3254 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 13 / Thursday, January 20, 2000 / Notices

Total Annualized Capital/Startup

Costs: $0

Total Annual Costs (Operating/

Maintaining Systems or Purchasing

Services): $0

Description: Data measures workload

and provides quantitative measurement

for budget estimates, administrative

planning, and program evaluation. This

is a major vehicle for accounting to the

public.

Ira L. Mills,

Departmental Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 00–1392 Filed 1–19–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–24–M

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) Request for Earnings

Information (LS–426); and (2)

Recordkeeping Requirements of

Regulations 29 CFR 516.34, to

Implement the Remedial Education

Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards

Act (FLSA). Copies of the proposed

information collection requests can be

obtained by contacting the office listed

below in the addressee section of this

Notice.

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted to the office listed in the

ADDRESSES section below within 60

days of the date of this Notice.

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

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution

Ave., N.W., Room S–3201, Washington,

DC 20210, telephone (202) 693–0339

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

693–1451.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Request for Earnings Information, LS–

426

I. Background

The Office of Workers’ Compensation

Programs (OWCP) administers the

Longshore and Harbor Workers’

Compensation Act, and its extensions.

These Acts provide compensation

benefits to injured workers. Pursuant to

Section 8 of the Act, injured employees

shall receive compensation in an

amount equal to 662⁄3 per centum of

their average weekly wage. Form LS–

426 is used to determine if the correct

compensation rate is being paid.

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 assure that injured

workers are paid at the proper

compensation rate. Type of Review: Extension

Agency: Employment Standards

Administration

Title: Request for Earnings

Information

OMB Number: 1215–0112

Agency Number: LS–426

Affected Public: Individuals or

households

Total Respondents: 1,700

Frequency: On occasion

Total Responses: 1,700

Average Time per Response: 15

minutes

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 425

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):

$0

Total Burden (operational/

maintenance): $0

Remedial Education Provisions of the

Fair Labor Standards Act

I. Background

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act

(FLSA), employees who lack a high

school diploma or whose reading level

or basic skills are at or below the eighth

grade, may be required by their

employers to attend up to 10 hours per

week of remedial education. Employees

who are subject to the overtime

provisions of the FLSA ordinarily must

be paid one and one-half times their

regular rate of pay for all hours worked

over 40 in each workweek. However, the

additional hours devoted to such

remedial education would not have to

be compensated at the same time and

one-half overtime rate. However,

employees must receive compensation

at their regular rate of pay for time spent

receiving such remedial education.

Employers wishing to utilize the partial

overtime exemption for such employees

must record the hours of employees

spent in remedial education.

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 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 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 review and determine employer

compliance with the applicable section

of the FLSA.

Type of Review: Extension

Agency: Employment Standards

Administration

Title: Recordkeeping Requirements of

Regulations 29 CFR 516.34, the

Regulations to Implement the Remedial

Education Provisions of the Fair Labor

Standards Act

OMB Number: 1215–0175

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Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; not for profit institutions, State,

Local or Tribal Government

Total Respondents: 15,000

Total Records: 30,000

Average Time per Response: 10

minutes

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 5,000

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):

$0

Total Burden (operational/

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: January 13, 2000.

Margaret J. Sherill,

Chief, Branch of Management Review and

Internal Control, Division of Financial

Management, Office of Management,

Administration and Planning, Employment

Standards Administration.

[FR Doc. 00–1391 Filed 1–19–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–27–M

MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION

BOARD

Agency Information Collection

Activities; Proposed Collection

AGENCY: Merit Systems Protection

Board.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et. seq.), this notice announces that

the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

(MSPB) request for a three year

reinstatement of its expired Generic

Clearance Request for Voluntary

Customer Surveys Under Executive

Order 12862 ‘‘Setting Customer Service

Standards’’ has been forwarded to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for review and comment.

In this regard, we are soliciting

comments on the public reporting

burden. The reporting burden for the

collection of information on this form is

estimated to vary from 10 minutes to 30

minutes per response, with an average

of 15 minutes, including time for

reviewing instructions, searching

existing data sources, gathering and

maintaining the data needed, and

completing and reviewing the collection

of information.

ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN

5 CFR section

Annual

number of

respondents

Frequency

per response

Total annual

responses

Hours per

response

(average)

Total hours

1201 and 1209 ......................................................................................... 5,000 1 3,750 .25 937.5

Send comments regarding the burden

estimate, or any other aspect of the

information collection, including

suggestions for reducing the burden, to

the address shown below. Please refer to

OMB Control No. 3124–0012 in any

correspondence.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before February 22, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Comments concerning the

paperwork burden should also be

addressed to Mr. Bruce Mayor, Merit

Systems Protection Board, 1120

Vermont Ave., NW., Washington, DC

20419 or by calling (202) 653–8900 and

to the Office of Information and

Regulatory Affairs, Office of

Management and Budget, Attention:

Desk Officer for MSPB, 725 17th Street

NW, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: January 13, 2000.

Robert E. Taylor,

Clerk of the Board.

[FR Doc. 00–1256 Filed 1–19–00; 8:45 am]

BILLIING CODE 7400–01–U

NATIONAL COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

CENTER

Privacy Act of 1974; Amendments to

Statement of General Routine Uses

AGENCY: National Counterintelligence

Center.

ACTION: Notice of amendment to

Statement of General Routine Uses for

systems of records subject to the Privacy

Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552a).

SUMMARY: The National

Counterintelligence Center is providing

notice of an amendment to the

Statement of General Routine Uses for

systems of records in its current

inventory of systems of records subject

to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended

(5 U.S.C. 552a).

EFFECTIVE DATE: This action is effective

February 22, 2000, unless comments are

received which would result in a

contrary determination.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Information and Privacy Coordinator,

Executive Secretariat, National

Counterintelligence Center, 3W01 NHB,

Washington, DC 20505.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

National Counterintelligence Center

(NACIC) hereby amends Item 10 of its

National of General Routine Uses,

entitled ‘‘Routine Use—

Counterintelligence Purposes,’’ to delete

the words ‘‘outside the U.S.

Government.’’ The purpose of this

notice is to inform the public that

records from systems of records

maintained by NACIC may be disclosed

for counterintelligence purposes both

within and outside the U.S.

Government. Other routine uses set

forth in NACIC’s Statement of General

Routine Uses are unchanged. Each of

the routine uses set forth in NACIC’s

Statement of General Routine Uses

applies to, and is incorporated by

reference into, each system of records

maintained by NACIC. NACIC’s systems

of records are fully described in Federal

Register Volume 62, Number 191 (62 FR

51698, Oct 2, 1997) and are unchanged

by the amendment described in this

notice.

For the convenience of the public,

NACIC’s amended Statement of General

Routine Uses is published herewith in

its entirety.

Dated: January 10, 2000.

Michael Waguespack,

Director, National Counterintelligence Center.

Statement of General Routine Uses

The following routine uses apply to,

and are incorporated by reference into

each system of records maintained by

NACIC. It should be noted that, before

the individual record system notices

begin, the blanket routine uses of the

records are published below only once

in the interest of simplicity, economy

and to avoid redundancy.

1. Routine Use—Law Enforcement: In

the event that a system of records

maintained by NACIC to carry out its

functions indicates a violation or

potential violation of law, whether civil,

criminal or regulatory in nature, and

whether arising by general statute or by