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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

clarify of the information to be

collected; and

• Minimize the burden of the

collection of information of 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: James Wiggins, U.S.

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210;

Telephone (202) 219–7533 ext. 164 (this

is not a toll-free number); internet

address—wigginsj@doleta.gov; fax

number (202) 219–7190.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

Under the Job Training Partnership

Act Program, title IIB, the Department of

Labor has established the Summer

Youth Employment and Training

Program to: (1) Enhance the basic

education skills of youth; (2) encourage

school completion or enrollment in

supplementary or alternative school

programs; provide eligible youth with

exposure to the world of work; and (3)

enhance the citizenship skills of youth.

The Department of Labor is responsible

for overseeing these programs. In order

to carry out that responsibility, the

Department has drafted a proposal to

revise the current monitoring format

and will continue using the current

reporting instrument.

II. Current Actions

As result of obtaining input from

employers and program operators and

the convening of a workgroup to

minimize reporting burdens, ETA will

develop a new collection instrument to

determine whether or not the GPRA

goals are being achieved. This

information will permit the Department

to fulfill requests from the U.S.

Congress, the Administration, the media

and the public.

Type of Review: New.

Agency: Employment and Training

Administration, U.S. Department of

Labor.

Title: Summer Youth Employment

and Training Program.

OMB Number: 1205–XXXX.

Recordkeeping: Retention for three

years.

Affected Public: States.

Cite/Reference/Form/etc: Summer

reporting (Planning estimates, Midsummer, Final) and regional monitoring.

Total Respondents: 56.

Frequency: Other (Before the start of

the summer program—Planning

estimates, Mid summer, End of Summer

report and annual monitoring).

Total Responses: 56.

Average Time per Response: 2 hours.

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 448.

Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintaining): $6,720.

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 will also

become a matter of public record.

Dated: September 22, 1997.

Charles L. Atkinson,

Deputy Administrator, Office of Job Training

Programs.

[FR Doc. 97–25622 Filed 9–25–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–30–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 pre-clearance 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 Bureau

of Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting

comments concerning the proposed new

collection of the ‘‘Construction Industry

Benefits Test.’’ A copy of the proposed

information collection request (ICR) can

be obtained by contacting the individual

listed below in the addressee section of

this notice.

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted to the office listed in the

addressee section below on or before

November 25, 1997. The Bureau of

Labor Statistics 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.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Karin G.

Kurz, BLS Clearance Officer, Division of

Management Systems, Bureau of Labor

Statistics, Room 3255, 2 Massachusetts

Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20212.

Ms. Kurz can be reached on 202–606–

7628 (this is not a toll free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

The Employment Standards

Administration (ESA) has determined

that research should be conducted into

alternative ways of collecting

information for Davis-Bacon Act

purposes. As a result, ESA’s Wage and

Hour Division (WHD) wishes to evaluate

the usefulness of BLS data in the DavisBacon wage determination process.

The Davis-Bacon Act

The Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 276a)

requires that workers employed on

federal construction contracts valued in

excess of $2,000 be paid wages and

fringe benefits that, at a minimum, have

been determined by the Secretary of

Labor to be prevailing for corresponding

classes of workers employed on projects

similar in character to the contract work

in the area where the construction takes

place. The prevailing wage is defined by

Department of Labor regulations as the

wage paid to more than 50 percent of

the workers in the job classification on

similar projects in the area during the

period in question. If the majority of

those employed in the classification are

not paid the same wage, the prevailing

wage is determined by calculating the

average of the wages paid. In cases

where the majority of workers in a

classification are represented by a union
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and are paid the same rate, the union

rate is the prevailing rate.

Current Actions: The Employment

Standards Administration (ESA) and the

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Office

of Compensation and Working

Conditions (OCWC) have entered into

an interagency agreement to test the

feasibility of BLS collecting and

publishing information on the incidence

of and employer costs for specific

benefits by detailed construction

occupations in local areas. The purpose

is to provide ESA with an alternative

method for arriving at compensation

determinations for the construction

industry as required by the Davis-Bacon

Act.

