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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: Labor Organization
and Auxiliary Reports (LM–1, LM–2,
LM–3, LM–4, LM–10, LM–15, LM–15A,
LM–16, LM–20, LM–21, LM–30, and S–
1). A copy of the proposed information
collection request can be obtained by
contacting the office listed below in the
addressee section of this Notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addressee section below on or before
August 7, 2006.
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
Congress enacted the LaborManagement Reporting and Disclosure
Act of 1959, as amended (LMRDA), to
provide for the disclosure of
information on the financial
transactions and administrative
practices of labor organizations. The
statute also provides, under certain
circumstances, for reporting by labor
organization officers and employees,
employers, labor relations consultants,
and surety companies. Section 208 of
the LMRDA authorizes the Secretary to
issue rules and regulations prescribing
the form of the required reports. The
reporting provisions were devised to
implement a basic tenet of the LMRDA:
The guarantee of democratic procedures
and safeguards within labor
organizations that are designed to
protect the basic rights of union
members. Section 205 of the LMRDA
provides that the reports are public
information.
The Office of Labor-Management
Standards (OLMS) administers the
reporting provisions of the LMRDA to
the statute (29 U.S.C. 431 et seq.) and
the implementing and interpreting
regulations (29 CFR Chapter IV). This
information collection is currently
approved for use through November 30,
2006.
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 (DOL) seeks
extension of the current approval to
collect this information. An extension is
necessary because the LMRDA
explicitly requires the reporting and
establishes the frequency of the required
filings. The information collected by
OLMS is used by union members to
help self-govern their unions, by the
general public, and as research material
for both outside researchers and within
the Department of Labor. The
information is also used to assist DOL
and other government agencies in
detecting improper practices on the part
of labor organizations, their officers
and/or representatives, and others and
is used by Congress in oversight and
legislative functions. In addition to
making Forms LM–2, LM–3, LM–4, LM–
10, LM–20, LM–21, and LM–30 (from
fiscal year 2000 to the present) available
to the public online free of charge
through its Internet Public Disclosure
Room, (https://unionreports.dol.gov/
olmsWeb/docs/lmrda.htm), OLMS
receives and fulfills approximately 210
disclosure report requests per month.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Employment Standards
Administration.
Title: Labor Organization and
Auxiliary Reports.
OMB Number: 1215–0188.
Agency Number: LM–1, LM–2, LM–3,
LM–4, LM–10, LM–15, LM–15A, LM–
16, LM–20, LM–21, LM–30 and S–1.
Affected Public: Individual or
households; business or other for-profit;
not-for-profit institutions.
Total Respondents: 27,849.
Total Responses: 27,849.
Time per Response (Reporting):
1,175,450.
Time per Response (Recordkeeping):
2,197,804.
Frequency: Semi-annually and
Annually.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
3,373,254.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $0.
REPORTING AND RECORDKEEPING BURDEN HOURS
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Forms
Responses
LM–1 ........................................................
LM–2 ........................................................
LM–3 ........................................................
LM–4 ........................................................
LM–10 ......................................................
LM–15 ......................................................
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Hours per
respondent for
reporting
Reporting burden hours
Hours per
respondent for
recordkeeping
Recordkeeping
burden hours
0.83
146.00
52.00
8.00
0.50
1.50
212
558,742
562,224
50,840
883
531
0.08
390.00
64.00
2.00
0.08
0.33
20
1,492,530
691,968
12,710
141
117
255
3,827
10,812
6,355
1,766
354
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Total hours
232
2,051,272
1,254,192
63,550
1,024
648
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REPORTING AND RECORDKEEPING BURDEN HOURS—Continued
Forms
Responses
Hours per
respondent for
reporting
Reporting burden hours
Hours per
respondent for
recordkeeping
Recordkeeping
burden hours
Total hours
LM–15A ....................................................
LM–16 ......................................................
LM–20 ......................................................
LM–21 ......................................................
LM–30 ......................................................
S–1 ...........................................................
SARF* ......................................................
68
95
90
11
3,494
179
543
0.33
0.33
0.33
0.50
0.50
0.50
0.17
22
31
30
6
1,747
90
92
0.03
0.02
0.03
0.08
0.08
0.08
0.03
2
2
3
1
280
14
16
24
33
33
7
2,027
104
108
Total ..................................................
