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number of respondents reducing from
60 to 30.
Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OECA–2014–0083; FRL–9920–
86—OEI]
Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP
for Leather Finishing Operations
(Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency has submitted an information
collection request (ICR), ‘‘NESHAP for
Leather Finishing Operations (40 CFR
part 63, subpart TTTT) (Renewal)’’ (EPA
ICR No. 1985.06, OMB Control No.
2060–0478) to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.). This is a proposed
extension of the ICR, which is currently
approved through January 1, 2015.
Public comments were previously
requested via the Federal Register (79
FR 30117) on May 27, 2014 during a 60day comment period. This notice allows
for an additional 30 days for public
comments. A fuller description of the
ICR is given below, including its
estimated burden and cost to the public.
An Agency may not conduct or sponsor
and a person is not required to respond
to a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before February 19,
2015.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–OECA–2014–0083, to (1) EPA
online using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to
docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via
email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
Address comments to OMB Desk Officer
for EPA.
EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
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docket without change including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes profanity, threats,
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patrick Yellin, Monitoring, Assistance,
and Media Programs Division, Office of
Compliance, Mail Code 2227A,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
564–2970; fax number: (202) 564–0050;
email address: yellin.patrick@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents which explain in
detail the information that the EPA will
be collecting are available in the public
docket for this ICR. The docket can be
viewed online at www.regulations.gov
or in person at the EPA Docket Center,
William Jefferson Clinton West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC. The telephone number
for the Docket Center is 202–566–1744.
For additional information about EPA’s
public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/
dockets.
Abstract: Owners or operators of
leather finishing operations that are
subject to 40 CFR part 63, subpart TTTT
are require to provide initial
notifications, performance tests, and
periodic reports. They are also required
to maintain records of the occurrence
and duration of any startup, shutdown,
or malfunction in the operation of an
affected facility, or any period during
which the monitoring system is
inoperative. The required annual reports
are used to determine periods of excess
emissions, identify problems at the
facility, verify operation/maintenance
procedures and for compliance
determinations.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities:
Owners or operators of leather finishing
operations that are a major source of
HAP emissions.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, subpart
TTTT).
Estimated number of respondents: 10
(total).
Frequency of response: Initially,
occasionally and annually.
Total estimated burden: 334 hours
(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $32,651(per
year), including no annualized capital
or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is no
change of hours in the total estimated
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respondent burden compared with the
ICR currently approved by OMB.
Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Submission for OMB Review
Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission.
ACTION: Final notice of submission for
OMB review—Extension with change:
State and Local Government
Information Report (EEO–4).
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), the
Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC or Commission)
hereby gives notice that it has submitted
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) a request for a three-year
extension with change of the State and
Local Government Information Report
(EEO–4). The EEOC is proposing
revisions to the race and ethnicity
categories on the EEO–4 report to
conform to OMB’s Revisions to the
Standards for the Classification of
Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity
(October 30, 1997) (Revised Standards),
as applied in OMB Bulletin No. 00–02,
Guidance on Aggregation and
Allocation of Data on Race for Use in
Civil Rights Monitoring and
Enforcement (March 9, 2000).
DATES: Written comments on this notice
must be submitted on or before February
19, 2015.
ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR and
applicable supporting documentation
submitted to OMB for this review may
be obtained from: Ronald Edwards,
Director, Program Research and Surveys
Division, Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, 131 M Street
NE., Room 4SW30F, Washington, DC
20507. Comments on this final notice
must be submitted to Chad A.
Lallemand, 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
Chad_A._Lallemand@omb.eop.gov.
Copies of comments should be sent to
Bernadette Wilson, Acting Executive
Officer, Executive Secretariat, Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission,
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131 M Street NE., Washington, DC
20507. As a convenience to
commenters, 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 (TTY). (These
are not toll-free telephone numbers.)
Instead of sending written comments to
EEOC, you may submit comments and
attachments electronically at https://
www.regulations.gov, which is the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the
instructions online for submitting
comments. All comments received
through this portal will be posted
without change, including any personal
information you provide. Copies of
comments submitted by the public to
EEOC directly or through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal will be available for
review, by advance appointment only,
at the Commission’s library between the
hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time or can be reviewed at https://
www.regulations.gov. To schedule an
appointment to inspect the comments at
EEOC’s library, contact the library staff
at (202) 663–4630 (voice) or (202) 663–
4641 (TTY). (These are not toll-free
numbers.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ronald Edwards, Director, Program
Research and Surveys Division, Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission,
131 M Street NE., Room 4SW30F,
Washington, DC 20507; (202) 663–4949
(voice) or (202) 663–7063 (TTY).
