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1 29 CFR. part 1607, 41 CFR part 60–3, 28 CFR part 50, 5 CFR part 300. 2 The 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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3 Source: 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.

4 Source 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.

5 Source: 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 ).

6 EEO–3 Reports filed by referral unions in 2012
with EEOC.

7 The 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 ).

8 The number of applications provided by NOS is
35.225 and therefore calculations will not result in the same total amount due to rounding.

9 Bureau 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. 10 See 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 jobapplications 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 expectthat 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: