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without the exhibits and signature 

pages, the cost is $17.50. 

Lori Jonas, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02338 Filed 2–5–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Information Collection Activities; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

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. This 

program helps to ensure that the 

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. The Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments 

concerning the proposed revision of the 

‘‘Report on Current Employment 

Statistics.’’ A copy of the proposed 

information collection request can be 

obtained by contacting the individual 

listed below in the ADDRESSES section of 

this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice on or 

before April 8, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Carol 

Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer, Division 

of Management Systems, Bureau of 

Labor Statistics, Room G225, 2 

Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, 

DC 20212. Written comments also may 

be transmitted by email to BLS_PRA_

Public@bls.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carol Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer, 

202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free 

number). (See ADDRESSES section.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Current Employment Statistics 

(CES) program provides current 

monthly statistics on employment, 

hours, and earnings, by industry and 

geography. CES estimates are among the 

most visible and widely-used Principal 

Federal Economic Indicators (PFEIs). 

CES data are also among the timeliest of 

the PFEIs, with their release each month 

by the BLS in the Employment 

Situation, typically on the first Friday of 

each month. The statistics are 

fundamental inputs in economic 

decision processes at all levels of 

government, private enterprise, and 

organized labor. 

The CES monthly estimates of 

employment, hours, and earnings are 

based on a sample of U.S. 

nonagricultural establishments. 

Information is derived from 

approximately 349,000 reports (from a 

sample of 122,000 employers with State 

Unemployment Insurance (UI) accounts 

comprised of 666,000 individual 

worksites). Each month, firms report 

their employment, payroll, and hours on 

forms identified as the BLS–790. The 

sample is collected under a probabilitybased design. Puerto Rico and the Virgin 

Islands collect an additional 8,800 

reports. 

A list of all form types currently used 

appears in the table below. Respondents 

receive variations of the basic collection 

forms, depending on their industry. 

The CES program is a voluntary 

program under Federal statute. 

Reporting to the State agencies is 

voluntary in all but four States 

(California, New Mexico, Oregon, and 

South Carolina), Puerto Rico, and the 

Virgin Islands. To our knowledge, the 

States that do have mandatory reporting 

rarely exercise their authority. The 

collection form’s confidentiality 

statement cites the Confidential 

Information Protection and Statistical 

Efficiency Act and mentions the State 

mandatory reporting authority. 

II. Current Action 

Office of Management and Budget 

clearance is being sought for the Report 

on Current Employment Statistics. 

Automated data collection methods 

are now used for most of the CES 

sample. Approximately 124,000 reports 

are received through Electronic Data 

Interchange (EDI). Web data collection 

accounts for 26,000 reports. Computer 

Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) 

is used to collect 66,000. 

The balance of the sample is collected 

through other methods including 

submission of transcripts, emails, fax, 

and other special arrangements. 

III. Desired Focus of Comments 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics 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. 

• 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. 

Title of Collection: Report on Current 

Employment Statistics. 

OMB Number: 1220–0011. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: State or local 

governments; businesses or other for 

profit; non-profit institutions. 

Industry 

Number of 

annual 

reports 

Frequency 

Total 

annual 

responses 

Estimated 

average 

annual 

burden 

(hours) 

Estimated 

total annual 

burden 

(hours) 

Natural Resources & Mining ................................................ 718 12 8,616 0.167 1,439 

Construction ......................................................................... 7,742 12 92,904 0.167 15,515 

Manufacturing ...................................................................... 6,223 12 74,676 0.167 12,471 

Services ............................................................................... 80,425 12 965,100 0.167 161,172 

Public Administration ........................................................... 29,241 12 350,892 0.100 35,089 

Education ............................................................................. 13,786 12 165,432 0.100 16,543 


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Industry 

Number of 

annual 

reports 

Frequency 

Total 

annual 

responses 

Estimated 

average 

annual 

burden 

(hours) 

Estimated 

total annual 

burden 

(hours) 

EDI Firms ............................................................................. 124,349 12 *1,044 1.000 1,044 

All Industries ................................................................. 262,484 1,658,664 243,273 

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, on January 29, 

2024. 

