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Title of Collection: Generic 

Solicitation for Grant Applications. 

OMB Control Number: 1225–0086. 

Affected Public: Private Sector. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 5,750. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden 

Hours: 115,000. 

Total Estimated Annual Costs Burden 

(does not include hourly wage costs): $0. 

Description: The Department is 

requesting OMB approval for the 

continued use of a generic Solicitation 

for Grant Application (SGA) format for 

information collection requirements for 

SGAs that extend beyond what is 

collected on currently approved 

standard forms. OMB approval of this 

generic SGA form will assist the 

Department to carry out its 

responsibilities under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act by accurately accounting 

for the public burden associated with 

grant applications through the 

promotion of a common structure for 

reporting the information collection 

requirements contained in DOL’s SGAs. 

For additional information, see related 

notice published at Volume 74 FR 

26425 on June 2, 2009. 

Darrin A. King, 

Departmental Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–21496 Filed 9–4–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–23–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of Labor-Management 

Standards 

Proposed Information Collection 

Requirements 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 Office 

of Labor-Management Standards is 

soliciting comments concerning its 

request for Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approval of the 

Information Collection: Notification of 

Employee Rights Under Federal Labor 

Laws 1215–ONEW (1215–AB70). A 

copy of the proposed information 

collection request can be obtained by 

contacting the office listed below in the 

ADDRESSES section of this Notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

address section below on or before 

November 9, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Mr. Steven D. Lawrence, 

U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Ave., NW., Room S–3201, 

Washington, DC 20210, telephone (202) 

693–0292, fax (202) 693–1451, E-mail 

Lawrence.Steven@dol.gov. Please use 

only one method of transmission for 

comments (mail, fax, or E-mail). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: President Barack 

Obama signed Executive Order 13496 

(E.O. 13496) on January 30, 2009, 

requiring certain Government 

contractors and subcontractors to post 

notices informing their employees of 

their rights as employees under Federal 

labor laws. The Order also provides the 

text of contractual provisions that 

Federal Government contracting 

departments and agencies must include 

in every Government contract, except 

for collective bargaining agreements and 

contracts for purchases under the 

Simplified Acquisition Threshold. 

E.O. 13496 advances the 

Administration’s goal of promoting 

economy and efficiency of Federal 

Government procurement by ensuring 

that workers employed in the private 

sector as a result of Federal Government 

contracts are informed of their rights to 

engage in union activity and collective 

bargaining. Knowledge of such basic 

statutory rights promotes stable labormanagement, thus reducing costs to the 

Federal Government. 

The contractual provisions require 

contractors and subcontractors to post a 

notice, created by the Secretary of 

Labor, informing employees of their 

rights under the National Labor 

Relations Act. The notice also provides 

a statement of the policy of the United 

States to encourage collective 

bargaining, as well as a list of activities 

that are illegal under the Act. The notice 

concludes with a general description of 

the remedies to which employees may 

be entitled if these rights have been 

violated and contact information for 

further information about those rights 

and remedies, as well as enforcement 

procedures. 

The clause also requires contractors to 

include the same clause in their 

nonexempt subcontracts and purchase 

orders, and describes generally the 

sanctions, penalties, and remedies that 

may be imposed if the contractor fails to 

satisfy its obligations under the Order 

and the clause. 

The proposed regulatory provisions 

implementing E.O. 13496 (29 CFR part 

471) include the language of the 

required notices, and they explain 

posting and contractual requirements, 

the complaint process, the investigatory 

process, and sanctions, penalties, and 

remedies that may be imposed if the 

contractor or subcontractor fails to 

comply with its obligations under the 

Order. Specifically, proposed 29 CFR 

part 471.11(c) sets forth the procedures 

that the Department must use when 

accepting written complaints alleging 

that a contractor doing business with 

the Federal Government has failed to 

post the notice required by the 

Executive Order. 

In accordance with the Government 

Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA), the 

Notice to Employees poster will be 

available for downloading at http:// 

www.olms.dol.gov or by sending a 

request to OLMS–Public@dol.gov upon 

OMB approval. The Office of LaborManagement Standards submitted the 

Notice of Proposed Rule-Making 1215– 

AB70 (NPRM), that’s associated with 

this proposed collection to OMB for 

comments. The NPRM for 1215–AB70 

was published on August 3, 2009. 

Complaints must be submitted to the 

Department in writing. 

