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technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
The Establishment Information Form,
the Wage Data Collection Form, and the
Wage Data Collection Continuation
Form are wage survey forms developed
by OPM for use by the Department of
Defense to establish prevailing wage
rates for Federal Wage System
employees.
Analysis
Agency: Employee Services, Office of
Personnel Management.
Title: Establishment Information Form
(DD 1918), Wage Data Collection Form
(DD 1919), and Wage Data Collection
Continuation Form (DD 1919C).
OMB Number: 3260–0036.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: Private Sector
Establishments.
Number of Respondents: 21,760.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1.5
hours.
Total Burden Hours: 32,640.
Office of Personnel Management.
Jeff T.H. Pon,
Director.
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[Docket No. CP2012–22]
New Postal Product
Postal Regulatory Commission.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Commission is noticing a
recent Postal Service filing for the
Commission’s consideration concerning
negotiated service agreements. This
notice informs the public of the filing,
invites public comment, and takes other
administrative steps.
DATES: Comments are due: March 20,
2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments
electronically via the Commission’s
Filing Online system at https://
www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit
comments electronically should contact
the person identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section by
telephone for advice on filing
alternatives.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at
202–789–6820.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Introduction
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II. Docketed Proceeding(s)
This Notice will be published in the
Federal Register.
I. Introduction
The Commission gives notice that the
Postal Service filed request(s) for the
Commission to consider matters related
to negotiated service agreement(s). The
request(s) may propose the addition or
removal of a negotiated service
agreement from the market dominant or
the competitive product list, or the
modification of an existing product
currently appearing on the market
dominant or the competitive product
list.
Section II identifies the docket
number(s) associated with each Postal
Service request, the title of each Postal
Service request, the request’s acceptance
date, and the authority cited by the
Postal Service for each request. For each
request, the Commission appoints an
officer of the Commission to represent
the interests of the general public in the
proceeding, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505
(Public Representative). Section II also
establishes comment deadline(s)
pertaining to each request.
The public portions of the Postal
Service’s request(s) can be accessed via
the Commission’s website (https://
www.prc.gov). Non-public portions of
the Postal Service’s request(s), if any,
can be accessed through compliance
with the requirements of 39 CFR
3007.40.
The Commission invites comments on
whether the Postal Service’s request(s)
in the captioned docket(s) are consistent
with the policies of title 39. For
request(s) that the Postal Service states
concern market dominant product(s),
applicable statutory and regulatory
requirements include 39 U.S.C. 3622, 39
U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3010, and 39
CFR part 3020, subpart B. For request(s)
that the Postal Service states concern
competitive product(s), applicable
statutory and regulatory requirements
include 39 U.S.C. 3632, 39 U.S.C. 3633,
39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3015, and
39 CFR part 3020, subpart B. Comment
deadline(s) for each request appear in
section II.
II. Docketed Proceeding(s)
1. Docket No(s).: CP2012–22; Filing
Title: USPS Notice of Change in Prices
Pursuant to Amendment to Parcel Select
and Parcel Return Service Contract 3;
Filing Acceptance Date: March 9, 2018;
Filing Authority: 39 CFR 3015.50; Public
Representative: Timothy J. Schwuchow;
Comments Due: March 20, 2018.
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Stacy L. Ruble,
Secretary.
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Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
Upon Written Request Copies Available
From: U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, Office of FOIA Services,
100 F Street NE, Washington, DC
20549–2736
Extension:
OMWI Contract Standard for Contractor
Workforce Inclusion, SEC File No. S7–
02–15, OMB Control No. 3235–0725
Notice is hereby given that, pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities
and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments
on the existing collection of information
summarized below. The Commission
plans to submit this existing collection
of information to the Office of
Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) for
approval.
Section 342 of the Dodd-Frank Wall
Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act of 2010 (the Dodd-Frank Act)
provided that certain agencies,
including the Commission, establish an
Office of Minority and Women
Inclusion (OMWI).1 Section 342(c)(2) of
the Dodd-Frank Act requires the OMWI
Director to include in the Commission’s
procedures for evaluating contract
proposals and hiring service providers a
written statement that the contractor
shall ensure, to the maximum extent
possible, the fair inclusion of women
and minorities in the workforce of the
contractor and, as applicable,
subcontractors. To implement the
acquisition-specific requirements of
Section 342(c)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Act,
the Commission adopted a Contract
Standard for Contractor Workforce
Inclusion (Contract Standard).
