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number of snowmobiles from historic highs
(720 compared to 1,650 per peak day),
requires the use of best available technology,
which will reduce emissions (by 90%) and
noise, and require all travel groups to be
accompanied by guide to reduce wildlife
conflicts.
Status: The NPS believes the most recent
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name and/or address, you must state
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individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, available
for public inspection in their entirety.
Dated: January 3, 2005.
Paul Hoffman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife
and Parks.
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Chicago Regional Offices. Employers in
the Atlanta and Chicago regions
requesting either permanent or H–2B
workers should continue, until ETA
publishes future guidance on this issue,
to file permanent and H–2B applications
with the appropriate SWA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
William Carlson, Chief, Division of
Foreign Labor Certification,
Employment and Training
Administration, 200 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Room C–4312,
Washington, DC 20210; Telephone:
(202) 693–3010 (this is not a toll-free
number).
The two
National Processing Centers opened as
of December 13, 2004, and assumed, on
an interim basis, responsibility for
processing Applications for Alien
Employment Certification (ETA Form
750) for permanent employment, and
H–2A, and H–2B applications
previously processed by ETA’s Atlanta
and Chicago Regional Offices. The two
new National Processing Centers will
handle permanent labor certification
cases to be filed under the soon-to-be
effective regulation implementing the
new permanent labor certification
program.
As recently announced, ETA has
issued a new form to be used when
filing applications under the H–1B and
H–1B1 programs. Please see 69 FR
69412 published on November 29, 2004,
for additional details. The mailing
address and fax number for H–1B and
H–1B1 case processing operations
remain the same. The H–1B and H–1B1
address and fax number are: ETA
Application Processing Center, P.O. Box
13640, Philadelphia, PA 19101, Fax:
(800) 397–0478.
ADDRESSES: The following new
addresses, phone numbers, and fax
numbers should be used by employers
and by SWAs for either inquiries or for
the forwarding of application materials,
as appropriate. Please note: for all
application materials, inquiries, and
other correspondence sent to either the
Atlanta or Chicago National processing
Center, envelopes should be clearly
marked according to the appropriate
program type, i.e., permanent, H–2A, or
H–2B.
Atlanta Processing Center Address:
U.S. Department of Labor Employment
and Training Administration, Foreign
Labor Certification National Processing
Center, Harris Tower, 233 Peachtree
Street, Suite 410, Atlanta, Georgia
30303, Phone: (404) 893–0101, Fax:
(404) 893–4642.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Information Regarding the Relocation
of Foreign Labor Certification Staff in
the Atlanta and Chicago Regional
Offices to the Atlanta and Chicago
National Processing Centers
Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Employment and
Training Administration (ETA) of the
Department of Labor (Department or
DOL) is issuing this Notice to announce
that DOL has moved its foreign labor
certification field staff in the Atlanta
and Chicago Regional Offices to the new
Atlanta and Chicago National
Processing Centers. This Notice
provides the public in the Atlanta and
Chicago regions with contact
information regarding these two new
processing centers. All foreign labor
certification processing activities
previously conducted in the Atlanta and
Chicago Regional Offices will now be
assumed by the corresponding Atlanta
or Chicago National Processing Centers.
The regulation to implement the reengineered permanent labor
certification program was published in
the Federal Register on December 27,
2004. The National Processing Centers
will continue current functions on an
interim basis and ETA will provide
additional guidance as to the handling
of cases which will be filed under the
new rule as well as backlogged
permanent labor certification cases.
Employers in the Atlanta and Chicago
regions requesting H–2A workers
should simultaneously submit H–2A
applications to their appropriate State
Workforce Agency (SWA) and
respective National Processing Center.
These H–2A applications should no
longer be submitted to ETA’s Atlanta or
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Chicago Processing Center Address:
U.S. Department of Labor Employment
and Training Administration, Foreign
Labor Certification National Processing
Center, 844 North Rush Street, 12th
Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60611, Phone:
(312) 886–8000, Fax: (312) 886–1688.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 3rd day of
January, 2005.
Emily Stover DeRocco,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment Standards Administration
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a preclearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. Currently, the
Employment Standards Administration
is soliciting comments concerning the
proposed collection: Housing
Occupancy Certificate—Migrant and
Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection
Act (WH–520). A copy of the proposed
information collection request can be
obtained by contacting the office listed
below in the ADDRESSES section of this
Notice.
Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addresses section below on or before
March 8, 2005.
DATES:
Ms. Hazel M. Bell, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Ave., NW., Room S–3201, Washington,
DC 20210, telephone (202) 693–0418,
fax (202) 693–1451, E-mail
bell.hazel@dol.gov. Please use only one
method of transmission for comments
(mail, fax, or E-mail).
ADDRESSES:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
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I. Background
Section 203(b)(1) of the Migrant and
Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection
Act (MSPA), 29 U.S.C. 1801, et seq., and
Regulation 29 CFR 500.135(b) provide
that any person who owns or controls a
facility or real property to be used for
housing migrant agricultural workers
shall not permit such housing to be
occupied by any worker unless a copy
of the certificate of occupancy from the
state, local, or federal agency that
conducted the housing safety and health
inspection is posted at the site of the
facility or real property. Form WH–520
is both an information gathering form
and the certificate of occupancy that the
Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the
Employment Standards Administration
(ESA) of the U.S. Department of Labor
(DOL) issues when it is the federal
agency conducting the safety and health
inspection. This information collection
is currently approved for use through
June 30, 2005.