Requests for this notice in an alternative
format should be made to the Office of
Communications and Legislative Affairs
at (202) 663–4191 (voice) or (202) 663–
4494 (TTY).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EEOC
has collected information from state and
local governments with 100 or more
full-time employees since 1974. The
Commission is proposing revisions to
the EEO–4 report to conform with
OMB’s Revisions to the Standards for
the Classification of Federal Data on
Race and Ethnicity (October 30, 1997)
(Revised Standards), as applied in OMB
Bulletin No. 00–02, Guidance on
Aggregation and Allocation of Data on
Race for Use in Civil Rights Monitoring
and Enforcement (March 9, 2000). The
revisions to the EEO–4 report, Form
164, include the following race and
ethnicity categories: Hispanic or Latino;
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White; Black or African American;
Asian; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific
Islander; American Indian or Alaska
Native; and Two or More Races.
A notice that EEOC would be
submitting this request was published
in the Federal Register on August 27,
2014 allowing for a 60-day public
comment period. There were no
comments received from the public.
Overview of Current Information
Collection
Collection Title: State and Local
Government Information Report (EEO–
4).
OMB—Number: 3046–0008.
Frequency of Report: Biennial.
Type of Respondent: State and local
government jurisdictions with 100 or
more employees.
Description of Affected Public: State
and local governments excluding
elementary and secondary public school
districts.
Number of Responses: 12,458.
Reporting Hours: 89,188.
Cost Burden: $21,600,000.
Number of Forms: 1.
Form Number: EEOC FORM 164.
Federal Cost: $226,549.
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, to preserve
such records and to produce reports as
the Commission prescribes by
regulation or order. Accordingly, the
EEOC issued regulations at 29 CFR
1602.32–1602.37 prescribing the
reporting requirements for State and
local governments. State and local
governments with 100 or more
employees have been required to submit
EEO–4 reports since 1974 (biennially in
odd-numbered years since 1993). The
individual reports are confidential.
EEO–4 data are used by the EEOC to
investigate charges of discrimination
against state and local governments and
to provide information on the
employment status of minorities and
women. The data are shared with
several other Federal agencies. Pursuant
to section 709(d) of Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000e–
8(d), as amended, EEO–4 data are
shared with State and Local Fair
Employment Practices Agencies
(FEPAs). Aggregated data are also used
by researchers and the general public.
Burden Statement: The estimated
number of respondents included in the
EEO–4 survey is 9,000 state and local
governments. (These 9,000 jurisdictions
file about 12,458 reports based on the
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2011 filing of the EEO–4.) Reports
exceed jurisdictions due to the
requirement for some to file separate
reports by function. The changes
discussed herein will increase
respondent burden hours from 73,185 to
89,188 and EEOC costs from $187,500 to
$226,549. The burden per report will be
7.16 hours.
Estimated burden hours were
calculated by multiplying the number of
reports expected to be filed annually
(12,458 in 2011) by the estimated
average time to complete and submit
each report (7.16 hours).
These burden estimates are largely
based on an assumption of paper
reporting. However, the EEOC has made
electronic filing much easier for
employers required to file the EEO–4
Report. As a result, more jurisdictions
are using this filing method. This
development, along with the greater
availability of human resource
information software, is expected to
have significantly reduced the actual
burden of reporting, but empirical data
in this area is lacking. Accordingly,
efforts will be undertaken by the
Commission to (1) develop more reliable
estimates of reporting burdens given the
significant increase in electronic filing
and (2) to implement new approaches to
make such reporting even less
burdensome.
The other new burden is the one-time
cost of employers changing the manner
in which they collect and store the new
race and ethnicity changes as well as
changes to computer programs and
systems. There will be no cost for
employers whose current systems are
already designed to handle the full
multiple race and ethnicity
classifications, and we estimate that
about ten percent of employers
currently have this ability. The
estimated cost for employers that will
have to re-survey the workforce to
comply with the new race and ethnicity
changes is $21,600,000.
Dated: January 9, 2015.
For the Commission.
Jenny R. Yang,
Chair.
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Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission.
AGENCY:
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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--Extension with
change: State and Local Government Information Report (EEO-4).
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) hereby
gives notice that it has submitted to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) a request for a three-year extension with change of the
State and Local Government Information Report (EEO-4). The EEOC is
proposing revisions to the race and ethnicity categories on the EEO-4
report to conform to OMB's Revisions to the Standards for the
Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (October 30, 1997)
(Revised Standards), as applied in OMB Bulletin No. 00-02, Guidance on
Aggregation and Allocation of Data on Race for Use in Civil Rights
Monitoring and Enforcement (March 9, 2000).
DATES: Written comments on this notice must be submitted on or before
February 19, 2015.
ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR and applicable supporting documentation
submitted to OMB for this review may be obtained from: Ronald Edwards,
Director, Program Research and Surveys Division, Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, 131 M Street NE., Room 4SW30F, Washington, DC
20507. Comments on this final notice must be submitted to Chad A.
Lallemand, 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
Chad_A._Lallemand@omb.eop.gov. Copies of comments should be sent to
Bernadette Wilson, Acting Executive Officer, Executive Secretariat,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
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131 M Street NE., Washington, DC 20507. As a convenience to commenters,
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 (TTY).