The Contract Standard, which is
included in the Commission’s
solicitations and resulting contracts for
services with a dollar value of $100,000
or more, contains a ‘‘collection of
information’’ within the meaning of the
Paperwork Reduction Act. The Contract
Standard requires that a Commission
contractor provide documentation, upon
request from the OMWI Director, to
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demonstrate that it has made good faith
efforts to ensure the fair inclusion of
minorities and women in its workforce
and, as applicable, to demonstrate its
covered subcontractors have made such
good faith efforts. The documentation
requested may include, but is not
limited to: (1) The total number of
employees in the contractor’s workforce,
and the number of employees by race,
ethnicity, gender, and job title or EEO–
1 job category (e.g., EEO–1 Report(s));
(2) a list of covered subcontract awards
under the contract that includes the
dollar amount of each subcontract, date
of award, and the subcontractor’s race,
ethnicity, and/or gender ownership
status; (3) the contractor’s plan to ensure
the fair inclusion of minorities and
women in its workforce, including
outreach efforts; and (4) for each
covered subcontractor, the information
requested in items 1 and 3 above. The
OMWI Director will consider the
information submitted in evaluating
whether the contractor or subcontractor
has complied with its obligations under
the Contract Standard.
The information collection is
mandatory.
Estimated number of respondents:
The Commission estimates that 190
contractors 2 would be subject to the
Contract Standard. Approximately 115
of these contractors have 50 or more
employees, while 75 have fewer than 50
employees. Since the last approval of
this information collection, we adjusted
the estimated number of contractors
from 170 contractors to 190 contractors
based on the number of contractors
awarded contracts the last two years
that were subject to the Contract
Standard. In addition, we adjusted the
number of contractors that have 50 or
more employees and the number that
have fewer than 50 employees to reflect
the percentages of contractors meeting
these workforce size thresholds among
all contractors reviewed by OMWI for
compliance with the Contract Standard
during the last two years.
Estimate of recordkeeping burden:
The information collection under the
Contract Standard imposes no new
recordkeeping burdens on the estimated
115 contractors that have 50 or more
employees. Such contractors are
generally subject to recordkeeping and
reporting requirements under the
regulations implementing Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act 3 and Executive
Order 11246 (‘‘E.O. 11246’’).4 Their
2 Unless otherwise specified, the term
‘‘contractors’’ refers to contractors and
subcontractors.
3 42 U.S.C. 2000e, et seq.
4 Executive Order 11246, 30 FR 12,319 (Sept. 24,
1965).
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contracts and subcontracts must include
the clause implementing E.O. 11246—
FAR 52.222–26, Equal Opportunity. In
addition, contractors that have 50 or
more employees (and a contract or
subcontract of $50,000 or more) are
required to maintain records on the
race, ethnicity, gender, and EEO–1 job
category of each employee under
Department of Labor regulations
implementing E.O. 11246.5 The
regulations implementing E.O. 11246
also require contractors that have 50 or
more employees (and a contract or
subcontract of $50,000 or more) to
demonstrate that they have made good
faith efforts to remove identified
barriers, expand employment
opportunities, and produce measurable
results,6 and to develop and maintain a
written program, which describes the
policies, practices, and procedures that
the contractor uses to ensure that
applicants and employees receive equal
opportunities for employment and
advancement.7 In lieu of developing a
separate plan for workforce inclusion, a
contractor may submit its existing
written program prescribed by the E.O.
11246 regulations as part of the
documentation that demonstrates the
contractor’s good faith efforts to ensure
the fair inclusion of minorities and
women in its workforce. Thus,
approximately 115 contractors are
already required to maintain the
information that may be requested
under the Contract Standard.
