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estimates are instrumental in

determining Federal allocation of

revenue-sharing funds to State and local

governments. Finally, the ES–202

Program is one of the best sources of

detailed employment and wage statistics

used by business and public and private

research organizations.

To assure the continued accuracy of

these published economic statistics in

terms of industrial classification, the

information supplied by the employers

must be reviewed periodically and

updated if necessary. For this purpose,

the ARS Industry Verification Statement

(both Single and Multiple Worksite),

and Industry Classification Statement

(both All Industry and Public

Administration) are used in conjunction

with the UI tax reporting system in each

State. The information collected on

these forms is used to review the current

SIC code assigned to each

establishment. The SIC for

establishments whose business activity

has changed since the last review is

updated to reflect the change. As a

result of these updates, the industry

detail data that BLS and State agencies

publish reflect changes that occur in the

industrial composition of the economy.

If the industrial coding review process

were not performed, the reliability of

estimates for industrial and

occupational employment, hours and

earnings, producer prices, productivity,

and industry wages, as well as the other

uses mentioned previously, would be

considerably reduced. All of these

programs and uses (as well as others)

are dependent on accurate industrial

coding. Inaccurate industrial coding can

also adversely affect payments that

business and/or employees receive from

contracts that use industrial earnings

data for estimating escalating labor

costs.

In addition to obtaining industry data

from employers, the Industry

Verification Statement and the Industry

Classification Statement are designed to

obtain information on the type of

ownership (private industry or Federal,

State, or local government) and

geographic location. The ownership

data are important since current coding

procedures classify the establishments

engaged in similar activities into the

same industry code regardless of

ownership. The geographic information

is used to assign or verify the location

of the establishment. Both ownership

and geographic data must be reviewed

periodically and updated if necessary,

to provide a complete and current

industry/area database.

II. Current Actions

BLS plans to continue the review of

employers’ SIC, ownership and

geographic codes on a three-year cycle

for the entire UI universe of accounts,

presently numbering approximately 7.2

million. Each year, approximately onethird of these reporting units, and every

five years all accounts classified in

public administration, will be reviewed.

Industry data for the ES–202 Program

and UI Name and Address Files are

classified according to industry

categories listed in the SIC Manual

(SICM).

The confidentiality statement used on

the survey forms, which is very similar

to one of the alternative statements used

earlier with this program, is as follows:

The information collected on this form by

the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the State

agencies cooperating in its statistical

programs will be used for statistical and

Unemployment Insurance program purposes,

and other purposes in accordance with law.

BLS is submitting a request for threeyear clearance of the ARS with this

confidentiality statement. The statement

conforms to the following factors:

• BLS uses of the data are exclusively

statistical.

• BLS may share the data with other

Federal agencies for statistical purposes;

however, as in the past, BLS will not

share a State’s confidential ES–202 data

with another Federal agency unless that

State has given BLS written permission

to do so.

• BLS makes no confidentiality

statement regarding State uses of the

data.

• In some States, uses are not

exclusively statistical.

Type of Review: Revision.

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Title: Annual Refiling Survey (ARS),

previously submitted as the Standard

Industrial Classification (SIC) forms.

OMB Number: 1220–0032.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; not-for-profit institutions; farms;

Federal government; State, Local or

Tribal Government.

Form Total respondents Frequency Total responses

Average time

per response

(hour)

Estimated total

burden hours

BLS 3023–VS ................................................................ 5,984,250 Every 3 years ....... 1,994,750 .083 165,564

BLS 3023–VM ............................................................... 114,590 Every 3 years ....... 38,197 .75 28,647

BLS 3023–CA ................................................................ 53,000 Annually ................ 53,000 .167 8,851

BLS 3023–P .................................................................. ........................ Every 5 years.

Totals .................................................................. ........................ ............................... 2,085,947 ........................ 203,062

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):

$0.

Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintaining): $0.

Comments submitted in response to

this comment request will be

summarized and/or included in the

request for Office of Management and

Budget approval of the information

collection request; they also will

become a matter of public record.

Signed at Washington, D.C., this 21st

day of August, 1997.

W. Stuart Rust, Jr.,

Chief, Division of Management Systems,

Bureau of Labor Statistics.

[FR Doc. 97–22653 Filed 8–25–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–24–M

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Labor Statistics

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 an opportunity to

comment on proposed and/or

continuing collections of information in
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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 Bureau of Labor Statistics

(BLS) is soliciting comments concerning

the proposed revision of the ‘‘Multiple

Worksite Report and the Report of

Federal Employment and Wages.’’

A copy of the proposed information

collection request (ICR) can be obtained

by contacting the individual listed

below in the address section of this

notice.