BLS will provide ESA with the survey

results in both a publication and an

electronic file. In addition, BLS will

provide respondents and other

interested parties with the survey

results.

BLS plans wage and benefit collection

in four metropolitan areas, Jacksonville,

Florida; Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah;

Toledo, Ohio; and Tucson, Arizona. In

each locality, BLS will survey a sample

of establishments and, within each

establishment, take a sample of bluecollar jobs. Information will be collected

on benefits incidence and costs, hours

worked, wages, and worker

characteristics such as union/nonunion

and full-time/part-time job status.

The compensation data will include

the following information:

• Incidence of employee benefits by

occupation;

• Employer benefits cost by

occupation; and

• Median and mean earnings by

occupation.

Worker characteristic information will

include the following:

• Union and nonunion;

• Full-time and part-time; and

• Time and incentive.

The types of benefit information

collected will include:

• Health, life, and disability

insurance;

• Retirement plan information;

• Leave information; and

• Overtime, shift, and bonus pay.

Depending upon response levels,

varying degrees of occupational detail

will be produced.

The survey forms to be used for this

test are the Employment Cost Index

forms previously approved under the

National Compensation Survey (OMB

Number 1220–0164). BLS will use the

information collected in this test for

statistical purposes only. To the full

extent permitted by law, BLS will hold

the information in confidence and will

not disclose it without the written

consent of respondents.

Type of Review: New Collection.

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Title: Construction Industry Benefits

Test.

OMB Number: 1220-New.

AFfected Public: Business or other

for-profit.

Fiscal year average

Number of respondents per

year

Responses

per year

Total responses per

year

Average minutes per response

Total burden

hours

BLS 3038A ............................................................................ 550 1 468 75 585

BLS 3038B ............................................................................ 550 1 468 35 273

BLS 3038D ........................................................................... 550 1 468 180 1404

Quality assurance ................................................................. 117 1 117 10 20

Average annual burden ........................................................ 550 1 468 293 2282

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):

$0.

Total Burden Coast (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 also

will become a matter of public record.

Signed at Washington, D.C., this 23rd day

of September, 1997.

W. Stuart Rust, Jr.,

Chief, Division of Management Systems,

Bureau of Labor Statistics.

[FR Doc. 97–25623 Filed 9–25–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–24–M

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50–22]

Westinghouse Electric Corporation;

Waltz Mill Test Reactor Consideration

of Approval of Transfer of License and

Issuance of a Conforming Amendment

to Facility License, Proposed No

Significant Hazards Consideration

Determination, and Opportunity for

Hearing

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (the Commission) is

considering the issuance of an order

approving, under 10 CFR 50.80, the

transfer of Facility License No. TR–2, to

the extent now held by Westinghouse

Electric Corporation, to a new corporate

entity which will utilize the same name.

The license authorizes possession of the

shut down test reactor at the Waltz Mill

site in Westmoreland County,

Pennsylvania. The Commission is also

considering the issuance of a

conforming amendment under 10 CFR

50.90.

The Westinghouse Electric

Corporation, organized in 1886, is

presently composed of industrial

businesses and media operations

(including the production and

transmission of radio and television

programming). It plans to reorganize

into two separate corporations. One of

these will retain certain assets and

operations relating to the Westinghouse

industrial businesses. This corporation

will eventually retain the name

Westinghouse Electric Corporation

(WELCO). The license for the Waltz Mill

Test Reactor will be held by this

corporation.

The other corporation will be named

CBS corporation, and will include the

media operations and those industrial

businesses which are not being

transferred to WELCO.

Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.80, the

Commission may approve the transfer of

a license, or any right thereunder, after

notice to interested persons. Such

approval is contingent upon the

Commission’s determination that the

proposed transferee is qualified to hold

the license and that the transfer is

otherwise consistent with applicable

provisions of law, regulations, and

orders of the Commission.

Before issuance of the proposed

license amendment which will reflect