[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 20, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2704-2706]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-00737]


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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Submission for OMB Review

AGENCY: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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ACTION: Final notice of submission for OMB review--extension with 
change: Local Union Report (EEO-3).

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), the 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) hereby 
gives notice that it has submitted to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) a request for a three-year extension with change of the 
Local Union Report (EEO-3). The EEOC is proposing revisions to the race 
and ethnicity categories on the EEO-3 report to conform to OMB's 
Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on 
Race and Ethnicity (October 30, 1997) (Revised Standards), as applied 
in OMB Bulletin No. 00-02, Guidance on Aggregation and Allocation of 
Data on Race for Use in Civil Rights Monitoring and Enforcement (March 
9, 2000).

DATES: Written comments on this notice must be submitted on or before 
February 19, 2015.

ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR and applicable supporting documentation 
submitted to OMB for this review may be obtained from: Ronald Edwards, 
Director, Program Research and Surveys Division, Equal Employment 
Opportunity Commission, 131 M Street NE., Room 4SW30F, Washington, DC 
20507. Comments on this final notice must be submitted to Chad A. 
Lallemand, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 
Management and Budget, 725 17th Street NW., Room 10235, New Executive 
Office Building, Washington, DC 20503 or electronically mailed to 
[email protected]. Copies of comments should be sent to 
Bernadette Wilson, Acting Executive Officer, Executive Secretariat, 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 131 M Street NE., Washington, 
DC 20507. As a convenience to commenters, the Executive Secretariat 
will accept comments totaling six or fewer pages by facsimile (``FAX'') 
machine. This limitation is necessary to assure access to the 
equipment. The telephone number of the fax receiver is (202) 663-4114. 
(This is not a toll-free number). Receipt of FAX transmittals will not 
be acknowledged, except that the sender may request confirmation of 
receipt by calling the Executive Secretariat staff at (202) 663-4070 
(voice) or (202) 663-4074 (TTY). (These are not toll-free telephone 
numbers.) Instead of sending written comments to EEOC, you may submit 
comments and attachments electronically at http://www.regulations.gov, 
which is the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions online 
for submitting comments. All comments received through this portal will 
be posted without change, including any personal information you 
provide. Copies of comments submitted by the public to EEOC directly or 
through the Federal eRulemaking Portal will be available for review, by 
advance appointment only, at the Commission's library between the hours 
of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time or can be reviewed at http://www.regulations.gov. To schedule an appointment to inspect the comments 
at EEOC's library, contact the library staff at (202) 663-4630 (voice) 
or (202) 663-4641 (TTY). (These are not toll-free numbers.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ronald Edwards, Director, Program 
Research and Surveys Division, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
131 M Street NE., Room 4SW30F, Washington, DC 20507; (202) 663-4949 
(voice) or (202) 663-7063 (TTY). Requests for this notice in an 
alternative format should be made to the Office of Communications and 
Legislative Affairs at (202) 663-4191 (voice) or (202) 663-4494 (TTY).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EEOC has collected information from 
local unions on the EEO-3 form since 1966. The Commission is proposing 
revisions to the EEO-3 report to conform to OMB's Revisions to the 
Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity 
(October 30, 1997) (Revised Standards), as applied in OMB Bulletin No. 
00-02, Guidance on Aggregation and Allocation of Data on Race for Use 
in Civil Rights Monitoring and Enforcement (March 9, 2000). The 
revisions to the EEO-3 report, Form 274, include the following race and 
ethnicity categories: Hispanic or Latino; White; Black or African 
American; Asian; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; American 
Indian or Alaska Native; and Two or More Races.
    A notice that EEOC would be submitting this request was published 
in the Federal Register on August 27, 2014 allowing for a 60-day public 
comment period. There were no comments received from the public.

Overview of Information Collection

    Collection Title: Local Union Report (EEO-3).
    OMB Number: 3046-0006.
    Frequency of Report: Biennial.
    Type of Respondent: Referral local unions with 100 or more members.
    Description of Affected Public: Referral local unions and 
independent or unaffiliated referral unions and similar labor 
organizations.
    Responses: 1,176.
    Reporting Hours: 2,405.
    Cost Burden: $2,822,400.
    Federal Cost: $81,935.
    Number of Forms: 1.
    Form Number: EEOC Form 274.
    Abstract: Section 709(c) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 
1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 2000e-8(c), requires labor organizations to 
make and keep records relevant to a determination of whether unlawful 
employment practices have been or are being committed and to produce 
reports from the data. The EEOC issued regulations requiring referral 
local unions with 100 or more members to submit EEO-3 reports. The 
individual reports are confidential. The EEOC uses EEO-3 data to 
investigate charges of discrimination and for research.
    Burden Statement: The estimated number of respondents included in 
the biennial EEO-3 survey is 1,176 referral unions. The changes 
discussed herein will increase the biennial respondent burden hours 
from 2,102 to 2,405 and EEOC costs from $60,000 to $81,935. The burden 
per report will be 2.05 hours. The increase in burden hours per report 
is due to the changes made to the Form 274.
    Estimated burden hours were calculated by multiplying the number of 
reports expected to be filed biennially (1,176 in 2012) by the 
estimated average time to complete and submit each report (2.05 hours). 
These estimates are based on an assumption of paper reporting. However, 
the EEOC has made electronic filing much easier for respondents 
required to file the EEO-3 Report. As a result, more jurisdictions are 
using this filing method. This development, along with the greater 
availability of human resource information software, is expected to 
have significantly reduced the actual burden of reporting, but 
empirical data in this area is lacking. Accordingly, efforts will be 
undertaken by the Commission to (1) develop more reliable estimates of 
reporting burdens given the significant increase in electronic filing; 
and (2) to implement new approaches to make such reporting even less 
burdensome.
    The other new burden is the one-time cost of respondents changing 
the manner in which they collect and store the new race and ethnicity 
changes as well as changes to computer programs and systems. There will 
be no cost for respondents with a current system that is already 
designed to handle the full multiple race and ethnicity 
classifications. It is estimated that about ten percent of respondents 
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have this ability. The estimated cost for respondents that will have to 
re-survey the members to comply with the new race and ethnicity changes 
is $2,822,400.

    Dated: January 9, 2015.

    For the Commission.
Jenny R. Yang,
Chair.
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