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted to the office listed in the

address section below on or before

October 27, 1997. BLS is particularly

interested in comments which help the

agency to:

• 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.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Karin G.

Kurz, BLS Clearance Officer, Division of

Management Systems, Bureau of Labor

Statistics, Room 3255, 2 Massachusetts

Avenue, NE., Washington, DC 20212.

Ms. Kurz can be reached on 202–606–

7628 (this is not a toll free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

The ES–202 Program is a Federal/

State cooperative effort in which

monthly employment and quarterly

wage data are compiled. These data are

collected from State Quarterly

Contribution Reports submitted to State

Employment Security Agencies (SESAs)

by employers subject to State

Unemployment Insurance (UI) laws.

The ES–202 Report, produced for each

calendar quarter, is a summary of these

employer (micro level) data by industry

at the county level. Similar data for

Federal Government employees covered

by the Unemployment Compensation

for Federal Employees (UCFE) Program

also are included in each State report.

These data are submitted by all 50

States, the District of Columbia, Puerto

Rico, and the Virgin Islands to BLS

which then summarizes these macro

level data to produce totals for the

States and the Nation. The ES–202

Report provides a virtual census of

nonagricultural employees and their

wages, with about 47 percent of the

workers in agriculture covered as well.

As part of the ES–202 Program, the

States also send micro level

employment and wages data,

supplemented with the names and

addresses of employers, to BLS. These

States’ data are used to create the BLS

sampling frame, known as the Business

Establishment List. This file represents

one of the best sources of detailed

industrial and geographical data on

employers and is used as the sampling

frame for most BLS surveys. The

Business Establishment List includes

individual employers’ employment and

wages data along with associated

business identification information that

is maintained by each State to

administer the UI program as well as the

UCFE program.

For employers having only a single

physical location (worksite) in the State

and, thus, operating under a single

assigned industrial and geographical

code, the data from the States’ UI

accounting file are sufficient for BLS

statistical purposes. Such data,

however, are inadequate for BLS

statistical purposes for those employers

having multiple establishments or

engaged in multiple industrial activities

within the State. In such cases, the

employer’s Quarterly Contributions

Report reflects only Statewide

employment and wages, and is not

disaggregated by establishment or

worksite. More detailed information is

required to create a sampling frame and

meet the needs of several ongoing

Federal/State statistical programs. As a

result of the Multiple Worksite Report,

improved establishment business

identification data elements have been

incorporated into and maintained on the

Business Establishment List. The

establishment identification data

elements that are included in the

Business Establishment List are the

physical location address, secondary

name (division, trade name, subsidiary,

etc.), and reporting unit description

(store number, plant name or number,

etc.) for each worksite of singleestablishment and multi-establishment

employers.

Employers with more than one

establishment reporting under the same

UI account number within a State are

asked to complete the Multiple Worksite

Report if the sum of the employment in

all of their secondary establishments is

ten or greater. (The primary worksite is

defined as the establishment with the

greatest number of employees.) Upon

receipt of the first Multiple Worksite

Report form, each employer is asked to

supply business location identification

information. Thereafter, this reported

information is computer-printed on the

Multiple Worksite Report each quarter.

The employer is asked to verify the

accuracy of the business identification

information and provide the

employment and wages for each

worksite for the quarter. By using a

standardized form, the reporting burden

on many large employers, especially

those engaged in multiple economic

activities at various locations across

numerous States, has been reduced.

Comparable to the Multiple Worksite

Report, the function of the Report of

Federal Employment and Wages is to

collect employment and wage data for

each installation of a Federal agency.

The Report of Federal Employment and

Wages aids in the development and

maintenance of business identification

information by installation. The Report

of Federal Employment and Wages was

modeled after the Multiple Worksite

Report and is used only to collect data

from Federal agencies covered by the

UCFE Program.

No other standardized report is

available to collect current

establishment-level employment and

wages data by SESAs for statistical

purposes each quarter. Also, no other

standardized report is available

currently to collect installation-level

Federal employment and wages data by

SESAs for statistical purposes.

II. Current Actions

BLS has taken steps to help reduce

employer reporting burden by

developing a standardized format for

employers to use to send these data to

the States in an electronic medium. BLS

also established an Electronic Data

Interchange (EDI) Collection Center to

improve and expedite the Multiple

Worksite Report collection process.

Employers who complete the Multiple

Worksite Report for multi-location

businesses now can submit employment

and wages information on any

electronic medium (tape, cartridge,

diskette, or computer-to-computer)

directly to the data collection center,
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rather than to each State agency

separately. The data collection center

then distributes the appropriate data to

the respective States.

