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FOREST SERVICE HANDBOOK
Portland, Oregon
TITLE 6109.11 - PAY ADMINISTRATION, ATTENDANCE AND LEAVE
HANDBOOK
R6/PNW Supplement No. 6109.11-92-5
Effective October 2, 1992
POSTING NOTICE. Supplements to this handbook are numbered consecutively.
Check the last transmittal sheet received for this handbook to see that the above supplement number is in sequence. If not, obtain intervening supplement(s) at once from the Information Center. Do not post this supplement until the missing one(s) is received and posted. After posting, place the transmittal at the front of the title and retain until the first transmittal of the next calendar year is received.
The last R6/PNW Supplement to this handbook was 6109.11-92-4 (26.18c-27.8).
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This is a Technical Supplement to change this portion of the handbook to official electronic format. CONTENT HAS NOT CHANGED.
/s/ John E. Lowe
JOHN E. LOWE
Regional Forester
/s/ Charles W. Philpot
Station Director
CHARLES W. PHILPOT

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FSH 6109.11 - PAY ADMINISTRATION, ATTENDANCE AND LEAVE
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CHAPTER 10 - PAY ADMINISTRATION
12 - PAY ADMINISTRATION FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) EMPLOYEES.
12.3 - Compensable Travel.
12.31 - Outside Employee's Regularly Scheduled Administrative Workweek.
12.31b - Travel That Is Incident to Travel Involving Work While Traveling. Travel in day-to-day activities of individuals, field crews, or teams from official duty station, or other gathering place such as a work center, and return to that gathering place is an inherent part of, and inseparable from, the work and is compensable at regular or overtime rates.
The Comptroller General has consistently held that travel is an inherent part of, and inseparable from, the work itself when employees, on a daily basis, report to a central point to check in; receive instructions; pick up vehicles, tools, supplies, and equipment; travel to field work sites; and return at the end of the shift to the same assembly point to check out. (B-179186, 4/13/76; B-163042, 5/22/68; B-143074,
9/20/60).
Employees who frequently travel, but not on a daily basis, to field work sites to gather information, participate in a meeting, review work, and so forth, are entitled to compensation for hours over their basic tour of duty only if such travel meets one of the requirements described in Section 12.31.
12.9 - Pay for Duty Involving Physical Hardship or Hazard.
12.92b - Duties Covered by Hazard Pay Differential.
2. Flying. Additional examples of limited control flights include: a. Participating in low level helicopter operations over wooded or mountainous terrain when:
(1) Transporting sling-loaded equipment.
(2) Hovering flights at low altitudes.
(3) Flights involving tactical patterns.
(4) Loading or unloading from hovering craft where landing sites are not available.

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(5) Landing at unprepared landing sites in wooded or mountainous terrain or when landings are not practical such as may be encountered in firefighting operations.
3. Exposure to Hazardous Weather or Terrain. "When working in areas where there is danger of rockfalls or avalanches" may be applied to prescribed burning activities where there is danger of falling rocks and logs influenced by the degree of slope and to the extent that there is potential for movement of sufficient amount of material to represent an unusual hazard.
4. High Work. Trees are considered structures for hazard pay differential purposes. Hazard pay will be authorized when an employee is working in trees above 50 feet from the ground and is not secured to the tree by a safety device such as a safety line, rope, strap, Sky Genie, or taut line system. Smokejumpers are not authorized hazard pay differential when climbing a tree is in connection with parachute jump (for example, retrieving parachute gear, rigging, and equipment following a parachute jump).