[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33435-33437]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-15852]



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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary


Agency Recordkeeping/Reporting Requirements Under Review by the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

June 22, 1995.
    The Department of Labor has submitted the following public 
information collection requests (ICRs) to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act 
(44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) of 1980, as amended (Pub. L. 96-511). Copies may 
be obtained by calling the Department of Labor Acting Departmental 
Clearance Officer, Theresa M. O'Malley ([202] 219-5095). Comments and 
questions about the ICRs listed below should be directed to Ms. 
O'Malley, Office of Information Resources Management Policy, U.S. 
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N-1301, 
Washington, DC 20210. Comments should also be sent to the Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for (BLS/DM/
ESA/ETA/OAW/MSHA/OSHA/PWBA/VETS), Office of Management and Budget, Room 
10325, Washington, DC 20503 ([202] 395-7316).
    Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TTY/
TDD) may call [202] 219-4720 between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern 
time, Monday through Friday.
    Type of Review: New.
    Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
    Title: Logging Operations (29 CFR 1910.226).
    OMB Number: 1218-0 new.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

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                                                          Estimated time
      Category              Frequency       Respondents   per respondent
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Operator's Manual...  One-time............       11,658  .17 hour.      
CPR.................  Annual..............       11,658  4 hours.       
First-Aid...........  Every 3rd year......       11,658  4 hours.       
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    Total Burden Hours: 55,016.
    Description: Section 1910.266(f)(iii) requires employers to assure 
that operating and maintenance instructions are available on the 
machine or in the area when the machine is being operated. Also, 
paragraph 1910.266(i)(7)(ii) requires that all employers assure that 
each employee receives first-aid training at least every three years 
and receives CPR training at least annually.
    Type of Review: Reinstatement.
    Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
    Title: Mechanical Power Press Standard (29 CFR 1910.217).
    OMB Number: 1218-0143.
    Frequency: Annual.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 2.238.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 11.43 hours.
    Total Burden Hours: 25,578.
    Description: The prohibition on the use of Presence Sensing Devices 
Initiation (PSDI) has been removed. To assure the safety of the system, 
this regulation requires a certification program. The manufacturers and 
employers who choose to the PSDI will have to maintain some records in 
order to meet the requirements of this standard.

    Type of Review: Extension.
    Agency: Employment Standards Administration.
    Title: Report of Changes that may Affect your Black Lung Benefits.
    OMB Number: 1215-0084.
    Agency Number: CM-929.
    Frequency: Annual.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Number of Respondents: 80,000.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 5 to 8 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 7,067.
    Description: The CM-929 is used to help determine continuing 
eligibility of primary beneficiaries receiving benefits from the Black 
Lung Disability Trust Fund. It is also used to verify and update on an 
annual basis factor that affect a beneficiary's entitlement to 
benefits, including income, marital status, receipt of State worker's 
compensation, and dependents' status.
    Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously 
approved collection for which approval has expired.
    Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.
    Title: Alternative Method of Compliance for Certain Simplified 
Employee Pensions.
    OMB Number: 1210-0034.
    Frequency: Annual.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 1,393.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 116.
    Description: In keeping with Section 408(k) the Internal Revenue 
Code, the regulation provides an alternative type of reporting and 
disclosure arrangement for Simplified Employee Pensions (SEPs) that is 
easier to establish and administer than otherwise required under the 
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

    Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously 
approved collection for which approval has expired.
    Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.
    Title: Suspension of Benefits Regulation.
    OMB Number: 1210-0048.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 57,374.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 15 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 13,344.
    Description: This regulation allows a plan to suspend an 
individual's pension benefits if the individual continues to work or 
returns to work. The plan is required to notify the individual during 
the first calendar month or payroll [[Page 33436]] period in which the 
plan withholds payment.

    Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously 
approved collection for which approval has expired.
    Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.
    Title: Class Exemption 77-4 for Certain Transactions Between 
Investment Companies and Employee Benefit Plans.
    OMB Number: 1210-0049.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 624.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 4,212.
    Description: This class exemption exempts from the prohibited 
transaction restrictions of Employee Retirement Income Security Act the 
purchase and sale by an employee benefit plan of shares of a 
registered, open-end mutual fund when a fiduciary with respect to the 
plan (e.g. an investment manager) is also investment adviser for the 
mutual fund.

    Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously 
approved collection for which approval has expired.
    Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.
    Title: Prohibited Transaction Exemption 90-1--Certain Transactions 
Involving Insurance Company Pooled Separate Accounts (formerly 78-19).
    OMB Number: 1210-0054.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 1
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1 hour.
    Total Burden Hours: 1.
    Description: This exemption allows parties in interest of an 
employee benefit plan that invests in an insured pooled separate 
account to engage in transactions with the separate account if the 
plan's participation in the separate account does not exceed certain 
limits. Six year recordkeeping is required.

    Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously 
approved collection for which approval has expired.
    Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.
    Title: Prohibited Transaction Exemption 81-8.
    OMB Number: 1210-0061.
    Frequency: 5 per year.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 18,245.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 15,204
    Description: This class exemption exempts from the prohibited 
transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act 
the investment of plan assets which involve the purchase or other 
acquisition, holding, sale, exchange or redemption by or on behalf of 
an employee benefit plan of certain types of short-term investments.

    Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously 
approved collection for which approval has expired.
    Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.
    Title: Prohibited Transaction Exemption 77-8
    OMB Number: 1210-0063.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 18,712.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 1,352.
    Description: This class exempts from the prohibited transaction 
restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) the 
sale of individual life insurance of annuity contracts by a plan to 
participants, relatives or participants, employers any of whose 
employees are covered by the plan or other employee benefit plans which 
are parties in interest.

    Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously 
approved collection for which approval has expired.
    Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.
    Title: Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 81-6
    OMB Number: 1210-0065.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 18,245.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 3,041.
    Description: This class exemption allows banks and registered 
broker-dealers to borrow securities that are assets of employee benefit 
plans.

    Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously 
approved collection for which approval has expired.
    Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.
    Title: Adoption of ERISA Class Exemption for Purposes of FERSA.
    OMB Number: 1210-0074.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 1.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1 hour.
    Total Burden Hours: 1.
    Description: The adoption of this class exemption under the 
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) for purposes of the 
Federal Employees' Retirement System Act (FERSA) would permit 
fiduciaries with respect to the FERS Thrift Savings Fund to engage in 
certain transactions that would otherwise be prohibited under FERSA.

    Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously 
approved collection for which approval has expired.
    Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.
    Title: Participant Loans.
    OMB Number: 1210-0076.
    Frequency: One time.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 7,000.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 3 hours.
    Total Burden Hours: 21,000.
    Description: This regulation clarifies requirements under the 
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 with respect to loans 
from pension plans which are made to plan participants and 
beneficiaries who are parties in interest with respect to the plan.

    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.
    Title: Transaction between Individual Retirement Accounts and 
Authorized Purchasers of American Eagle coins Class Exemptions, PTE 91-
55.
    OMB Number: 1210-0079.
    Frequency: on occasion.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 12.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1.5 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 36,666.
    Description: This proposed class exemption provides relief from 
certain taxes imposed by the Internal Revenue Code on broker-dealers 
who are disqualified persons under the code with respect to certain 
individual retirement accounts, regarding transactions involving 
American Eagle Coins.

    Type of Review: Extension.
    Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
    Title: Unemployment Insurance Quality Control 
Program. [[Page 33437]] 
    OMB Number: 1205-0245.
    Agency Number: ETA Handbook No. 395.
    Frequency: Weekly.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit; Not-for-profit institutions; Federal Government; State, Local 
or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 52.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 2,575 hours.
    Total Burden Hours: 133,900.
    Description: An extension of the existing Benefits Quality Control 
(BQC) data collection with no change in size or methods is being 
requested. The BQC program provides reliable estimates of the accuracy 
of benefit payments in the unemployment insurance program, and 
identifies the sources of mispayments so that their causes can be 
eliminated.

    Type of Review: Extension.
    Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
    Title: Occupational Code Request.
    OMB Number: 1205-0137.
    Agency Number: ETA 741.
    Frequency: As needed.
    Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 55.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 30 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 28.
    Description: ETA 741, Occupational Code Request (OCR), is provided 
as a public service to the States to obtain occupational codes and 
titles for jobs not included in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.

    Type of Review: Revision.
    Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
    Title: Employee Benefits Survey.
    OMB Number: 1220-0084.
    Frequency: Annual (varies).
    Affected Public: State and local governments and small private 
establishments in even-numbered years; Medium and large private 
establishments in odd-numbered years; Business or other for-profit 
organizations; Not-for-profit institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: 

    1996, 1998: 3,550 respondents; 1.12 hours per respondent; 3,975 
Total Burden Hours
    1997: 2,300 respondents; 1.25 hours per respondent; 2,875 Total 
Burden Hours

    Description: The Employee Benefits Survey (EBS) will present data 
on employee benefits in small (1-99 employees) private establishments 
and in State and local governments in 1996 and 1998, and in medium and 
large private establishments in 1997. The EBS, which covers State and 
local governments, and small, medium, and large private establishments 
in private industry, is used by Federal agencies and the Congress to 
determine policy affecting benefits of all workers; and by the private 
sector and State and local governments in benefits administration, 
union negotiations, and research.

    Type of Review: New.
    Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
    Title: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1996.
    OMB Number: 1220-0new.

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                                                                                                       Average  
                                                                                                         time   
          Form Number                     Frequency               Affected Public       Respondents   respondent
                                                                                                      (minutes) 
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Screeners......................  Once......................  Individuals..............       91,433         5.09
Youth Questionnaire and Pretest  Annual....................  ......do.................       15,733           64
Parent Questionnaire and         Annual....................  ......do.................       12,633        60.72
 Pretest.                                                                                                       
School Survey..................  Annual....................  Schools..................        8,333        40.79
CAT-ASVAB......................  Once......................  Individuals..............       21,030       120.85
Interest Finder................  Once......................  ......do.................       20,490           44
On-Line Eval...................  Once......................  ......do.................       20,490           15
ASVAB Pencil and Paper.........  Once......................  ......do.................          540          180
DOD Subset of Youth Questions..  Once......................  ......do.................        9,570           15
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Total Burden Hours: 109,499.                                                                                    
(Note: Total number of respondents does not equal the sum of the numbers in the same column above because of    
  overlap. There will be about 75,800 household screeners where there is no youth in scope, about 12,633 parents
  interviewed (screener and parent interview) for the main BLS sample and Learning Disabled (LD) oversample,    
  6,000 screeners in households having only an ASVAB respondents (but not in BLS sample), 8,333 schools, 15,733 
  youths in the BLS main or LD oversamples and 9,570 youths in the ASVAB study but not in either the BLS main   
  sample of LD oversample.)                                                                                     

    Description: The information provided in this survey will be used 
by the Department of Labor and other government agencies to help 
understand the school to work transition of young men and women in this 
age group. It will also be used by the Department of Defense to assess 
the pool of potential entrants to the Armed Forces.
Theresa M. O'Malley,
Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 95-15852 Filed 6-27-95; 8:45 am]
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