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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: Employment Standards

Administration.

Title: Survivor’s Form for Benefits.

OMB Number: 1215–0069 (Revision).

Form Number: CM–912, CM–1089.

Frequency: One time application.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households.

Number of Respondents: 3,300.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 8

minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 440.

Total annualized capital/startup

costs: $0.

Total annual costs (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): $945.

Description: This collection of

information is required to administer

the benefit payment provision of the

Black Lung benefits Act for survivors of

deceased coal miners. This information

collection request revises the current

form CM–912, and to incorporate

information formerly collected on the

Form CM–1089, Survivor’s Notification

of Benefit’s Death, approved under the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) control number 1215–1089.

Upon OMB approval of the revised CM–

912, CM–1089 will be eliminated

Agency: Employment and Training

Administration.

Title: Evaluation of the Impact of Job

Corps on Participant’s Postprogram

Labor Market and Related Behaviors—

Follow-up Questionnaire and Process

Study Protocols.

OMB Number: 1205–0360 (Extension).

Frequency: Twice.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households.

Number of Respondents: 14,168.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 45

minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 26,512.

Total annualized capital/startup

costs: $0.

Total annual (operating/maintaining

systems or purchasing services): $0.

Description: Data from follow-up

questionnaires will be used to measure

impacts of Job Corps on participants’

earning and related behavior. Data will

be used to estimate the benefits and

costs of Job Corps.

Agency: Employment and Training

Administration.

Title: Procedures for Classifying Labor

Surplus Areas.

OMB Number: 1205–0207 (Extension).

Frequency: On occasion.

Affected Public: State or Local

governments.

Number of Respondents: 52.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1

hour.

Total Burden Hours: 208 hours.

Total annualized capital/startup

costs: $0.

Total annual costs (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): $0.

Description: DOL issues an annual list

of labor surplus areas (LSAs) so that

Federal agencies can direct procurement

contracts to employers in high

unemployment areas. The annual

surplus areas list is updated during the

year based upon petitions submitted to

DOL by State employment security

agencies requesting additional areas for

classification.

Agency: Employment and Training

Administration.

Title: Standardized Participant

Information Report for the Job Training

Partnership Act (JTPA) Title IV, Section

402 Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker

Programs.

OMB Number: 1205–0350 (Extension).

Frequency: Quarterly.

Affected Public: Not-for-profit

institutions.

Number of Respondents: 53.

Estimated Time per Respondent: 18

hours.

Total Burden Hours: 954 hours.

Total annualized capital/startup

costs: $0.

Total annual costs (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): $265,000.

Description: Migrant and Seasonal

Farmworkers, Employment and

Training Programs’ requires grantees to

collect and report standardized

information on participants of JTPA

Title IV, Section 402-funded programs.

Todd R. Owen,

Departmental Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 98–15755 Filed 6–11–98; 8:45 am]

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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 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
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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, NW., Room S–3014,

Washington, DC 20210.

Modifications to 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

Massachusetts

MA980001 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MA980002 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MA980003 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MA980006 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MA980007 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MA980008 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MA980009 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MA980010 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MA980017 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MA980018 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MA980019 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MA980020 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MA980021 (Feb. 13, 1998)

New York

NY980002 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980003 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980004 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980005 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980006 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980007 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980008 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980010 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980011 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980012 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980013 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980014 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980015 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980016 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980017 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980018 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980019 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980021 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980022 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980025 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980026 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980031 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980032 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980033 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980034 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980036 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980037 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980038 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980039 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980040 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980041 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980042 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980043 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980044 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980045 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980046 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980047 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980048 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980049 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980050 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980051 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980072 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980075 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980076 (Feb. 13, 1998)

NY980077 (Feb. 13, 1998)

Volume II

Pennsylvania

PA980005 (Feb. 13, 1998)

PA980006 (Feb. 13, 1998)

PA980025 (Feb. 13, 1998)

PA980026 (Feb. 13, 1998)