The confidentiality statement used on

the survey forms, which is very similar

to one of the alternative statements used

earlier with this program, is as follows:

The information collected on this form by

the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the State

agencies cooperating in its statistical

programs will be used for statistical and

Unemployment Insurance program purposes,

and other purposes in accordance with law.

BLS is submitting a request for threeyear clearance of the MWR with this

confidentiality statement. The statement

conforms to the following factors:

• BLS uses of the data are exclusively

statistical.

• BLS may share the data with other

Federal agencies for statistical purposes;

however, as in the past, BLS will not

share a State’s confidential ES–202 data

with another Federal agency unless that

State has given BLS written permission

to do so.

• BLS makes no confidentiality

statement regarding State uses of the

data.

• In some States, uses are not

exclusively statistical.

Type of Review: Revision.

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Title: Multiple Worksite Report

(MWR) and the Report of Federal

Employment and Wages (RFEW).

OMB Number: 1220–0134.

Frequency: Quarterly.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit institutions; Not-for-profit

institutions; Federal Government; and

State, Local or Tribal Government.

Form number Total respondents Respondent Total responses

Average time

per response

(minutes)

Total burden

hours

BLS 3020 (MWR) .......................................................... 112,666 Non-Federal .......... 450,664 22.2 166,746

BLS 3021 (RFEW) ........................................................ 2,154 Federal .................. 8,616 22.2 3,188

Totals: ................................................................. 114,820 ............................... 459,280 ........................ 169,934

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):

$0.

Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintaining): $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 also

will become a matter of public record.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 21st day of

August, 1997.

W. Stuart Rust, Jr.,

Chief, Division of Management Systems,

Bureau of Labor Statistics.

[FR Doc. 97–22654 Filed 8–25–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–24–M

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

Houston Lighting & Power Company,

City Public Service Board of San

Antonio, Central Power and Light

Company, City of Austin, Texas; Notice

of Consideration of Issuance of

Amendment to Facility Operating

License, Proposed No Significant

Hazards Consideration Determination,

And Opportunity For a Hearing

[Docket Nos. 50–498 And 50–499]

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (the Commission) is

considering issuance of an amendment

to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF–

76 and NPF–80 issued to Houston

Lighting & Power Company, et. al., (the

licensee) for operation of the South

Texas Project, Units 1 and 2, located in

Matagorda County, Texas.

The proposed amendment would

revise the allowed tolerance of the

reactor coolant system volume provided

in Technical Specification 5.4.2 to

account for steam generator tube

plugging.

Before issuance of the proposed

license amendment, the Commission

will have made findings required by the

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended

(the Act) and the Commission’s

regulations.

The Commission has made a

proposed determination that the

amendment request involves no

significant hazards consideration. Under

the Commission’s regulations in 10 CFR

50.92, this means that operation of the

facility in accordance with the proposed

amendment would not (1) involve a

significant increase in the probability or

consequences of an accident previously

evaluated; or (2) create the possibility of

a new or different kind of accident from

any accident previously evaluated; or

(3) involve a significant reduction in a

margin of safety. As required by 10 CFR

50.91(a), the licensee has provided its

analysis of the issue of no significant

hazards consideration, which is

presented below:

Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.91, this

analysis provides a determination that

the proposed change to the Technical

Specifications described previously

does not involve any significant hazards

consideration as defined in 10 CFR

50.92.

1. The proposed change does not

involve a significant increase in the

probability or consequences of an

accident previously evaluated.

The proposed change increases the

range given in the Technical

Specifications allowed for total water

and steam volume of the Reactor

Coolant System. Increasing the range to

incorporate volume reduction caused by

plugging 10% of steam generator tubes

has been reviewed by the Nuclear

Regulatory Commission with the

exception of the uncontrolled dilution

event. This event is addressed in South

Texas Project Updated Final Safety

Analysis Report Section 15.4.6. Plugging

of steam generator tubes and the

resulting reduction in Reactor Coolant

System volume are not precursors to

occurrence of an uncontrolled boron

dilution event.

Reduced Reactor Coolant System

volume results in less time available to

an operator to respond to an

uncontrolled boron dilution event;

however, uncontrolled boron dilution

event analyses assuming 10% tube

plugging continue to demonstrate that

there is adequate time (at least 15

minutes) prior to loss of shutdown

margin for the operator to manually

terminate the source of the dilution flow

in the full power, start-up, hot standby,

hot shutdown, and cold shutdown (with

the Reactor Coolant System filled)

modes of operation. An uncontrolled

boron dilution event is precluded by

administrative controls during refueling

or during cold shutdown with the

Reactor Coolant System not filled.

Procedures and design features continue

to ensure proper and timely response to

an uncontrolled dilution event.

Based on the continued ability to

respond to an uncontrolled boron