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(1) Type of Information Collection:
Reinstatement, with change, of a
previously approved collection for
which approval has expired.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection: 2005
Census of State and Federal Correctional
Facilities.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department of Justice sponsoring the
collection: Form Number: CJ–43, Bureau
of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice
Programs, Department of Justice.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Federal, State, and
District prison authorities. The Census
of State and Federal Correctional
Facilities obtains information on each
type of facility designed to house adults
sentenced to confinement by State,
District, or Federal court. These
facilities include prisons, penitentiaries,
and correctional institutions; boot
camps; prison farms; reception,
diagnostic, and classification centers;
road camps; forestry and conservation
camps; youthful offender facilities
(except in California); vocational
training facilities; prison hospitals; drug
and alcohol treatment facilities; and
State operated local detention facilities.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: It is estimated that 1,700
respondents will complete a 3-hour
census form.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: There are an estimated 5,100
total annual burden hours associated
with this collection.
If additional information is required
contact: Brenda E. Dyer, Department
Clearance Officer, United States
Department of Justice, Justice
Management Division, Policy and
Planning Staff, Patrick Henry Building,
Suite 1600, 601 D Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: June 10, 2005.
Brenda E. Dyer,
Department Clearance Officer, Department of
Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Office of Justice Programs
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comments Requested
60-day notice of information
collection under review: Semi-annual
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progress report for the Transitional
Housing Assistance Grant Program.
The Department of Justice (DOJ),
Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office
on Violence Against Women (OVW) has
submitted the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
The proposed information collection is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies. Comments
are encouraged and will be accepted for
‘‘sixty days’’ until August 15, 2005. This
process is conducted in accordance with
5 CFR 1320.10.
If you have comments, especially on
the estimated public burden or
associated response time, suggestions,
or need a copy of the proposed
information collection instrument with
instructions or additional information,
please contact: Cathy Poston, Attorney
Advisor, Office on Violence Against
Women, U.S. Department of Justice, 810
Seventh Street NW., Washington, DC
20531.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your
comments should address one or more
of the following four points:
—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 agencies
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 submission of
responses.
Overview of this information
collection:
(1) Type of Information Collection:
New Collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection: SemiAnnual Progress Report for the
Transitional Housing Assistance Grant
Program.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department of Justice sponsoring the
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collection: Form Number: None. Office
of Justice Programs, Office on Violence
Against Women.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Not-for-profit
institutions. Other: State, Local, or
Tribal Government. The affected public
includes the approximately 120 grantees
from the Transitional Housing
Assistance Grant Program. These grants
will provide funds to States, units of
local government, Indian tribes, and
other organizations, to carry out
programs to provide transitional
housing assistance and support services
to minors, adults, and their dependents
who are homeless, or in need of
transitional housing or other housing
assistance, as a result of fleeing a
situation of domestic violence and for
whom emergency shelter services or
other crisis intervention services are
unavailable or insufficient. 42 U.S.C.
13975.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: It is estimated that it will take
the approximately 120 respondents
(grantees) approximately one hour to
complete the Semi-Annual Progress
Report. The report is divided into
sections that pertain to the different
types of activities that grantees may
engage in with grant funds. Grantees
must complete only those sections that
are relevant to their activities.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: The estimated public burden
associated with this collection is 240
hours.
If additional information is required
contact: Brenda E. Dyer, Department
Clearance Officer, United States
Department of Justice, Justice
Management Division, Policy and
Planning Staff, Patrick Henry Building,
Suite 1600, 601 D Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: June 10, 2005.
Brenda E. Dyer,
Department Clearance Officer, Department of
Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment Standards Administration
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
ACTION:
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Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 114 / Wednesday, June 15, 2005 / Notices
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: Office of Federal
Contract Compliance Programs
Recordkeeping and Reporting
Requirements, Construction. A copy of
the proposed information collection
request can be obtained by contacting
the office listed below in the addresses
section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addresses section below on or before
August 15, 2005.
ADDRESSES: 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).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
I. Background
The Office of Federal Contract
Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is
responsible for the administration of
three equal opportunity programs,
which prohibit employment
discrimination and require affirmative
action by Federal contractors and
subcontractors. The laws administered
by the OFCCP are Executive Order
11246, as amended, section 503 of the
Rehabilitation Act, as amended, and the
Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment
Assistance Act of 1974, as amended
(VEVRAA), 38 U.S.C. 4212. OFCCP has
promulgated regulations implementing
these laws, which are found at Title 41
of the Code of Federal Regulations,
Chapter 60. For purposes of this
clearance request, the programs have
been divided functionally into two
categories, construction and supply and
service. This information collection
request covers the recordkeeping and
reporting requirements for the
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functional aspects of the program
involving construction. A separate
information collection request covers
the recordkeeping and reporting
requirements for functional aspects of
the program involving supply and
service, and is approved under OMB
1215–0072. This information collection
is currently approved for use through
June 30, 2005.
