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such supply or production is related to 

the article that was the basis for such 

certification; and 

(3) either— 

(A) the workers’ firm is a supplier and 

the component parts it supplied for the 

firm (or subdivision) described in 

paragraph (2) accounted for at least 20 

percent of the production or sales of the 

workers’ firm; or 

(B) a loss or business by the workers’ 

firm with the firm (or subdivision) 

described in paragraph (2) contributed 

importantly to the workers’ separation 

or threat of separation. 

In order for the Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance to issue a 

certification of eligibility to apply for 

Alternative Trade Adjustment 

Assistance (ATAA) for older workers, 

the group eligibility requirements of 

Section 246(a)(3)(A)(ii) of the Trade Act 

must be met. 

1. Whether a significant number of 

workers in the workers’ firm are 50 

years of age or older. 

2. Whether the workers in the 

workers’ firm possess skills that are not 

easily transferable. 

3. The competitive conditions within 

the workers’ industry (i.e., conditions 

within the industry are adverse). 

Affirmative Determinations for Worker 

Adjustment Assistance 

The following certifications have been 

issued. The date following the company 

name and location of each 

determination references the impact 

date for all workers of such 

determination. 

None. 

Affirmative Determinations for Worker 

Adjustment Assistance And Alternative 

Trade Adjustment Assistance 

The following certifications have been 

issued. The date following the company 

name and location of each 

determination references the impact 

date for all workers of such 

determination. 

The following certifications have been 

issued. The requirements of Section 

222(a)(2)(A) (increased imports) and 

Section 246(a)(3)(A)(ii) of the Trade Act 

have been met. 

85,664, Kraft Foods Group Global, Inc., 

Woburn, Massachusetts. November 

20, 2013. 

85,691, Covidien LP, North Haven, 

Connecticut. December 3, 2013. 

85,698, General Motors, Lansing, 

Michigan. December 5, 2013. 

85,710, Hugo Boss Cleveland, Inc., 

Brooklyn, Ohio. December 10, 2013. 

85,711, General Electric, Dekalb, 

Illinois. December 10, 2013. 

85,715, Vermont Circuits, Inc., 

Brattleboro, Vermont. December 11, 

2013. 

85,728, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., 

Austin, Texas. January 11, 2014. 

85,736, Kolektor TKI Inc., Fountain Inn., 

South Carolina. December 7, 2013. 

85,738, XRS Corporation, Burnsville, 

Minnesota. December 18, 2013. 

85,740, Amerida Premium Hardwoods, 

Greenville, Michigan. December 18, 

2013. 

85,742, General Motors Lake Orion 

Assembly, Lake Orion, Michigan. 

December 19, 2013. 

85,748, Littelfuse Inc., Lake Mills, 

Wisconsin. December 29, 2013. 

85,750, Maracom Corporation, Willmar, 

Minnesota. December 30, 2013. 

85,754, Hypertronics Corporation, 

Hudson, Massachusetts. December 

16, 2013. 

Negative Determinations for Alternative 

Trade Adjustment Assistance 

In the following cases, it has been 

determined that the requirements of 

246(a)(3)(A)(ii) have not been met for 

the reasons specified. 

None. 

Negative Determinations For Worker 

Adjustment Assistance and Alternative 

Trade Adjustment Assistance 

In the following cases, the 

investigation revealed that the eligibility 

criteria for worker adjustment assistance 

have not been met for the reasons 

specified. 

Because the workers of the firm are 

not eligible to apply for TAA, the 

workers cannot be certified eligible for 

ATAA. 

The investigation revealed that 

criteria (a)(2)(A)(I.C.) (increased 

imports) and (a)(2)(B)(II.B.) (shift in 

production to a foreign country) have 

not been met. 

85,589, Original Chili Bowl, Tulsa, 

Oklahoma. 

The workers’ firm does not produce 

an article as required for certification 

under Section 222 of the Trade Act of 

1974. 

85,702, JP Morgan Chase and Company, 

Lowell, Massachusetts. 

85,747, JP Morgan Chase and Company, 

Akron, Ohio. 

85,749, St. Thomas Medical Group, 

Nashville, Tennessee. 

Determinations Terminating 

Investigations of Petitions for Worker 

Adjustment Assistance 

After notice of the petitions was 

published in the Federal Register and 

on the Department’s Web site, as 

required by Section 221 of the Act (19 

U.S.C. 2271), the Department initiated 

investigations of these petitions. 

The following determinations 

terminating investigations were issued 

because the petitioner has requested 

that the petition be withdrawn. 

85,755, Linatex Corporation of America, 

St. Croix Falls. 

The following determinations 

terminating investigations were issued 

because the petitioning groups of 

workers are covered by active 

certifications. Consequently, further 

investigation in these cases would serve 

no purpose since the petitioning group 

of workers cannot be covered by more 

than one certification at a time. 

85,768, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, 

St Louis, Missouri. 

