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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: Report of
Construction Contractor’s Wage Rates
(WD–10). 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
September 18, 2007.
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 Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 3141,
et seq.) provides, in part, that every
contract in excess of $2,000 to which
the United States or the District of
Columbia is a party for construction,
alteration, and/or repair, which requires
or involves the employment of
mechanics and/or laborers, shall contain
a provision stating the minimum wages
to be paid various classes of laborers
and mechanics that were determined by
the Secretary of Labor to be prevailing
for the corresponding classes of laborers
and mechanics employed on projects of
a character similar to the contract work
in the city, town, village or other civil
subdivision of the State where the work
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is to be performed. The Administrator of
the Wage and Hour Division, through a
delegation of authority, is responsible
for issuing these wage determinations
(WDs). Section 1.3 of Regulations 29
CFR Part 1, Procedures for
Predetermination of Wage Rates,
provides, in part, that for the purpose of
making WDs, the Administrator will
conduct a continuing program for
obtaining and compiling wage rate
information. Form WD–10 is used to
determine locally prevailing wages
under the Davis-Bacon and Related
Acts. The wage data collection is a
primary source of information and is
essential to the determination of
prevailing wages. This information
collection is currently approved for use
through January 31, 2008.
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 obtain wage
data in order to determine current
prevailing wage rates in the various
localities throughout the country.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Employment Standards
Administration.
Title: Report of Construction
Contractor’s Wage Rates.
OMB Number: 1215–0046.
Agency Number: WD–10.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Total Respondents: 22,000.
Total Annual Responses: 66,000.
Time per Response: 20 minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
22,000.
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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: July 16, 2007.
Hazel Bell,
Acting 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
(DOL), 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: Applications to
Employ Special Industrial Homeworkers
and Workers with Disabilities (Forms
WH–2, WH–226 and WH–226A). 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
September 18, 2007.
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
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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 11(d), 29 U.S.C. 211(d),
authorizes the Secretary of Labor to
regulate, restrict or prohibit industrial
homework as necessary to prevent
circumvention or evasion of the
minimum wage requirement of the Act.
The Department of Labor (DOL) restricts
homework in seven industries (i.e.,
knitted outerwear, women’s apparel,
jewelry manufacturing, gloves and
mittens, button and buckle
manufacturing, handkerchief
manufacturing and embroideries) to
those employers who obtain certificates.
To prevent curtailment of
employment opportunities for workers
with disabilities, FLSA section 14(c), 29
U.S.C. 214(c), authorizes employers who
obtain a certificate from DOL to pay
special minimum wages (i.e., wages less
than the Federal minimum wage) to
workers whose productivity is impaired
by their disability. The FLSA defines a
‘‘worker with a disability’’ as an
individual whose earning or productive
capacity is impaired by age or physical
or mental disability.
Employers use Form WH–2 to obtain
certificates to employ individual
homeworkers in one of the restricted
homework industries. Upon application
by the homeworker and the employer,
DOL may issue a certificate to the
employer authorizing employment of an
individual homeworker, provided (1) it
is shown that the worker is unable to
adjust to factory work because of age or
physical or mental disability or is
unable to leave home because the
worker’s presence is required to care for
an invalid in the home, and (2) the
worker has been engaged in industrial
homework in the particular industry
prior to certain specified dates as set
forth in the regulations (may be waived
if causes unusual hardship) or is
engaged in industrial homework under
the supervision of a State Vocational
Rehabilitation Agency.
Employers use Form WH–226 and the
supplemental data Form WH–226A
when obtaining authorization to employ
workers with disabilities in competitive
employment in work centers and in
hospitals or institutions at subminimum
wages that are commensurate with those
paid to workers with no disabilities.
Commensurate wages are based on the
prevailing wages paid to experienced
workers with disabilities performing
essentially the same type, quality, and
quantity of work in the same locality
where the employee(s) with disability is
employed. This form may be used by
school officials to request authorization
for groups of students with disabilities
to participate in school work experience
programs, by State vocational
rehabilitation counselors, and by
Veterans Affairs’ officials to grant or
extend temporary authorization to
employ on-the-job trainees with
disabilities.
This information collection is
currently approved for use through
December 31, 2007.
II. Review Focus
The Department of Labor is
particularly interested in comments
which:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
Number of
respondents
Form
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WH–2 ...............................................................................................................
