[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 44 (Monday, March 8, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10504-10505]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-4796]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Extension of a 
Currently Approved Information Collection with Non-Substantive Changes; 
Comment Request

ACTION: 60-day notice of information collection under review: ETA Form 
232, Domestic Agricultural In-Season Wage Report, and ETA Form 232-A, 
Wage Survey Interview Record; OMB Control No. 1205-0017.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to 
reduce paperwork and respondent burden conducts a pre-clearance 
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 forms ETA 232 and ETA 232-A Domestic Agricultural 
In-Season Wage Report and Wage Survey Interview Record. 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.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the 
addressee section below on or before May 7, 2010.

ADDRESSEE: William L. Carlson, Administrator, Office of Foreign Labor 
Certification, U.S. Department of Labor, Room C4312, 200 Constitution 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20210; by phone

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at (202) 693-3010 (this is not a toll-free number); by fax at (202) 
693-2768; or by e-mail at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#105544513e5f565c533e567f627d6350747f7c3e777f66"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a5e0f1e48beae3e9e68be3cad7c8d6e5c1cac98bc2cad3">[email protected]</span></a> subject line: ETA Form 
232.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    I. Background: The information collection is required by the 
Wagner-Peyser Act codified at 20 CFR part 653, which cover the 
requirements for the acceptance and handling of intrastate and 
interstate job clearance orders seeking workers to perform agricultural 
or food processing work on a less than year round basis. Section 
653.501 states, in pertinent part, that employers must assure that the 
``wages and working conditions are not less than the prevailing wages 
and working conditions among similarly employed agricultural workers in 
the area of intended employment or the applicable Federal or State 
minimum wage, whichever is higher.'' Also, regulations for the 
temporary employment of alien agricultural workers in the United 
States, (20 CFR, part 655, subpart B) promulgated under section 218 of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) as amended, require employers 
to pay the workers ``at least the adverse effect wage rate in effect at 
the time the work is performed, the prevailing hourly wage rate, or the 
legal federal or State minimum wage rate, whichever is highest.'' The 
vehicle for establishing the prevailing wage rate is ETA Form 232, The 
Domestic Agricultural In-Season Wage Report. This Report contains the 
prevailing wage finding based on data collected by the States from 
employers in a specific crop area using the ETA Form 232-A.
    II. Review Focus: The Department of Labor is particularly 
interested in comments which:
    <bullet> 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;
    <bullet> 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;
    <bullet> Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
    <bullet> 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.
    III. Current Actions: In order to meet its statutory 
responsibilities under the INA, the Department needs to extend an 
existing collection of information pertaining to wage rates for various 
crop activities.
    Type of Review: Extension.
    Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
    Title: Domestic Agricultural In-Season Wage Report and Wage Survey 
Interview Record.
    OMB Number: 1205-0017.
    Agency Number(s): ETA Form 232 and ETA Form 232-A.
    Recordkeeping: On occasion.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits and States, local, 
or tribal governments.
    Total Respondents: 38,855.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 16,301.
    Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 0.
    Total Burden Cost (operating/maintaining): 0.
    Comments submitted in response to this comment request will be 
summarized and/or included in the request for Office of Management and 
Budget approval of the information collection request; they will also 
become a matter of public record.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 2nd day of March 2010.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
[FR Doc. 2010-4796 Filed 3-5-10; 8:45 am]
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