The estimated 75 contractors that
employ fewer than 50 employees are
required under the regulations
implementing E.O. 11246 to maintain
records showing the race, ethnicity and
gender of each employee. We believe
that these contractors also keep job title
information during the normal course of
business. However, contractors that
have fewer than 50 employees may not
have the written program prescribed by
the E.O. 11246 regulations or similar
plan that could be submitted as part of
the documentation to demonstrate their
good faith efforts to ensure the fair
inclusion of women and minorities in
their workforces. Accordingly,
contractors with fewer than 50
employees may have to develop a plan
to ensure workforce inclusion of
minorities and women.
In order to estimate the burden on
contractors associated with developing a
plan for ensuring the inclusion of
minorities and women in their
workforces, we considered the burden
estimates for developing the written
5 See
41 CFR 60–1.7.
41 CFR 60–2.17(c).
7 See 41 CFR part 60–2.
6 See
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programs required under the regulations
implementing E.O. 11246.8 We also
revised the estimated time required to
develop and update a plan for workforce
inclusion of minorities and women
since the last approval of this
information collection. Based on
OMWI’s review of the plans and other
documentation submitted by contractors
with fewer than 50 employees to
demonstrate compliance with the
Contract Standard, we believe such
contractors would require
approximately 25 percent of the hours
that contractors of similar size spend on
developing the written programs
required under the E.O. 11246
regulations. Accordingly, we estimate
that contractors would spend about 18
hours of employee resources to develop
a plan for workforce inclusion of
minorities and women. This one-time
implementation burden annualized
would be 450 hours. After the initial
development, we estimate that each
contractor with fewer than 50
employees would spend approximately
8 hours each year updating and
maintaining its plan for workforce
inclusion of minorities and women. The
Commission estimates that the
annualized recurring burden associated
with the information collection would
be 375 hours. Thus, the Commission
estimates the annual recordkeeping
burden for such contractors would total
825 hours.
The Contract Standard requires
contractors to maintain information
about covered subcontractors’
ownership status, workforce
demographics, and workforce inclusion
plans. Contractors would request this
information from their covered
subcontractors, who would have an
obligation to keep workforce
demographic data and maintain plans
for workforce inclusion of minorities
and women because the Contract
Standard is included in their
subcontracts. Based on data describing
recent Commission subcontractor
activity, we believe that few
subcontractors will have subcontracts
8 According to the Supporting Statement for the
OFCCP Recordkeeping and Requirements-Supply
Service, OMB Control No. 1250–0003 (‘‘Supporting
Statement’’), it takes approximately 73 burden
hours for contractors with 1–100 employees to
develop the initial written program required under
the regulations implementing E.O. 11246. We
understand the quantitative analyses prescribed by
the Executive Order regulations at 41 CFR part 60–
2 are a time-consuming aspect of the written
program development. As there is no requirement
to perform these types of quantitative analyses in
connection with plan for workforce inclusion of
minorities and women under the Contract Standard,
we believe the plan for workforce inclusion will
take substantially fewer hours to develop. The
Supporting Statement is available at reginfo.gov.
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under Commission service contracts
with a dollar value of $100,000 or
more.9 These subcontractors may
already be subject to similar
recordkeeping requirements as principal
contractors. Consequently, we believe
that any additional requirements
imposed on subcontractors would not
significantly add to the burden
estimates discussed above.
Estimate of Reporting Burden
With respect to the reporting burden,
we estimate that it would take all
contractors on average approximately
one hour to retrieve and submit to the
OMWI Director the documentation
specified in the proposed Contract
Standard. We expect to request
documentation from up to 100
contractors each year and therefore we
estimate the total annual reporting
burden to be 100 hours.
Written comments are invited on: (a)
Whether this collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden imposed
by the collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information collected; and
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to
comments and suggestions submitted in
writing within 60 days of this
publication. Please direct your written
comments to Pamela Dyson, Director/
Chief Information Officer, Securities
and Exchange Commission, c/o Remi
Pavlik-Simon, 100 F Street NE,
Washington, DC 20549 or send an email
to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov.
Dated: March 13, 2018.
Eduardo A. Aleman,
Assistant Secretary.
