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Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. The 

Department is soliciting comments on 

the proposed information collection 

request (ICR) that is described below. 

The Department is especially interested 

in public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: National 

Evaluation of the Pathways to 

Partnerships Program (84.421E). 

OMB Control Number: 1820–NEW. 

Type of Review: New ICR. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals or Households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 17,137. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 4,760. 

Abstract: The U.S. Department of 

Education’s Rehabilitation Services 

Administration (RSA) requests 

clearance for new data collection 

activities to support the evaluation of 

the 84.421E Federal fiscal year (FFY) 

2023 Disability Innovation Fund (DIF), 

Pathways to Partnerships Innovative 

Model Demonstration Project. The 

purpose of the DIF, as provided by the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 

(Pub. L. 117–103), is to support 

innovative activities aimed at increasing 

competitive integrated employment as 

defined in section 7 of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973 

(Rehabilitation Act) (29 U.S.C. 705(5)) 

for children, youth, and other 

individuals with disabilities. The 

program aims to create systematic and 

seamless approaches to offering 

transition services to children with 

disabilities, ages 10–13 and youth with 

disabilities ages 14 to 24 through 

collaborations among State vocational 

rehabilitation (VR) agencies, State 

education agencies (SEAs), local 

education agencies (LEAs), Federally 

funded Centers for Independent Living 

(CILs), and other organizations offering 

services to this population. RSA is 

investing a total of $198,975,322 in 

grant funding to the 20 States through 

the FFY 2023 DIF. 

This request covers primary data 

collection activities for the National 

Evaluation of the Pathways to 

Partnerships Program. These activities 

include the following: 

Æ Surveys and interviews with program 

participants or their parent or 

guardian 

Æ Surveys with State VR, SEA, and CIL 

directors 

Æ Surveys and interviews with project 

staff 

Æ Collecting project administrative data 

(staff rosters, cost worksheets, and 

web analytics) from project directors 

In September 2023, RSA awarded 

five-year cooperative agreements for the 

84.421E FFY 2023 DIF model 

demonstration projects. The awards 

provide 20 State VR agencies or SEAs 

with funding to implement Pathways to 

Partnerships model demonstration 

projects. The Pathways to Partnerships 

models vary across the 20 projects, but 

the projects’ purpose is to create and 

implement systematic approaches to 

delivering transition services to children 

and youth with disabilities. The 

approaches must entail establishing 

close partnerships across key agencies 

to deliver these services in ways likely 

to improve the education and 

employment outcomes of children and 

youth with disabilities. 

Dated: October 23, 2024. 

Juliana Pearson, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25047 Filed 10–28–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Extension Without Change 

of an Existing Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

extension without change. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission (EEOC or Commission) 

announces that it intends to submit to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) a request for a three-year 

extension without change of the 

information collection described below. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be submitted on or before 

December 30, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods; please 

use only one method: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions on the website for 

submitting comments. 

Mail: Comments may be submitted by 

mail to Raymond Windmiller, Executive 

Officer, Executive Secretariat, Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission, 

131 M Street NE, Washington, DC 

20507. 

Fax: Comments totaling six or fewer 

pages may be sent by fax machine to 

(202) 663–4114. Receipt of fax 

transmittals will not be acknowledged, 

except that the sender may request 

confirmation of receipt by calling the 

Executive Secretariat staff at (202) 921– 

2815 (voice), (800) 669–6820 (TTY), or 

(844) 234–5122 (ASL Video Phone). 

Instructions: All comments received 

will be posted without change to 

https://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information you provide. 

However, the EEOC reserves the right to 

refrain from posting libelous or 

otherwise inappropriate comments, 

including those that contain obscene, 

indecent, or profane language; that 

contain threats or defamatory 

statements; that contain hate speech 

directed at race, color, sex, national 

origin, age, religion, disability, or 

genetic information; or that promote or 

endorse services or products. 

