Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Submission for OMB Review, 38209 [E8-15125]

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• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 129 (Thursday, July 3, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 38209]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-15125]


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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Submission for OMB Review

AGENCY: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

ACTION: Final notice of submission for OMB review--no change: 
Elementary-Secondary Staff Information Report (EEO-5).

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) hereby gives notice that 
it has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request 
for a three year extension of the existing collection as described 
below.

DATES: Written comments on this final notice must be submitted on or 
before August 4, 2008.

ADDRESSES: The Request for Clearance (SF 83-I), supporting statement, 
and other documents submitted to OMB for review may be obtained from: 
Ronald Edwards, Director, Program Research and Surveys Division, 1801 L 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20507. Comments on this final notice must 
be submitted to Chandana Achanta, Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, NW., Room 
10235, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503 or 
electronically mailed to Chandana_L._Achanta@omb.eop.gov. Comments 
should also be sent to Stephen Llewellyn, Executive Officer, Executive 
Secretariat, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 10th Floor, 1801 
L Street, NW., Washington, DC 20507 by the Federal eRulemaking Portal: 
https://www.regulations.gov. After accessing this Web site, follow its 
instructions for submitting comments. As a convenience to commentators, 
the Executive Secretariat will accept comments totaling six or fewer 
pages by facsimile (``FAX'') machine. This limitation is necessary to 
assure access to the equipment. The telephone number of the FAX 
receiver is (202) 663-4114. (This is not a toll-free number). Receipt 
of FAX transmittals will not be acknowledged, except that the sender 
may request confirmation of receipt by calling the Executive 
Secretariat staff at (202) 663-4070 (voice) or (202) 663-4074 (TDD). 
(These are not toll-free telephone numbers).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ronald Edwards, Director, Program 
Research and Surveys Division, 1801 L Street, NW., Washington, DC 
20507, at (202) 663-4958 or TDD (202) 663-7063. This notice is also 
available in the following formats: large print, braille, audio tape 
and electronic file on computer disk. Requests for this notice in an 
alternative format should be made to the Publications Center at 1-800-
669-3362.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice that the Equal Employment 
Opportunity Commission would be submitting this request to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB), pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995 (PRA) was published in the Federal Register on April 18, 2008, 
allowing for a 60-day public comment period. Only one comment was 
received and it pointed out the inconsistency between some of the race 
and ethnic categories that the Department of Education uses in its 
collection of student enrollment data and the categories EEOC uses in 
its collection of staffing data. EEOC intends to resolve this 
inconsistency during this extension period.

Overview of This Information Collection

    Type of Review: Three Year Extension--No change.
    Collection Title: Elementary-Secondary Staff Information Report 
(EEO-5).
    OMB Number: OMB Number 3046-0003.
    Form No.: 168A.
    Frequency of Report: Biennially.
    Type of Respondent: Public elementary and secondary school 
districts with 100 or more employees.
    Description of Affected Public: Public elementary and secondary 
school districts and their employees.
    Responses: 7,500.
    Reporting Hours: 10,000.
    Cost to Respondents: $190,000.
    Federal Cost: $170,000.
    Abstract: Section 709 (c) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 
1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 2000e-8(c), requires employers to make and 
keep records relevant to a determination of whether unlawful employment 
practices have been or are being committed and to make reports 
therefrom as required by the EEOC. The EEOC has issued regulations, 29 
CFR 1602.41-45, which sets forth the reporting requirements for public 
elementary and secondary schools. Elementary and secondary public 
school systems and districts have been required to submit EEO-5 reports 
to EEOC since 1974 (biennially in even numbered years since 1982). 
Since 1996 each school district or system has submitted all of the 
district data on a single form, EEOC Form 168A. The individual school 
form, EEOC Form 168B, was eliminated in 1996, greatly reducing the 
respondent burden and cost. EEO-5 data are used by EEOC to investigate 
charges of employment discrimination against elementary and secondary 
public school districts. The data are used to support EEOC decisions 
and conciliations, and for research. The data are shared with the 
Department of Education (Office for Civil Rights and the National 
Center for Education Statistics) and the Department of Justice. 
Pursuant to section 709(d) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 
1964, as amended, EEO-5 data are also shared with eighty-six State and 
Local Fair Employment Practices Agencies (FEPAs). The individual 
reports are confidential.
    EEO-5 data are used by the EEOC to investigate charges of 
discrimination against elementary and secondary public school systems 
and to provide information on the employment status in this sector of 
the work place by race, ethnicity and gender.
    Burden Statement: The estimated number of respondents included in 
the biennial EEO-5 survey is 7,500 public elementary and secondary 
school districts. The estimated number of responses per respondent is 
one report so the annual number of responses is approximately 7,500 and 
the total hours per response is approximately 1.3 hours. The estimated 
total number of burden hours is 10,000 hours each time the survey is 
conducted (i.e., biennially.) In order to help reduce burden, 
respondents are encouraged to report data using EEOC's on-line filing 
system.

    Dated: June 27, 2008.

    For the Commission.
Naomi C. Earp,
Chair.
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