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Comment Request
Upon Written Request Copies Available
From: Securities and Exchange
9 A search of subcontract awards on the
usaspending.gov website showed that three
subcontractors in FY 2016 and six subcontractors in
FY 2017 had subcontracts of $100K or more. See
data on subcontract awards available at https://
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Commission, Office of FOIA Services,
100 F Street NE, Washington, DC
20549–2736.
Extension:
Regulation S–K, SEC File No. 270–002,
OMB Control No. 3235–0071.
Notice is hereby given that, pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities
and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget this
request for extension of the previously
approved collection of information
discussed below.
Regulation S–K (17 CFR 229.101 et
seq.) specifies the non-financial
disclosure requirements applicable to
registration statements under the
Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a et
seq.); and registration statements,
periodic reports, going-private
transaction and tender offer statements,
proxy and information statements, and
any other documents required to be
filed under Sections 12, 13, 14, and 15
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(15 U.S.C. 78l, 78m, 78n, 78o(d)).
Regulation S–K is assigned one burden
hour for administrative convenience.
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
control number.
The public may view the background
documentation for this information
collection at the following website,
www.reginfo.gov. Comments should be
directed to: (i) Desk Officer for the
Securities and Exchange Commission,
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Room 10102, New Executive
Office Building, Washington, DC 20503,
or by sending an email to: Shagufta_
Ahmed@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) Pamela
Dyson, Director/Chief Information
Officer, Securities and Exchange
Commission, c/o Remi Pavlik-Simon,
100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549
or send an email to: PRA_Mailbox@
sec.gov. Comments must be submitted to
OMB within 30 days of this notice.
Dated: March 14, 2018.
Eduardo A. Aleman,
Assistant Secretary.
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[Release No. 34–82867; File No. SR–
PEARL–2018–07]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; MIAX
PEARL, LLC; Notice of Filing and
Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed
Rule Change To Amend the MIAX
PEARL Fee Schedule
March 13, 2018.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section
19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 (‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 19b–4
thereunder,2 notice is hereby given that
on February 28, 2018, MIAX PEARL,
LLC (‘‘MIAX PEARL’’ or ‘‘Exchange’’)
filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (‘‘Commission’’) a
proposed rule change as described in
Items I, II, and III below, which Items
have been prepared by the Exchange.
The Commission is publishing this
notice to solicit comments on the
proposed rule change from interested
persons.
I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Terms of Substance of
the Proposed Rule Change
The Exchange is filing a proposal to
amend the MIAX PEARL Fee Schedule
(the ‘‘Fee Schedule’’) to establish certain
non-transaction rebates and fees
applicable to participants trading
options on and/or using services
provided by MIAX PEARL.
MIAX PEARL commenced operations
as a national securities exchange
registered under Section 6 of the Act 3
on February 6, 2017.4 The Exchange
adopted its transaction fees and certain
of its non-transaction fees in its filing
SR–PEARL–2017–10.5
The text of the proposed rule change
is available on the Exchange’s website at
https://www.miaxoptions.com/rulefilings/pearl at MIAX PEARL’s principal
office, and at the Commission’s Public
Reference Room.
II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
In its filing with the Commission, the
Exchange included statements
1 15
U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
CFR 240.19b–4.
3 15 U.S.C. 78f.
4 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 79543
(December 13, 2016), 81 FR 92901 (December 20,
2016) (File No. 10–227) (order approving
application of MIAX PEARL, LLC for registration as
a national securities exchange).
5 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 80061
(February 17, 2017), 82 FR 11676 (February 24,
2017) (SR–PEARL–2017–10).
2 17
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Upon Written Request Copies Available From: U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, Office of FOIA Services, 100 F Street NE,
Washington, DC 20549-2736
Extension:
OMWI Contract Standard for Contractor Workforce Inclusion, SEC
File No. S7-02-15, OMB Control No. 3235-0725
Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities and Exchange
Commission (``Commission'') is soliciting comments on the existing
collection of information summarized below. The Commission plans to
submit this existing collection of information to the Office of
Management and Budget (``OMB'') for approval.
