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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Proposed Collection, Comment
Request
ACTION:
Notice.
The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance 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. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments
concerning the proposed revision of the
‘‘National Compensation Survey.’’ A
copy of the proposed information
collection request (ICR) can be obtained
by contacting the individual listed
below in the Addresses section of this
notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section of this notice on or
before January 5, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora
Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE.,
Washington, DC 20212. Written
comments also may be transmitted by
fax to 202–691–5111 (this is not a toll
free number.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, at
202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free
number.) (See ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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SUMMARY:
I. Background
The National Compensation Survey
(NCS) is an ongoing survey of earnings
and benefits among private firms, State,
and local government. Data from the
NCS program include estimates of
wages covering broad groups of related
occupations, and data that directly link
benefit plan costs with detailed plan
provisions. The NCS is used to produce
the Employment Cost Trends, including
the Employment Cost Index (ECI) and
Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation (ECEC), employee
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benefits data (on coverage, cost and
provisions), data used by the President’s
Pay Agent and this data is used by
compensation administrators and
researchers in the private sector. Data
from the NCS are used to help
determine monetary policy (as a
Principal Federal Economic Indicator.)
The integrated program’s single
sample produces both time-series
indexes and cost levels for industry and
occupational groups, thereby increasing
the analytical potential of the data.
The NCS employs probability
methods for selection of occupations.
This ensures that sampled occupations
represent all occupations in the
workforce, while minimizing the
reporting burden on respondents. The
survey collects data from a sample of
employers. These data will consist of
information about the duties,
responsibilities, and compensation
(earnings and benefits) for a sample of
occupations for each sampled employer.
Data will be updated on a quarterly
basis. The updates will allow for
production of data on change in
earnings and total compensation.
participation data. These data include
estimates of how many workers receive
the various employer-sponsored
benefits. The data also include
information about the common
provisions of benefit plans.
NCS collection will use eight forms
(normally having unique private
industry and government initiation and
update collection forms and versions.)
For NCS update collection, the forms or
screens give respondents their
previously reported information, the
dates they expected change to occur to
these data, and space for reporting these
changes.
The NCS for electronic collection uses
a Web-based system (Web-Lite) that
allows NCS respondents, using Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption and the
establishment’s schedule number, to
upload data files to a secure BLS server
and forwards those files to the assigned
BLS field economist. A new more
interactive Web page system was
developed allowing respondents to
further refine and break out the detailed
data they send NCS using this Web
application.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget
clearance is being sought for the
National Compensation Survey.
The NCS collects earnings and work
level data on occupations for the nation.
The NCS also collects information on
the cost, provisions, and incidence of
major employee benefits through its
benefit cost and benefit provision
programs and publications.
BLS has for a number of years been
using a revised approach to the Locality
Pay Survey (LPS); this uses data from
two current BLS programs—the
Occupational Employment Statistics
(OES) survey and the ECI program. This
approach uses OES data to provide wage
data by occupation and by area, while
ECI data are used to specify grade level
effects. This approach is also being used
to extend the estimation of pay gaps to
areas that were not included in the prior
Locality Pay Survey sample, and these
data have been delivered to the Pay
Agent (in 2014, data for 92 areas were
delivered.)
The NCS in September 2012 started
reverting to a national survey design in
order to preserve the reliability of the
ECI and the EBS. The NCS private
industry sample is on a three-year
rotational cycle, with one frozen sample
year for the NCS private industry
sample when a new NCS State and local
government sample starts collection in
2015.
The NCS continues to provide
employee benefit provision and
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is
particularly interested in comments
that:
• 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.
• 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.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Title: National Compensation Survey.
OMB Number: 1220–0164.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit; not-for-profit institutions; and
State, local, and tribal government.
Total Respondents: 16,428 (three-year
average).
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
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Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $0.
All figures in the table below are
based on a three-year average. The total
respondents in the table are greater than
the figure shown above because many
respondents are asked to provide
Total
respondents
per form
Form
Establishment collection form (NCS Form 15–1G) .............
Establishment collection form (NCS Form 15–1P) ..............
Earnings form (NCS Form 15–2G) ......................................
Earnings form (NCS Form 15–2P) ......................................
Wage Shuttle form computer generated earnings update
form # ...............................................................................
Benefits Collection Form (NCS 15–3G) ..............................
Benefits Collection Form (NCS 15–3P) ...............................
