[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 139 (Wednesday, July 21, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43626-43627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-16540]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary


Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request

July 15, 2004.
    The Department of Labor (DOL) has submitted the following public 
information collection requests (ICRs) to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. chapter 35). A copy of 
each ICR, with applicable supporting documentation, may be obtained by 
contacting the Department of Labor (DOL). To obtain documentation, 
contact Darrin King on 202-693-4129 (this is not a toll-free number) or 
email: [email protected].
    Comments should be sent to Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for the Employment Standards 
Administration (ESA), Office of Management and Budget, Room 10235, 
Washington, DC 20503, 202-395-7316 (this is not a toll-free number), 
within 30 days from the date of this publication in the Federal 
Register.
    The OMB is particularly interested in comments which:
     Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
     Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the 
burden of the proposed collection of information, including the 
validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
     Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
     Minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate 
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting 
electronic submission of responses.
    Agency: Employment Standards Administration.
    Type of Review: Extension of currently approved collection.
    Title: Request for State or Federal Workers' Compensation 
Information.
    OMB Number: 1215-0060.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Type of Response: Reporting.
    Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Government and Federal 
Government.
    Number of Respondents: 1,600.
    Number of Annual Responses: 1,600.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 15 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 400.
    Total Annualized capital/startup costs: $0.
    Total Annual Costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing 
services): $640.
    Description: The Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, as 
amended (30 U.S.C. 901) and 20 CFR 725.535, directs that DOL Black Lung 
benefit payments to a beneficiary for any month be reduced by any other 
payments of State or Federal benefits for workers' compensation due to 
pneumoconiosis. The information collected by the Form CM-905 allows DOL 
to determine the amounts of black lung benefits paid to beneficiaries. 
Black Lung amounts are reduced dollar for dollar, for other black lung 
related workers' compensation awards the beneficiary may be receiving 
from State or Federal programs.
    Agency: Employment Standards Administration.
    Type of Review: Extension of currently approved collection.
    Title: Labor Standards for Federal Service Contracts--Regulations 
29 CFR, part 4.
    OMB Number: 1215-0150.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Type of Response: Reporting and recordkeeping.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit and Federal 
Government.
    Number of Respondents: 83,854.

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                                                                        Average
        Information collection requirement              Annual       response time   Annual burden
                                                       responses        (hours)          hours
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Vacation Benefit Seniority List...................          82,149            1.00          82,149
Conformance Record................................             200            0.50             100
Collective Bargaining Agreement...................           1,505            0.08             125
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    Total:........................................          83,854     ///////////          82,374
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    Total Annualized capital/startup costs: $0.
    Total Annual Costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing 
services): $0.
    Description: The Service Contract Act (SCA) and Regulation 29 CFR 
part 4 impose certain recordkeeping and incidental reporting 
requirements applicable to employers with employees performing on 
service contracts within the Federal government. The basic payroll 
recordkeeping requirements contained in this regulation, Sec. 
4.6(g)(1)(i) through (iv), have been previously approved under OMB-
1215-0017, which constitutes the basic recordkeeping regulations for 
all laws administered by the Wage and Hour Division. This information 
collection contains three requirements not cleared under the above 
information collection. They are: A vacation benefit seniority list, 
which is used by the contractor to determine vacation fringe benefit 
entitlements earned and accrued by service contract employees who were 
employed by predecessor contractors; a conformance record report, which 
is used by Wage and Hour to determine the appropriateness of the 
conformance and compliance with the SCA and its regulations; and a 
collective bargaining agreement, submitted by the contracting agency to 
Wage and Hour to be used in the issuance of wage determinations for 
successor contracts subject to section 2(a) and 4(c) of the SCA.

Darrin A. King,
Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 04-16540 Filed 7-20-04; 8:45 am]
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