To read the public comments received 

by the EEOC, go to https://

www.regulations.gov and search for this 

item. There may be a few days’ delay 

between submission of a comment and 

public posting on this docket. The 

received comments also will be 

available for review on a computer in 

the Commission’s Headquarters library, 

131 M Street NE, Suite 4NW08R, 

Washington, DC 20507, between the 

hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on days 

the Commission is open for business. 

You must make an appointment with 

library staff to review the comments in 

the Commission’s library by contacting 

202–921–3119. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathleen Oram, Assistant Legal 

Counsel, at (202) 921–2665 or 

Kathleen.Oram@eeoc.gov. Requests for 

this notice in an alternative format 

should be made to the Office of 

Communications and Legislative Affairs 

at (202) 921–3191 (voice), (800) 669– 

6820 (TTY), or (844) 234–5122 (ASL 

Video Phone). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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1 29 CFR, part 1607, 41 CFR part 60–3, 28 CFR 

part 50, 5 CFR part 300. 

2 In calculating burden, data from multiple 

sources are used. Some of these sources do not 

allow us to identify only those employers who are 

covered by Title VII (employers with 15 or more 

employees). 3Source of original data: U.S. Census Bureau, 

2021 Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB) (Dec. 

2023). (https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2021/ 

econ/susb/2021-susb-annual.html). Local 

Downloadable CSV data. Select U.S. & states, 6-digit 

NAICS. The original number of employers was 

adjusted to only include those with 15 or more 

employees. 

4Source of original data: 2022 Census of 

Governments: Employment. Individual Government 

Data File (https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/ 

2022/econ/apes/2022.html), Local Downloadable 

Data zip file ‘‘Individual Unit Files’’. The original 

number of government entities was adjusted to only 

include those with 15 or more employees. 

5Source: U.S. Department of Education, National 

Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Fall 2022, 

Institutional Characteristics component (provisional 

data). See Table 1, ‘‘Number and percentage 

distribution of Title IV institutions, by control of 

institution, level of institution, and region: United 

States and other U.S. jurisdictions, academic year 

2022–23’’ (https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/search/ 

viewtable?tableId=35945&returnUrl=%2Fsearch). 

6Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Registered 

Apprenticeship National Results Fiscal Year 2021, 

Number of active apprenticeship programs in 2021 

(https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/apprenticeship/ 

about/statistics/2021). 7The EEOC has undertaken measures to enhance 

the agency’s existing EEO–3 data frame (i.e., roster) 

of potentially eligible filers that was most recently 

used during the 2022 EEO–3 data collection. The 

number of referral unions was estimated by 

comparing the EEOC’s 2022 EEO–3 frame to a list 

of active unions from the U.S. Department of 

Labor’s Office of Labor Management Standards 

(OLMS) Online Public Disclosure Room (OPDR) 

database (https://olmsapps.dol.gov/olpdr/). 

8Source of original data: U.S. Census Bureau, 

2021 Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB) (Dec. 

2023). (https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2021/ 

econ/susb/2021-susb-annual.html). Local 

Downloadable CSV data. Select U.S. & states, 6-digit 

NAICS. The original number of employers was 

adjusted to only include those with 15 or more 

employees. 

9The average number of applicants per job 

opening in 2023, according to the iCIMS 2024 

January Workforce Report (https://icims.drift.click/ 

January-2024-Workforce-Report). 

10Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and 

Labor Turnover Survey, 2023 annual level data 

(seasonally adjusted), (http://www.bls.gov/jlt/ 

data.htm) is the source of the original data. The BLS 

figure includes new hires in both the public and the 

private sectors across all employer sizes. 

11Burden hour cost estimates are based on the 

median hourly wage rate of $22.94 for Human 

Resources Assistants, except payroll and 

timekeeping obtained from the Bureau of Labor 

Introduction 

The Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission gives notice of its intent to 

submit the recordkeeping requirements 

contained in the Uniform Guidelines on 

Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP 

or Uniform Guidelines) 1 to the Office of 

Management and Budget for a three-year 

extension without change under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA). 

Request for Comments 

Pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, and 

OMB regulation 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), the 

EEOC invites public comments that will 

enable the agency to: 

(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 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, to be 

collected; e.g., permitting electronic 

submission of responses. 

Overview of Current Information 

Collection 

Collection Title: Recordkeeping 

Requirements of the Uniform Guidelines 

on Employee Selection Procedures, 29 

CFR part 1607, 41 CFR part 60–3, 28 

CFR part 50, 5 CFR part 300. 

OMB Number: 3046–0017. 

Type of Respondent: Businesses or 

other institutions; Federal Government; 

State or local governments and farms. 

North American Industry 

Classification System (NAICS) Code: 

Multiple. 

Standard Industrial Classification 

Code (SIC): Multiple. 

Description of Affected Public: Any 

employer, Government contractor, labor 

organization, or employment agency 

covered by the Federal equal 

employment opportunity laws. 

Respondents: 887,869. 

Responses: 887,869. 

Recordkeeping Hours: 15,422,941 per 

year. 

Number of Forms: None. 

Form Number: None. 

Frequency of Report: None. 

Abstract: The Uniform Guidelines 

provide fundamental guidance for all 

Title VII-covered employers about the 

use of employment selection 

procedures. The records addressed by 

UGESP are used by respondents to 

ensure that they are complying with 

Title VII and Executive Order 11246; by 

the Federal agencies that enforce Title 

VII and Executive Order 11246 to 

investigate, conciliate, and litigate 

charges of employment discrimination; 

and by complainants to establish 

violations of Federal equal employment 

opportunity laws. While there are no 

data available to quantify these benefits, 

the collection of accurate applicant flow 

data enhances each employer’s ability to 

address deficiencies in recruitment and 

selection processes, including detecting 

barriers to equal employment 

opportunity. 

Burden Statement: There are no 

reporting requirements associated with 

UGESP. The burden being estimated is 

the cost of collecting and storing a job 

applicant’s gender, race, and ethnicity 

data. 

The only paperwork burden derives 

from this recordkeeping. Only 

employers covered under Title VII and 

Executive Order 11246 are subject to 

UGESP. However, for the purposes of 

burden calculation, data for all 

employers are counted.2 The number of 

employers with 15 or more employees is 

estimated at 887,869 which combines 

estimates from private employment,3

the public sector,4 colleges and 

universities,5 apprenticeship programs,6

and referral unions.7 Employers with 15 

or more employees represent 

approximately 13.5% of all employers 

in the U.S. and employ about 86.2% of 

all employees in the U.S.8

This burden assessment is based on 

an estimate of the number of job 

applications submitted to all employers 

in one year, including paper-based and 

electronic applications. The total 

number of job applications submitted 

every year to covered employers is 

estimated to be 1,850,752,956 based on 

an average of approximately 26 

applications 9 for every hire and a 

Bureau of Labor Statistics data estimate 

of 71,046,000 annual hires.10 This figure 

also includes 136,806 applicants for 

union membership reported on the 

EEO–3 form for 2022. 

The employer burden associated with 

collecting and storing applicant 

demographic data is based on the 

following assumptions: applicants 

would need to be asked to provide three 

pieces of information—sex, race/ 

ethnicity, and an identification number 

(a total of approximately 13 keystrokes); 

the employer may need to transfer 

information received to a database 

either manually or electronically; and 

the employer would need to store the 13 

characters of information for each 

applicant. Recordkeeping costs and 

burden are assumed to be the time cost 

associated with entering 13 keystrokes. 

Assuming that the required 

recordkeeping takes 30 seconds per 

record, and assuming a total of 

1,850,752,956 paper and electronic 

applications per year (as calculated 

above), the resulting UGESP burden 

hours would be 15,422,941. Based on a 

wage rate of $22.94 11 per hour for the 


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Statistics, May 2023 (see U.S. p of Labor, Bureau of 

Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and 

Wage Statistics, https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/ 

oes434161.htm). 

