Differential Pay for Prescribed Wildland Fire Activities

What it does

The Office of Personnel Management is proposing to add prescribed (planned) wildland fire duties as covered activities triggering payment of Hazardous Duty Pay for General Schedule (GS) employees and Environmental Differential Pay for Federal Wage System (FWS) employees. The proposed new differentials would apply to GS and FWS employees participating as a member of a firefighting crew engaged in activities on the fireline directly involving the implementation and control of prescribed wildland fires. This rulemaking would authorize a 25 percent differential.

The Personnel Management Office's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

2 parts of Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

5 CFR 532, 5 CFR 550

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 3206-AO76 since Jan. 1, 2025.

Since then:

• Aug. 14, 2026 Final rule. Differential Pay for Prescribed Wildland Fire Activities

What happens next and when

Send comments on or before June 15, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket OPM-2026-0199 on Regulations.gov
• Title 5 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register