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Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting time to 

make an oral presentation at a public 

SAB teleconference will be limited to 

three minutes. Those interested in being 

placed on the public speakers’ list for 

the September 26, 2014 teleconference 

should contact Dr. Nugent at the contact 

information provided above by 

September 19, 2014. Those interested in 

being placed on the public speakers’ list 

for the September 29, 2014 

teleconference should contact Dr. 

Nugent at the contact information 

provided above by September 23, 2014. 

Written Statements: Written 

statements should be supplied for the 

September 26, 2014 teleconference 

should be provided to the DFO via 

email to nugent.angela@epa.gov by 

September 19, 2014. Written statements 

should be supplied for the September 

29, 2014 teleconference should be 

provided to the DFO in the same 

manner by September 23, 2014. Written 

statements should be supplied in one of 

the following acceptable file formats: 

Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word, MS 

PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM– 

PC/Windows format). It is the SAB Staff 

Office general policy to post written 

comments on the Web page for the 

advisory meeting or teleconferences. 

Submitters are requested to provide an 

unsigned version of each document 

because the SAB Staff Office does not 

publish documents with signatures on 

its Web sites. Members of the public 

should be aware that their personal 

contact information, if included in any 

written comments, may be posted to the 

SAB Web site. Copyrighted material will 

not be posted without explicit 

permission of the copyright holder. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. Nugent at 

the contact information provided above. 

To request accommodation of a 

disability, please contact Dr. Nugent 

preferably at least 10 days prior to the 

teleconference, to give EPA as much 

time as possible to process your request. 

Dated: August 18, 2014. 

Thomas H. Brennan, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comments Request 

AGENCY: Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Information 

Collection—Extension With Change: 

State and Local Government 

Information Report (EEO–4). 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission 

(EEOC) announces that it intends to 

submit 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 Report, Form 164). EEOC is in 

the process of revising 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). See 

Appendix A for a draft version of the 

proposed Form 164. Pending OMB 

approval of an emergency extension 

request, to be effective after the current 

August 31, 2014 expiration date, a 

regular clearance request for OMB 

review and approval of a three-year 

extension of the EEO–4 Report is 

beginning. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be submitted on or before October 

27, 2014. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 2000e– 

8(c), a public hearing concerning the 

proposed changes to the EEO–4 will be 

held at a place and time to be 

announced. Persons wishing to present 

their views orally should notify the 

Commission of their desire to do so in 

writing no later than September 26, 

2014. The request to present views 

orally at a public hearing should 

include a written summary of the 

remarks to be offered. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to 

Bernadette Wilson, Acting Executive 

Officer, Executive Secretariat, Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission, 

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 (TTD). (These 

are not toll-free telephone numbers.) 

Instead of sending written comments to 

EEOC, you may submit comments and 

attachments electronically at http://

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, except as 

noted below. 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 p.m. Eastern 

Time or can be reviewed at http://

www.regulations.gov. EEOC reserves the 

right to refrain from posting comments, 

including those that contain obscene, 

indecent, or profane language; contain 

threats or defamatory statements; 

contain hate speech directed at race, 

color, sex, sexual orientation, national 

origin, ethnicity, age, religion, or 

disability; or promote or endorse 

services or products. 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 now proposes to revise 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). This 

will require a change of the Form 164. 

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EEOC will revise the EEO–4 report to 

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. 

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). 

RECURRING COSTS

Annual responses Annual burden 

hours 

Burden per 

report 

Burden per 

cell EEOC Cost 

CURRENT FORM 

913 CELLS 

14,060 ....................................................................................................... 73,185 5.2 0.00575 $187,500 

REVISED FORM 

1,245 CELLS 

12,458 ....................................................................................................... 89,188 7.16 0.00575 226,549 

* Note: Due to rounding, for this table, figures may not be replicated exactly. 

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. However, 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 chart 

below shows the cost for employers who 

will have to re-survey the workforce to 

comply with the new race and ethnicity 

changes. 

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One Time Costs 

MODIFICATIONS TO HUMAN RESOURCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Labor task requirements Hours Hourly rate Cost 

System/Business Analyst ............................................................................................................ 8 $55 $440 

Developer ..................................................................................................................................... 24 65 1,560 

Tester ........................................................................................................................................... 8 50 400 

Total Per Employer ............................................................................................................... ........................ ........................ 2,400 

Jurisdictions Total costs 

Total All Respondents .......................................................................................................... 9,000 $21,600,000 

Pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, and 

OMB regulation 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), the 

Commission solicits public comment to 

enable it to: 

1. Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

Commission’s functions, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

2. Improve the accuracy of the 

Commission’s estimate of the burden of 

the proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

4. Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those 

required to respond, including the use 

of appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

Dated: August 21, 2014. 

For the Commission 

Jacqueline A. Berrien, 

Chair. 

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City 

J!JRISDIC'i!ON (If same as label, 

Cll'Y/TOWN COUNTY 
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BILLING CODE 6570–01–C 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comments Request 

AGENCY: Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Information 

Collection—Extension With Change: 

Local Union Report (EEO–3). 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission 

(EEOC or Commission) announces that 

it intends to submit to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) a 

request for a three-year extension with 

change of the Local Union Report (EEO– 

3) (Form 274). EEOC is in the process 

of revising the race and ethnicity 

categories on the EEO–3 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). See 

Appendix A for a draft version of the 

proposed Form 274. Pending OMB 

approval of an emergency extension 

request, to be effective after the current 

August 31, 2014 expiration date, a 

regular clearance request for OMB 


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