WH–226 ...........................................................................................................
WH–226A .........................................................................................................
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 9,025.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $1,342.
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.
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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
DOL seeks approval for the extension
of this information collection in order to
ensure effective administration of
agency programs regarding the
employment of homeworkers in
restricted industries and payment of
subminimum wages to workers with
disabilities.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Employment Standards
Administration.
Title: Applications to Employ Special
Industrial Homeworkers and Workers
with Disabilities.
OMB Number: 1215–0005.
Agency Number: WH–2, WH–226,
WH–226A.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Total Respondents: 3,050.
Total Responses: 12,050.
Number of
responses
50
3,000
3,000
50
3,000
9,000
Time per
response
(in minutes)
Burden hours
30
45
45
Dated: July 16, 2007.
Hazel Bell,
Acting 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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2,250
6,750
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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 (DOL), 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: Applications to Employ
Special Industrial Homeworkers and Workers with Disabilities (Forms WH-
2, WH-226 and WH-226A). 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 September 18, 2007.
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
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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 11(d), 29 U.S.C. 211(d),
authorizes the Secretary of Labor to regulate, restrict or prohibit
industrial homework as necessary to prevent circumvention or evasion of
the minimum wage requirement of the Act. The Department of Labor (DOL)
restricts homework in seven industries (i.e., knitted outerwear,
women's apparel, jewelry manufacturing, gloves and mittens, button and
buckle manufacturing, handkerchief manufacturing and embroideries) to
those employers who obtain certificates.
To prevent curtailment of employment opportunities for workers with
disabilities, FLSA section 14(c), 29 U.S.C. 214(c), authorizes
employers who obtain a certificate from DOL to pay special minimum
wages (i.e., wages less than the Federal minimum wage) to workers whose
productivity is impaired by their disability. The FLSA defines a
``worker with a disability'' as an individual whose earning or
productive capacity is impaired by age or physical or mental
disability.
Employers use Form WH-2 to obtain certificates to employ individual
homeworkers in one of the restricted homework industries. Upon
application by the homeworker and the employer, DOL may issue a
certificate to the employer authorizing employment of an individual
homeworker, provided (1) it is shown that the worker is unable to
adjust to factory work because of age or physical or mental disability
or is unable to leave home because the worker's presence is required to
care for an invalid in the home, and (2) the worker has been engaged in
industrial homework in the particular industry prior to certain
specified dates as set forth in the regulations (may be waived if
causes unusual hardship) or is engaged in industrial homework under the
supervision of a State Vocational Rehabilitation Agency.
Employers use Form WH-226 and the supplemental data Form WH-226A
when obtaining authorization to employ workers with disabilities in
competitive employment in work centers and in hospitals or institutions
at subminimum wages that are commensurate with those paid to workers
with no disabilities. Commensurate wages are based on the prevailing
wages paid to experienced workers with disabilities performing
essentially the same type, quality, and quantity of work in the same
locality where the employee(s) with disability is employed. This form
may be used by school officials to request authorization for groups of
students with disabilities to participate in school work experience
programs, by State vocational rehabilitation counselors, and by
Veterans Affairs' officials to grant or extend temporary authorization
to employ on-the-job trainees with disabilities.
This information collection is currently approved for use through
December 31, 2007.
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
DOL seeks approval for the extension of this information collection
in order to ensure effective administration of agency programs
regarding the employment of homeworkers in restricted industries and
payment of subminimum wages to workers with disabilities.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Employment Standards Administration.
Title: Applications to Employ Special Industrial Homeworkers and
Workers with Disabilities.
OMB Number: 1215-0005.
Agency Number: WH-2, WH-226, WH-226A.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Total Respondents: 3,050.
Total Responses: 12,050.
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Time per
Form Number of Number of response (in Burden hours
respondents responses minutes)
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WH-2............................................ 50 50 30 25
WH-226.......................................... 3,000 3,000 45 2,250
WH-226A......................................... 3,000 9,000 45 6,750
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Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 9,025.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/maintenance): $1,342.
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: July 16, 2007.
Hazel Bell,
Acting Chief, Branch of Management Review and Internal Control,
Division of Financial Management, Office of Management, Administration
and Planning, Employment Standards Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-14041 Filed 7-19-07; 8:45 am]
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