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receive a month-to-month extension
while they undergo review.
ACTION:
Overview of This Information
Collection
1. Type of Information Collection:
Extension of a previously approved
collection.
2. Title of the Form/Collection:
Inventories: Licensed Explosives
Importers, Manufacturers, Dealers and
Permittees.
3. Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department of Justice sponsoring the
collection: Form number: None.
Component: Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S.
Department of Justice.
4. Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Affected Public: Private
Sector—businesses or other for-profit
institutions. Abstract: These records
show the explosive material inventories
of those persons engaged in various
activities within the explosives industry
and are used by the government as
initial figures from which an audit trail
can be developed during a compliance
inspection or criminal investigation.
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per Title 27 CFR 555.121, 27 CFR
555.122, 27 CFR 555.123, 27 CFR
555.124, 27 CFR 555.125, and 27 CFR
555.127.
6. Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 9,219 of respondents.
7. Estimated Time per Respondent: 2
hours.
8. Frequency: Once annually.
9. Total Estimated Annual Time
Burden: 18,438 hours.
10. Total Estimated Annual Other
Costs Burden: $0.
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Clearance Officer, Policy and Planning
Staff, Justice Management Division,
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Dated: August 23, 2023.
Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S.
Department of Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Labor Surplus Area Classification
Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
AGENCY:
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Notice.
The purpose of this notice is
to announce the annual Labor Surplus
Area (LSA) list for fiscal year (FY) 2024.
DATES: The annual LSA list is effective
October 1, 2023, for all states, the
District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Samuel Wright or Donald Haughton,
Office of Workforce Investment,
Employment and Training
Administration, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW, Room C–4514,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone:
Samuel Wright (202) 693–2870 (this is
not a toll-free number), or Donald
Haughton (202) 693–2784 (this is not a
toll-free number), or email
wright.samuel.e@dol.gov, or
haughton.donald.w@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Labor’s regulations
implementing Executive Orders 12073
and 10582 are set forth at 20 CFR part
654, subpart A. These regulations
require the Employment and Training
Administration (ETA) to classify
jurisdictions as LSAs pursuant to the
criteria specified in the regulations, and
to publish annually a list of LSAs.
Pursuant to those regulations, ETA is
hereby publishing the annual LSA list.
In addition, the regulations provide
exceptional circumstance criteria for
classifying LSAs when catastrophic
events, such as natural disasters, plant
closings, and contract cancellations are
expected to have a long-term impact on
labor market area conditions,
discounting temporary or seasonal
factors.
SUMMARY:
Eligible Labor Surplus Areas
A LSA is a civil jurisdiction that has
a civilian average annual
unemployment rate during the previous
two calendar years of 20 percent or
more above the average annual civilian
unemployment rate for all states during
the same 24-month reference period.
ETA uses only official unemployment
estimates provided by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics in making these
classifications. The average
unemployment rate for all states
includes data for the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico. The LSA classification
criteria stipulate a civil jurisdiction
must have a ‘‘floor unemployment rate’’
of 6 percent or higher to be classified an
LSA. Any civil jurisdiction that has a
‘‘ceiling unemployment rate’’ of 10
percent or higher is classified an LSA.
Civil jurisdictions are defined as
follows:
1. A city of at least 25,000 population
on the basis of the most recently
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available estimates from the Bureau of
the Census; or
2. A town or township in the States
of Michigan, New Jersey, New York, or
Pennsylvania of 25,000 or more
population and which possess powers
and functions similar to those of cities;
or
3. All counties, except for those
counties which contain any type of civil
jurisdictions defined in ‘‘1’’ or ‘‘2’’
above; or
4. A ‘‘balance of county’’ consisting of
a county less any component cities and
townships identified in ‘‘1’’ or ‘‘2’’
above; or
5. A county equivalent which is a
town in the States of Connecticut,
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, or a
municipio in the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico.
Procedures for Classifying Labor
Surplus Areas
The Department of Labor (DOL) issues
the LSA list on a fiscal year basis. The
list becomes effective each October 1,
and remains in effect through the
following September 30. The reference
period used in preparing the current list
was January 2021 through December
2022. The national average
unemployment rate (including Puerto
Rico) during this period is rounded to
4.51 percent. Twenty percent higher
than the national unemployment rate
during this period is rounded to 5.41
percent. Since this is below the floor
rate, the qualifying rate is 6 percent.
To ensure that all areas classified as
labor surplus meet the requirements,
when a city is part of a county and
meets the unemployment qualifier as a
LSA, that city is identified in the LSA
list, the balance of county, not the entire
county, will be identified as a LSA if the
balance of county also meets the LSA
unemployment criteria. The data on the
current and previous years’ LSAs are
available at www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/
lsa.
Petition for Exceptional Circumstance
Consideration
The classification procedures also
provide criteria for the designation of
LSAs under exceptional circumstances
criteria. These procedures permit the
regular classification criteria to be
waived when an area experiences a
significant increase in unemployment
which is not temporary or seasonal and
which was not reflected in the data for
the 2-year reference period. Under the
program’s exceptional circumstance
procedures, LSA classifications can be
made for civil jurisdictions,
Metropolitan Statistical Areas or
Combined Statistical Areas, as defined
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by the U.S. Office of Management and
Budget. In order for an area to be
classified as a LSA under the
exceptional circumstance criteria, the
state workforce agency must submit a
petition requesting such classification to
the Department of Labor’s ETA. The
current criteria for an exceptional
circumstance classification are:
1. An area’s unemployment rate is at
least 6 percent for each of the three most
recent months; and
2. A projected unemployment rate of
at least 6 percent for each of the next 12
months because of an event.