Eric Molina, 

Chief, Division of Management Systems, 

Branch of Policy Analysis. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02269 Filed 2–5–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 

ADMINISTRATION 

[NARA–24–0002; NARA–2024–013] 

Records Schedules; Availability and 

Request for Comments 

AGENCY: National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability of 

proposed records schedules; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The National Archives and 

Records Administration (NARA) 

publishes notice of certain Federal 

agency requests for records disposition 

authority (records schedules). We 

publish notice in the Federal Register 

and on regulations.gov for records 

schedules in which agencies propose to 

dispose of records they no longer need 

to conduct agency business. We invite 

public comments on such records 

schedules. 

DATES: We must receive responses on 

the schedules listed in this notice by 

March 25, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: To view a records schedule 

in this notice, or submit a comment on 

one, use the following address: https:// 

www.regulations.gov/docket/NARA-24- 

0002/document. This is a direct link to 

the schedules posted in the docket for 

this notice on regulations.gov. You may 

submit comments by the following 

method: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. On the 

website, enter either of the numbers 

cited at the top of this notice into the 

search field. This will bring you to the 

docket for this notice, in which we have 

posted the records schedules open for 

comment. Each schedule has a 

‘comment’ button so you can comment 

on that specific schedule. For more 

information on regulations.gov and on 

submitting comments, see their FAQs at 

https://www.regulations.gov/faq. 

If you are unable to comment via 

regulations.gov, you may email us at 

request.schedule@nara.gov for 

instructions on submitting your 

comment. You must cite the control 

number of the schedule you wish to 

comment on. You can find the control 

number for each schedule in 

parentheses at the end of each 

schedule’s entry in the list at the end of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Eddie Germino, Strategy and 

Performance Division, by email at 

regulation_comments@nara.gov or at 

301–837–3758. For information about 

records schedules, contact Records 

Management Operations by email at 

request.schedule@nara.gov or by phone 

at 301–837–1799. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Comment Procedures 

We are publishing notice of records 

schedules in which agencies propose to 

dispose of records they no longer need 

to conduct agency business. We invite 

public comments on these records 

schedules, as required by 44 U.S.C. 

3303a(a), and list the schedules at the 

end of this notice by agency and 

subdivision requesting disposition 

authority. 

In addition, this notice lists the 

organizational unit(s) accumulating the 

records or states that the schedule has 

agency-wide applicability. It also 

provides the control number assigned to 

each schedule, which you will need if 

you submit comments on that schedule. 

We have uploaded the records 

schedules and accompanying appraisal 

memoranda to the regulations.gov 

docket for this notice as ‘‘other’’ 

documents. Each records schedule 

contains a full description of the records 

at the file unit level as well as their 

proposed disposition. The appraisal 

memorandum for the schedule includes 

information about the records. 

We will post comments, including 

any personal information and 

attachments, to the public docket, 

unchanged. Because comments are 

public, you are responsible for ensuring 

that you do not include any confidential 

or other information that you or a third 

party may not wish to be publicly 

posted. If you want to submit a 

comment with confidential information 

or cannot otherwise use the 

regulations.gov portal, you may contact 

request.schedule@nara.gov for 

instructions on submitting your 

comment. 

We will consider all comments 

submitted by the posted deadline and 

consult as needed with the Federal 

agency seeking the disposition 

authority. After considering comments, 

we may or may not make changes to the 

proposed records schedule. The 

schedule is then sent for final approval 

by the Archivist of the United States. 

After the schedule is approved, we will 

post on regulations.gov a ‘‘Consolidated 

Reply’’ summarizing the comments, 

responding to them, and noting any 

changes we made to the proposed 

schedule. You may elect at 

regulations.gov to receive updates on 

the docket, including an alert when we 

post the Consolidated Reply, whether or 

not you submit a comment. If you have 

a question, you can submit it as a 

comment, and can also submit any 

concerns or comments you would have 

to a possible response to the question. 

We will address these items in 

consolidated replies along with any 

other comments submitted on that 

schedule. 

We will post schedules on our 

website in the Records Control Schedule 

(RCS) Repository, at https://

www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/rcs, 

after the Archivist approves them. The 

RCS contains all schedules approved 

since 1973. 

Background 

Each year, Federal agencies create 

billions of records. To control this 

accumulation, agency records managers 

prepare schedules proposing retention 

periods for records and submit these 

schedules for NARA’s approval. Once 

approved by NARA, records schedules 


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