Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 6090-6091 [2012-2727]

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• DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
• Office of the Secretary

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 7, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6090-6091]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-2727]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

[Docket ID: DoD-2011-OS-0139]


Proposed Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and 
Readiness, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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    In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel 
and Readiness announces a public information collection and seeks 
public comment on the provisions thereof related to immediately begin, 
prospectively, adding a deliverable reporting requirement to contract 
statements of work in order to fully comply with sections 235 and 2330a 
of title 10, United States Code. There is precedent within the 
Department based on the experience of the Department of the Army for 
the past five years to support statements made in the attachment. As 
such, Department of the Army efforts constitute actions to date to 
consult with interested agencies, affected private sector firms, and 
members of the public, to ensure minimal burden for the collection of 
this information. Comments are invited on: (a) The accuracy of the 
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection; 
(b) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and (c) ways to minimize the burden of the 
information collection on respondents, including through the use of 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.

DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by March 
23, 2012.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by docket number and 
title, by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Federal Docket Management System Office, 4800 Mark 
Center Drive, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, VA 22350-
3100.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency 
name, docket number and title for this Federal Register document. The 
general policy for comments and other submissions from members of the 
public is to make these submissions available for public viewing on the 
Internet at https://www.regulations.gov as they are received without 
change, including any personal identifiers or contact information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on this 
proposed information collection or to obtain a copy of the proposal and 
associated collection instruments, please write to the Office of the 
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, ATTN: Amy 
Parker, 4000 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301 or call OUSD(P&R) 
at (703) 614-5133.
    Title; Associated Form; and OMB Number: Department of Defense 
Inventory of Contracts for Services Compliance; OMB Number 0704-TBD.
    Needs and Uses: The collection of information is essential to the 
DoD mission, without this reporting DoD will be unable to fully comply 
with the statutory requirements specified below. The Department has 
received clear guidance from the Armed Services Committees that all DoD 
organizations fully implement sections 235 and 2330a of title 10, 
United States Code (U.S.C.).
    Affected Public: Business or other for profit; Not-for-profit 
institutions.
    Annual Burden Hours: 4,074.
    Number of Respondents: 48,884.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Average Burden per Response: 5 minutes.
    Frequency: Annually.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Summary of Information Collection

    The DoD will use a streamlined, user-friendly, and secure Web site 
to obtain contractor work force information, based on the Army system 
located at https://cmra.DoD.mil/. This Web site allows contractors the 
option of entering their data directly into the Web site via short 
drop-down menus or batch loading data based on formatted spreadsheets.
    The information requested, such as the Reporting Period, Contract 
Number, Task/Delivery Order Number, Customer Name and Address, 
Contracting Office Name and Address, Federal Supply Class or Service 
Code, Contractor Name and Address, Value of Contract Instrument, and 
the Number and Value of Direct Labor Hours will be used to facilitate 
the accurate identification of the function performed and to facilitate 
estimate the reliability of the data.
    The Direct Labor Hours are requested for use in calculating 
contractor manpower equivalents. This information is reported directly 
from the contractor because this is the most credible data source.
    Each contractor may determine their cost for submitting information 
on the Contractor Manpower Reporting System Web site. Given the 
streamlined menu of data requested and the user-friendly Web site for 
submitting the data, the actual costs for reporting this information to 
date have been minimal. The cost elements can include the man-hours 
spent entering the data, man-hours spent configuring current systems, 
and the man-hours spent collecting the data. The Army has found that 
during the first five years of

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reporting, most contractors are choosing to absorb the cost of 
reporting into overhead rather than separately identifying the direct 
cost.
    The contractor name, address, and point of contact with an email 
address are requested to facilitate reconciliation of the data and 
clarification of any ambiguous entries with the contractor. The Army 
has instituted several program enhancements that will enable DoD to 
further minimize the reporting burden for all parties. For instance, 
contract funding information can be pre-populated from defense 
accounting system data and edited, if necessary with a series of easy-
to-use drop down menus of standard accounting data elements. In the 
previous data collection effort, contractors were expected to know 
Department funding source data. Another enhancement to the data 
collection effort is the drop down menus for the identification of the 
DoD organizational customer supported. In this regard, rather than have 
the contractor go into the system and presume whom they are proving 
support services to, the system is now designed with drop down menus 
that start from the top level. The DoD system will be pre-populated 
with information on the ``organization supported'' to minimize 
reporting confusion.

    Dated: January 23, 2012.
Patricia L. Toppings,
OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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