Summary of Benefits (Benefit update form SO–1003) is
computer generated # ......................................................
Collection not tied to a specific form (testing, Quality Assurance/Quality Measurement, etc.) ................................
information relating to more than one
form.
Total annual
responses
Frequency
Average
minutes
Total hours
532
2247
532
2247
532
2247
532
2247
54
54
20
20
479
2022
177
749
12226
532
2247
4
1
1
48904
532
2247
20
180
180
16301
1596
6741
12226
4
48904
20
16301
1423
Totals ............................................................................
1
1
1
1
........................
3205
........................
613
34212
109350
44979
** Collection forms can have multiple uses. The table above shows the average collection times for the predominant uses of the forms. Record
checks (for quality assurance and measurement) are done on a sub-sample of respondents verifying responses for pre-selected sections of the
collection forms.
# Includes IDCF form time (Web based screen for SSL encryption Web site secure.)
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 also
will become a matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of
October 2014.
Kimberley D. Hill,
Chief, Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
[FR Doc. 2014–26278 Filed 11–4–14; 8:45 am]
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Notice of Intent To Award—Grant
Awards for the Provision of Civil Legal
Services to Eligible Low-Income
Clients Beginning January 1, 2015
AGENCY:
Legal Services Corporation.
Announcement of intention to
make FY 2015 Competitive Grant
Awards.
ACTION:
The Legal Services
Corporation (LSC) hereby announces its
intention to award grants and contracts
to provide economical and effective
delivery of high quality civil legal
services to eligible low-income clients,
beginning January 1, 2015.
DATES: All comments and
recommendations must be received on
or before the close of business on
December 5, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Legal Services
Corporation—Competitive Grants, Legal
Services Corporation; 3333 K Street
NW., Third Floor; Washington, DC
20007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Reginald Haley, Office of Program
Performance, at (202) 295–1545, or
haleyr@lsc.gov.
SUMMARY:
Pursuant
to LSC’s announcement of funding
availability on April 11, 2014 (79 FR
20243), and Grant Renewal applications
due beginning June 2, 2014, LSC intends
to award funds to provide civil legal
services in the indicated service areas.
Applicants for each service area are
listed below. The amounts below reflect
the most current information available,
i.e., 100% implementation of the U.S.
Census American Community Survey
2009–2011 poverty population data and
the current FY 2015 continuing
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Funding—$335,514,022. The amounts
incorporate the reduction of .0554%
contained in Public Law 113–164.
Amounts are subject to change. LSC will
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notice at www.grants.lsc.gov. Interested
parties are asked to visit
www.grants.lsc.gov regularly for updates
on the LSC competitive grants process.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Name of applicant organization
State
Alaska Legal Services Corporation ...............................................................................................................
Alaska Legal Services Corporation ...............................................................................................................
Legal Services Alabama ...............................................................................................................................
Legal Aid of Arkansas ...................................................................................................................................
Center for Arkansas Legal Services .............................................................................................................
American Samoa Legal Aid ..........................................................................................................................
Community Legal Services ...........................................................................................................................
Community Legal Services ...........................................................................................................................
Southern Arizona Legal Aid ..........................................................................................................................
Southern Arizona Legal Aid ..........................................................................................................................
DNA-People’s Legal Services .......................................................................................................................
DNA-People’s Legal Services .......................................................................................................................
California Indian Legal Services ...................................................................................................................
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annualized
2015 funding
$645,180
530,075
5,839,519
1,462,142
2,134,430
205,475
4,905,799
145,206
2,074,272
624,756
418,723
2,557,639
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[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 214 (Wednesday, November 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65706-65707]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-26278]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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 pre-clearance
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. The
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments concerning the
proposed revision of the ``National Compensation Survey.'' A copy of
the proposed information collection request (ICR) can be obtained by
contacting the individual listed below in the Addresses section of this
notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section of this notice on or before January 5, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE., Washington, DC 20212. Written comments
also may be transmitted by fax to 202-691-5111 (this is not a toll free
number.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
at 202-691-7628 (this is not a toll free number.) (See ADDRESSES
section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The National Compensation Survey (NCS) is an ongoing survey of
earnings and benefits among private firms, State, and local government.
