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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; Extension 

Correction 

In notice document 2018–15979, 

appearing on pages 35477 through 

35485 in the issue of Thursday, July 26, 

2018, make the following correction: 

On page 35481, the heading of the 

first table should read ‘‘Regulation E: 

Recordkeeping and Disclosures—Cost’’. 

[FR Doc. C1–2018–15979 Filed 8–3–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1301–00–D 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[OMB Control No. 9000–0007: Docket No. 

2018–0003; Sequence No. 6] 

Information Collection; Subcontracting 

Plans 

AGENCIES: Department of Defense (DOD), 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

and National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) regulations, the FAR Council 

invites the public to comment upon a 

renewal concerning small business 

subcontracting plans. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

October 5, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: The FAR Council invites 

interested persons to submit comments 

on this collection by either of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: This 

website provides the ability to type 

short comments directly into the 

comment field or attach a file for 

lengthier comments. Go to http://

www.regulations.gov and follow the 

instructions on the site. 

• Mail: General Services 

Administration, Regulatory Secretariat 

Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20405. ATTN: Ms. 

Mandell/IC 9000–0007, Subcontracting 

Plans. 

Instructions: All items submitted 

must cite Information Collection 9000– 

0007, Subcontracting Plans. Comments 

received in response to this docket will 

be made available for public inspection 

and posted without change, including 

any personal information, at http://

www.regulations.gov. Comments 

received generally will be posted 

without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal and/or business confidential 

information provided. To confirm 

receipt of your comment(s), please 

check www.regulations.gov, 

approximately two to three days after 

submission to verify posting (except 

allow 30 days for posting of comments 

submitted by mail). This information 

collection is pending at the FAR 

Council. The Council will submit it to 

OMB within 60 days from the date of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Zenaida Delgado, Procurement Analyst, 

at telephone 202–969–7207, or email 

zenaida.delgado@gsa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Overview of Information Collection 

Description of the Information 

Collection 

1. Type of Information Collection: 

Revision/Renewal of a currently 

approved collection. 

2. Title of the Collection— 

Subcontracting Plans. 

3. Agency form number, if any: —— 

SF 294. 

Solicitation of Public Comment 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public should address one or 

more of the following four points: 

(1) Evaluate whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) 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; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(4) 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 submission of 

responses. 

B. Purpose 

This information collection 

requirement, OMB Control No. 9000– 

0007, currently titled ‘‘Summary 

Subcontract Report,’’ is proposed to be 

retitled ‘‘Subcontracting Plans,’’ due to 

consolidation with currently approved 

information collection requirement 

OMB Control No. 9000–0006, 

Subcontracting Plans/Individual 

Subcontract Report (SF 294) and ISRS, 

and 9000–0192, Utilization of Small 

Business Subcontractors. 

This clearance covers the information 

that offerors and contractors must 

submit to comply with the requirements 

in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 

52.219–9, Small Business 

Subcontracting Plans, regarding 

subcontracting plans as follows: 

1. Subcontracting plan. In accordance 

with Section 8(d) of the Small Business 

Act (15 U.S.C. 637(d)), any contractor 

receiving a contract for more than the 

simplified acquisition threshold must 

agree in the contract that small business, 

veteran-owned small business, servicedisabled veteran-owned small business, 

HUBZone small business, small 

disadvantaged business, and womenowned small business concerns will 

have the maximum practicable 

opportunity to participate in contract 

performance. Further, 15 U.S.C. 637(d) 

imposes the requirement that 

contractors receiving a contract that is 

expected to exceed, or a contract 

modification that causes a contract to 

exceed, $700,000 ($1.5 million for 

construction) and has subcontracting 

possibilities, shall submit an acceptable 

subcontracting plan that provides 

maximum practicable opportunities for 

small business, veteran-owned small 

business, service-disabled veteranowned small business, HUBZone small 

business, small disadvantaged business, 

and women-owned small business 

concerns. Specific elements required to 

be included in the plan are specified in 

section 8(d) of the Small Business Act 

and implemented in FAR subpart 19.7 

and the clause at 52.219–9. 

2. Summary Subcontract Report 

(SSR). In conjunction with the 

subcontracting plan requirements, 

contractors with subcontracting plans 

must submit an annual summary of 

subcontracts awarded as prime and 

subcontractors for each specific Federal 

Government agency. Contractors submit 

the information in a SSR through the 

Electronic Subcontracting Reporting 

System (eSRS). This is required for all 

contractors with subcontracting plans 

regardless of the type of plan (i.e., 

commercial or individual). 

3. Individual Subcontract Report 

(ISR). In conjunction with the 

subcontracting plan requirements, 

contractors with individual 

subcontracting plans must submit semiannual reports of their small business 

subcontracting progress. Contractors 

submit the information through eSRS in 


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an ISR, the electronic equivalent of the 

Standard Form (SF) 294, Subcontracting 

Report for Individual Contracts. 

Contracts that are not reported in the 

Federal Procurement Data System 

(FPDS) in accordance with FAR 

4.606(c)(5) do not submit ISRs in eSRS; 

they will continue to use the SF 294 to 

submit the information to the agency. 