27,849
........................
1,175,450
........................
2,197,804
3,373,254
Note: Some numbers may not add due to rounding.
* Simplified Annual Report Format.
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 1, 2006.
Ruben L. Wiley,
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
Veterans’ Employment and Training
Service
FY 2006 Stand Down Grant Requests
AGENCY: Veterans’ Employment and
Training Service (VETS), Labor.
ACTION: Initial announcement of
available FY 2006 funds under the
Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration
Program to Support Local Stand Down
Events.
Funding Opportunity No: 17–805.
The Veterans’ Employment
and Training Service (VETS) continues
to support local Stand Down events that
assist homeless veterans and is now
accepting applications for Stand Down
grant awards. A Stand Down is an event
held in a local community where
homeless veterans are provided a wide
variety of social services. Under this FY
2006 announcement, VETS anticipates
that up to $325,000 will be available for
grant awards up to a maximum of
$8,000 per event. However, if the event
is held for one (1) day, the maximum
amount is $5,000. VETS expects to
award approximately forty (40) grants.
Applications for Stand Down funds will
be accepted from State Workforce
Agencies and State and local Workforce
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Investment Boards, Veterans Service
Organizations (VSO), local public
agencies, and non-profit organizations,
including community and faith-based
organizations. VETS is not authorized to
award these grant funds to organizations
that are registered with Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) as a 501(c)(4)
organization.
All Stand Down grant requests
must be received by the appropriate
State Director for Veterans’ Employment
and Training (DVET) who serves as the
Grant Officer Technical Representative
(GOTR) no later than 60 days prior to
the event and by no later than June 30,
2006, for events that occur on or prior
to November 30, 2006. Events occurring
after November 30, 2006, application
will be accepted, and awarded as next
year’s federal appropriations or
continuing resolution funding becomes
available.
ADDRESSES: Applications for Stand
Down grant funding are to be submitted
to the appropriate State DVET/GOTR.
Address and contact information for
each State DVET/GOTR can be found at:
https://www2.dol.gov/vets/aboutvets/
contacts/main.htm.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Stand Down is a military term
referring to an opportunity to achieve a
brief respite from combat. Troops would
assemble in a base camp to receive new
clothing, hot food, and a relative degree
of safety before returning to the front.
Today more than 160 organizations
across the country partner with local
businesses, government agencies, and
community- and faith-based service
providers to hold Stand Down events for
homeless veterans and their families in
the local community.
Each year, the Assistant Secretary for
Veterans’ Employment and Training
awards Homeless Veterans’
Reintegration Program (HVRP) grants to
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programs that enhance employment and
training opportunities and/or promote
self-sufficiency for homeless veterans.
Residual HVRP funds can be awarded as
grants to organizations sponsoring Stand
Down events for homeless veterans.
The critical services provided at a
Stand Down are often the catalyst that
enables homeless veterans to reenter
mainstream society. Some of the
services available at these events
include temporary shelter, showers,
haircuts, meals, clothing, hygiene kits,
medical examinations, immunizations,
legal advice, State identification cards,
veterans benefit information, training
program information, employment
services, and referral to other supportive
services.
Stand Down grant funds must be used
to enhance employment and training
opportunities or to promote selfsufficiency for homeless veterans. The
funds may be used to support activities
such as:
• The purchase of food, bottled water,
clothing, sleeping bags and hygiene care
kits;
• Rental of facilities and/or tents;
• Payment for special one-time
electricity costs, equipment rentals,
advertising, event posters, portable
toilets, janitorial/kitchen supplies, and
communications/internet access;
• The hiring of security personnel;
• Transportation of homeless veterans
to and from Stand Down events; and
• Other items and services as
appropriate.
Stand Down grant funds may not be
used to purchase special monogrammed
tee shirts, pen sets, specialty hats
(unless for cold weather use), military
and veteran type patches, and memento
gifts for staff members/visitors/
volunteers.
II. Award Information
The maximum amount that can be
awarded to support a local Stand Down
event is $8,000 per year, per event. If the
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment Standards Administration
Proposed Collection; Comment Request
ACTION: Notice.