Data from the NCS program include estimates of wages covering broad
groups of related occupations, and data that directly link benefit plan
costs with detailed plan provisions. The NCS is used to produce the
Employment Cost Trends, including the Employment Cost Index (ECI) and
Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (ECEC), employee benefits data
(on coverage, cost and provisions), data used by the President's Pay
Agent and this data is used by compensation administrators and
researchers in the private sector. Data from the NCS are used to help
determine monetary policy (as a Principal Federal Economic Indicator.)
The integrated program's single sample produces both time-series
indexes and cost levels for industry and occupational groups, thereby
increasing the analytical potential of the data.
The NCS employs probability methods for selection of occupations.
This ensures that sampled occupations represent all occupations in the
workforce, while minimizing the reporting burden on respondents. The
survey collects data from a sample of employers. These data will
consist of information about the duties, responsibilities, and
compensation (earnings and benefits) for a sample of occupations for
each sampled employer.
Data will be updated on a quarterly basis. The updates will allow
for production of data on change in earnings and total compensation.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget clearance is being sought for the
National Compensation Survey.
The NCS collects earnings and work level data on occupations for
the nation. The NCS also collects information on the cost, provisions,
and incidence of major employee benefits through its benefit cost and
benefit provision programs and publications.
BLS has for a number of years been using a revised approach to the
Locality Pay Survey (LPS); this uses data from two current BLS
programs--the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey and the
ECI program. This approach uses OES data to provide wage data by
occupation and by area, while ECI data are used to specify grade level
effects. This approach is also being used to extend the estimation of
pay gaps to areas that were not included in the prior Locality Pay
Survey sample, and these data have been delivered to the Pay Agent (in
2014, data for 92 areas were delivered.)
The NCS in September 2012 started reverting to a national survey
design in order to preserve the reliability of the ECI and the EBS. The
NCS private industry sample is on a three-year rotational cycle, with
one frozen sample year for the NCS private industry sample when a new
NCS State and local government sample starts collection in 2015.
The NCS continues to provide employee benefit provision and
participation data. These data include estimates of how many workers
receive the various employer-sponsored benefits. The data also include
information about the common provisions of benefit plans.
NCS collection will use eight forms (normally having unique private
industry and government initiation and update collection forms and
versions.) For NCS update collection, the forms or screens give
respondents their previously reported information, the dates they
expected change to occur to these data, and space for reporting these
changes.
The NCS for electronic collection uses a Web-based system (Web-
Lite) that allows NCS respondents, using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
encryption and the establishment's schedule number, to upload data
files to a secure BLS server and forwards those files to the assigned
BLS field economist. A new more interactive Web page system was
developed allowing respondents to further refine and break out the
detailed data they send NCS using this Web application.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is particularly interested in
comments that:
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.
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.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Title: National Compensation Survey.
OMB Number: 1220-0164.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit; not-for-profit
institutions; and State, local, and tribal government.
Total Respondents: 16,428 (three-year average).
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0.
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Total Burden Cost (operating/maintenance): $0.
All figures in the table below are based on a three-year average.
The total respondents in the table are greater than the figure shown
above because many respondents are asked to provide information
relating to more than one form.
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Total
Form respondents Frequency Total annual Average Total hours
per form responses minutes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Establishment collection form 532 1 532 54 479
(NCS Form 15-1G)...............
Establishment collection form 2247 1 2247 54 2022
(NCS Form 15-1P)...............
Earnings form (NCS Form 15-2G).. 532 1 532 20 177
Earnings form (NCS Form 15-2P).. 2247 1 2247 20 749
Wage Shuttle form computer 12226 4 48904 20 16301
generated earnings update form
#..............................
Benefits Collection Form (NCS 15- 532 1 532 180 1596
3G)............................
Benefits Collection Form (NCS 15- 2247 1 2247 180 6741
3P)............................
Summary of Benefits (Benefit 12226 4 48904 20 16301
update form SO-1003) is
computer generated #...........
Collection not tied to a 1423 .............. 3205 .............. 613
specific form (testing, Quality
Assurance/Quality Measurement,
etc.)..........................
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Totals...................... 34212 .............. 109350 .............. 44979
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** Collection forms can have multiple uses. The table above shows the average collection times for the
predominant uses of the forms. Record checks (for quality assurance and measurement) are done on a sub-sample
of respondents verifying responses for pre-selected sections of the collection forms.
# Includes IDCF form time (Web based screen for SSL encryption Web site secure.)
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 also will become a
matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of October 2014.
Kimberley D. Hill,
Chief, Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
[FR Doc. 2014-26278 Filed 11-4-14; 8:45 am]
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