[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 152 (Tuesday, August 9, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48481-48482]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-17050]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control No. 3090-XXXX; Docket No. 2022-0001; Sequence No. 7]


Submission for OMB Review; General Services Administration 
Regulation; Construction Payrolls and Basic Records

AGENCY: Office of Acquisition Policy, General Services Administration 
(GSA).

ACTION: Notice of request for comments regarding a new request for an 
OMB clearance.

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the 
Regulatory Secretariat Division will be submitting to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve a new 
information collection requirement.

DATES: Submit comments on or before September 8, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for this 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 Review--Open for Public 
Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Johnnie McDowell, Procurement 
Analyst, General Services Administration, at telephone 202-718-6112 or 
via email at [email protected]. for clarification of content.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Purpose

    The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Clause 52.222-8 Payrolls 
and Basic Records requires United States construction contracts in 
excess of $2,000 to submit weekly for each week in which any contract 
work is performed a copy of all payrolls to the Contracting Officer. 
The clause allows contractors to submit the required

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weekly payroll information using the DOL WH-347 form or any other form 
desired. GSA is proposing to deviate from the FAR clause to require 
these construction contractors to use the GSA Electronic Payroll 
Template and its portal to submit the required weekly payroll data. The 
proposed revision will increase the efficiency of the weekly payroll 
certification process for the contractor, GSA and the contractor's 
employee through the use of a standardized automated process. The 
current manual process for reviewing weekly certified payroll data 
requires an enormous amount of labor hours and has a large probability 
of human error, i.e., non-identification or delayed identification of 
errors in pay for covered workers. Delays in identifying payroll errors 
are costly to the contractor who will need to pay retroactive wage 
adjustments and the employee will have suffered reduced economic 
purchase power due to the error in wages.

B. Annual Reporting Burden

    GSA bases the following burden estimates for certified payrolls on 
SAM.gov reports for Fiscal Year 2021. The report indicated 182 new 
prime construction contractors for GSA projects were subject to the 
Davis-Bacon or Related Act. GSA's automation of the data collection 
process will not increase the existing data collection burden from the 
DOL Wage and Hour Division (WHD) the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) Information Control No. 1235-0008, Davis-Bacon Certified Payroll 
or 1235-0018, Records to be kept by Employers--Fair Labor Standards 
Act.
    Respondents: 182 (170 prime contractors plus 12 subcontractors).
    Responses per Respondent: 52 (1 for each week of the year).
    Total Annual Responses: 9,464 (182 new respondents x 52 responses).
    Hours per Response: 33 minutes (weighted average of 56 minutes (DOL 
estimated time to input information plus 1 minute recordkeeping for 
initial entry) + 31 minutes (estimated time to certify payroll in new 
system plus 1 minute recordkeeping)).
    Total Burden Hours: 5,205 ((9,464 annual responses x 33 minutes)/60 
minutes).

C. Discussion and Analysis

    A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register at 87 FR 27148 on 
May 6, 2022. One comment was received. No change was made to the 
information collection requirements or supporting statement as a result 
of the public comments, because it was not applicable to the policy.
    Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the 
information collection documents from the Regulatory Secretariat 
Division by calling 202-501-4755 or emailing [email protected]. Please 
cite OMB Control No. 3090-XXXX, Payrolls and Basic Records Clause, in 
all correspondence.

Jeffrey A. Koses,
Senior Procurement Executive, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of 
Government-wide Policy.
[FR Doc. 2022-17050 Filed 8-8-22; 8:45 am]
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