Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 217 / Wednesday, November 10, 2010 / Notices 69129 

I. Background 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) 

is seeking clearance for the collection of 

data on employment related to the 

production of green goods and services. 

The new Green Goods and Services 

(GGS) survey will collect data on 

employment, fiscal year, and the share 

of revenue or employment associated 

with production of green goods or 

services at the establishment. 

Additionally, BLS will expand the 

existing Occupational Employment 

Statistics (OES) survey to collect data on 

occupational employment and wages in 

establishments included in the GGS 

survey. The expansion of the existing 

OES survey will be handled through a 

separate nonsubstantive change request. 

As the chief source of government 

data on employment, BLS will produce 

data on green goods and services 

businesses’ employment as tasked by 

the 2010 Congressional Appropriation. 

This initiative will produce regular 

tabulations of aggregate employment for 

businesses whose primary activities fall 

into green goods and services as defined 

by BLS. This series will be key to 

analyzing workforce trends in this area. 

In addition, data will be published on 

occupational employment and wages 

related to these establishments through 

the OES expansion. 

II. Current Action 

Office of Management and Budget 

clearance is being sought for the 

Quarterly Census of Employment and 

Wages Green Goods and Services 

Survey. 

From the GGS survey, BLS intends to 

publish a quarterly count of 

employment associated with the output 

of green goods and services at U.S. 

business establishments to meet the 

requirement outlined in the 2010 

Congressional Appropriation. BLS plans 

to publish detailed industry data for the 

U.S. and limited data for States. 

This survey will use the business 

register, Quarterly Census of 

Employment and Wages (QCEW), 

maintained by BLS as its sampling 

frame. The register contains 

employment information on 

establishments in the U.S. subject to 

unemployment insurance taxes. This 

register covers 98 percent of U.S. jobs, 

available at the county, Metropolitan 

Statistical Area (MSA), State, and 

national levels by industry. The 

sampling frame for the GGS survey will 

be restricted to those establishments 

classified in NAICS codes that are 

determined to be in scope in the BLS 

definition of green goods and services. 

BLS undertook extensive research to 

develop data collection forms and 

methodology and to understand the 

collection environment related to green 

goods and services. This research was 

outlined in a prior Federal Register 

Notice (75 FR 3926). The research was 

completed in September 2010; the forms 

put forth for clearance in this package 

were field-tested and incorporate the 

research and lessons learned from field 

testing of earlier versions of the survey 

form. The survey will collect data on 

employment, fiscal year, and revenue or 

employment share related to green 

goods and services at each 

establishment surveyed. The share of 

revenue will be used to estimate 

employment when employment share is 

not reported. BLS determined from prior 

research and from the recent forms 

development research that businesses 

have difficulty providing employment 

associated with the production of green 

goods and services while revenue is 

readily available and less burdensome 

for the respondent to report. 

III. Desired Focus of Comments 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is 

particularly interested in comments 

that: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility. 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used. 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

Type of Review: New Collection. 

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Title: Green Goods and Services 

Survey. 

OMB Number: 1220–NEW. 

Affected Public: Private sector 

businesses or other for-profits, not-forprofit institutions, farms; Federal 

Government; State and local 

governments. 

Total Respondents: 120,000. 

Frequency: Annual. 

Total Responses: 120,000. 

Average Time per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

30,000. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

482,400. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/ 

maintenance): 482,400. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they also 

will become a matter of public record. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of 

November 2010. 

Kimberley Hill, 

Chief, Division of Management Systems, 

Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28364 Filed 11–9–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

Proposed Revision of Information 

Collection: Comment Request National 

Medical Support Notice—Part B 

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (the 

Department), 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 continuing 

collections of information in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (PRA 95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). 

This program helps to ensure that the 

data the Department collects can be 

provided in the desired format, that the 

reporting burden on the public (time 

and financial resources) is minimized, 

that the public understands the 

Department’s collection instruments, 

and that the Department can accurately 

assess the impact of its collection 

requirements on respondents. 

Currently, the Employee Benefits 

Security Administration (EBSA) is 

soliciting comments concerning a 

revision to the information collections 

contained in the National Medical 

Support Notice—Part B. A copy of 

EBSA’s information collection request 

(ICR) can be obtained by contacting the 

individual listed below in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted to 

the office shown in the ADDRESSES

section on or before January 10, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all comments 

regarding the ICR and burden estimates 

to G. Christopher Cosby, Office of Policy 


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69130 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 217 / Wednesday, November 10, 2010 / Notices 

and Research, Employee Benefits 

Security Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. 

