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Notice of Lodging of a Consent Decree
Under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Maureen Katz,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement
Section, Environment and Natural Resources
Division.
Notice is hereby given that on April
27, 2011, a proposed Consent Decree in
United States v. Bunting Bearings, LLC,
Civil Action No. 3:10–CV–01527, was
lodged with the United States District
Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
In this action the United States alleges
that Bunting Bearings, LLC is liable
under Section 107 of the
Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act of 1980, as amended (‘‘CERCLA’’),
42 U.S.C. 9607, for the recovery of
response costs incurred by the United
States at the Eagle-Picher Superfund
Site in Delta, Ohio. Under the proposed
Consent Decree, Bunting Bearings, LLC
will reimburse the United States
$450,000 in past response costs.
The Department of Justice will receive
for a period of thirty (30) days from the
date of this publication comments
relating to the proposed Consent Decree.
Comments should be addressed to the
Assistant Attorney General,
Environment and Natural Resources
Division, and either e-mailed to
pubcomment-ees.enrd@usdoj.gov or
mailed to P.O. Box 7611, U.S.
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
20044–7611, and should refer to United
States v. Bunting Bearings, LLC, D.J. Ref.
90–11–3–09684.
The proposed Consent Decree may be
examined at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604–
3590 (contact Associate Regional
Counsel Craig Melodia (312/886–2870)).
During the public comment period, the
proposed Consent Decree may also be
examined on the following Department
of Justice website: https://
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Consent_Decrees.html. A copy of the
proposed consent decree may also be
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Comment Request for Information
Collection for Employment and
Training (ET) Handbook 336, 18th
Edition: ‘‘Unemployment Insurance (UI)
State Quality Service Plan Planning
(SQSP) and Reporting Guidelines,’’
Extension of Current Collection
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging Proposed Consent
Decree
Employment and Training
Administration, Labor Department.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY:
AGENCY:
In accordance with Departmental
Policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby
given that a proposed Consent Decree in
United States of America v. Richard D.
Kor, Wesley D. Kor, and KOR Ethanol,
Inc., Case No. 10–4086, was lodged with
the United States District Court for the
District of South Dakota, Southern
Division, on April 28, 2011.
This proposed Consent Decree
concerns a complaint filed by the
United States against Richard D. Kor,
Wesley D. Kor, and Kor Ethanol, Inc.,
pursuant to Sections 301, 309, 311 and
404 of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C.
1311, 1319, 1321 and 1344, to obtain
injunctive relief from and impose civil
penalties against the Defendants for
violating the Clean Water Act by, among
other things, discharging pollutants
without a permit into waters of the
United States. The proposed Consent
Decree resolves these allegations by
requiring the Defendants to restore the
impacted areas and perform mitigation
and to pay a civil penalty.
The Department of Justice will accept
written comments relating to this
proposed Consent Decree for thirty (30)
days from the date of publication of this
Notice. Please address comments to
David A. Carson, United States
Department of Justice, Environment and
Natural Resources Division, 999 18th
Street, South Terrace, Suite 370, Denver,
Colorado 80202, and refer to United
States v. Richard D. Kor, et al., DJ # 90–
5–1–1–17529.
The proposed Consent Decree may be
examined at the Clerk’s Office, United
States District Court for the District of
South Dakota, Southern Division, 400 S.
Phillips Avenue, Sioux Falls, South
Dakota 57104. In addition, the proposed
Consent Decree may be viewed at https://
www.usdoj.gov/enrd/
Consent_Decrees.html.
Cherie L. Rogers,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental
Defense Section, Environment & Natural
Resources Division.
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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 and Training
Administration is soliciting comments
concerning the collection of data about
the proposed extension to ET Handbook
336, 18th Edition: ‘‘Unemployment
Insurance (UI) State Quality Service
Plan Planning (SQSP) and Reporting
Guidelines’’ which expires August 31,
2011. S:OUI\OMB\1205–
0132\2011\1205–0132SQSP 60 day
FRN.doc A copy of the proposed
information collection request (ICR) 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’s section below on or before
July 5, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
to the Employment and Training
Administration, Office of
Unemployment Insurance, 200
Constitution Avenue, NW., Room
S4220, Washington, DC 20210,
Attention: Delores Mackall. Telephone
number: 202–693–3183 (this is not a
toll-free number). Fax: 202–693–3975.
