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to this comment request; they will also 

become a matter of public record. 

Portia Wu, 

Assistant Secretary for Employment and 

Training, Labor. 

[FR Doc. 2015–04165 Filed 2–27–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FW–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Comment Request for Information 

Collection for Work Opportunity Tax 

Credit (WOTC) Program (OMB No. 

1205–0371), Extension Without 

Revisions of a Currently Approved 

Collection 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(Department), as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, conducts a 

preclearance consultation program to 

provide the 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 [44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)] (PRA). The PRA 

helps ensure that respondents can 

provide requested data in the desired 

format with minimal reporting burden 

(time and financial resources), 

collection instruments are clearly 

understood and the impact of collection 

requirements on respondents can be 

properly assessed. 

Currently, the Office Workforce 

Investment in ETA is soliciting 

comments concerning the proposed 

request for an extension of a collection 

of Work Opportunity Tax Credit 

(WOTC) program forms without 

changes. 

DATES: Submit written comments to the 

office listed in the addresses section 

below on or before May 1, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Ms. Kimberly Vitelli, Chief Division of 

National Programs Tools and Technical 

Assistance (DNPTTA), Room C–4510, 

Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20210. Telephone 

number: 202–693–3045 (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). Fax: 202–693– 

3015. Email: vitelli.kimberly@dol.gov. 

To obtain a copy of the proposed 

information collection request (ICR), 

please contact the person listed above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carmen Ortiz, WOTC National 

Coordinator at ortiz.carmen@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit 

(WOTC) program was created by the 

Small Business Job Protection Act of 

1996 (Pub. L. 104–188) and allows 

private-for-profit businesses, and 501(c) 

tax-exempt organizations that hire 

veterans, to obtain tax credits from the 

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for hiring 

hard-to-employ members of nine target 

groups. State workforce agencies 

(SWAs) process these requests and issue 

employers the final determination that a 

new hire is in one of the nine target 

groups, which employers then use to 

claim the tax credit to the IRS. Other 

legislation that imposes requirements on 

the WOTC program include the 

Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (Pub. L. 

105–34), which created the Welfare-toWork Tax Credit for a two-year period. 

The WtWTC expired on December 2005 

and its Long-term TANF Recipient 

group became part of the WOTC in 2006 

by Pub. L 109–432. Additional 

legislation includes the Tax Relief and 

Health Care Act (Pub. L. 109–432) 

passed in 2006, the Small Business and 

Work Opportunity Tax Act (Pub. L. 

110–28) passed in 2007, the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 

(Pub. L. 111–5), the VOW to Hire Heroes 

Act of 2011 (Pub. L. 112–56), the 

American Taxpayer Relief of 2012 (Pub. 

L. 112–240), the Tax Increase 

Prevention Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 113– 

295), and Section 51 of the Internal 

Revenue (IR) Code of 1986, as amended. 

Since its enactment, this program has 

experienced a series of authorization 

lapses and retroactive reauthorizations 

by Congress. 

On December 19, 2014, President 

Obama signed into law the Tax Increase 

Prevention Act of 2014 (the Act) (Pub. 

L. 113–295). On December 31, 2013 the 

legislative authority of the WOTC 

program expired, and this Act amended 

Sec. 51 of the IR Code by retroactively 

reauthorizing WOTC, without any 

amendments/changes to the program or 

the current target groups, through 

December 31, 2014. This retroactive 

extension applies to new hires who 

began to work for an employer on or 

after January 1, 2014 and before January 

1, 2015. Currently, the WOTC program’s 

legislative authority expired on 

December 31, 2014. 

This submission includes five WOTC 

program forms as follows: (1) A 

reporting form (ETA 9058); (2) two 

processing forms (ETA Forms 9061 

(English and Spanish versions) and 

9062; (3) and two administrative forms 

(ETA Forms 9063 and 9065). ETA Form 

9058 is used by SWAs to report to ETA 

information on processing of WOTC 

certification requests. ETA Form 9061 or 

9062 is used by employers to request 

certification for their new hires together 

with the IRS Form 8850. The SWAs use 

the information on these two forms to 

verify target group eligibility and 

process the employer’s requests. SWAs 

use ETA Form 9063 to issue the final 

certifications to eligible employers or 

their representatives and ETA Form 

9065 in their administrative quarterly 

internal audits. The design and format 

of ETA Form 9063 and 9065 is optional 

for the states. SWAs are no longer 

required to report to ETA the results of 

their internal audits (ETA 9065). 

The data collected under this 

submission is necessary for effective 

federal administration of the WOTC 

program, including allowing ETA and 

IRS to oversee state administration of 

the tax credit. Uniform program 

administration procedures and forms 

assure that businesses, especially 

multistate businesses that utilize the 

WOTC tax credit, receive consistent 

treatment from state to state regarding 

eligibility determinations and 

processing of their certification requests, 

and that the statutory rules for receipt 

of this tax credit requests are 

administered in a consistent manner by 

the SWAs. 

Since Public Laws 113–295 and 112– 

240 did not make any changes to the 

program or its target groups other than 

reauthorize the program through a 

specific period of time, the program’s 

administrative, processing and reporting 

forms have not been revised or 

amended. These forms expire on June 

30, 2015. ETA is requesting a 3-year 

expiration date of June 30, 2018. 

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; 


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• 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 submissions 

of responses. 