When submitting such a petition, the
state workforce agency must provide
documentation that the exceptional
circumstance event has occurred. The
state workforce agency may file
petitions on behalf of civil jurisdictions,
Metropolitan Statistical Areas, or
Micropolitan Statistical Areas.
State Workforce Agencies may submit
petitions in electronic format to
wright.samuel.e@dol.gov,
haughton.donald.w@dol.gov, or in hard
copy to the U.S. Department of Labor,
Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Workforce
Investment, 200 Constitution Avenue
NW, Room C–4514, Washington, DC
20210, Attention Samuel Wright. Data
collection for the petition is approved
under OMB 1205–0207, expiration date
May 31, 2026.
Signed at Washington, DC.
Brent Parton,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Employment and Training.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Labor Surplus Area Classification
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to announce the annual Labor
Surplus Area (LSA) list for fiscal year (FY) 2024.
DATES: The annual LSA list is effective October 1, 2023, for all
states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Samuel Wright or Donald Haughton,
Office of Workforce Investment, Employment and Training Administration,
200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room C-4514, Washington, DC 20210.
Telephone: Samuel Wright (202) 693-2870 (this is not a toll-free
number), or Donald Haughton (202) 693-2784 (this is not a toll-free
number), or email [email protected], or
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Labor's regulations
implementing Executive Orders 12073 and 10582 are set forth at 20 CFR
part 654, subpart A. These regulations require the Employment and
Training Administration (ETA) to classify jurisdictions as LSAs
pursuant to the criteria specified in the regulations, and to publish
annually a list of LSAs. Pursuant to those regulations, ETA is hereby
publishing the annual LSA list.
In addition, the regulations provide exceptional circumstance
criteria for classifying LSAs when catastrophic events, such as natural
disasters, plant closings, and contract cancellations are expected to
have a long-term impact on labor market area conditions, discounting
temporary or seasonal factors.
Eligible Labor Surplus Areas
A LSA is a civil jurisdiction that has a civilian average annual
unemployment rate during the previous two calendar years of 20 percent
or more above the average annual civilian unemployment rate for all
states during the same 24-month reference period. ETA uses only
official unemployment estimates provided by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics in making these classifications. The average unemployment
rate for all states includes data for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The LSA classification criteria stipulate a civil jurisdiction must
have a ``floor unemployment rate'' of 6 percent or higher to be
classified an LSA. Any civil jurisdiction that has a ``ceiling
unemployment rate'' of 10 percent or higher is classified an LSA.
Civil jurisdictions are defined as follows:
1. A city of at least 25,000 population on the basis of the most
recently available estimates from the Bureau of the Census; or
2. A town or township in the States of Michigan, New Jersey, New
York, or Pennsylvania of 25,000 or more population and which possess
powers and functions similar to those of cities; or
3. All counties, except for those counties which contain any type
of civil jurisdictions defined in ``1'' or ``2'' above; or
4. A ``balance of county'' consisting of a county less any
component cities and townships identified in ``1'' or ``2'' above; or
5. A county equivalent which is a town in the States of
Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, or a municipio in the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Procedures for Classifying Labor Surplus Areas
The Department of Labor (DOL) issues the LSA list on a fiscal year
basis. The list becomes effective each October 1, and remains in effect
through the following September 30. The reference period used in
preparing the current list was January 2021 through December 2022. The
national average unemployment rate (including Puerto Rico) during this
period is rounded to 4.51 percent. Twenty percent higher than the
national unemployment rate during this period is rounded to 5.41
percent. Since this is below the floor rate, the qualifying rate is 6
percent.
To ensure that all areas classified as labor surplus meet the
requirements, when a city is part of a county and meets the
unemployment qualifier as a LSA, that city is identified in the LSA
list, the balance of county, not the entire county, will be identified
as a LSA if the balance of county also meets the LSA unemployment
criteria. The data on the current and previous years' LSAs are
available at www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/lsa.
Petition for Exceptional Circumstance Consideration
The classification procedures also provide criteria for the
designation of LSAs under exceptional circumstances criteria. These
procedures permit the regular classification criteria to be waived when
an area experiences a significant increase in unemployment which is not
temporary or seasonal and which was not reflected in the data for the
2-year reference period. Under the program's exceptional circumstance
procedures, LSA classifications can be made for civil jurisdictions,
Metropolitan Statistical Areas or Combined Statistical Areas, as
defined
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by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. In order for an area to be
classified as a LSA under the exceptional circumstance criteria, the
state workforce agency must submit a petition requesting such
classification to the Department of Labor's ETA. The current criteria
for an exceptional circumstance classification are:
1. An area's unemployment rate is at least 6 percent for each of
the three most recent months; and
2. A projected unemployment rate of at least 6 percent for each of
the next 12 months because of an event.
When submitting such a petition, the state workforce agency must
provide documentation that the exceptional circumstance event has
occurred. The state workforce agency may file petitions on behalf of
civil jurisdictions, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, or Micropolitan
Statistical Areas.
State Workforce Agencies may submit petitions in electronic format
to [email protected], [email protected], or in hard copy
to the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Workforce Investment, 200 Constitution Avenue
NW, Room C-4514, Washington, DC 20210, Attention Samuel Wright. Data
collection for the petition is approved under OMB 1205-0207, expiration
date May 31, 2026.
Signed at Washington, DC.
Brent Parton,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training.
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