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1 29 CFR. part 1607, 41 CFR part 60–3, 28 CFR 

part 50, 5 CFR part 300. 

2The number of respondents is equal to the 

number of responses (i.e. one response per person). 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. 

Dated: December 5, 2014. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., 

Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2014–29583 Filed 12–16–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Submission for 

OMB Review; Comment Request 

AGENCIES: Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of information 

collection—Uniform Guidelines on 

Employee Selection Procedures— 

Extension Without Change. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission gives notice of its intent to 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) a request for renewal of 

the information collection described 

below. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be submitted on or before February 

17, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• By mail to Bernadette Wilson, 

Acting Executive Officer, Executive 

Secretariat, Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission, 131 M Street 

NE., Washington, DC 20507. 

• By facsimile (‘‘FAX’’) machine to 

(202) 663–4114. (There is no toll free 

FAX number.) Only comments of six or 

fewer pages will be accepted via FAX 

transmittal, in order to assure access to 

the equipment. 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 numbers). 

• By the Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. After 

accessing this Web site, follow its 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Comments need be submitted in only 

one of the above-listed formats, not all 

three. All comments received will be 

posted without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information you provide. 

Copies of the received comments also 

will be available for inspection in the 

EEOC Library, FOIA Reading Room, by 

advance appointment only, from 9 a.m. 

to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except legal holidays, from February 17, 

2015. Persons who schedule an 

appointment in the EEOC Library, FOIA 

Reading Room, and need assistance to 

view the comments will be provided 

with appropriate aids upon request, 

such as readers or print magnifiers. To 

schedule an appointment to inspect the 

comments at the EEOC Library, FOIA 

Reading Room, contact the EEOC 

Library by calling (202) 663–4630 

(voice) or (202) 663–4641 (TTY). (These 

are not toll free numbers). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathleen Oram, Senior Attorney, at 

(202) 663–4681 (voice), or Thomas J. 

Schlageter, Assistant Legal Counsel, 

(202) 663–4668 (voice) or (202) 663– 

7026 (TDD). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

The Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission (EEOC or Commission) 

gives notice of its intent to submit the 

recordkeeping requirements contained 

in the Uniform Guidelines on Employee 

Selection Procedures (UGESP or 

Uniform Guidelines) 1 to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for a 

three-year extension without change 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (PRA). Concurrent with this 

notice, EEOC is requesting OMB 

approval for a brief emergency 

extension of the UGESP recordkeeping 

requirement to begin immediately after 

the current December 31, 2014 

expiration date. 

Request for Comments 

Pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 

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

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

EEOC invites public comments that will 

enable the agency to: 

(1) Evaluate whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

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 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 submission of 

responses. 

Overview of Collection 

Collection Title: Recordkeeping 

Requirements of the Uniform Guidelines 

on Employee Selection Procedures, 29 

CFR part 1607, 41 CFR part 60–3, 28 

CFR part 50, 5 CFR part 300. 

OMB Number: 3046–0017. 

Type of Respondent: Businesses or 

other institutions; Federal Government; 

State or local governments and farms. 

North American Industry 

Classification System (NAICS) Code: 

Multiple. 

Standard Industrial Classification 

Code (SIC): Multiple. 

Description of Affected Public: Any 

employer, Government contractor, labor 

organization, or employment agency 

covered by the Federal equal 

employment opportunity laws. 

Respondents: 914,843. 

Responses: 2 914,843. 

Recordkeeping Hours: 6,372,498 per 

year. 

Number of Forms: None. 

Form Number: None. 

Frequency of Report: None. 

Abstract: The Uniform Guidelines 

provide fundamental guidance for all 

Title VII-covered employers about the 

use of employment selection 

procedures. The records addressed by 

UGESP are used by respondents to 

ensure that they are complying with 

Title VII and Executive Order 11246; by 

the Federal agencies that enforce Title 

VII and Executive Order 11246 to 

investigate, conciliate, and litigate 

charges of employment discrimination; 

and by complainants to establish 

violations of Federal equal employment 

opportunity laws. While there is no data 

available to quantify these benefits, the 

collection of accurate applicant flow 

data enhances each employer’s ability to 

address any deficiencies in recruitment 

and selection processes, including 

detecting barriers to equal employment 

opportunity. 

Burden Statement: There are no 

reporting requirements associated with 

UGESP. The burden being estimated is 

the cost of collecting and storing a job 

applicant’s gender, race, and ethnicity 

data. The only paperwork burden 

derives from this recordkeeping. 

Only employers covered under Title 

VII and Executive Order 11246 are 

subject to UGESP. For the purpose of 

burden calculation, employers with 15 

or more employees are counted. The 

number of such employers is estimated 

at 914,843, which combines estimates 

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3Source: Census Bureau 2011 County Business 

Patterns: Number of Firms, Number of 

Establishments, Employment, and Annual Payroll 

by Enterprise Employment Size for the United 

States and States, Totals: 2011, Release Date 12.13. 

(https://www.census.gov/econ/susb/.) Select U.S. & 

states, Totals. Downloaded on October 2, 2014. 

4Source of original data: 2012 Census of 

Governments: Employment. Individual Government 

Data File (http://www.census.gov/govs/apes/), Local 

Downloadable Data zip file 12ind_all_tabs.xls. The 

original number of government entities was 

adjusted to only include those with 15 or more 

employees. 

5Source: U.S. Department of Education, National 

Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Fall 2013. 

Number and percentage distribution of Title IV 

institutions, by control of institution, level of 

institution, and region: United States and other U.S. 

jurisdictions, academic year 2013–1(http://

nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/

pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2014066rev). 

