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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.

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Title: Labor Market Information (LMI)

Cooperative Agreement.

OMB Number: 1220–0079

(reinstatement with change).

Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal.

Collection forms Number of

respondents Frequency Total annualresponses

Average time per

response

Total

hours

Works statements ..................................................................... 55 1 55 1–2 Hours .................. 55–110.

Budget Information Form (BIF) (LMI 1A, 1B) ........................... 55 1 55 1–6 Hours .................. 55–330.

Quarterly Automated Financial Reports ................................... 48 4 192 10–50 Minutes ........... 32–160.

Monthly Automated Status Reports .......................................... 48 *8 384 5–25 Minutes ............. 32–160.

BLS Cooperative Statistics Financial Report (LMI 2A) ............ 7 12 84 1–5 Hours .................. 84–420.

Quarterly Status Report ............................................................ 1–30 4 4–120 1 Hour ....................... 4–120.

Total Ranges ..................................................................... 1–55 .................... 774–890 .................................... 262–1300.

Totals (Average) ................................................................ .................... .................... 832 56.3 Minutes .............. 781.

* Reports are not received for end-of-quarter month, i.e. December, March, June and September.

Total Annualized capital/startup

costs: $0.

Total Annual cost (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): $0.

Description: The Bureau of Labor

Statistics awards funds to State

Employment Security Agencies (SESAs)

in the 50 States, the District of

Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin

Islands, Guam, and American Samoa

each year to assist them in operating one

or more of five LMI cooperative

statistical programs: Current

Employment Statistics, Local Area

Unemployment Statistics, Occupation

Employment Statistics, Covered

Employment and Wages Report, and

Mass Layoff Statistics. The LMI

Cooperative Agreement includes all

information needed by the SESAs to

apply for these funds and once awarded,

report on the status of obligation and

expenditure of these funds, as well as

close out the cooperative agreement.

Agency: Employment Standards

Administration.

Title: Request for Employment

Information (CA–1027).

OMB Number: 1215–0105.

Frequency: On Occasion.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.

Number of Respondents: 1,000.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 15

minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 250 hours.

Total Annualized capital/startup

costs: 0.

Total annual costs (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): $320.

Description: Payment of

Compensation for partial disability to

injured Federal employees is required

under 5 U.S.C. 8106. This section also

requires the Office of Workers’

Compensation to obtain information

regarding a claimant’s earnings during a

period of eligibility to compensation.

The CA–1027 is used to obtain earnings

information for an individual employed

by a private employer and is used as

criteria for determining the claimant’s

entitlement to compensation benefits.

Agency: Employment Standards

Administration.

Title: Notice of Issuance of Insurance

Policy (CM–921).

OMB Number: 1215–0059.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; State, Local or Tribal

Government.

Number of Respondents: 60.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10

minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 667 hours.

Total Annualized capital/startup

costs: 0.

Total annual costs (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): $1,600.

Description: The CM–921 provides

insurance carriers with the means to

supply the Employment Standards

Administration with information

showing that a responsible coal mine

operator is insured against its Federal

Black Lung compensation liability

pursuant to the requirements

established in the Federal Black Lung

Benefits Act.

Agency: Employment and Training

Administration.

Title: Job Training Partnership (JTPA)

Title III Biennial State Plan.

OMB Number: 1205–0273.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal

Government.

Number of Respondents: 52.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 20

Hours.

Total Burden Hours: 1,040.

Total Annualized capital/startup

costs: 0.

Total annual costs (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): 0.

Description: The State Plan will

provide the Department of Labor with a

general description of each State’s plans

for the operation of Title III program and

its utilization of JTPA funds for this

purpose.

Todd R. Owen,

Departmental Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 98–1150 Filed 1–15–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–24–M

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

Notice of Availability of Funds and

Solicitation for Grant Applications

(SGA); Extension of the Closing Date

for Receipt of Applications

AGENCY: Employment and Training

Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Extension of the closing date for

receipt of applications.

SUMMARY: In the Federal Register of

December 9, 1997 (62 FR 64886), the

Department of Labor published a notice

of availability of funds and SGA for

engaging employers in State and local

School-to-Work (STW) systems through

efforts undertaken by industry groups

and trade associations. This notice

extends the closing date for receipt of

applications for an additional 30 days.

This action is necessary to insure

adequate preparation time for receiving

quality proposals.

DATES: The revised closing date for

receipt of application is February 23,

1998.
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ADDRESSES: Applications shall be

mailed to: U.S. Department of Labor,

Employment and Training

Administration, Division of Acquisition

and Assistance, Attention: Ms. Laura

Cesario, Reference: SGA/DAA 98–003,

200 Constitution Ave., N.W., Room S–

4203, Washington, D.C. 20210.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Division of Acquisition and Assistance,

telephone (202) 219-8694 (this is not a

toll free number). This notice will also

be published on the Internet, on the

Employment and Training

Administration’s Home Page at http://

www.doleta.gov.

Signed at Washington, D.C., this 12th day

of January, 1998.

Laura A. Gesario,

Grant Officer.

