[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 234 (Friday, December 4, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78314-78315]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-26732]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Agency Information Collection Extension

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice and request for OMB review and comment.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted an information 
collection request to the OMB for extension under the provisions of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The information collection requests a 
three-year extension of its Semi-Annual Davis-Bacon Enforcement Report, 
OMB Control Number 1910-5165. All Federal agencies administering 
programs subject to Davis-Bacon wage provisions are required by to 
submit a report of all new

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covered contracts/projects and all compliance and enforcement 
activities every six months to the Department of Labor (DOL). In order 
for DOE to comply with this reporting requirement, it must collect 
contract and enforcement information from the Recovery Act funded Loan 
Borrowers, Loan Guarantee Borrowers, DOE direct contractors, and other 
prime contractors that administer DOE programs subject to Davis-Bacon 
requirements. DOE will require that such entities complete and submit a 
Semi-Annual Enforcement Report every six months, by the 21st of April 
and the 21st of October each year.

DATES: Comments regarding this collection must be received on or before 
February 2, 2021. If you anticipate that you will be submitting 
comments, but find it difficult to do so within the period of time 
allowed by this notice, please advise the OMB Desk Officer of your 
intention to make a submission as soon as possible. The Desk Officer 
may be telephoned at 202-395-4718.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should 
be directed to:
    John M. Sullivan, Attorney-Advisor (Labor), GC-63, U.S. Department 
of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585, or by fax 
at (202) 586-0971 or by email to [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request 
contains: (1) OMB No.: 1910-5165; (2) Information Collection Request 
Title: Davis-Bacon Semi-Annual Enforcement Report; (3) Type of Request: 
Renewal; (4) Purpose: This information collection ensures Departmental 
compliance with 29 CFR 5.7(b). The respondents are Department of Energy 
M&O, Facilities Management Contractors, and recipients of financial 
assistance whose work is subject to the Davis-Bacon Act and Davis-Bacon 
Related Acts; (5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 75; (6) 
Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 150; (7) Annual Estimated 
Number of Burden Hours: 2 per respondent annually, for a total of 300 
per year; (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: 
$103.00 per respondent.
    Statutory Authority: 29 CFR 5.7(b).

Signing Authority

    This document of the Department of Energy was signed on December 1, 
2020, by John T. Lucas, Deputy General Counsel for Transactions, 
Technology and Contractor Human Resources, pursuant to delegated 
authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original 
signature and date is maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes 
only, and in compliance with requirements of the Office of the Federal 
Register, the undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been 
authorized to sign and submit the document in electronic format for 
publication, as an official document of the Department of Energy. This 
administrative process in no way alters the legal effect of this 
document upon publication in the Federal Register.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on December 1, 2020.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2020-26732 Filed 12-3-20; 8:45 am]
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