1. Adjustments to rates of basic pay of prevailing rate employees (a) Limitation on adjustments (1) Prevailing rate employees of agencies Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as otherwise provided in this section, a prevailing rate employee described in section 5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, may not be paid— (A) during the period beginning on January 1, 2017, and ending on the normal effective date of the applicable wage survey adjustment that is to take effect in fiscal year 2017, in an amount that exceeds the rate payable for the applicable grade and step of the applicable wage schedule in accordance with section 5343 of title 5, United States Code; and (B) during the period beginning on the day after the end of the period described in subparagraph (A) and ending on September 30, 2017, in an amount that exceeds, as a result of a wage survey adjustment, the rate payable under subparagraph (A) by more than the sum of— (i) the percentage adjustment taking effect in fiscal year 2017 under section 5303 of title 5, United States Code, in the rates of pay under the General Schedule