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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 (PRA

95) (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 the proposed extension of

the information collection of the

Customer Survey, ETA 8562.

A copy of the proposed information

collection request can be obtained by

contacting the employee listed below in

the contact section of this notice.

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before July 17, 2000.

Written comments should 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 automated, electronic,

mechanical or other technological

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology, e.g., permitting

electronic submission of responses.

ADDRESSES: Edward A. Tomchick,

Division of Trade Adjustment

Assistance, Employment and Training

Administration, Department of labor,

Room C–4318, 200 Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20210,

202–219–5555 (this is not a toll-free

number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

The Division of Trade Adjustment

Assistance is required under the Trade

Act of 1974 to conduct investigations to

determine whether increased imports

have contributed importantly to actual

or threatened decreases in employment

at firms whose workers have petitioned

for Trade Adjustment Assistance

benefits. The Customer Survey is

designed to provide information on

which determinations are based.

II. Current Actions

This is a request for OMB approval

under [the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A))] for a

extension of collection of information

previously approved and assigned OMB

Control No. 1205–0190. There is no

change in burden.

Type of Review: Extension without

change.

Agency: Employment and Training

Administration.

Title: Customer Survey.

OMB Number: 1205–0190.

Agency Number: ETA 8562.

Affected Public: Businesses.

Frequency: On occasion.

Number of Respondents: 2,220.

Estimated Time Per Resondent: 1.78

hours.

Total Burden Hours: 3,951.

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):

None.

Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintaining): None.

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: May 12, 2000.

Edward A. Tomchick,

Director, Division of Trade Adjustment

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 00–12512 Filed 5–17–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

Proposed Information Collection

Request Submitted for Public

Comment and Recommendations; Oil

and Gas Drilling and Exploration

Oilfield Services

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 (PRA

95) (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 the proposed extension of

the information collection of the Oil and

Gas Drilling and Exploration Oilfield

Services, ETA 9018.

A copy of the proposed information

collection request can be obtained by

contacting the employee listed below in

the contact section of this notice.

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before July 17, 2000.

Written comments should 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

assumption 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 automated, electronic,

mechanical, or other technological

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology, e.g., permitting

electronic submission of responses.

ADDRESSES: Edward A. Tomchick,

Division of Trade Adjustment

Assistance, Employment and Training

Administration, Department of Labor,

Room C–4318, 200 Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20210,

202–219–5555 (this is not a toll-free

number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

The Division of Trade Adjustment

Assistance is required under the Trade

Act of 1974 to conduct investigations to

determine whether increased imports

have contributed importantly to actual

or threatened decreases in employment

at firms whose workers have petitioned

for Trade Adjustment Assistance

benefits. The ‘‘Oil and Gas Drilling and

Exploration Oilfield Services’’ Business

Confidential Data Request is designed to

provide information on which

determinations are based.

II. Current Actions

This is a request for OMB approval

under [the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)] for an

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extension of collection of information

previously approved and assigned OMB

Control No. 1205–0272. There is no

change in burden.

Type of Review: Extension without

change.

Agency: Employment and Training

Administration.

Title: Oil and Gas Drilling and

Exploration Oilfield Services.

OMB Number: 12205–0272.

Agency Number: ETA 9018.

Affected Public: Businesses.

Frequency: On occasion.

Number of Respondents: 75.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 3

hours.

Total Burden Hours: 225.

Total Burden Cost: (capital/startup)

None.

Total Burden Cost: (operating/

maintaining) None.

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: May 12, 2000.

Edward A. Tomchick,

Director, Division of Trade Adjustment

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 00–12513 Filed 5–17–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[NAFTA–003790]

3–I, Incorporated Murrells Inlet, South

Carolina; Notice of Termination of

Investigation

Pursuant to Title V of the North

American Free Trade Agreement

Implementation Act Public Law 103–1

concerning transitional adjustment

assistance, hereinafter called NAFTA–

TAA and in accordance with Section

250(a), Subchapter D, Chapter 2, Title II,

of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended

(19 U.S.C. 2331), an investigation was

initiated on March 8, 2000, in response

to a petition filed on behalf of workers

at 3–I, Inc., Murrells Inlet, South

Carolina. Workers produced t-shirts.

The petitioner has requested that the

petition be withdrawn due to lack of

significant worker separations.

Consequently, further investigation in

this case would serve no purpose, and

the investigation has been terminated.

Signed in Washington, DC this 10th day of

May, 2000.

Grant D. Beale,

Program Manager, Division of Trade

Adjustment Assistance.

[FR Doc. 00–12510 Filed 5–17–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment Standards Administration

Proposed Collection; Comment

Request

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

Employment Standards Administration

is soliciting comments concerning the

proposed extension collection of the

following: (1) Rehabilitation

Maintenance Certificate (OWCP–17);

and Application to Employ

Homeworkers (WH–46), Piece Rate

Measurements, and Homeworker

Handbook (WH–75). Copies of the

proposed information collection

requests 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

July 17, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Ms. Patricia A. Forkel, U.S.

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution

Ave., NW, Room S–3201, Washington,

DC 20210, telephone (202) 693–0339

(this is not a toll-free number), fax (202)

693–1451.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Rehabilitation Maintenance Certificate

(OWCP–17)

I. Background

The Office of Workers’ Compensation

Programs (OWCP) administers the

Longshore and Harbor Workers’

Compensation Act and the Federal

Employees’ Compensation Act. These

Acts provide employment rehabilitation

benefits to eligible injured workers. The

OWCP–17 is a form which is submitted,

signed, and dated by an injured worker

receiving rehabilitation services to

request reimbursement from OWCP for

expenses incurred as a result of

participation in an approved

rehabilitation effort. The form requires

the signature of a facility official to

verify that the employee is in

attendance at the program.

II. Review Focus

The Department of Labor is

particularly interested in comments

which:

• 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 Department of Labor seeks the

extension of approval to collect this

information in order to carry out its

responsibility to provide vocational

rehabilitation services to injured

workers currently unemployed as a

result of their injury, to enhance their

employment potential.

Type of Review: Extension.

Agency: Employment Standards

Administration.

Title: Rehabilitation Maintenance

Certificate.

OMB Number: 1215–0161.

Agency Number: OWCP–17.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households, Businesses or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions.

Total Respondents: 1,300.

Frequency: Monthly.

Total Responses: 15,600.

Average Time per Response: 10

minutes.

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,605.

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):

$0.