Section 342 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer
Protection Act of 2010 (the Dodd-Frank Act) provided that certain
agencies, including the Commission, establish an Office of Minority and
Women Inclusion (OMWI).\1\ Section 342(c)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Act
requires the OMWI Director to include in the Commission's procedures
for evaluating contract proposals and hiring service providers a
written statement that the contractor shall ensure, to the maximum
extent possible, the fair inclusion of women and minorities in the
workforce of the contractor and, as applicable, subcontractors. To
implement the acquisition-specific requirements of Section 342(c)(2) of
the Dodd-Frank Act, the Commission adopted a Contract Standard for
Contractor Workforce Inclusion (Contract Standard).
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\1\ 12 U.S.C. 5452.
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The Contract Standard, which is included in the Commission's
solicitations and resulting contracts for services with a dollar value
of $100,000 or more, contains a ``collection of information'' within
the meaning of the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Contract Standard
requires that a Commission contractor provide documentation, upon
request from the OMWI Director, to
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demonstrate that it has made good faith efforts to ensure the fair
inclusion of minorities and women in its workforce and, as applicable,
to demonstrate its covered subcontractors have made such good faith
efforts. The documentation requested may include, but is not limited
to: (1) The total number of employees in the contractor's workforce,
and the number of employees by race, ethnicity, gender, and job title
or EEO-1 job category (e.g., EEO-1 Report(s)); (2) a list of covered
subcontract awards under the contract that includes the dollar amount
of each subcontract, date of award, and the subcontractor's race,
ethnicity, and/or gender ownership status; (3) the contractor's plan to
ensure the fair inclusion of minorities and women in its workforce,
including outreach efforts; and (4) for each covered subcontractor, the
information requested in items 1 and 3 above. The OMWI Director will
consider the information submitted in evaluating whether the contractor
or subcontractor has complied with its obligations under the Contract
Standard.
The information collection is mandatory.
Estimated number of respondents: The Commission estimates that 190
contractors \2\ would be subject to the Contract Standard.
Approximately 115 of these contractors have 50 or more employees, while
75 have fewer than 50 employees. Since the last approval of this
information collection, we adjusted the estimated number of contractors
from 170 contractors to 190 contractors based on the number of
contractors awarded contracts the last two years that were subject to
the Contract Standard. In addition, we adjusted the number of
contractors that have 50 or more employees and the number that have
fewer than 50 employees to reflect the percentages of contractors
meeting these workforce size thresholds among all contractors reviewed
by OMWI for compliance with the Contract Standard during the last two
years.
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\2\ Unless otherwise specified, the term ``contractors'' refers
to contractors and subcontractors.
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Estimate of recordkeeping burden: The information collection under
the Contract Standard imposes no new recordkeeping burdens on the
estimated 115 contractors that have 50 or more employees. Such
contractors are generally subject to recordkeeping and reporting
requirements under the regulations implementing Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act \3\ and Executive Order 11246 (``E.O. 11246'').\4\ Their
contracts and subcontracts must include the clause implementing E.O.
11246--FAR 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity. In addition, contractors that
have 50 or more employees (and a contract or subcontract of $50,000 or
more) are required to maintain records on the race, ethnicity, gender,
and EEO-1 job category of each employee under Department of Labor
regulations implementing E.O. 11246.\5\ The regulations implementing
E.O. 11246 also require contractors that have 50 or more employees (and
a contract or subcontract of $50,000 or more) to demonstrate that they
have made good faith efforts to remove identified barriers, expand
employment opportunities, and produce measurable results,\6\ and to
develop and maintain a written program, which describes the policies,
practices, and procedures that the contractor uses to ensure that
applicants and employees receive equal opportunities for employment and
advancement.\7\ In lieu of developing a separate plan for workforce
inclusion, a contractor may submit its existing written program
prescribed by the E.O. 11246 regulations as part of the documentation
that demonstrates the contractor's good faith efforts to ensure the
fair inclusion of minorities and women in its workforce. Thus,
approximately 115 contractors are already required to maintain the
information that may be requested under the Contract Standard.
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\3\ 42 U.S.C. 2000e, et seq.
\4\ Executive Order 11246, 30 FR 12,319 (Sept. 24, 1965).
\5\ See 41 CFR 60-1.7.
\6\ See 41 CFR 60-2.17(c).
\7\ See 41 CFR part 60-2.