On December 8, 2003, OFCCP
published a Federal Register Notice
(FRN) indicating the intent to conduct
an internal assessment of the burden
hours associated with the construction
program. The burden hour results of the
internal assessment are included in this
FRN, for which OFCCP is seeking public
comments. The results of the internal
study, along with the public comments,
will be incorporated in the final
Information Collection Request seeking
a three-year approval.
The Department of Labor invites
comments on the accuracy of the
estimated universe of 178,487 Federal
contractor construction firms. OFCCP
developed this estimate through a multistep process. First, OFCCP obtained the
total number of construction firms in
the United States from statistics
compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau in
2001. The census compilation indicated
that there were 691,110 construction
firms in the United States. Second,
OFCCP subtracted from the total 98,837
firms with zero (0) employees. Third,
OFCCP deducted from the first three
employee size ranges (1 to 4, 5 to 9, and
10 to 19) a total of 146,056 firms, which
represents the number of firms engaged
in single-family housing construction,
leaving 446,217 construction firms.
Fourth, because all construction firms
are not covered contractors within
OFCCP’s jurisdiction, OFCCP developed
an estimate of the percentage of firms
that are covered contractors by
examining the percentage of supply and
service firms that are covered
contractors. Employer Information
Report (EEO–1) forms filed annually by
many employers provide information on
the supply and service universe of
Federal contractors. Relying on EEO–1
data, OFCCP found that there were
25,681 supply and service consolidated
EEO–1 Reports (multi-establishment
employers are required to file
consolidated EEO–1 Reports for
establishments with 50 or more
employees as well as establishments
with fewer than 50 employees) filed in
FY 2002. This is a reasonable
approximation of the total number of
supply and service firms submitting
consolidated reports in the United
States. Of these firms, 10,498 (40.8%)
indicated that they were Federal
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contractors. Based on the proportion of
supply and service contractors that selfidentified as federal contractors, OFCCP
assumed that 40 percent of the U.S.
construction firms would hold one or
more Federal or federally assisted
construction contracts. Accordingly,
OFCCP estimated that 40.0% of the
446,217 construction firms, or 178,487
firms, are Federal or federally assisted
construction contractors.
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 Department of Labor seeks the
extension of approval to collect this
information in order to carry out its
responsibility to enforce the affirmative
action and nondiscrimination
provisions of the three laws that it
administers.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Employment Standards
Administration.
Title: OFCCP Recordkeeping and
Reporting Requirements, Construction.
OMB Number: 1215–0163.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit, Not-for-profit institutions.
Total Respondents: 178,487.
Total Annual Responses: 178,487.
Average Time per Response,
Recordkeeping: 9 hours.
Average Time per Response,
Reporting: 0 hours.
Affirmative Action Program, Initial
Development: 32,112 hours.
Affirmative Action Program, Annual
Update: 120,487 hours.
Compliance Reviews: 715 hours.
Total Burden Hours, Recordkeeping
and Reporting: 1,710,325.
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Frequency: Annually.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$59,882.
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: June 8, 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
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: Application for
Authority for an Institution of Higher
Education to Employ its Full-Time
Students at Subminimum Wages Under
Regulations 29 CFR Part 519 (WH–201).
A copy of the proposed information
collection request can be obtained by
contacting the office listed below in the
addresses section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addresses section below on or before
August 15, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Ms. Hazel M. Bell, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Ave., NW., Room S–3201, Washington,
DC 20210, telephone (202) 693–0418,
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fax (202) 693–1451, e-mail
bell.hazel@dol.gov. Please use only one
method of transmission for comments
(mail, fax, or e-mail).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
I. Background
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
section 14(b)(3), 29 U.S.C. 214(b)(3),
authorizes the Secretary of Labor to
provide certificates allowing institutions
of higher education to employ their fulltime students at subminimum wages, to
the extent necessary to prevent
curtailment of opportunities for
employment. This section also sets
limits on such employment and protects
the full-time employment opportunities
of other workers. The Department of
Labor (DOL) has issued Regulations 29
CFR part 519 to implement the statutory
provision. An institution of higher
education uses Form WH–201, when
applying for authorization to pay
subminimum wages to its full-time
students employed by the institution.
The WH–201 application provides the
information necessary to ascertain
whether the requirements of section
14(b) have been met. This information
collection is currently approved for use
through November 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 to carry out its
responsibility to make a determination
whether to grant or deny subminimum
wage authority to the applicant. If the
information were not collected,
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institutions of higher education would
not have a mechanism to apply for
authorization to pay full-time students
at subminimum wages and job
opportunities for full-time students
would be reduced.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Employment Standards
Administration.