4. Written explanation for not using a 

small business subcontractor as 

specified in the proposal or 

subcontracting plan. Section 1322 of the 

Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (Jobs 

Act), Public Law 111–240, amends the 

Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(d)(6)) 

to require as part of a subcontracting 

plan that a prime contractor make good 

faith effort to utilize a small business 

subcontractor during performance of a 

contract to the same degree the prime 

contractor relied on the small business 

in preparing and submitting its bid or 

proposal. If a prime contractor does not 

utilize a small business subcontractor as 

described above, the prime contractor is 

required to explain, in writing, to the 

contracting officer the reasons why it is 

unable to do so. 

C. Annual Reporting Burden 

1. Subcontracting plan. 

Subcontracting plans are provided on a 

contract-by-contract basis for individual 

subcontracting plans. Individual 

subcontracting plans cover the entire 

contract period, including options. 

Commercial plans are provided on an 

entity basis and cover the fiscal year of 

the contractor. The time required for 

development of the plan (including 

commercial and individual plans) is 

estimated as follows: 

Respondents: 4,350. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Total Annual Responses: 4,350. 

Hours per Response: 5. 

Total Burden Hours: 21,750. 

2. Summary Subcontract Report 

(SSR). SSRs are submitted annually for 

all types of subcontracting plans. One 

SSR is submitted for each commercial 

subcontracting plan. For individual 

subcontracting plans, an SSR is required 

for every agency that funds work under 

the contract that the plan covers. Time 

required for reading, preparing 

information, and data entry into eSRS is 

estimated as follows: 

Commercial plan 

Respondents: 1,653. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Total Annual Responses: 1,653. 

Hours per Response: 2. 

Total Burden Hours: 3,306. 

Individual plan without order level 

reporting 

Respondents: 10,885. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Total Annual Responses: 10,885. 

Hours per Response: 1.5. 

Total Burden Hours: 16,327.5. 

Individual plan with order level 

reporting 

Respondents: 197. 

Responses per Respondent: 3. 

Total Annual Responses: 591. 

Hours per Response: 1.5. 

Total Burden Hours: 886.5. 

3. Individual Subcontract Report 

(ISR). ISRs are submitted semi-annually 

for each contract with an individual 

subcontracting plan. The ISR consists of 

data for subcontracting under a given 

contract. ISRs are not required for 

commercial plans. Time required for 

reading, preparing information, and data 

entry into eSRS is estimated as follows: 

Individual plan without order-level 

reporting requirement 

Respondents: 10,855. 

Responses per Respondent: 2. 

Total Annual Responses: 21,710. 

Hours per Response: 2. 

Total Burden Hours: 43,420. 

Individual plan—with order-level 

reporting requirement 

Respondents: 197. 

Responses per Respondent: 2. 

Total Annual Responses: 394. 

Hours per Response: 5. 

Total Burden Hours: 1,970. 

4. Written explanation for not using a 

small business subcontractor as 

specified in the proposal or 

subcontracting plan. This explanation is 

submitted on a contract-by-contract 

basis. FPDS for FY 2017 identified 3,808 

contracts with individual 

subcontracting plans and 542 entities 

awarded contracts with commercial 

plans, for a total of 4,350 plans for FY 

2017. We estimate that at most 50%, or 

2,175, of these contracts with 

subcontracting plans may have 

instances of the prime contractor not 

using a small business subcontractor to 

the same extent used in preparing the 

bid or proposal. We estimate two hours 

as the average time required to read and 

prepare information for this collection. 

Respondents: 2,175. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Total Annual Responses: 2,175. 

Hours per Response: 2. 

Total Burden Hours: 4,350. 

5. Summary. 

Respondents: 30,312. 

Total Annual Responses: 41,758. 

Total Burden Hours: 92,010. 

Obtaining Copies of Proposals: 

Requesters may obtain a copy of the 

information collection documents from 

the General Services Administration, 

Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB), 

1800 F Street NW, Washington, DC 

20405, telephone 202–501–4755. 

Please cite OMB Control No. 9000– 

0007, Subcontracting Plans, in all 

correspondence. 

William Clark, 

Director, Office of Governmentwide 

Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition 

Policy, Office of Governmentwide Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 6820–EP–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[OMB Control No. 9000–0079; Docket No. 

2018–0003; Sequence No. 14] 

Information Collection; Travel Costs 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

and National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) regulations, the FAR Council 

invites the public to comment upon a 

renewal concerning travel costs. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

October 5, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: The FAR Council invites 

interested persons to submit comments 

on this collection by either of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: This 

website provides the ability to type 

short comments directly into the 

comment field or attach a file for 

lengthier comments. Go to http://

www.regulations.gov and follow the 

instructions on the site. 

• Mail: General Services 

Administration, Regulatory Secretariat 

Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20405. ATTN: Ms. 

Mandell/IC 9000–0079, Travel Costs. 

Instructions: All items submitted 

must cite Information Collection 9000– 

0079, Travel Costs. Comments received 

in response to this docket will be made 

available for public inspection and 

posted without change, including any 

personal information, at http://

www.regulations.gov. 

Comments received generally will be 

posted without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal and/or business confidential 

information provided. To confirm 

receipt of your comment(s), please 


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