(These are not toll-free telephone numbers.) Instead of sending written
comments to EEOC, you may submit comments and attachments
electronically at https://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions online for submitting
comments. All comments received through this portal will be posted
without change, including any personal information you provide. Copies
of comments submitted by the public to EEOC directly or through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal will be available for review, by advance
appointment only, at the Commission's library between the hours of 9:00
a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time or can be reviewed at https://www.regulations.gov. To schedule an appointment to inspect the comments
at EEOC's library, contact the library staff at (202) 663-4630 (voice)
or (202) 663-4641 (TTY). (These are not toll-free numbers.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ronald Edwards, Director, Program
Research and Surveys Division, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
131 M Street NE., Room 4SW30F, Washington, DC 20507; (202) 663-4949
(voice) or (202) 663-7063 (TTY). Requests for this notice in an
alternative format should be made to the Office of Communications and
Legislative Affairs at (202) 663-4191 (voice) or (202) 663-4494 (TTY).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EEOC has collected information from
state and local governments with 100 or more full-time employees since
1974. The Commission is proposing revisions to the EEO-4 report to
conform with OMB's Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of
Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (October 30, 1997) (Revised
Standards), as applied in OMB Bulletin No. 00-02, Guidance on
Aggregation and Allocation of Data on Race for Use in Civil Rights
Monitoring and Enforcement (March 9, 2000). The revisions to the EEO-4
report, Form 164, include the following race and ethnicity categories:
Hispanic or Latino; White; Black or African American; Asian; Native
Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; American Indian or Alaska Native;
and Two or More Races.
A notice that EEOC would be submitting this request was published
in the Federal Register on August 27, 2014 allowing for a 60-day public
comment period. There were no comments received from the public.
Overview of Current Information Collection
Collection Title: State and Local Government Information Report
(EEO-4).
OMB--Number: 3046-0008.
Frequency of Report: Biennial.
Type of Respondent: State and local government jurisdictions with
100 or more employees.
Description of Affected Public: State and local governments
excluding elementary and secondary public school districts.
Number of Responses: 12,458.
Reporting Hours: 89,188.
Cost Burden: $21,600,000.
Number of Forms: 1.
Form Number: EEOC FORM 164.
Federal Cost: $226,549.
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, to preserve such records
and to produce reports as the Commission prescribes by regulation or
order. Accordingly, the EEOC issued regulations at 29 CFR 1602.32-
1602.37 prescribing the reporting requirements for State and local
governments. State and local governments with 100 or more employees
have been required to submit EEO-4 reports since 1974 (biennially in
odd-numbered years since 1993). The individual reports are
confidential.
EEO-4 data are used by the EEOC to investigate charges of
discrimination against state and local governments and to provide
information on the employment status of minorities and women. The data
are shared with several other Federal agencies. Pursuant to section
709(d) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000e-
8(d), as amended, EEO-4 data are shared with State and Local Fair
Employment Practices Agencies (FEPAs). Aggregated data are also used by
researchers and the general public.
Burden Statement: The estimated number of respondents included in
the EEO-4 survey is 9,000 state and local governments. (These 9,000
jurisdictions file about 12,458 reports based on the 2011 filing of the
EEO-4.) Reports exceed jurisdictions due to the requirement for some to
file separate reports by function. The changes discussed herein will
increase respondent burden hours from 73,185 to 89,188 and EEOC costs
from $187,500 to $226,549. The burden per report will be 7.16 hours.
Estimated burden hours were calculated by multiplying the number of
reports expected to be filed annually (12,458 in 2011) by the estimated
average time to complete and submit each report (7.16 hours).
These burden estimates are largely based on an assumption of paper
reporting. However, the EEOC has made electronic filing much easier for
employers required to file the EEO-4 Report. As a result, more
jurisdictions are using this filing method. This development, along
with the greater availability of human resource information software,
is expected to have significantly reduced the actual burden of
reporting, but empirical data in this area is lacking. Accordingly,
efforts will be undertaken by the Commission to (1) develop more
reliable estimates of reporting burdens given the significant increase
in electronic filing and (2) to implement new approaches to make such
reporting even less burdensome.
The other new burden is the one-time cost of employers changing the
manner in which they collect and store the new race and ethnicity
changes as well as changes to computer programs and systems. There will
be no cost for employers whose current systems are already designed to
handle the full multiple race and ethnicity classifications, and we
estimate that about ten percent of employers currently have this
ability. The estimated cost for employers that will have to re-survey
the workforce to comply with the new race and ethnicity changes is
$21,600,000.
Dated: January 9, 2015.
For the Commission.
Jenny R. Yang,
Chair.
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