6EEO–3 Reports filed by referral unions in 2012 

with EEOC. 

7The National Organizations Survey is a survey 

of business organizations across the United States 

in which the unit of analysis is the actual 

workplace (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/

ICPSR/studies/04074). 

8The number of applications provided by NOS is 

35.225 and therefore calculations will not result in 

the same total amount due to rounding. 

9Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and 

Labor Turnover Survey, 2013 annual level data (Not 

seasonally adjusted), (http://www.bls.gov/jlt/

data.htm) is the source of the original data. The BLS 

figure (50,718,000) has been adjusted to only 

include hires by firms with 15 or more employees. 

10See 29 CFR 1607.15A(1): Simplified 

recordkeeping for users with less than 100 

employees. In order to minimize recordkeeping 

burdens on employers who employ one hundred 

(100) or fewer employees, and other users not 

required to file EEO–1, et seq., reports, such users 

may satisfy the requirements of this section 15 if 

they maintain and have available records showing, 

for each year: (a) The number of persons hired, 

promoted, and terminated for each job, by sex, and 

where appropriate by race and national origin; 

(b)The number of applicants for hire and promotion 

by sex and where appropriate by race and national 

origin; and (c) The selection procedures utilized 

(either standardized or not standardized). 

from private employment,3 the public 

sector,4 colleges and universities,5 and 

referral unions.6

This burden assessment is based on 

an estimate of the number of job 

applications submitted to all Title VIIcovered employers in one year, 

including paper-based and electronic 

applications. The total number of job 

applications submitted every year to 

covered employers is estimated to be 

1,529,399,487, based on a National 

Organizations Survey 7 average of 

approximately 35 applications 8 for 

every hire and a Bureau of Labor 

Statistics data estimate of 43,414,608 

annual hires.9 This figure also includes 

119,920 applicants for union 

membership reported on the EEO–3 

form for 2012. 

The employer burden associated with 

collecting and storing applicant 

demographic data is based on the 

following assumptions: Applicants 

would need to be asked to provide three 

pieces of information—sex, race/

ethnicity, and an identification number 

(a total of approximately 13 keystrokes); 

the employer would need to transfer 

information received to a database 

either manually or electronically; and 

the employer would need to store the 13 

characters of information for each 

applicant. Recordkeeping costs and 

burden are assumed to be the time cost 

associated with entering 13 keystrokes. 

Assuming that the required 

recordkeeping takes 30 seconds per 

record, and assuming a total of 

1,529,399,487 paper and electronic 

applications per year (as calculated 

above), the resulting UGESP burden 

hours would be 6,372,498. Based on a 

wage rate of $15.48 per hour for the 

individuals entering the data, the 

collection and storage of applicant 

demographic data would come to 

approximately $98,646,267 per year for 

Title VII-covered employers. We expect 

that the foregoing assumptions are overinclusive, because many employers 

have electronic job application 

processes that should be able to capture 

applicant flow data automatically. 

While the burden hours and costs for 

the UGESP recordkeeping requirement 

seem very large, the average burden per 

employer is relatively small. We 

estimate that UGESP applies to 914,843 

employers. Therefore the cost per 

covered employer is less than $108 

($98,646,267 divided by 914,843 is 

equal to $107.87). Additionally UGESP 

allows for simplified recordkeeping for 

employers with more than 15 but less 

than 100 employees.10

Dated: December 11, 2014. 

Jenny R. Yang, 

Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2014–29593 Filed 12–16–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6570–01–P 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Information Collection 

Revision; Comment Request (3064– 

0189) 

AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation (FDIC). 

ACTION: Notice of Information Collection 

To Be Submitted to OMB for Review 

and Approval Under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, and Request for 

Comment 

SUMMARY: The Federal Deposit 

Insurance Corporation (‘‘FDIC’’) invites 

the general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on a revision of a continuing 

information collection, titled, 

‘‘Company-Run Annual Stress Test 

Reporting Template and Documentation 

for Covered Institutions with Total 

Consolidated Assets of $50 Billion or 

More under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street 

Reform and Consumer Protection Act,’’ 

(3064–0189), as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

January 16, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit written 

comments by any of the following 

methods: 

• Agency Web site: http://

www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/federal/. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments on the FDIC Web site. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Email: Comments@FDIC.gov. 

Include ‘‘Annual Stress Test Reporting 

Template and Documentation for 

Covered Institutions with Total 

Consolidated Assets of $50 Billion or 

More’’ on the subject line of the 

message. 

• Mail: Gary A. Kuiper, Counsel, or 

John Popeo, Counsel, Legal Division, 

Attention: Comments, FDIC, 550 17th 

Street NW., MB–3098, Washington, DC 

20429. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Guard 

station at the rear of the 550 17th Street 

Building (located on F Street) on 

business days between 7:00 a.m. and 

5:00 p.m. 

• Public Inspection: All comments 

received will be posted without change 

to http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/ 

federal/ including any personal 

information provided. 

Additionally, you may send a copy of 

your comments: By mail to the U.S. 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street NW., #10235, Washington, 

DC 20503 or by facsimile to 

202.395.6974, Attention: Federal 

Banking Agency Desk Officer. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

can request additional information from 

John Popeo (202.898.6923), or Gary 

Kuiper (202.898.3877), Legal Division, 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 

550 17th Street NW., MB–3098, 

Washington, DC 20429. In addition, 

copies of the templates referenced in 

this notice can be found on the FDIC’s 

Web site (http://www.fdic.gov/

regulations/laws/federal/). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FDIC 

is requesting comment on the following 

changes to the information collection: 

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