Employment and Training Administration March 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden conducts a preclearance 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. Currently, the Employment and Training Administration is soliciting comments concerning the proposed extension of the regulatory requirements of the Confidentiality and Disclosure of State Unemployment Compensation Information final rule and State Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984. A copy of the proposed information collection request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the office listed below in the addressee section of this notice or by accessing: https://www.doleta.gov/OMBCN/ OMBControlNumber.cfm.

The Employment and Training Administration is issuing this notice to announce the receipt of a ``Certification of Non-Relocation and Market and Capacity Information Report'' (Form 4279-2) for the following: Applicant/Location: Mid America Brick and Structural Clay Products Company/Mexico, Missouri. Principal Product: The loan, guarantee, or grant application is for a new business venture to purchase and install brick manufacturing equipment, and to rehabilitate and relocate purchased equipment on-site. The NAICS industry codes for this enterprise are: 327121 Brick and Structural Clay Tile Manufacturing; and, 327123 Other Structural Clay Product Manufacturing.

On January 31, 2007, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Administrative Review Board (ARB), acting under authority delegated by the Secretary of Labor, issued a Final Decision and Order that withdrew recognition, for Federal purposes, from the California Department of Industrial Relations (CDIR) and the California Apprenticeship Council (CAC), which constitute California's State Apprentice Council (SAC). Therefore, under the implementing regulations (29 CFR part 29) for the National Apprenticeship Act (29 U.S.C. 50), the SAC no longer has the authority to register or oversee apprenticeship programs for ``Federal purposes.'' Accordingly, apprenticeship programs registered in California must register with DOL's Office of Apprenticeship (OA), if they wish to pay apprentice wages at the rates authorized under the regulations implementing the Davis-Bacon and related acts. This notice sets out the process for accomplishing the transition from SAC registration to OA registration, for Federal purposes.