[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 186 (Tuesday, September 27, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58534-58535]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20848]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs


Notice of Request Under the Freedom of Information Act for 
Federal Contractors' Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Report Data; Correction

AGENCY: Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Labor.

ACTION: Notice; correction and extension of deadline to respond.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract 
Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a notice in the Federal Register 
on August 19, 2022, providing federal contractors instructions on how 
to object to the release of their Type 2 EEO-1 Report data, requested 
under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The notice omitted a 
hyperlink and referenced a non-functional hyperlink for a collection 
that is not currently active. Additionally, this corrected notice 
extends the deadline for contractors to submit written objections to 
October 19, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Candice Spalding, Deputy Director, 
Division of Management and Administrative Programs, Office of Federal 
Contract Compliance Programs, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room C-3325, 
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: 1-855-680-0971 (voice) or 1-877-889-
5627 (TTY).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Corrections

    OFCCP makes the following corrections to its August 19, 2022, 
Federal Register notice (87 FR 51145):
    On page 51145, column 3, lines 36-42 are corrected to remove the 
phrase, ``see also EEO-1 Joint Reporting Committee, EEO-1 Instruction 
Booklet 1, https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/upload/instructions_form.pdf (describing the EEO-1 Report as ``jointly 
developed by the EEOC and OFCCP'').''
    On page 51145, column 3, the last full sentence, ``Although the 
EEOC and OFCCP jointly collect the EEO-1 data through the JRC, as a 
practical matter, because the JRC is housed at the EEOC, employers 
submit their data to the EEOC,'' is corrected so the sentence reads as: 
``Employers submit their data to the EEOC.''
    On page 51145, column 3, footnote 2 is removed in its entirety.
    On page 51146, column 1, lines 11-12, the phrase ``compliance 
surveys'' is replaced with ``data collections'' so the sentence reads 
as: ``Section 709(e) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 
imposes criminal penalties and makes it unlawful for any officer or 
employee of EEOC from making public the employment data derived from 
any of its data collections prior to the institution of any proceeding 
under EEOC's authority involving such information.''
    On page 51146, column 2, line 6 is corrected to remove ``[INSERT 
LINK]'' and embed a hyperlink to the OFCCP website at https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/submitter-notice-response-portal and remove 
``15,000'' and replace with ``24,000,'' to read, ``Given OFCCP's best 
estimate that the CIR FOIA request covers approximately 24,000 unique 
Covered Contractors, OFCCP is fulfilling its notification obligation 
through this Federal Register notice, a contemporaneous posting on the 
OFCCP website, and notification to all federal contractors and federal 
contractor representatives that have registered and provided electronic 
mail contact information through the agency's Contractor Portal and/or 
have subscribed to OFCCP's GovDelivery electronic mail listserv.''

Extension of Deadline

    The August 19, 2022, Federal Register notice provided a deadline of 
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19, 2022, for contractors to submit written objections to disclosure of 
the requested Type 2 EEO-1 Report data (87 FR 51145). OFCCP is 
extending this deadline to October 19, 2022, to ensure that Covered 
Contractors have time to ascertain whether they are covered and submit 
objections. There are multiple reasons for the extension, including the 
following. First, since publication of that notice, numerous 
contractors and contractor representatives have contacted the agency 
requesting an extension of time to submit objections. Additionally, 
since the publication of the original notice, some federal contractors 
have raised questions regarding their efforts to verify whether they 
are included in the universe of Covered Contractors during the 
requested timeframe. To address this second issue, OFCCP will also take 
the additional step of emailing contractors that OFCCP believes are 
covered by this FOIA request, using the email address provided by 
contractors that have registered in OFCCP's Contractor Portal and the 
email addresses provided as a contact for the EEO-1 report.

Kelley J. Smith,
Director of the Division of Management and Administrative Programs, 
Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
[FR Doc. 2022-20848 Filed 9-26-22; 8:45 am]
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