Comments may be submitted in writing 

to the above address, via facsimile to 

(202) 219–4745, or electronically to the 

following Internet e-mail address: 

ebsa.opr@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 609(a) of the Employee 

Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 

as amended (ERISA), requires each 

group health plan, as defined in ERISA 

section 607(1), to provide benefits in 

accordance with the applicable 

requirements of any ‘‘qualified medical 

child support order’’ (QMCSO). A 

QMCSO is, generally, an order issued by 

a state court or other competent state 

authority that requires a group health 

plan to provide group health coverage to 

a child or children of an employee 

eligible for coverage under the plan. In 

accordance with Congressional 

directives contained in the Child 

Support Performance and Incentive Act 

of 1998 (CSPIA), EBSA and the Federal 

Office of Child Support Enforcement 

(OCSE) in the Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) cooperated in 

the development of regulations to create 

a National Medical Support Notice 

(NMSN or Notice). The Notice 

simplifies the issuance and processing 

of qualified medical child support 

orders issued by state child support 

enforcement agencies, provides for 

standardized communication between 

state agencies, employers, and plan 

administrators, and creates a uniform 

and streamlined process for 

enforcement of medical child support 

obligations ordered by state child 

support enforcement agencies. The 

NMSN comprises two parts: Part A was 

promulgated by HHS and pertains to 

state child support enforcement 

agencies and employers; Part B was 

promulgated by the Department and 

pertains to plan administrators pursuant 

to ERISA. This solicitation of public 

comment relates only to Part B of the 

NMSN, which was promulgated by the 

Department. In connection with 

promulgation of Part B of the NMSN, 

the Department submitted an ICR to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review, and OMB approved 

the information collections contained in 

Part B under OMB control number 

1210–0113. OMB’s approval of this ICR 

is scheduled to expire on October 31, 

2012. 

II. Desired Focus of Comments 

The Department is currently soliciting 

comments on the information 

collections contained in the National 

Medical Support Notice—Part B. The 

Department is particularly interested in 

comments that: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., by permitting electronic 

submissions of responses. 

III. Current Actions 

This notice requests comments on a 

revision to the ICR included in Part B 

of the NMSN. The Department is 

planning to make conforming changes to 

Part B of the NMSN reflecting changes 

HHS plans to make to Part A of the 

notice that were the subject of a 60-day 

public comment notice published by 

HHS in the Federal Register on June 28, 

2010 (75 FR 36658). HHS has informed 

the Department that it received 

comments requesting HHS and the 

Department to synchronize their OMB 

approval dates (HHS’s approval expires 

on March 31, 2011) and make the same 

revisions to data elements on Parts A 

and B of the NMSN. In response to these 

comments, the Department and HHS 

plan to make simultaneous submissions 

to OMB revising Parts A and B of the 

NMSN. A summary of the Department’s 

ICR and its current burden estimates 

follows: 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: National Medical Support 

Notice—Part B. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0113. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; Business or other for-profit; 

Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 432,995. 

Responses: 10,754,484. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

896,207. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): 

$5,807,421. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of the ICR; they will also 

become a matter of public record. 

Dated: November 3, 2010. 

Joseph S. Piacentini, 

Director, Office of Policy and Research, 

Employee Benefits Security Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28305 Filed 11–9–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–29–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

Proposed Extension of Information 

Collection Request Submitted for 

Public Comment; Prohibited 

Transaction Exemptions 81–8, 96–62, 

77–4, 98–54; Delinquent Filer Voluntary 

Compliance Program; Suspension of 

Benefits Regulation 

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (the 

Department), in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA 

95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides 

the general public and Federal agencies 

with an opportunity to comment on 

proposed and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. The 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration (EBSA) is soliciting 

comments on the proposed extension of 

the information collection requests 

(ICRs) contained in the documents that 

are described below. A copy of the ICRs 

may be obtained by contacting the office 

listed in the ADDRESSES section of this 

notice. ICRs also are available at 

reginfo.gov (http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office shown in the 

ADDRESSES section on or before January 

10, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: G. Christopher Cosby, 

Department of Labor, Employee Benefits 

Security Administration, 200 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 


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