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with instructions issued by the 

Department. The assessment and 

instructions are referred to as the Tax 

Performance System (TPS). Currently, 

the ETA is soliciting comments 

concerning the collection of data 

pertaining to the TPS. 

DATES: Submit written comments to the 

office listed in the address section 

below on or before March 24, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Joseph 

Toth, Office of Unemployment 

Insurance, Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Room S–4522, 200 Constitution 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC, 20210. 

Telephone number 202–693–3894 (this 

is not a toll-free number). Individuals 

with hearing or speech impairments 

may access the telephone number above 

via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal 

Information Relay Service at 1–877– 

889–5627 (TTY/TDD). Email: 

toth.joseph@dol.gov. To obtain a copy of 

the proposed information collection 

request (ICR), please contact the person 

listed above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Since 1987, states have been required 

by regulation at 20 CFR part 602 to 

operate a program to assess their 

Unemployment Insurance (UI) tax and 

benefit programs. TPS is designed to 

assess the major internal UI tax 

functions by utilizing several 

methodologies: Computed Measures, 

which are indicators of timeliness and 

completeness based on data 

automatically generated via the existing 

ETA 581, Contribution Operations 

Report (Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approval number 1205– 

0178, expiring 02/28/2015, and 

currently under review for extension at 

OMB); and Program Reviews, which 

assess accuracy through a two-fold 

examination. This examination 

involves: (a) ‘‘Systems Reviews’’ which 

examine tax systems for the existence of 

internal controls; and (b) extraction of 

small samples of those systems’ 

transactions which are then examined to 

verify the effectiveness of controls. 

II. Review Focus 

The Department is particularly 

interested in comments which: 

• 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 

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. 

III. Current Actions 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change. 

Title: Tax Performance System. 

OMB Number: 1205–0332. 

Affected Public: State Workforce 

Agencies. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondents: 

52. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses:: 

1739 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 90,428. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Cost 

Burden: $4,543,637. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of the ICR; they will also 

become a matter of public record. 

Portia Wu, 

Assistant Secretary for Employment and 

Training, Labor. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01137 Filed 1–22–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FW–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Investigations Regarding Eligibility To 

Apply for Worker Adjustment 

Assistance 

Petitions have been filed with the 

Secretary of Labor under Section 221(a) 

of the Trade Act of 1974 (‘‘the Act’’) and 

are identified in the Appendix to this 

notice. Upon receipt of these petitions, 

the Director of the Office of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance, Employment 

and Training Administration, has 

instituted investigations pursuant to 

Section 221(a) of the Act. 

The purpose of each of the 

investigations is to determine whether 

the workers are eligible to apply for 

adjustment assistance under Title II, 

Chapter 2, of the Act. The investigations 

will further relate, as appropriate, to the 

determination of the date on which total 

or partial separations began or 

threatened to begin and the subdivision 

of the firm involved. 

The petitioners or any other persons 

showing a substantial interest in the 

subject matter of the investigations may 

request a public hearing, provided such 

request is filed in writing with the 

Director, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance, at the address shown below, 

not later than February 2, 2015. 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit written comments regarding the 

subject matter of the investigations to 

the Director, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance, at the address shown below, 

not later than February 2, 2015. 

The petitions filed in this case are 

available for inspection at the Office of 

the Director, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance, Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Room N–5428, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 8th day of 

January 2015. 

Michael W. Jaffe, 

Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance. 

APPENDIX

[33 TAA Petitions instituted between 12/15/14 and 1/2/15] 

TA–W Subject firm 

(petitioners) Location Date of institution 

Date of 

petition 

85719 ................ Mastercraft Specialties (Workers) ........................................ Red Lion, PA ......................... 12/15/14 12/15/14 

85720 ................ Xerox Commercial Solutions, LLC (State/One-Stop) ........... Kennett, MO .......................... 12/15/14 12/12/14 

85721 ................ IBM—International Business Machine (State/One-Stop) ..... San Antonio, TX .................... 12/15/14 12/12/14 

85722 ................ Triumph Aerostructures, Vought Aircraft Division (State/

One-Stop).

Red Oak, TX ......................... 12/15/14 12/12/14 

85723 ................ Covidien (Company) ............................................................. Costa Mesa, CA .................... 12/16/14 12/15/14 

85724 ................ Fiberoptic Lighting Inc. (State/One-Stop) ............................. Grants Pass, OR ................... 12/16/14 12/15/14 


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APPENDIX—Continued 

[33 TAA Petitions instituted between 12/15/14 and 1/2/15] 

TA–W Subject firm 

(petitioners) Location Date of institution 

Date of 

petition 

85725 ................ LexisNexis (Company) ......................................................... Colorado Springs, CO ........... 12/16/14 12/15/14 

85726 ................ Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Group Americas Supply Chain 

Houston Manufacturing (Company).