III. Current Actions 

Type of Review: Extension without 

revisions. 

Title: Work Opportunity Tax Credit 

(WOTC) program. 

OMB Number: 1205–0371. 

Affected Public: State Workforce 

Agencies (SWAs), private for profit 

employers, and since 2011, 501(c) taxexempt organizations hiring veterans. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondents: 

990,052. 

Annual Frequency: Quarterly, On 

Occasion, Annually. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

2,420,624. 

Average Time per Response: (For ETA 

Form 9058—1 hr; ETA Forms 9061– 

9063—.33; ETA Form 9065—1 hr.; and 

Record-Keeping—931 hrs.). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 847,445. 

Total Estimated Burden Cost (capital/ 

startup): 0. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/ 

maintaining): 0. 

We will summarize and/or include in 

the request for OMB approval of the 

ICR, the comments received in response 

to this comment request; they will also 

become a matter of public record. 

Portia Wu, 

Assistant Secretary for Employment and 

Training, Labor. 

[FR Doc. 2015–04166 Filed 2–27–15; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 

ADMINISTRATION 

[NARA–2015–030] 

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 at least once monthly 

of certain Federal agency requests for 

records disposition authority (records 

schedules). Once approved by NARA, 

records schedules provide mandatory 

instructions on what happens to records 

when no longer needed for current 

Government business. They authorize 

the National Archives of the United 

States to preserve records of continuing 

value and agencies to destroy, after a 

specified period, records lacking 

administrative, legal, research, or other 

value. NARA publishes notice for 

records schedules in which agencies 

propose to destroy records not 

previously authorized for disposal or 

reduce the retention period of records 

already authorized for disposal. NARA 

invites public comments on such 

records schedules, as required by 44 

U.S.C. 3303a(a). 

DATES: NARA must receive requests for 

copies in writing by April 1, 2015. Once 

NARA has completed appraisal of the 

records is completed, we will send you 

a copy of the schedule. NARA staff 

usually prepare appraisal memoranda 

that contain additional information 

concerning the records covered by a 

proposed schedule. You may also 

request these, and we will provide them 

once we have completed the appraisal. 

Requesters will be given 30 days to 

submit comments. 

ADDRESSES: You may request a copy of 

any records schedule identified in this 

notice by contacting Records 

Management Services (ACNR) using one 

of the following means: 

Mail: NARA (ACNR), 8601 Adelphi 

Road, College Park, MD 20740–6001. 

Email: request.schedule@nara.gov. 

FAX: 301–837–3698. 

Requesters must cite the control 

number, which appears in parentheses 

after the name of the agency which 

submitted the schedule, and must 

provide a mailing address. If you would 

also like the appraisal reports, please 

say so in your request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Margaret Hawkins, Director, Records 

Management Services (ACNR), by mail 

at: National Archives and Records 

Administration; 8601 Adelphi Road; 

College Park, MD 20740–6001, by 

telephone at 301–837–1799, or by email 

at request.schedule@nara.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year 

Federal agencies create billions of 

records on paper, film, magnetic tape, 

and other media. To control this 

accumulation, agency records managers 

prepare schedules proposing retention 

periods for records and submit these 

schedules for NARA’s approval. These 

schedules provide for timely transfer 

into the National Archives of 

historically valuable records and 

authorize disposal of all other records 

after the agency no longer needs them 

to conduct its business. Some schedules 

are comprehensive and cover all the 

records of an agency or one of its major 

subdivisions. Most schedules, however, 

cover records of only one office or 

program or a few series of records. Many 

of these update previously approved 

schedules, and some include records 

proposed as permanent. 

The schedules listed in this notice are 

media-neutral unless specified 

otherwise. An item in a schedule is 

media-neutral when the disposition 

instructions may be applied to records 

regardless of the medium in which the 

records are created and maintained. 

Items included in schedules submitted 

to NARA on or after December 17, 2007, 

are media-neutral unless the item is 

limited to a specific medium. (See 36 

CFR 1225.12(e).) 

No Federal records are authorized for 

destruction without the approval of the 

Archivist of the United States. This 

approval is granted only after a 

thorough consideration of their 

administrative use by the agency of 

origin, the rights of the Government and 

of private persons directly affected by 

the Government’s activities, and 

whether or not they have historical or 

other value. 

Besides identifying the Federal 

agencies and any subdivisions 

requesting disposition authority, this 

public notice lists the organizational 

unit(s) accumulating the records or 

indicates agency-wide applicability in 

the case of schedules that cover records 

that may be accumulated throughout an 

agency. This notice provides the control 

number assigned to each schedule, the 

total number of schedule items, and the 

number of temporary items (the records 

proposed for destruction). It also 

includes a brief description of the 

temporary records. The records 

schedule itself contains a full 

description of the records at the file unit 

level as well as their disposition. If 

NARA staff has prepared an appraisal 

memorandum for the schedule, it too 

includes information about the records. 

Further information about the 

disposition process is available on 

request. 

Schedules Pending 

1. Department of Defense, National 

Reconnaissance Office; Department of 

Defense, National GeospatialIntelligence Agency; Department of 

Defense, National Security Agency (N1– 

525–13–1, 5 items, 5 temporary items). 

Routine budget, finance, contracts, and 

procurement records associated with a 

multi-mission ground station. 


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