I hereby certify that the 

aforementioned determinations were 

issued during the period of January 19, 

2015 through January 30, 2015. These 

determinations are available on the 

Department’s Web site www.tradeact/

taa/taa_search_form.cfm under the 

searchable listing of determinations or 

by calling the Office of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance toll free at 888– 

365–6822. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of 

February 2015. 

Michael W. Jaffe, 

Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Proposed collection, comment request 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 

(PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This 

program helps to ensure that 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 

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of the ‘‘Occupational Requirements 

Survey.’’ A copy of the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) 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 20, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora 

Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, 

Division of Management Systems, 

Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 

2 Massachusetts Avenue NE., 

Washington, DC 20212. Written 

comments also may be transmitted by 

fax to 202–691–5111 (this is not a toll 

free number). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, at 

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

number). (See ADDRESSES section.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Occupational Requirements 

Survey (ORS) is a nationwide survey 

that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) 

will conduct at the request of the Social 

Security Administration (SSA). The first 

three years of data collection and 

capture for the ORS will start in 2015 

and end in mid-2018. 

Estimates produced from the data 

collected by the ORS will be used by the 

SSA to update occupational 

requirements data in administering the 

Social Security Disability Insurance 

(SSDI) and Supplemental Security 

Income (SSI) programs. 

The new ORS occupational 

information will allow SSA adjudicators 

to clearly associate the assessment of a 

claimant’s physical and mental 

functional capacity and vocational 

profile with work requirements. BLS 

will compute percentages of workers 

with various characteristics, such as 

skill and strength level. SSA will use 

this information to provide statistical 

support for the medical-vocational rules 

used at step 5 of sequential evaluation 

regarding the number of unskilled jobs 

that exist at each level of exertion in the 

national economy. 

The Social Security Administration, 

Members of Congress, and 

representatives of the disability 

community have all identified 

collection of updated information on the 

requirements of work in today’s 

economy as crucial to the equitable and 

efficient operation of the Social Security 

Disability (SSDI) program. The 

information currently available is more 

than 20 years old. 

The ORS will collect data from a 

sample of employers. These 

requirements of work data will consist 

of information about the duties, 

responsibilities, and job tasks for a 

sample of occupations for each sampled 

employer. 

In October 2014, BLS commenced the 

collection of a six-month ORS Preproduction test. The goal of the Preproduction test is to test all survey 

activities by mirroring production 

procedures, processes and protocols as 

closely as possible. All ORS data 

elements planned for Production are 

being collected during the test. 

Production activities mirrored in the 

Pre-production test include selecting 

ORS samples, training staff, conducting 

calibration exercises, collecting the data, 

conducting all review activities, 

calculating estimates and standard 

errors, validating the estimates, and 

applying publication criteria to the 

computed estimates. Data from this test 

that meets BLS publication criteria will 

be provided to SSA and released in a 

research report for the public. However, 

due to the sample size of this test, the 

BLS only expects to be able to compute 

and release data for a very limited 

number of occupations or occupational 

groups, and these data will not be 

suitable for SSA disability 

determinations. 

BLS received comments on both the 

March 24, 2014, 60 day Federal Register 

(79 FR 16058) and July 23, 2014, 30 day 

Federal Register notice (79 FR 42829) 

for the six-month ORS Pre-production 

test. To assure that BLS is addressing all 

of these comments thoroughly, BLS 

consulted with an outside subject matter 

expert to gain a better understanding of 

occupational requirements data. The 

consultant reviewed and analyzed 

literature related to the reliability and 

validity of occupational requirements 

data and provided the BLS with 

recommendations for testing reliability 

and validity. Given the 

recommendations from the subject 

matter expert, BLS plans to begin a 

review initiative in FY 2015 including 

the development of a methodological 

guide, evaluation of benchmarks for 

data collection, and future testing of 

inter-rater reliability. These 

recommendations, as well as the 

previous refinements of the collection 

procedures, the data review process, 

and the validation techniques 

developed to date will ensure ORS 

produces quality occupational data in 

the areas of vocational preparation, 

mental-cognitive and physical 

requirements, and environmental 

conditions as the BLS moves into full 

production. 

II. Current Action 

Office of Management and Budget 

clearance is being sought for the 

Occupational Requirements Survey. 

The following data will be collected 

during the ORS as defined by the SSA’s 

disability program and are data that the 

NCS does not currently collect: 

(1) An indicator of ‘‘time to 

proficiency,’’ defined as the amount of 

time required by a typical worker to 

learn the techniques, acquire the 

information, and develop the facility 

needed for average job performance, 

comparable to the Specific Vocational 

Preparation (SVP) used in the 

Dictionary of Occupational Titles 

(DOT). 

(2) Physical Demand characteristics/

factors of occupations, measured in 

such a way to support SSA disability 

determination needs, comparable to 

measures in Appendix C of the Selected 

Characteristics of Occupations (SCO). 

(3) Environmental Conditions, 

measured in such a way to support SSA 

disability determination needs, 

comparable to measures in Appendix D 

of the SCO. 

(4) Data elements that describe the 

mental and cognitive demands of work. 

(5) Occupational Task lists data as 

identified in the Employment and 

Training Administration’s (ETA’s) 

O*NET Program in order to validate the 

key tasks common across establishments 

and identify other tasks commonly 

performed. 

