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Persons with questions regarding filing 

should contact the Secretary (202–205– 

2000). 

Any person desiring to submit a 

document to the Commission in 

confidence must request confidential 

treatment. All such requests should be 

directed to the Secretary to the 

Commission and must include a full 

statement of the reasons why the 

Commission should grant such 

treatment. See 19 CFR 201.6. Documents 

for which confidential treatment by the 

Commission is properly sought will be 

treated accordingly. A redacted nonconfidential version of the document 

must also be filed simultaneously with 

the any confidential filing. All nonconfidential written submissions will be 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Secretary and on EDIS. 

This action is taken under the 

authority of section 337 of the Tariff Act 

of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1337), 

and of sections 201.10 and 210.50 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (19 CFR 201.10, 210.50). 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: July 17, 2013. 

Lisa R. Barton, 

Acting Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2013–17571 Filed 7–22–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; Generic 

Clearance for Site Visits 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(DOL), seeks comment on the proposed 

information collection request titled 

‘‘Generic Clearance for Site Visits’’ as 

part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, and 

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). This program helps to ensure 

that required 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. 

A copy of the proposed ICR with 

applicable supporting documentation 

including a description of the likely 

respondents, proposed frequency of 

response, and estimated total burden 

can be obtained free of charge 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 

addressee section below on or before 

September 23, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either one of the following methods: 

Email: Javar.Janet.O@dol.gov; Mail or 

Courier: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation 

Office, U.S. Department of Labor, Room 

S–2312, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20210. Instructions: 

Please submit one copy of your 

comments by only one method. All 

submissions received must include the 

agency name and OMB Control Number 

identified below for this information 

collection. Because we continue to 

experience delays in receiving mail in 

the Washington, DC area, commenters 

are strongly encouraged to transmit their 

comments electronically via email or to 

submit them by mail early. Comments, 

including any personal information 

provided, become a matter of public 

record. They will also be summarized 

and/or included in the request for OMB 

approval of the information collection 

request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Janet Javar by telephone at 202–693– 

5959 (this is not a toll-free number) or 

by email at Javar.Janet.O@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: The Chief Evaluation 

Office (CEO) within the Department of 

Labor (DOL) is responsible for 

implementing, managing, and 

coordinating DOL’s evaluation program. 

CEO works closely with agency staff to 

design, fund, and implement program 

evaluations. The results from 

evaluations inform policy, advance 

DOL’s mission, and improve its 

performance-based management 

initiatives in support of the Government 

Performance and Results Modernization 

Act of 2010. CEO’s efforts also support 

the President’s goal of building a 

transparent, high-performance 

government, as stated in the President’s 

Budget as well as the OMB memo (M– 

09–20) on Building a High-Performance 

Government. Paperwork Reduction Act 

(PRA) packages submitted under this 

generic clearance will identify all 

relevant legal or administrative 

requirements that are specific to the 

study and data collection. 

This generic information request on 

site visits supports timely evaluation 

data collection necessary to answer key 

research questions. Qualitative 

information collected from site visits is 

a critical data source that can: (1) 

describe program implementation 

issues, the context in which the program 

was implemented, program services, 

program management and costs; (2) 

describe the experiences of service 

providers at each of the study sites, 

including site perspectives on 

implementation challenges and 

intervention effects; (3) describe the 

experiences and responses of 

individuals participating in the 

program; (4) document the extent to 

which the program model was 

implemented as planned; and (5) 

understand the extent to which 

treatment and control or comparison 

groups received their intended services. 

To obtain critical information, many 

DOL-sponsored evaluations require that 

the evaluator conduct the initial site 

visit within a short timeframe after sites 

have been recruited or have 

implemented a program or intervention. 

This generic clearance process on site 

visits, which DOL intends to request a 

period of 36 months, would help 

facilitate the quick launch and 

collection of this critical data in a timely 

manner while still allowing a 

meaningful opportunity for public 

engagement on the overall parameters of 

the information to be collected. 

II. Desired Focus of Comments: 

Currently, the Department of Labor is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

above data collection for a generic 

clearance on site visits. DOL is 

particularly interested in comments 

that: 

*–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 

information collection on those who are 

to respond, including 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: At this time, the 

Department of Labor is developing a 

generic information request for site 

visits. 


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44158 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 141 / Tuesday, July 23, 2013 / Notices 

Type of review: New information 

collection request. 

OMB Control Number: 1205–0NEW 

Name: Department of Labor Generic 

Clearance for Site Visits 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households; Private Sector—businesses 

or other for-profits and not-for-profit 

institutions; and State, local, and Tribal 

governments 

Frequency: Approximately 40 studies 

a year 

Average Annual Respondents: 

Approximately 13,600 to 27,200 

responses a year 

Average Time per Response: Range, 

60 to 120 minutes, 90 minutes 

anticipated midpoint. 

Average Annual Burden Hours: 

Approximately 47,200 to 94,400 hours a 

year over three years. 

Average Annual Other Burden Cost: 

$0 

Comments submitted in response to 

this request will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval; they 

will also become a matter of public 

record. 

James H. Moore, Jr., 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. 

Department of Labor. 

