In other action, the salary council decided to leave alone for 2008 the current structure of GS localities, including the borderlines of the 31 metropolitan areas. In doing so, it rejected a request from the Los Angeles federal executive board to split that locality into two parts, a higher-cost segment along the coast and a lower-cost segment inland. The working group said the statistics are not available to calculate separate pay rates in that way and that turnover and other indicators did not support the change. The group also decided to: keep Indianapolis as a separate locality; leave Yolo County, Calif., in the Sacramento locality rather than move it to the San Francisco locality; keep Berkshire County, Mass., in the RUS locality rather than attach it to the Hartford locality; and not make any changes to the New Orleans locality in response to the higher living costs following the hurricane damage there.