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Footnote “v”


Effective June 1, 2014. See footnotes to section 920 for additional effective dates of changes.

Footnote v - A danger pay allowance under Section 652g of the Standardized Regulations is authorized for Federal Civilian employees who accompany U.S. Military forces designated by the Secretary of Defense as eligible for imminent danger pay for the designated areas.  The amount of danger pay shall be the same flat rate amount paid to uniformed military personnel as Imminent Danger Pay ($225 per month at all times).  Danger pay authorized under Section 652g will not be paid for periods of time that the employee either receives danger pay authorized under Section 652f or post differential that would duplicate political violence credit which is already included in the differential rate.  Political violence credit is included in the differential rates for the following designated areas except for these three locations:  Other, Greece and Iran. 


Effective June 1, 2014 the following designated areas are:  US Africa Command – The ten land areas of Algeria, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Chad. The four land areas and airspace above Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Tunisia.

The sea area of the Somalia Basin bounded by the following coordinates:
º 11 degrees 10 minutes North, 51 degrees 15 minutes East
º 6 degrees 00 minutes North, 48 degrees 30 minutes East
º 5 degrees 00 minutes North, 50 degrees 30 minutes East
º 11 degrees 30 minutes North, 53 degrees 34 minutes East
º 5 degrees 00 minutes North, 50 degrees 30 minutes East
º 1 degree 00 minutes North, 47 degrees 00 minutes East
º 3 degrees 00 minutes South, 43 degrees 00 minutes East
º 1 degree 00 minutes South, 41 degrees 00 minutes East
º 6 degrees 00 minutes North, 48 degrees 30 minutes East


Effective June 1, 2014 the following designated areas are: US European Command – The four land areas of Athens, Greece (land area within a 20 kilometer radius from the center of Athens 38-01N, 23-44E), Azerbaijan, Israel, and Turkey (land area, excluding the Turkish Straits (that is, the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus Straits), and including the limited airspace south of 37 degrees 45 minutes North and east of 43 degrees 00 minutes East).  The land area and airspace above Kosovo.  The sea area of the Mediterranean Sea (water area extending from the North African Coast northward into the Mediterranean Sea, bounded on the east at 26 degrees 00 minutes east longitude, extending north to 34 degrees 35 minutes north latitude, extending west to the East Coast of Tunisia).


Effective June 1, 2014 the following designated areas are:      US Pacific Command – The city of Jakarta, the four provinces of Central Java, east Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi, and Papua, and the region of Aceh, Indonesia.  The state of Sabah, Malaysia.  The land area of the Philippines.


Effective June 1, 2014 the following designated areas are:  US Southern Command – The two land areas of Colombia and Cuba (Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility).


Effective June 1, 2014 the following designated areas are:  US Central Command – The seven land areas of Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, and Egypt.