[FR Doc. 2013–17524 Filed 7–22–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–23–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary of Labor 

Notice of Final Determination Revising 

the List of Products Requiring Federal 

Contractor Certification as to Forced 

or Indentured Child Labor Pursuant to 

Executive Order 13126 

AGENCY: Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of Final Determination. 

SUMMARY: This final determination is 

the fourth revision of the list required 

by Executive Order 13126 (‘‘Prohibition 

of Acquisition of Products Produced by 

Forced or Indentured Child Labor’’), in 

accordance with the ‘‘Procedural 

Guidelines for the Maintenance of the 

List of Products Requiring Federal 

Contractor Certification as to Forced or 

Indentured Child Labor Under 48 CFR 

Subpart 22.15 and E.O. 13126.’’ This 

notice revises the list by adding six 

products, identified by their countries of 

origin, Cattle from South Sudan, Dried 

Fish from Bangladesh, Fish from Ghana, 

Garments from Vietnam, and Gold and 

Wolframite from the Democratic 

Republic of the Congo, that the 

Departments of Labor, State and 

Homeland Security have a reasonable 

basis to believe might have been mined, 

produced or manufactured by forced or 

indentured child labor. Under a final 

rule of the Federal Acquisition 

Regulatory Councils, published January 

18, 2001, which also implements 

Executive Order 13126, federal 

contractors who supply products which 

appear on this list are required to 

certify, among other things, that they 

have made a good faith effort to 

determine whether forced or indentured 

child labor was used to mine, produce 

or manufacture the item. 

DATES: This document is effective 

immediately upon publication of this 

notice. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Revised List of Products 

On September 27, 2012, the 

Department of Labor (DOL), in 

consultation and cooperation with the 

Department of State (DOS) and the 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS), published a Notice of Initial 

Determination in the Federal Register 

proposing to revise the List of Products 

Requiring Federal Contractor 

Certification as to Forced or Indentured 

Child Labor (‘‘the EO List’’) (77 FR 

59418). The notice invited public 

comment through November 27, 2012. 

The initial determination can be 

accessed on the Internet at http:// 

www.dol.gov/ilab/programs/ocft/ 

20120927EO13126FRN.pdf or can be 

obtained from: Office of Child Labor, 

Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking 

(OCFT), Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs, Room S–5317, U.S. Department 

of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202) 

693–4843; fax: (202) 693–4830. 

Of the five public comments that were 

received during the comment period, 

three comments—two of them from the 

same source—disagreed with the listing 

of Garments from Vietnam, but did not 

provide sufficient information to negate 

the basis for this proposed revision. The 

remaining comments did not discuss the 

revisions proposed in the initial 

determination. 

Accordingly, based on recent, 

credible, and appropriately corroborated 

information from various sources, DOL, 

DOS, and DHS have concluded that 

there is a reasonable basis to believe that 

the following products, identified by 

their countries of origin, might have 

been mined, produced, or manufactured 

by forced or indentured child labor: 

Product Country 

Cattle ......................... South Sudan. 

Dried Fish .................. Bangladesh. 

Product Country 

Fish ........................... Ghana. 

Garments .................. Vietnam. 

Gold ........................... Democratic Republic 

of Congo. 

Wolframite ................. Democratic Republic 

of Congo. 

The bibliographies providing the basis 

for the three agencies’ decisions on each 

product are available on the Internet at 

http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/regs/eo13126/ 

main.htm. 

II. Background 

The first EO List was published on 

January 18, 2001 (66 FR 5353). The EO 

List was subsequently revised on July 

20, 2010 (75 FR 42164); again on May 

31, 2011 (76 FR 31365); and again on 

April 3, 2012 (77 FR 20051). This final 

determination is the fourth revision to 

the EO List. 

EO 13126, which was published in 

the Federal Register on June 16, 1999 64 

FR 32383), declared that it was ‘‘the 

policy of the United States Government 

. . . that the executive agencies shall 

take appropriate actions to enforce the 

laws prohibiting the manufacture or 

importation of goods, wares, articles, 

and merchandise mined, produced or 

manufactured wholly or in part by 

forced or indentured child labor.’’ 

Pursuant to EO 13126, and following 

public notice and comment, DOL 

published in the January 18, 2001 

Federal Register a list of products, 

identified by their country of origin, that 

DOL, in consultation and cooperation 

with DOS and the Department of the 

Treasury [relevant responsibilities now 

within DHS] had a reasonable basis to 

believe might have been mined, 

produced or manufactured by forced or 

indentured child labor (66 FR 5353). 

Pursuant to Section 3 of EO 13126, 

the Federal Acquisition Regulatory 

Council published a final rule in the 

Federal Register on January 18, 2001 

providing, amongst other requirements, 

that federal contractors who supply 

products that appear on the EO List 

must certify to the contracting officer 

that the contractor, or, in the case of an 

incorporated contractor, a responsible 

official of the contractor, has made a 

good faith effort to determine whether 

forced or indentured child labor was 

used to mine, produce, or manufacture 

any product furnished under the 

contract and that, on the basis of those 

efforts, the contractor is unaware of any 

such use of child labor (48 CFR Subpart 

22.15). 

DOL also published on January 18, 

2001 ‘‘Procedural Guidelines for the 

Maintenance of the List of Products 


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