hourly rate of pay for an employee of the Department of the Interior or the U.S. Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture engaged in emergency wildland fire suppression activities. Declares such overtime as premium pay.

[106th Congress Public Law 558]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


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Public Law 106-558
106th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To amend the National Forest and Public Lands of Nevada Enhancement Act 
 of 1988 to adjust the boundary of the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada, 
  and to amend chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize 
   equal overtime pay provisions for all Federal employees engaged in 
   wildland fire suppression operations. <<NOTE: Dec. 21, 2000 -  [S. 
                                 439]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. ADJUSTMENT OF BOUNDARY OF THE TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST, 
                            NEVADA.

    Section 4(a) of the National Forest and Public Lands of Nevada 
Enhancement Act of 1988 (102 Stat. 2750) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Effective'' and inserting ``(1) 
        Effective''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:

    ``(2) Effective on the date of enactment of this paragraph, the 
portion of the land transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture under 
paragraph (1) situated between the lines marked `Old Forest Boundary' 
and `Revised National Forest Boundary' on the map entitled `Nevada 
Interchange ``A'', Change 1', and dated September 16, 1998, is 
transferred to the Secretary of the Interior.''.

SEC. 2. OVERTIME PAY FOR CERTAIN FIREFIGHTERS.

    (a) In General.--Section 5542(a) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), for an 
        employee of the Department of the Interior or the United States 
        Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture engaged in 
        emergency wildland fire suppression activities, the overtime 
        hourly rate of pay is an amount equal to one and one-half times 
        the hourly rate of basic pay of the employee, and all that 
        amount is premium pay.''.

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    (b) Effective Date.--The <<NOTE: 5 USC 5542 note.>>  amendments made 
by this section shall take effect on the first day of the first 
applicable pay period beginning on or after the end of the 30-day period 
beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, and shall apply only 
to funds appropriated after the date of the enactment of this Act.

    Approved December 21, 2000.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 439:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 106-746 (Comm. on Resources).
SENATE REPORTS: No. 106-205 (Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
                                                        Vol. 145 (1999):
                                    Nov. 19, considered and passed 
                                        Senate.
                                                        Vol. 146 (2000):
                                    Oct. 23, considered and passed 
                                        House, amended.
                                    Dec. 7, Senate concurred in House 
                                        amendments.

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