12Source of original data: U.S. Census Bureau, 

2021 Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB) (Dec. 

2023). (https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2021/ 

econ/susb/2021-susb-annual.html). Local 

Downloadable CSV data. Select U.S. & states, 6-digit 

NAICS. The original number of employers was 

adjusted to only include those with 15 or more 

employees. 

13Source of original data: 2021 Economic Census. 

(https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2021/econ/ 

susb/2021-susb-annual.html). Local Downloadable 

CSV data. Select U.S. & states, 6-digit NAICS. The 

original number of employers was adjusted to only 

include those with 15 or more employees. 

14See 29 CFR 1607.15A(1): Simplified 

recordkeeping for users with less than 100 

employees. In order to minimize recordkeeping 

burdens on employers who employ one hundred 

(100) or fewer employees, and other users not 

required to file EEO–1, et seq., reports, such users 

may satisfy the requirements of this section 15 if 

they maintain and have available records showing, 

for each year: (a) The number of persons hired, 

promoted, and terminated for each job, by sex, and 

where appropriate by race and national origin; 

(b)The number of applicants for hire and promotion 

by sex and where appropriate by race and national 

origin; and (c) The selection procedures utilized 

(either standardized or not standardized). 

individuals entering the data, the 

collection and storage of applicant 

demographic data would come to 

approximately $353,802,267 per year. 

The foregoing assumptions likely are 

over-inclusive because many employers 

have electronic job application 

processes that should be able to capture 

applicant flow data automatically. 

While the burden hours and costs for 

the UGESP recordkeeping requirement 

seem large, the average burden per 

employer is relatively small. UGESP 

applies to an estimated 887,869 

employers, or about 13.5% of employers 

in the U.S., and these employers employ 

about 86.2% of employees in the U.S.12

Therefore, the estimated cost per 

covered employer is about $398. 

Additionally, 36.4% of employees work 

for firms with at least 5,000 

employees,13 for which the burden of 

data entry is transferred to the 

applicants via use of electronic 

application systems. Finally, UGESP 

allows for simplified recordkeeping for 

employers with more than 15 but less 

than 100 employees.14

For the Commission. 

Dated: October 23, 2024. 

Charlotte A. Burrows, 

Chair. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25087 Filed 10–28–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6570–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–0179; FR ID 257346] 

Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

Commission 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

Commission) invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collections. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; ways to minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and ways to 

further reduce the information 

collection burden on small business 

concerns with fewer than 25 employees. 

The FCC may not conduct or sponsor 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) control 

number. No person shall be subject to 

any penalty for failing to comply with 

a collection of information subject to the 

PRA that does not display a valid OMB 

control number. 

DATES: Written PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before December 30, 

2024. If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting comments but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the contact listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Cathy Williams, FCC, via email to PRA@

fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection, contact Cathy 

Williams at (202) 418–2918. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0179. 

Title: Section 73.1590, Equipment 

Performance Measurements. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities; not-for-profit institutions. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 13,049 respondents and 

13,049 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.5–18 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: 

Recordkeeping requirement. 

Total Annual Burden: 12,335 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No cost. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. The statutory 

authority for this collection is contained 

in Section 154(i) of the Communications 

Act of 1934, as amended. 

Needs and Uses: The information 

collection requirements contained in 47 

CFR 73.1590(d) require licensees of AM, 

FM and TV stations to make audio and 

video equipment performance 

measurements for each main 

transmitter. These measurements and a 

description of the equipment and 

procedures used in making the 

measurements must be kept on file at 

the transmitter or remote control point 

for two years. In addition, this 

information must be made available to 

the FCC upon request. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25102 Filed 10–28–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–0715, OMB 3060–0742; FR ID 

257912] 

Information Collections Being 

Submitted for Review and Approval to 

Office of Management and Budget 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

the Commission) invites the general 

public and other Federal Agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection. 

Pursuant to the Small Business 

Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC 

seeks specific comment on how it might 

‘‘further reduce the information 

collection burden for small business 


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