PA980030 (Feb. 13, 1998)

PA980031 (Feb. 13, 1998)

Virginia

VA980079 (Feb. 13, 1998)

Volume III

None

Volume IV

None

Volume V

Iowa

IA980013 (Feb. 13, 1998)

IA980032 (Feb. 13, 1998)

Kansas

KS980006 (Feb. 13, 1998)

KS980007 (Feb. 13, 1998)

KS980008 (Feb. 13, 1998)

KS980012 (Feb. 13, 1998)

KS980013 (Feb. 13, 1998)

KS980016 (Feb. 13, 1998)

KS980018 (Feb. 13, 1998)

KS980020 (Feb. 13, 1998)

KS980021 (Feb. 13, 1998)

KS980022 (Feb. 13, 1998)

KS980023 (Feb. 13, 1998)

KS980026 (Feb. 13, 1998)

KS980063 (Feb. 13, 1998)

Missouri

MO980001 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MO980002 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MO980006 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MO980009 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MO980011 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MO980013 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MO980015 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MO980042 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MO980058 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MO980062 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MO980065 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MO980067 (Feb. 13, 1998)

MO980072 (Feb. 13, 1998)

Nebraska

NE980038 (Feb. 13, 1998)

Texas

TX980003 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980005 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980007 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980010 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980015 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980018 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980019 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980034 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980037 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980055 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980059 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980060 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980061 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980063 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980096 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980100 (Feb. 13, 1998)

TX980114 (Feb. 13, 1998)

Volume VI

Idaho

ID980001 (Feb. 13, 1998)

ID980002 (Feb. 13, 1998)

Oregon

OR980001 (Feb. 13, 1998)

OR980004 (Feb. 13, 1998)

OR980017 (Feb. 13, 1998)

Washington

WA980001 (Feb. 13, 1998)

WA980002 (Feb. 13, 1998)

WA980003 (Feb. 13, 1998)

WA980004 (Feb. 13, 1998)

WA980005 (Feb. 13, 1998)

WA980006 (Feb. 13, 1998)

WA980007 (Feb. 13, 1998)

WA980008 (Feb. 13, 1998)

WA980009 (Feb. 13, 1998)

WA980011 (Feb. 13, 1998)

WA980013 (Feb. 13, 1998)

WA980023 (Feb. 13, 1998)

Volume VII

Arizona

AZ980001 (Feb. 13, 1998)

AZ980002 (Feb. 13, 1998)

General Wage Determination

Publication

General wage determinations issued

under the Davis-Bacon and related Acts,

including those noted above, may be

found in the Government Printing Office

(GPO) document entitled ‘‘General Wage

Determinations Issued Under The DavisBacon and Related Acts.’’ This

publication is available at each of the 50

Regional Government Depository

Libraries and many of the 1,400

Government Depository Libraries across

the country.

The general wage determinations

issued under the Davis-Bacon and

related Acts are available electronically

by subscription to the FedWorld

Bulletin Board System of the National

Technical Information Service (NTIS) of

the U.S. Department of Commerce at

(703) 487–4630.

Hard-copy subscriptions may be

purchased from: Superintendent of

Documents, U.S. Government Printing

Office, Washington, DC 20402, (202)

512–1800.

When ordering hard-copy

subscription(s), be sure to specify the

State(s) of interest, since subscriptions

may be ordered for any or all of the

seven separate volumes, arranged by

State. Subscriptions include an annual
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edition (issued in January or February)

which includes all current general wage

determinations for the States covered by

each volume. Throughout the remainder

of the year, regular weekly updates are

distributed to subscribers.

Signed at Washington, DC this 4th day of

June 1998.

Carl J. Poleskey,

Chief, Branch of Construction Wage

Determinations.

[FR Doc. 98–15406 Filed 6–11–98; 8:45 am]

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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. Currently, the Bureau

of Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting

comments concerning the proposed

revision of the ‘‘The Consumer

Expenditure Quarterly Interview and

Diary Surveys.’’

