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The registerExecutive Order 13374
E.O.13374

Amendments to Executive Order 12293—The Foreign Service of the United States

Signed March 14, 2005·George W. Bush·70 FR 12961

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Amends Executive Order 12293, which governs the Foreign Service of the United States, to reset the salary ranges for the Senior Foreign Service's three classes—Career Minister, Minister-Counselor, and Counselor—tying their pay ranges to specific percentages of senior-level federal pay rates and Executive Schedule levels II and III, as authorized under the Foreign Service Act of 1980. It also updates outdated references in Executive Order 12293 by removing mentions of the Director of the International Communication Agency and the Director of the United States International Development Cooperation Agency, replacing them with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. Additionally, it revokes a prior order, Executive Order 13325 of January 23, 2004. The order states it creates no enforceable legal rights for any party against the federal government.

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 402 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, as amended (22 U.S.C. 3962), and in order to adjust the basic salary rates for each class of the Senior Foreign Service, it is hereby ordered

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Amends: EO 12293, February 23, 1981; Revokes: EO 13325, January 23, 2004

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Executive Order 13374 of March 14, 2005

Amendments to Executive Order 12293--The Foreign
Service of the United States

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including section 402 of the Foreign Service
Act of 1980, as amended (22 U.S.C. 3962), and in order
to adjust the basic salary rates for each class of the
Senior Foreign Service, it is hereby ordered as
follows:

Section 1. Section 4 of Executive Order 12293 of
February 23, 1981, as amended, is amended to read as
follows:

“Sec. 4. Pursuant to section 402 of the Foreign
Service Act (22 U.S.C. 3962), and subject to any
restrictions therein, there are established the
following salary classes with titles for the Senior
Foreign Service, at the following ranges of basic rates
of pay:

(a)

Career Minister

Range from 100 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay for senior-level
positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376 to 100 percent of the rate payable for level
II of the Executive Schedule.

(b)

Minister-Counselor

Range from 100 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay for senior-level
positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376 to 107 percent of the rate payable for level
III of the Executive Schedule.

(c)

Counselor

Range from 100 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay for senior-level
positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376 to 102 percent of the rate payable for level
III of the Executive Schedule.”

Sec. 2. Section 2 of Executive Order 12293, as amended,
is amended by striking “the Director of the
International Communication Agency, the Director of the
United States International Development Cooperation
Agency” and inserting in lieu thereof “the
Administrator of the United States Agency for
International Development”.

Sec. 3. Executive Order 13325 of January 23, 2004, is
revoked.

Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable by any party at law or in

equity against the United States, its departments,
agencies, entities, officers, employees, or agents, or
any other person.

    (Presidential Sig.)B

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    March 14, 2005.

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