Some data needed for ORS are 

currently collected by BLS’s National 

Compensation Survey (NCS). The ORS 

data will be collected with the same 

methodology as data collected for NCS. 

The general establishment data 

collected on establishments in the 

survey samples will be the same for 

ORS and NCS. The Probability Selection 

of Occupations (PSO) methodology—a 

disaggregating technique for selecting 

individual items from a large number of 

items—will also be used by both ORS 

and NCS. For ORS and NCS, these items 

are employees, occupations, divisions, 

or sub-units depending upon the 

application of the sampling procedure 

being used. The work level of jobs data 

(factor evaluation method with four 

factors to evaluate the work level) 

methodology will also be used in the 

ORS survey, as it is currently in NCS. 

BLS will disseminate the data from 

the ORS on the BLS public Web site 

(www.bls.gov/ors). 

The ORS will have two collection 

forms (having unique private industry 

and government collection forms for 

each). For those sampled establishments 

that are in the current National 


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Compensation Survey (NCS), ORS will 

use NCS data and forms for those data 

elements that overlap. 

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. 

Type of Review: New Collection. 

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Title: Occupational Requirements 

Survey. 

OMB Number: 1220–NEW. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit; not-for-profit institutions; and 

State, local, and tribal government. 

Total Respondents: 10,402 (three-year 

average). 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

$0. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintenance): $0. 

All figures in the table below are 

based on a three-year average. The total 

respondents in the table are greater than 

the figure shown above because many 

respondents are asked to provide 

information relating to more than one 

form. 

Form Total respondents per form Frequency Total annual 

responses * 

Minutes for the 

predominant 

form use 

Total hours * 

Establishment, work level, and schedule collection form 

(ORS Form 15–1G ) ......................................................... 1,366 1 1,366 54 1,229 

Establishment, work level, and schedule collection form 

(ORS Form 15–1P ) ......................................................... 8,246 1 8,246 54 7,421 

Occupation requirements (ORS Form 4 PPD–4G) ............. 1,507 1 1,507 66 1,658 

Occupation requirements (ORS Form 4 PPD–4P) .............. 8,545 1 8,545 66 9,400 

Collection not tied to a specific form (Quality Assurance, 

Testing) ............................................................................. 853 1 853 ........................ 476 

TOTALS ........................................................................ 20,516 ........................ 20,516 ........................ 20,184 

* The sum of individual items may not equal totals due to rounding. 

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, this 12th day of 

February 2015. 

Eric Molina, 

Acting Chief, Division of Management 

Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

[FR Doc. 2015–03291 Filed 2–17–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2007–0043] 

TU ̈ V SU ̈ D America, Inc.: Grant of 

Expansion of Recognition 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, OSHA 

announces its final decision to expand 

the scope of recognition for TU ̈ V SU ̈ D 

America, Inc., as a Nationally 

Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL). 

DATES: The expansion of the scope of 

recognition becomes effective on 

February 18, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Information regarding this notice is 

available from the following sources: 

Press inquiries: Contact Mr. Frank 

Meilinger, Director, OSHA Office of 

Communications, U.S. Department of 

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Room N–3647, Washington, DC 20210; 

telephone: (202) 693–1999; email: 

Meilinger.francis2@dol.gov. 

General and technical information: 

Contact Mr. Kevin Robinson, Acting 

Director, Office of Technical Programs 

and Coordination Activities, Directorate 

of Technical Support and Emergency 

Management, Occupational Safety and 

Health Administration, U.S. Department 

of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Room N–3655, Washington, DC 20210; 

telephone: (202) 693–2110; email: 

robinson.kevin@dol.gov. OSHA’s Web 

page includes information about the 

NRTL Program (see http://

www.osha.gov/dts/otpca/nrtl/

index.html). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Notice of Final Decision 

OSHA hereby gives notice of the 

expansion of the scope of recognition of 

TU ̈ V SU ̈ D America, Inc. (TUVAM), as 

an NRTL. TUVAM’s expansion covers 

the addition of one test standard to its 

scope of recognition. 

OSHA recognition of an NRTL 

signifies that the organization meets the 

requirements specified by 29 CFR 

1910.7. Recognition is an 

acknowledgment that the organization 

can perform independent safety testing 

and certification of the specific products 

covered within its scope of recognition, 

and is not a delegation or grant of 

government authority. As a result of 

recognition, employers may use 

products properly approved by the 

NRTL to meet OSHA standards that 

require testing and certification of the 

products. 

The Agency processes applications by 

an NRTL for initial recognition, or for 

expansion or renewal of this 

recognition, following requirements in 

Appendix A to 29 CFR 1910.7. This 

appendix requires that the Agency 

publish two notices in the Federal 

Register in processing an application. In 

the first notice, OSHA announces the 

application and provides its preliminary 

finding and, in the second notice, the 

Agency provides its final decision on 

the application. These notices set forth 

the NRTL’s scope of recognition or 

modifications of that scope. OSHA 

maintains an informational Web page 


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