A copy of the proposed information

collection request (ICR) can be obtained

by contracting the individual listed

below in the addressee section of this

notice.

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted to the office listed in the

addressee section below on or before

August 11, 1998.

BLS is particularly interested in

comments which help the agency to:

• 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 submissions

of responses.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Karin G.

Kurz, BLS Clearance Officer, Division of

Management Systems, Bureau of Labor

Statistics, Room 3255, 2 Massachusetts

Avenue N.E., Washington, D.C. 20212.

Ms. Kurz can be reached on 202–606–

7628 (this is not a toll free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The Consumer Expenditure (CE)

Survey, comprised of the Quarterly

Interview and Diary Surveys, collects

data on consumer expenditures,

demographic information, and related

data needed by the Consumer Price

Index (CPI) and other public and private

data users. The continuing surveys

provide a constant measurement of

changes in consumer expenditures

patterns for economic analysis and to

obtain data for future CPI revisions. The

CE Survey has been an ongoing survey

since 1979.

The data from the Consumer

Expenditure Survey is used to 1)

provide data required for the CPI

revision; 2) provide a continuous flow

of data on income and expenditure

patterns for use in economic analysis

and policy formulation; and 3) provide

a flexible consumer survey vehicle that

is available for use by other Federal

Government agencies. Public and

private users of price statistics,

including Congress and the economic

policy making agencies of the executive

branch, rely on data collected in the CPI

in their day-to-day activities. Hence,

data users and policy makers widely

accept the need to improve the process

used for revising the CPI. If the CE

Survey was not conducted on a

continuing basis, current information

necessary for more timely as well as

more accurate updating of the CPI

would not be available. In addition, data

would not be available to respond to the

continuing demand—from the public

and private sectors—for current

information on consumer spending.

In the Quarterly Interview Survey,

each consumer unit (CU) in the sample

is interviewed every three months over

five calendar quarters. The sample for

each quarter is divided into three

panels, with CU’s being interviewed

every three months in the same panel of

every quarter. The Quarterly Interview

Survey is designed to collect data on the

types of expenditures which

respondents can be expected to recall

for a period of three months or longer.

In general the expenses reported in the

Interview Survey are either relatively

large, such as property, automobiles, or

major appliances, or are expenses which

occur on a fairly regular basis, such as

rent, utility bills, or insurance

premiums.

The Diary (or recordkeeping) Survey

is completed at home by the respondent

family for two consecutive one-week

periods. The primary objective of the

Diary Survey is to obtain expenditure

data on small, frequently purchased

items which normally are difficult to

recall over longer periods of time.

Current Actions

The sample sizes for the Consumer

Expenditure Quarterly Interview and

Diary Surveys will be expanded by

approximately 50 percent. Data from the

CE are the basis for determining the

market basket of the CPI. Expansion of

the CE sample size, taken together with

other enhancements planned by BLS,

will enable BLS to cut substantially the

time it takes to update the CPI. The CPI

market basket is updated approximately

every ten years and under current

procedures the updated market is 31⁄2

years old at the time of introduction.

Under this proposed action, the length

of the required expenditure base period

will be cut from three years to two.

Other processing changes will allow the

length of time required to install a new

market basket in the index to be reduced

from two years to one. Thus, at the time

of its introduction into the CPI, the

updated market will be only 2 years old.

Moreover, these enhancements to

sample size and data processing will

facilitate any future decision to increase

the frequency of market basket updates,

e.g., from a 10-year to a 5-year cycle

beginning in 2002.

Expansion of CE sample sizes for the

CE and the construction of the computer

systems required for faster data

processing will have the added benefit

of allowing BLS to produce new

‘‘superlative’’ measures of consumer

price trends of an acceptable degree of

reliability and on a basis must closer to

real time than would be possible in the

absence of the expansion. Such indexes,

currently available only in experimental

form, are widely regarded a closer

approximations to cost-of-living index

than the current CPI.