The Federal Salary Council, a group that makes recommendations on the boundaries for general schedule locality pay zones, will meet again next week on the issue of whether to revise those boundaries to bring certain areas into existing localities, as well as whether to redraw the lines of numerous localities to fit new statistical area definitions from the Office of Management and Budget. The council’s recommendations-which may or may not be finalized at the meeting and which would be subject to approval by a higher-level group-could substantially affect salaries of employees working in areas either added to or dropped from certain localities. For example, employees in the Monterey, Calif. area now part of the San Francisco locality would face a pay cut of about 10 percent if they were moved into the catchall “rest of the U.S.” locality, as they would be under the OMB map. Because of notice requirements, it likely would be 2005 before any changes could be carried out.