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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: Labor Organization and
Auxiliary Reports (LM-1, LM-2, LM-3, LM-4, LM-10, LM-15, LM-15A, LM-16,
LM-20, LM-21, LM-30, and S-1). A copy of the proposed information
collection request can be obtained by contacting the office listed
below in the addressee section of this Notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addressee section below on or before August 7, 2006.
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
Congress enacted the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act
of 1959, as amended (LMRDA), to provide for the disclosure of
information on the financial transactions and administrative practices
of labor organizations. The statute also provides, under certain
circumstances, for reporting by labor organization officers and
employees, employers, labor relations consultants, and surety
companies. Section 208 of the LMRDA authorizes the Secretary to issue
rules and regulations prescribing the form of the required reports. The
reporting provisions were devised to implement a basic tenet of the
LMRDA: The guarantee of democratic procedures and safeguards within
labor organizations that are designed to protect the basic rights of
union members. Section 205 of the LMRDA provides that the reports are
public information.
The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) administers the
reporting provisions of the LMRDA to the statute (29 U.S.C. 431 et
seq.) and the implementing and interpreting regulations (29 CFR Chapter
IV). This information collection is currently approved for use through
November 30, 2006.
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 (DOL) seeks extension of the current
approval to collect this information. An extension is necessary because
the LMRDA explicitly requires the reporting and establishes the
frequency of the required filings. The information collected by OLMS is
used by union members to help self-govern their unions, by the general
public, and as research material for both outside researchers and
within the Department of Labor. The information is also used to assist
DOL and other government agencies in detecting improper practices on
the part of labor organizations, their officers and/or representatives,
and others and is used by Congress in oversight and legislative
functions. In addition to making Forms LM-2, LM-3, LM-4, LM-10, LM-20,
LM-21, and LM-30 (from fiscal year 2000 to the present) available to
the public online free of charge through its Internet Public Disclosure
Room, (https://unionreports.dol.gov/olmsWeb/docs/lmrda.htm), OLMS
receives and fulfills approximately 210 disclosure report requests per
month.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Employment Standards Administration.
Title: Labor Organization and Auxiliary Reports.
OMB Number: 1215-0188.
Agency Number: LM-1, LM-2, LM-3, LM-4, LM-10, LM-15, LM-15A, LM-16,
LM-20, LM-21, LM-30 and S-1.
Affected Public: Individual or households; business or other for-
profit; not-for-profit institutions.
Total Respondents: 27,849.
Total Responses: 27,849.
Time per Response (Reporting): 1,175,450.
Time per Response (Recordkeeping): 2,197,804.
Frequency: Semi-annually and Annually.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 3,373,254.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/maintenance): $0.
Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden Hours
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Hours per Hours per
Forms Responses respondent for Reporting respondent for Recordkeeping Total hours
reporting burden hours recordkeeping burden hours
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LM-1.................................................... 255 0.83 212 0.08 20 232
LM-2.................................................... 3,827 146.00 558,742 390.00 1,492,530 2,051,272
LM-3.................................................... 10,812 52.00 562,224 64.00 691,968 1,254,192
LM-4.................................................... 6,355 8.00 50,840 2.00 12,710 63,550
LM-10................................................... 1,766 0.50 883 0.08 141 1,024
LM-15................................................... 354 1.50 531 0.33 117 648
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LM-15A.................................................. 68 0.33 22 0.03 2 24
LM-16................................................... 95 0.33 31 0.02 2 33
LM-20................................................... 90 0.33 30 0.03 3 33
LM-21................................................... 11 0.50 6 0.08 1 7
LM-30................................................... 3,494 0.50 1,747 0.08 280 2,027
S-1..................................................... 179 0.50 90 0.08 14 104
SARF*................................................... 543 0.17 92 0.03 16 108
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Total............................................... 27,849 .............. 1,175,450 .............. 2,197,804 3,373,254
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Note: Some numbers may not add due to rounding.
* Simplified Annual Report Format.
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 1, 2006.
Ruben L. Wiley,
Chief, Branch of Management Review and Internal Control, Division of
Financial Management, Office of Management, Administration and
Planning, Employment Standards Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-8739 Filed 6-5-06; 8:45 am]
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