[FR Doc. 98–1106 Filed 1–15–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–30–M

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment Standards

Administration/Wage and Hour

Division

Minimum Wages for Federal and

Federally Assisted Construction;

General Wage Determination Decisions

General wage determination decisions

of the Secretary of Labor are issued in

accordance with applicable law and are

based on the information obtained by

the Department of Labor from its study

of local wage conditions and data made

available from other sources. They

specify the basic hourly wage rates and

fringe benefits which are determined to

be prevailing for the described classes of

laborers and mechanics employed on

construction projects of a similar

character and in the localities specified

therein.

The determinations in these decisions

of prevailing rates and fringe benefits

have been made in accordance with 29

CFR Part 1, by authority of the Secretary

of Labor pursuant to the provisions of

the Davis-Bacon Act of March 3, 1931,

as amended (46 Stat. 1494, as amended,

40 U.S.C. 276a) and of other Federal

statutes referred to in 29 CFR Part 1,

Appendix, as well as such additional

statutes as may from time to time be

enacted containing provisions for the

payment of wages determined to be

prevailing by the Secretary of Labor in

accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act.

The prevailing rates and fringe benefits

determined in these decisions shall, in

accordance with the provisions of the

foregoing statutes, constitute the

minimum wages payable on Federal and

federally assisted construction projects

to laborers and mechanics of the

specified classes engaged on contract

work of the character and in the

localities described therein.

Good cause is hereby found for not

utilizing notice and public comment

procedure thereon prior to the issuance

of these determinations as prescribed in

5 U.S.C. 553 and not providing for delay

in the effective date as prescribed in that

section, because the necessity to issue

current construction industry wage

determinations frequently and in large

volume causes procedures to be

impractical and contrary to the public

interest.

General wage determination

decisions, and modifications and

supersedes decisions thereto, contain no

expiration dates and are effective from

their date of notice in the Federal

Register, or on the date written notice

is received by the agency, whichever is

earlier. These decisions are to be used

in accordance with the provisions of 29

CFR Parts 1 and 5. Accordingly, the

applicable decisions of 29 CFR Parts 1

and 5. Accordingly, the applicable

decision, together with any

modifications issued, must be made a

part of every contract for performance of

the described work within the

geographic area indicated as required by

an applicable Federal prevailing wage

law and 29 CFR Part 5. The wage rates

and fringe benefits, notice of which is

published herein, and which are

contained in the Government Printing

Office (GPO) document entitled

‘‘General Wage Determinations Issued

Under The Davis-Bacon And Related

Acts,’’ shall be the minimum paid by

contractors and subcontractors to

laborers and mechanics.

Any person, organization, or

governmental agency having an interest

in the rates determined as prevailing is

encouraged to submit wage rate and

fringe benefit information for

consideration by the Department.

Further information and selfexplanatory forms for the purpose of

submitting this data may be obtained by

writing to the U.S. Department of Labor,

Employment Standards Administration,

Wage and Hour Division, Division of

Wage Determinations, 200 Constitution

Avenue, N.W., Room S–3014,

Washington, D.C. 20210.

Withdrawn General Wage

Determination Decision

This is to advise all interested parties

that the Department of Labor is

withdrawing, from the date of this

notice, General Wage Determination No.

M0970041 dated February 14, 1997.

Agencies with construction projects

pending, to which this wage decision

would have been applicable, should

utilize Wage Decision No. M0970013.

Contracts for which bids have been

opened shall not be affected by this

notice. Also consistent with 29 CFR

1.6(c)(2)(i)(A), when the opening of bids

is less than ten (10) days from the date

of this notice, this action shall be

effective unless the agency finds that

there is insufficient time to notify

bidders of the change and the finding is

documented in the contract file.

Modifications of General Wage

Determination Decisions

The number of decisions listed in the

Government Printing Office document

entitled ‘‘General Wage Determinations

Issued Under the Davis-Bacon and

Related Acts’’ being modified are listed

by Volume and State. Dates of

publication in the Federal Register are

in parentheses following the decisions

being modified.

Volume I

New Jersey:

NJ970002 (Feb. 14, 1997)

NJ970003 (Feb. 14, 1997)

NJ970007 (Feb. 14, 1997)

Volume II

Maryland:

MD970001 (Feb. 14, 1997)

MD970002 (Feb. 14, 1997)

MD970031 (Feb. 14, 1997)

Virginia:

VA970014 (Feb. 14, 1997)

VA970064 (Feb. 14, 1997)

Volume III

Alabama:

AL970004 (Feb. 14, 1997)

AL970006 (Feb. 14, 1997)

AL970008 (Feb. 14, 1997)

AL970017 (Feb. 14, 1997)

AL970033 (Feb. 14, 1997)

AL970034 (Feb. 14, 1997)

AL970042 (Feb. 14, 1997)

Kentucky:

KY970001 (Feb. 14, 1997)

KY970002 (Feb. 14, 1997)

KY970003 (Feb. 14, 1997)

KY970004 (Feb. 14, 1997)

KY970006 (Feb. 14, 1997)

KY970007 (Feb. 14, 1997)

KY970025 (Feb. 14, 1997)

KY970029 (Feb. 14, 1997)

KY970032 (Feb. 14, 1997)

KY970035 (Feb. 14, 1997)

Volume IV

Illinois:

IL970001 (Feb. 14, 1997)

IL970002 (Feb. 14, 1997)

IL970003 (Feb. 14, 1997)

IL970004 (Feb. 14, 1997)

IL970005 (Feb. 14, 1997)

IL970006 (Feb. 14, 1997)