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The estimated 75 contractors that employ fewer than 50 employees
are required under the regulations implementing E.O. 11246 to maintain
records showing the race, ethnicity and gender of each employee. We
believe that these contractors also keep job title information during
the normal course of business. However, contractors that have fewer
than 50 employees may not have the written program prescribed by the
E.O. 11246 regulations or similar plan that could be submitted as part
of the documentation to demonstrate their good faith efforts to ensure
the fair inclusion of women and minorities in their workforces.
Accordingly, contractors with fewer than 50 employees may have to
develop a plan to ensure workforce inclusion of minorities and women.
In order to estimate the burden on contractors associated with
developing a plan for ensuring the inclusion of minorities and women in
their workforces, we considered the burden estimates for developing the
written programs required under the regulations implementing E.O.
11246.\8\ We also revised the estimated time required to develop and
update a plan for workforce inclusion of minorities and women since the
last approval of this information collection. Based on OMWI's review of
the plans and other documentation submitted by contractors with fewer
than 50 employees to demonstrate compliance with the Contract Standard,
we believe such contractors would require approximately 25 percent of
the hours that contractors of similar size spend on developing the
written programs required under the E.O. 11246 regulations.
Accordingly, we estimate that contractors would spend about 18 hours of
employee resources to develop a plan for workforce inclusion of
minorities and women. This one-time implementation burden annualized
would be 450 hours. After the initial development, we estimate that
each contractor with fewer than 50 employees would spend approximately
8 hours each year updating and maintaining its plan for workforce
inclusion of minorities and women. The Commission estimates that the
annualized recurring burden associated with the information collection
would be 375 hours. Thus, the Commission estimates the annual
recordkeeping burden for such contractors would total 825 hours.
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\8\ According to the Supporting Statement for the OFCCP
Recordkeeping and Requirements-Supply Service, OMB Control No. 1250-
0003 (``Supporting Statement''), it takes approximately 73 burden
hours for contractors with 1-100 employees to develop the initial
written program required under the regulations implementing E.O.
11246. We understand the quantitative analyses prescribed by the
Executive Order regulations at 41 CFR part 60-2 are a time-consuming
aspect of the written program development. As there is no
requirement to perform these types of quantitative analyses in
connection with plan for workforce inclusion of minorities and women
under the Contract Standard, we believe the plan for workforce
inclusion will take substantially fewer hours to develop. The
Supporting Statement is available at reginfo.gov.
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The Contract Standard requires contractors to maintain information
about covered subcontractors' ownership status, workforce demographics,
and workforce inclusion plans. Contractors would request this
information from their covered subcontractors, who would have an
obligation to keep workforce demographic data and maintain plans for
workforce inclusion of minorities and women because the Contract
Standard is included in their subcontracts. Based on data describing
recent Commission subcontractor activity, we believe that few
subcontractors will have subcontracts
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under Commission service contracts with a dollar value of $100,000 or
more.\9\ These subcontractors may already be subject to similar
recordkeeping requirements as principal contractors. Consequently, we
believe that any additional requirements imposed on subcontractors
would not significantly add to the burden estimates discussed above.
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\9\ A search of subcontract awards on the usaspending.gov
website showed that three subcontractors in FY 2016 and six
subcontractors in FY 2017 had subcontracts of $100K or more. See
data on subcontract awards available at https://usaspending.gov.
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Estimate of Reporting Burden
With respect to the reporting burden, we estimate that it would
take all contractors on average approximately one hour to retrieve and
submit to the OMWI Director the documentation specified in the proposed
Contract Standard. We expect to request documentation from up to 100
contractors each year and therefore we estimate the total annual
reporting burden to be 100 hours.
Written comments are invited on: (a) Whether this collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden
imposed by the collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
respondents, including through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology. Consideration will
be given to comments and suggestions submitted in writing within 60
days of this publication. Please direct your written comments to Pamela
Dyson, Director/Chief Information Officer, Securities and Exchange
Commission, c/o Remi Pavlik-Simon, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC
20549 or send an email to: [email protected].
Dated: March 13, 2018.
Eduardo A. Aleman,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-05430 Filed 3-16-18; 8:45 am]
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