E-mail: Mackall.Delores@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The SQSP represents an approach to
the unemployment insurance
performance management and planning
process that allows for an exchange of
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information between the federal and
state partners to enhance the ability of
the program to reflect the joint
commitment to performance excellence
and client-centered services. As part of
UI Performs, a comprehensive
performance management system
implemented in 1995 for the UI
program, the SQSP is the principal
vehicle that state UI agencies use to
plan, record and manage program
improvement efforts as they strive for
excellence in service. The SQSP, which
serves as the State Plan for the UI
program, also serves as the grant
document through which states receive
federal UI administrative funding. The
statutory basis for the SQSP is Title III,
Section 302 of the Social Security Act,
which authorizes the Secretary of Labor
to provide funds to administer the UI
programs, and Sections 303 (a) (8) and
(9) which govern the expenditures of
those funds. The SQSP represents an
approach to tie program performance
with the budget and planning process.
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.
ETA proposes to extend this
information collection. The
Department’s information collection
authority for SQSP is under Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) number
1205–0132. Currently, the Employment
and Training Administration is
soliciting comments concerning the
extension of and modification to the ET
Handbook No. 336.
States will continue to use the State
Plan Narrative to provide a general
summary of the UI program in the state.
Additionally, states are to include in the
Narrative: (1) Performance in
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comparison to the Government
Performance and Results Act (GPRA)
goals; (2) results of customer satisfaction
surveys (optional); and (3) actions
planned to correct deficiencies
regarding UI programs and reporting
requirements. Actions planned to
correct deficiencies for Secretary
Standards, Core Measures, and the Data
Validation (DV) program are expected to
be addressed in corrective action plans.
On April 13, 2011, OMB approved a
non-substantive change to 1205–0132,
requiring that all states include in their
SQSP submissions a corrective action
plan to reduce and recover improper
payments. Comment is encouraged on
this recent change as well as on the
1205–0132 data requirements in general.
The Department will provide each
state workforce agency with its statespecific root causes for its improper
payments, based on BAM survey results.
The SQSP Handbook No. 336 includes
an action plan for each state to
complete. The state action plan will
include the following items:
• Strategies to reduce root causes,
including recovery of these improper
payments;
• Timeline, expected targets and
measures; and
• Type and source of resources
dedicated to accomplish the action plan.
III. Current Actions
Type of Review: extension of current
collection.
Title: Unemployment Insurance State
Quality Service Plan (SQSP).
OMB Number: 1205–0132.
Affected Public: State Workforce
Agencies.
Total Annual Respondents: 53.
Reporting Frequency: 13 annual
reports and 4 quarterly reports per year
per respondent.
Total Annual Responses: 901.
Average Time per Response: 3.37
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3036 hours.
Total Annual Burden Cost for
Respondents: $0.
Comments submitted in response to
this comment request 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.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of
April 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employee Benefits Security
Administration
Proposed Exemptions from Certain
Prohibited Transaction Restrictions
Employee Benefits Security
Administration, Labor
ACTION: Notice of Proposed Exemptions.
AGENCY:
This document contains
notices of pendency before the
Department of Labor (the Department) of
proposed exemptions from certain of the
prohibited transaction restrictions of the
Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act) and/or
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the
Code). This notice includes the
following proposed exemptions: D–
11513, North Trust Corporation; D–
11634, The United Brotherhood of
Carpenters Pension Fund (the Fund); D–
11639, Wolverine Bronze Profit Sharing
Plan and Trust (the Plan); and L–11651
and L–11652, Verizon Communications,
Inc. (Verizon and Cellco Partnership,
doing business as Verizon Wireless
(Verizon Wireless; collectively, the
Applicants) et al.]
DATES: All interested persons are invited
to submit written comments or requests
for a hearing on the pending
exemptions, unless otherwise stated in
the Notice of Proposed Exemption,
within 45 days from the date of
publication of this Federal Register
Notice.
ADDRESSES: Comments and requests for
a hearing should state: (1) The name,
address, and telephone number of the
person making the comment or request,
and (2) the nature of the person’s
interest in the exemption and the
manner in which the person would be
adversely affected by the exemption. A
request for a hearing must also state the
issues to be addressed and include a
general description of the evidence to be
presented at the hearing.