Title: Application for Authority for an
Institution of Higher Education to
Employ its Full-Time Students at
Subminimum Wages under Regulations
29 CFR Part 519.
OMB Number: 1215–0080.
Agency Number: WH–201.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions.
Total Respondents: 15.
Total Annual Responses: 15.
Estimated Time per Response: 15 to
30 minutes.
Burden Hours Per Response
(Recordkeeping): 1 minute.
Estimated Total Burden Hours
(Reporting and Recordkeeping): 5.
Frequency: Annually.
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: June 8, 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
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. ICR–1218–0126(2005)]
Acrylonitrile Standard; Extension of
the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) Approval of
Information Collection (Paperwork)
Requirements
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public
comment concerning its request for an
extension of the information collection
requirements contained in the
Acrylonitrile Standard (the ‘‘AN’’
Standard) (29 CFR 1910.1045).
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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: Office of Federal Contract
Compliance Programs Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements,
Construction. A copy of the proposed information collection request can
be obtained by contacting the office listed below in the addresses
section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addresses section below on or before August 15, 2005.
ADDRESSES: 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).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
I. Background
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is
responsible for the administration of three equal opportunity programs,
which prohibit employment discrimination and require affirmative action
by Federal contractors and subcontractors. The laws administered by the
OFCCP are Executive Order 11246, as amended, section 503 of the
Rehabilitation Act, as amended, and the Vietnam Era Veterans'
Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended (VEVRAA), 38 U.S.C.
4212. OFCCP has promulgated regulations implementing these laws, which
are found at Title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 60.
For purposes of this clearance request, the programs have been divided
functionally into two categories, construction and supply and service.
This information collection request covers the recordkeeping and
reporting requirements for the functional aspects of the program
involving construction. A separate information collection request
covers the recordkeeping and reporting requirements for functional
aspects of the program involving supply and service, and is approved
under OMB 1215-0072. This information collection is currently approved
for use through June 30, 2005.
On December 8, 2003, OFCCP published a Federal Register Notice
(FRN) indicating the intent to conduct an internal assessment of the
burden hours associated with the construction program. The burden hour
results of the internal assessment are included in this FRN, for which
OFCCP is seeking public comments. The results of the internal study,
along with the public comments, will be incorporated in the final
Information Collection Request seeking a three-year approval.
The Department of Labor invites comments on the accuracy of the
estimated universe of 178,487 Federal contractor construction firms.
OFCCP developed this estimate through a multi-step process. First,
OFCCP obtained the total number of construction firms in the United
States from statistics compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2001. The
census compilation indicated that there were 691,110 construction firms
in the United States. Second, OFCCP subtracted from the total 98,837
firms with zero (0) employees. Third, OFCCP deducted from the first
three employee size ranges (1 to 4, 5 to 9, and 10 to 19) a total of
146,056 firms, which represents the number of firms engaged in single-
family housing construction, leaving 446,217 construction firms.
Fourth, because all construction firms are not covered contractors
within OFCCP's jurisdiction, OFCCP developed an estimate of the
percentage of firms that are covered contractors by examining the
percentage of supply and service firms that are covered contractors.
Employer Information Report (EEO-1) forms filed annually by many
employers provide information on the supply and service universe of
Federal contractors. Relying on EEO-1 data, OFCCP found that there were
25,681 supply and service consolidated EEO-1 Reports (multi-
establishment employers are required to file consolidated EEO-1 Reports
for establishments with 50 or more employees as well as establishments
with fewer than 50 employees) filed in FY 2002. This is a reasonable
approximation of the total number of supply and service firms
submitting consolidated reports in the United States. Of these firms,
10,498 (40.8%) indicated that they were Federal contractors. Based on
the proportion of supply and service contractors that self-identified
as federal contractors, OFCCP assumed that 40 percent of the U.S.
construction firms would hold one or more Federal or federally assisted
construction contracts. Accordingly, OFCCP estimated that 40.0% of the
446,217 construction firms, or 178,487 firms, are Federal or federally
assisted construction contractors.
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 Department of Labor seeks the extension of approval to collect
this information in order to carry out its responsibility to enforce
the affirmative action and nondiscrimination provisions of the three
laws that it administers.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Employment Standards Administration.
Title: OFCCP Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements,
Construction.
OMB Number: 1215-0163.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit, Not-for-profit
institutions.
Total Respondents: 178,487.
Total Annual Responses: 178,487.
Average Time per Response, Recordkeeping: 9 hours.
Average Time per Response, Reporting: 0 hours.
Affirmative Action Program, Initial Development: 32,112 hours.
Affirmative Action Program, Annual Update: 120,487 hours.
Compliance Reviews: 715 hours.
Total Burden Hours, Recordkeeping and Reporting: 1,710,325.
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Frequency: Annually.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $59,882.
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: June 8, 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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