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[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 131 (Tuesday, July 9, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 41062]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-16431]

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION

Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; 
Emergency Extension

AGENCY: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Information Collection--Emergency Extension without 
Change: Demographic Information on Applicants for Federal Employment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) announces that 
it submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for 
a 90-day emergency extension of the Demographic Information on 
Applicants for Federal Employment to be effective after the current 
July 31, 2013 expiration date.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Dougherty, Federal Sector 
Programs, Office of Federal Operations, 131 M Street NE., Washington, 
DC 20507, (202) 663-4770 (voice); (202) 663-4593 (TTY).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Demographic Information on Applicants 
for Federal Employment is an optional form for the use by federal 
agencies in gathering data on the race, sex and national origin status 
of applicants.

Overview of Information Collection

    Collection Title: Demographic Information on Federal Job 
Applicants.
    OMB Control No.: 3046-0046.
    Description of Affected Public: Individuals submitting applications 
for federal employment.
    Number of Annual Responses: 5,800.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 3 minutes.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: (5,800 x 3)/60 = 290.
    Annual Federal Cost: None.
    Abstract: Under section 717 of Title VII and 501 of the 
Rehabilitation Act, the Commission is charged with reviewing and 
approving federal agencies plans to affirmatively address potential 
discrimination before it occurs. Pursuant to such oversight 
responsibilities, the Commission has established systems to monitor 
compliance with Title VII and the Rehabilitation Act by requiring 
federal agencies to evaluate their employment practices through the 
collection and analysis of data on the race, national origin, sex and 
disability status of applicants for both permanent and temporary 
employment.
    Response by applicants is optional. The information obtained will 
be used by federal agencies only for evaluating whether an agency's 
recruitment activities are effectively reaching all segments of the 
relevant labor pool, to gauge progress and trends over time with 
respect to equal opportunity goals, and to track progress toward 
meeting the recruitment and hiring strategies. The voluntary responses 
are treated in a highly confidential and anonymous manner, are not 
shared with those involved in the selection process or the supervisor 
(if the person is hired) and will not be placed in the employees' 
personnel file. The information is not provided to any panel rating the 
applications, to selecting officials, to anyone who can affect the 
application or to the public. Rather, the information is used in 
summary form to determine trends over many selections within a given 
occupational or organization area. No information from the form is 
entered into an official personnel file.
    Burden Statement: Because of the predominant use of online 
application systems, which require only pointing and clicking on the 
selected responses, and because the form requests only eight questions 
regarding basic information, the EEOC estimates that an applicant can 
complete the form in approximately 3 minutes or less. Based on past 
experience, we expect that 5,800 applicants will choose to complete the 
form.
    Once OMB approves the use of this common form, federal agencies may 
request OMB approval to use this common form without having to publish 
notices and request public comments for 60 and 30 days. Each agency 
must account for the burden associated with their use of the common 
form.

    Dated: July 2, 2013.

    For the Commission.
Jacqueline A. Berrien,
Chair.
[FR Doc. 2013-16431 Filed 7-8-13; 8:45 am]
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