All written comments and requests for
a hearing (at least three copies) should
be sent to the Employee Benefits
Security Administration (EBSA), Office
of Exemption Determinations, Room N–
5700, U.S. Department of Labor, 200
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20210. Attention: Application No.
lll, stated in each Notice of
Proposed Exemption. Interested persons
are also invited to submit comments
and/or hearing requests to EBSA via email or FAX. Any such comments or
requests should be sent either by e-mail
to: moffitt.betty@dol.gov, or by FAX to
(202) 219–0204 by the end of the
scheduled comment period. The
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Comment Request for Information Collection for Employment and
Training (ET) Handbook 336, 18th Edition: ``Unemployment Insurance (UI)
State Quality Service Plan Planning (SQSP) and Reporting Guidelines,''
Extension of Current Collection
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor Department.
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 and Training Administration is soliciting
comments concerning the collection of data about the proposed extension
to ET Handbook 336, 18th Edition: ``Unemployment Insurance (UI) State
Quality Service Plan Planning (SQSP) and Reporting Guidelines'' which
expires August 31, 2011. S:OUI\OMB\1205-0132\2011\1205-0132SQSP 60 day
FRN.doc A copy of the proposed information collection request (ICR) 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's section below on or before July 5, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to the Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Unemployment Insurance, 200 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Room S4220, Washington, DC 20210, Attention: Delores
Mackall. Telephone number: 202-693-3183 (this is not a toll-free
number). Fax: 202-693-3975. E-mail: Mackall.Delores@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The SQSP represents an approach to the unemployment insurance
performance management and planning process that allows for an exchange
of
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information between the federal and state partners to enhance the
ability of the program to reflect the joint commitment to performance
excellence and client-centered services. As part of UI Performs, a
comprehensive performance management system implemented in 1995 for the
UI program, the SQSP is the principal vehicle that state UI agencies
use to plan, record and manage program improvement efforts as they
strive for excellence in service. The SQSP, which serves as the State
Plan for the UI program, also serves as the grant document through
which states receive federal UI administrative funding. The statutory
basis for the SQSP is Title III, Section 302 of the Social Security
Act, which authorizes the Secretary of Labor to provide funds to
administer the UI programs, and Sections 303 (a) (8) and (9) which
govern the expenditures of those funds. The SQSP represents an approach
to tie program performance with the budget and planning process.
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.
ETA proposes to extend this information collection. The
Department's information collection authority for SQSP is under Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) number 1205-0132. Currently, the
Employment and Training Administration is soliciting comments
concerning the extension of and modification to the ET Handbook No.
336.
States will continue to use the State Plan Narrative to provide a
general summary of the UI program in the state. Additionally, states
are to include in the Narrative: (1) Performance in comparison to the
Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) goals; (2) results of
customer satisfaction surveys (optional); and (3) actions planned to
correct deficiencies regarding UI programs and reporting requirements.
Actions planned to correct deficiencies for Secretary Standards, Core
Measures, and the Data Validation (DV) program are expected to be
addressed in corrective action plans.
On April 13, 2011, OMB approved a non-substantive change to 1205-
0132, requiring that all states include in their SQSP submissions a
corrective action plan to reduce and recover improper payments. Comment
is encouraged on this recent change as well as on the 1205-0132 data
requirements in general.
The Department will provide each state workforce agency with its
state-specific root causes for its improper payments, based on BAM
survey results. The SQSP Handbook No. 336 includes an action plan for
each state to complete. The state action plan will include the
following items:
Strategies to reduce root causes, including recovery of
these improper payments;
Timeline, expected targets and measures; and
Type and source of resources dedicated to accomplish the
action plan.
III. Current Actions
Type of Review: extension of current collection.
Title: Unemployment Insurance State Quality Service Plan (SQSP).
OMB Number: 1205-0132.
Affected Public: State Workforce Agencies.
Total Annual Respondents: 53.
Reporting Frequency: 13 annual reports and 4 quarterly reports per
year per respondent.
Total Annual Responses: 901.
Average Time per Response: 3.37 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3036 hours.
Total Annual Burden Cost for Respondents: $0.
Comments submitted in response to this comment request 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.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of April 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
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