[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 32 (Friday, February 15, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8905-8906]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-2870]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary


Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request

February 11, 2008.
    The Department of Labor (DOL) gives notice that it has submitted 
the

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information collection request (ICR) described below to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. A copy of this ICR, with 
applicable supporting documentation, including, among other things, a 
description of the likely respondents, proposed frequency of response, 
and estimated total burden may be obtained from the RegInfo.gov Web 
site at: http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain or by contacting 
Darrin King on 202-693-4129 (this is not a toll-free number) and e-mail 
[email protected].
    Interested parties are encouraged to send written comments on or 
before March 17, 2008 to the Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Attn: Katherine Astrich, Desk Officer for the Veterans' 
Employment Training Service, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, e-mail [email protected]. 
In order to ensure the appropriate consideration, comments should 
reference the OMB Control Number (see below).
    The OMB is particularly interested in comments which:
    (1) 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;
    (2) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency estimate of the burden of 
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
    (3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; and
    (4) 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: Veterans' Employment and Training Service.
    Type of Review: Revision of currently approved collection.
    Title: Federal Contractor Veterans' Report VETS-100/VETS-100A.
    OMB Control Number: 1293-0005.
    Agency Form Numbers: VETS-100 and VETS-100A.
    Affected Public: Private Sector: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 20,000.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 156,200.
    Estimated Annual Cost Burden: $0.
    Description: The Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act 
of 1974 (``VEVRAA''), 38 U.S.C. 4212(d), requires Federal contractors 
and subcontractors subject to the Act's affirmative action provisions 
in 38 U.S.C. 4212(a) to track and report annually to the Secretary of 
Labor the number of employees in their workforces, by job category and 
hiring location, who belong to the specified categories of covered 
veterans. The regulations set forth in 41 CFR part 61-250 currently 
require contractors to use the Federal Contractor Veterans' Employment 
Report VETS-100 (``VETS-100 Report'') form for reporting information on 
the number of covered veterans in their workforces. The part 61-250 
regulations and the VETS-100 Report apply to contractors with contracts 
that were entered into before December 1, 2003.
    The Jobs for Veterans Act (JVA) (Pub. L. 107-288), which was 
enacted in 2002, amended VEVRAA by making two changes to the reporting 
requirements applicable to contracts entered into on or after December 
1, 2003. The JVA amendments: (1) Increased from $25,000 to $100,000, 
the dollar amount of the contract that subjects a Federal contractor to 
the requirement to report on veterans' employment; and (2) changed the 
categories of covered veterans under VEVRAA, and thus the categories of 
veterans that contractors are required to track and report on annually.
    VETS published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published on 
August 8, 2006, (71 FR 44945), to implement the changes made by JVA to 
the VEVRAA reporting requirements. The NPRM proposed to adopt a new set 
of regulations that would be codified in a new 41 CFR part 61-300. In 
addition, the NPRM proposed to adopt a new form for reporting the 
information on veterans' employment required by the JVA amendments and 
name it the Federal Contractor Veterans' Employment Report VETS-100A. 
The part 60-300 regulations and the VETS-100A Report will apply to 
contractors with contracts that were entered into or modified on or 
after December 1, 2003. The information collected is to be used by the 
Department of Labor for compliance monitoring. For additional 
information, see related notice published on October 2, 2007 at 72 FR 
56103.

Darrin A. King,
Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-2870 Filed 2-14-08; 8:45 am]
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