II. Review Focus
The Department of Labor is
particularly interested in comments
which:
• 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;
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
• Enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• 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 submissions
of responses.
III. Current Actions
The Wage and Hour Division seeks
the approval of the extension of this
information collection in order to
inspect and certify a migrant housing
facility as meeting applicable safety and
health standards under the law.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Employment Standards
Administration.
Title: Housing Occupancy
Certificate—Migrant and Seasonal
Agricultural Worker Protection Act.
OMB Number: 1215–0158.
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Agency Number: WH–520.
Affected Public: Farms; Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit.
Total Respondents: 300.
Total Annual Responses: 300.
Estimated Time per Response: 3
minutes.
Reporting: 1 minute (Recordkeeping
burden for posting and filing).
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 20.
Frequency: On occasion.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $0.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.
Dated: January 3, 2005.
Bruce Bohanon,
Chief, Branch of Management Review and
Internal Control, Division of Financial
Management, Office of Management,
Administration and Planning, Employment
Standards Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment Standards
Administration; Wage and Hour
Division
Minimum Wages for Federal and
Federally Assisted Construction;
General Wage Determination Decisions
General wage determination decisions
of the Secretary of Labor are issued in
accordance with applicable law and are
based on the information obtained by
the Department of Labor from its study
of local wage conditions and data made
available from other sources. They
specify the basic hourly wage rates and
fringe benefits which are determined to
be prevailing for the described classes of
laborers and mechanics employed on
construction projects of a similar
character and in the localities specified
therein.
The determinations in these decisions
of prevailing rates and fringe benefits
have been made in accordance with 29
CFR part 1, by authority of the Secretary
of Labor pursuant to the provisions of
the Davis-Bacon Act of March 3, 1931,
as amended (46 Stat. 1494, as amended,
40 U.S.C. 276a) and of other Federal
statutes referred to in 29 CFR part 1,
Appendix, as well as such additional
statutes as may from time to time be
enacted containing provisions for the
payment of wages determined to be
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Information Regarding the Relocation of Foreign Labor
Certification Staff in the Atlanta and Chicago Regional Offices to the
Atlanta and Chicago National Processing Centers
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the
Department of Labor (Department or DOL) is issuing this Notice to
announce that DOL has moved its foreign labor certification field staff
in the Atlanta and Chicago Regional Offices to the new Atlanta and
Chicago National Processing Centers. This Notice provides the public in
the Atlanta and Chicago regions with contact information regarding
these two new processing centers. All foreign labor certification
processing activities previously conducted in the Atlanta and Chicago
Regional Offices will now be assumed by the corresponding Atlanta or
Chicago National Processing Centers.
The regulation to implement the re-engineered permanent labor
certification program was published in the Federal Register on December
27, 2004. The National Processing Centers will continue current
functions on an interim basis and ETA will provide additional guidance
as to the handling of cases which will be filed under the new rule as
well as backlogged permanent labor certification cases.
Employers in the Atlanta and Chicago regions requesting H-2A
workers should simultaneously submit H-2A applications to their
appropriate State Workforce Agency (SWA) and respective National
Processing Center. These H-2A applications should no longer be
submitted to ETA's Atlanta or Chicago Regional Offices. Employers in
the Atlanta and Chicago regions requesting either permanent or H-2B
workers should continue, until ETA publishes future guidance on this
issue, to file permanent and H-2B applications with the appropriate
SWA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Carlson, Chief, Division of
Foreign Labor Certification, Employment and Training Administration,
200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room C-4312, Washington, DC 20210;
Telephone: (202) 693-3010 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The two National Processing Centers opened
as of December 13, 2004, and assumed, on an interim basis,
responsibility for processing Applications for Alien Employment
Certification (ETA Form 750) for permanent employment, and H-2A, and H-
2B applications previously processed by ETA's Atlanta and Chicago
Regional Offices. The two new National Processing Centers will handle
permanent labor certification cases to be filed under the soon-to-be
effective regulation implementing the new permanent labor certification
program.
As recently announced, ETA has issued a new form to be used when
filing applications under the H-1B and H-1B1 programs. Please see 69 FR
69412 published on November 29, 2004, for additional details. The
mailing address and fax number for H-1B and H-1B1 case processing
operations remain the same. The H-1B and H-1B1 address and fax number
are: ETA Application Processing Center, P.O. Box 13640, Philadelphia,
PA 19101, Fax: (800) 397-0478.
ADDRESSES: The following new addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers
should be used by employers and by SWAs for either inquiries or for the
forwarding of application materials, as appropriate. Please note: for
all application materials, inquiries, and other correspondence sent to
either the Atlanta or Chicago National processing Center, envelopes
should be clearly marked according to the appropriate program type,
i.e., permanent, H-2A, or H-2B.
Atlanta Processing Center Address: U.S. Department of Labor
Employment and Training Administration, Foreign Labor Certification
National Processing Center, Harris Tower, 233 Peachtree Street, Suite
410, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Phone: (404) 893-0101, Fax: (404) 893-
4642.
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Chicago Processing Center Address: U.S. Department of Labor
Employment and Training Administration, Foreign Labor Certification
National Processing Center, 844 North Rush Street, 12th Floor, Chicago,
Illinois 60611, Phone: (312) 886-8000, Fax: (312) 886-1688.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 3rd day of January, 2005.
Emily Stover DeRocco,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
[FR Doc. 05-332 Filed 1-6-05; 8:45 am]
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