The proposed part 471 requires 

contractors and subcontractors to post 

notices and cooperate with any 

investigation into a failure to comply 

with the requirements of proposed part 

471 as the result of a complaint or a 

compliance evaluation. It also permits 

employees to file complaints with the 

Department alleging that a contractor or 

subcontractor has failed to comply with 

those requirements. The burden hours 

for this collection of information were 

determined by estimating the time 

required to perform the filing of 

complaints under the proposed 

regulation. Specifically, the Department 

based its estimates on the experience of 

the Office of Federal Contract 

Compliance Programs (OFCCP) 

administering other laws applicable to 

Federal contractors, which determined 

that it will take an average of 1.28 hours 

for such a complainant to compose a 

complaint containing the necessary 

information and to send that complaint 

to the Department. This number is also 

consistent with the burden estimate for 

filing a complaint under E.O. 13201 and 

the now-revoked part 470 regulations. 

The Department has estimated it 

would receive a total of 50 employee 

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significantly larger than the estimate 

contained its most recent PRA 

submission for E.O. 13201. In that 

submission, the Department estimated it 

would receive 20 employee complaints. 

This number itself had been revised 

downwards because the Department 

never received any employee 

complaints pursuant to the now-revoked 

29 CFR part 470 regulations. Because 

the applicability of the proposed rule 

and E.O. 13496 is greater in scope than 

the now-revoked part 470 and E.O. 

13201 in terms of geography (the nowrevoked part 470 regulations only 

applied to states without right-to-work 

laws, whereas the proposed rule applies 

nationwide), the Department has revised 

upwards its estimate of employee 

complaints under the proposed rule 

from 20 to 50. In addition, E.O. 13201 

required the posting of a notice 

containing information of interest to 

only a few—employees who may have 

objected to paying union dues or fees for 

non-representational activities—while 

the information in the poster required 

by this regulation should be of interest 

to all employees. 

The Department is seeking a three 

year approval for this information 

collection in order to implement the 

complaint procedures of proposed 29 

CFR part 471. 

II. Review Focus: The Department of 

Labor 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., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

III. Current Actions: The DOL seeks 

the approval of this information 

collection in order to ensure that 

employees of Federal contractors and 

subcontractors can properly submit 

complaints pursuant to proposed 29 

CFR 471. 

Type of Review: Information 

Collection Request. 

Agency: The Office of LaborManagement Standards. 

Title: Notification of Employee Rights 

Under Federal Labor Laws. 

OMB Number: 1215–ONEW (1215– 

AB70). 

Affected Public: Employees of Federal 

Contractors and Subcontractors. 

Total Respondents: 50. 

Total Annual Responses: 50. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 64. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1.28 

hours. 

Frequency: On occasion of employee 

of a Federal contractor or subcontractor 

filing a complaint alleging a violation of 

proposed 29 CFR part 471. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

$0. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/ 

maintenance): $0. 

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 will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: September 2, 2009. 

Steven D. Lawrence, 

Acting Chief, Branch of Management Review 

and Internal Control, Division of Financial 

Management, Office of Management, 

Administration and Planning. 

[FR Doc. E9–21499 Filed 9–4–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–CP–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of Workers’ Compensation 

Programs 

Proposed Extension of the Approval of 

Information Collection Requirements 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: 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 Office 

of Workers’ Compensation Programs is 

soliciting comments concerning its 

proposal to extend the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval of the Information Collection: 

Representative Fee Request (CA–143/ 

CA–155). A copy of the proposed 

information collection request can be 

obtained by contacting the office listed 

below in the ADDRESSES section of this 

Notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

addresses section below on or before 

November 9, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Mr. Steven D. Lawrence, 

U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Ave., NW., Room S–3201, 

Washington, DC 20210, telephone (202) 

693–0292, fax (202) 693–1451, E-mail 

Lawrence.Steven@dol.gov. Please use 

only one method of transmission for 

comments (mail, fax, or E-mail). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: Individuals filing for 

compensation benefits with the office of 

Workers’ Compensation Programs 

(OWCP) may be represented by an 

attorney or other representative. The 

representative is entitled to request a fee 

for services under the Federal 

Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) 

and under the Longshore and Harbor 

Workers’ Compensation Act (LHWCA). 

The fee must be approved by the OWCP 

before any demand for payment can be 

made by the representative. This 

information collection request sets forth 

the criteria for the information, which 

must be presented by the respondent in 

order to have the fee approved by the 

OWCP. The information collection does 

not have a particular form or format; the 

respondent must present the 

information in any format which is 

convenient and which meets all the 

required information criteria. This 

information collection is currently 

approved for use through March 31, 

2010. 

II. Review Focus: The Department of 

Labor 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, 


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