Houston, TX .......................... 12/16/14 12/15/14 

85727 ................ Tokyo Electron America (Workers) ...................................... Rio Rancho, NM ................... 12/16/14 11/10/14 

85728 ................ Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (State/One-Stop) ................. Austin, TX ............................. 12/16/14 12/15/14 

85729 ................ General Cable Corporation (Company) ............................... Altoona, PA ........................... 12/17/14 12/16/14 

85730 ................ Johnston Textiles, Inc. (Company) ....................................... Phoenix City, AL ................... 12/17/14 12/16/14 

85731 ................ Sun Life Financial (State/One-Stop) .................................... Wellesley, MA ....................... 12/17/14 12/16/14 

85732 ................ Norandal USA, Inc (State/One-Stop) ................................... Newport, AR .......................... 12/18/14 12/17/14 

85733 ................ Brake Parts Inc. (Company) ................................................. Stanford, KY .......................... 12/18/14 12/17/14 

85734 ................ Magy Staffing (Company) ..................................................... Holland, OH .......................... 12/18/14 12/16/14 

85735 ................ Verge America Ltd. (Workers) .............................................. New Windsor, NY ................. 12/18/14 12/16/14 

85736 ................ Kolektor TKI Inc. (Company) ................................................ Fountain Inn, SC ................... 12/18/14 12/17/14 

85737 ................ Quantum Foods (Workers) ................................................... Bolingbrook, IL ...................... 12/18/14 12/17/14 

85738 ................ XRS Corporation (Company) ............................................... Burnsville, MN ....................... 12/19/14 12/18/14 

85739 ................ Nippon Paper Industries USA (Union) ................................. Port Angeles, WA ................. 12/19/14 12/18/14 

85740 ................ Amerida Premium Hardwoods (State/One-Stop) ................. Greenville, MI ........................ 12/19/14 12/18/14 

85741 ................ Maersk (Workers) ................................................................. Charlotte, NC ........................ 12/22/14 12/19/14 

85742 ................ GM Orion Assembly (State/One-Stop) ................................. Lake Orion, MI ...................... 12/22/14 12/19/14 

85743 ................ Osram Sylvania Inc. (Union) ................................................ St. Mary’s, PA ....................... 12/22/14 12/19/14 

85744 ................ Kroll Factual Data (Company) .............................................. Loveland, CO ........................ 12/22/14 12/19/14 

85745 ................ International Paper Company (Company) ............................ Suffolk, VA ............................ 12/23/14 12/22/14 

85746 ................ Pilkington North America (Union) ......................................... Lathrop, CA ........................... 12/29/14 12/26/14 

85747 ................ JP Morgan Chase (Workers) ................................................ Akron, OH ............................. 12/29/14 12/05/14 

85748 ................ Littelfuse Inc. (Company) ..................................................... Lake Mills, WI ....................... 12/30/14 12/29/14 

85749 ................ St. Thomas Medical Group LLC (Workers) .......................... Nashville, TN ......................... 12/31/14 12/31/14 

85750 ................ Maracom Corporation (Company) ........................................ Willmar, MN .......................... 12/31/14 12/30/14 

85751 ................ DST Systems Inc (Workers) ................................................. Kansas City, MO ................... 01/02/15 01/01/15 

[FR Doc. 2015–01161 Filed 1–22–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Notice of Determinations Regarding 

Eligibility To Apply for Worker 

Adjustment Assistance and Alternative 

Trade Adjustment Assistance 

In accordance with section 223 of the 

Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 

U.S.C. 2273) the Department of Labor 

herein presents summaries of 

determinations regarding eligibility to 

apply for trade adjustment assistance for 

workers (TA–W) number and alternative 

trade adjustment assistance (ATAA) by 

(TA–W) number issued during the 

period of December 15, 2014 through 

January 2, 2015. 

In order for an affirmative 

determination to be made for workers of 

a primary firm and a certification issued 

regarding eligibility to apply for worker 

adjustment assistance, each of the group 

eligibility requirements of section 222(a) 

of the Act must be met. 

I. Section (a)(2)(A) all of the following 

must be satisfied: 

A. A significant number or proportion 

of the workers in such workers’ firm, or 

an appropriate subdivision of the firm, 

have become totally or partially 

separated, or are threatened to become 

totally or partially separated; 

B. the sales or production, or both, of 

such firm or subdivision have decreased 

absolutely; and 

C. increased imports of articles like or 

directly competitive with articles 

produced by such firm or subdivision 

have contributed importantly to such 

workers’ separation or threat of 

separation and to the decline in sales or 

production of such firm or subdivision; 

or 

II. Section (a)(2)(B) both of the 

following must be satisfied: 

A. A significant number or proportion 

of the workers in such workers’ firm, or 

an appropriate subdivision of the firm, 

have become totally or partially 

separated, or are threatened to become 

totally or partially separated; 

B. there has been a shift in production 

by such workers’ firm or subdivision to 

a foreign country of articles like or 

directly competitive with articles which 

are produced by such firm or 

subdivision; and 

C. One of the following must be 

satisfied: 

1. The country to which the workers’ 

firm has shifted production of the 

articles is a party to a free trade 

agreement with the United States; 

2. the country to which the workers’ 

firm has shifted production of the 

articles to a beneficiary country under 

the Andean Trade Preference Act, 

African Growth and Opportunity Act, or 

the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery 

Act; or 

3. there has been or is likely to be an 

increase in imports of articles that are 

like or directly competitive with articles 

which are or were produced by such 

firm or subdivision. 

Also, in order for an affirmative 

determination to be made for 

secondarily affected workers of a firm 

and a certification issued regarding 

eligibility to apply for worker 

adjustment assistance, each of the group 

eligibility requirements of section 222(b) 

of the Act must be met. 

(1) Significant number or proportion 

of the workers in the workers’ firm or 

an appropriate subdivision of the firm 

have become totally or partially 

separated, or are threatened to become 

totally or partially separated; 

(2) the workers’ firm (or subdivision) 

is a supplier or downstream producer to 

a firm (or subdivision) that employed a 

group of workers who received a 

certification of eligibility to apply for 

trade adjustment assistance benefits and 

such supply or production is related to 

the article that was the basis for such 

certification; and 


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