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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petition be withdrawn due to lack of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.

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Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintenance): $0.

Application to Employ Homeworkers,

(WH–46), Piece Rate Measurements,

and Homeworker Handbook (WH–75)

I. Background

Section 11(d) of the Fair Labor

Standards Act (FLSA) authorizes the

Secretary of Labor to regulate, restrict,

or prohibit industrial homework as

necessary to prevent evasion of the

minimum requirements of the Act.

Restrictions exist on seven homework

industries, (knitted outerwear, women’s

apparel, jewelry manufacturing, gloves

and mittens, button and buckle

manufacturing, handkerchief

manufacturing, and embroideries).

Homework in these industries is

permitted only in certain hardship

cases. Homework is permitted under the

FLSA in all other industries, provided

the employer maintains homeworker

handbooks for such employees which

record hours of work and certain other

required payroll information. Further,

employers of homeworkers in certain

restricted industries must first obtain a

certification from the Department of

Labor authorizing the employment of

such workers. Employers in the

restricted industries under the

certification program who pay workers

based on piece rates must maintain

documentation of the work

measurements used to establish such

piece rates and the circumstances under

which measurements were conducted.

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 assure compliance

with the FLSA in homework

employment.

Type of Review: Extension.

Agency: Employment Standards

Administration.

Title: Application to Employ

Homeworkers.

OMB Number: 1215–0013.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Individuals or households; Notfor-profit institutions.

Frequency: On occasion.

Reporting Burden:

Title Agency No. No. of

respondents

No. of

responses

Average

time per

response

Burden hours

Application To Employ Homeworkers ................................................ WH–46 71 36 30 min. 18

Homeworker Handbooks ................................................................... WH–75 4,684 18,736 30 min. 9,368

Recordkeeping Burden:

Title

No. of

recordkeepers

No. of

records

Average time

per response

Burden

hours

Piece Rate Measurement ........................................................................................ 71 213 601⁄2 min. 215

Homeworker Handbook ........................................................................................... 1,171 18,736 1⁄2 min. 156

Total Respondents (Recordkeeping

and Reporting): 4,755.

Total Annual Responses

(Recordkeeping and Reporting): 18,772.

Estimated Total Burden Hours

(Recordkeeping and Reporting): 9,757.

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: May 12, 2000.

Margaret J. Sherrill,

Chief, Branch of Management Review and

Internal Control, Division of Financial

Management, Office of Management,

Administration and Planning, Employment

Standards Administration.

[FR Doc. 00–12506 Filed 5–17–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Mine Safety and Health Administration

Petitions for Modification

The following parties have filed

petitions to modify the application of

existing safety standards under section

101(c) of the Federal Mine Safety and

Health Act of 1977.

1. Freeman United Coal Mining

Company

[Docket No. M–2000–037–C]

Freeman United Coal Mining

Company, 1999 Wabash Avenue, Suite

200B, Springfield, Illinois 62704–5364

has filed a petition to modify the

application of 30 CFR 75.1909(b)(6) to

its Crown II Mine (I.D. No. 11–02236)

located in Macoupin County, Illinois.

The petitioner requests a modification

of the standard to permit a dieselpowered road grader to be operated

without front wheel brakes. The

petitioner proposes to operate its diesel

grader at a maximum speed of 10 miles

per hour, lower the grader blade (mold

board) to increase stopping capability in

emergencies, and provide training for

the grader operators on how to

recognize appropriate levels of speed for