Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 71 / Wednesday, April 15, 2009 / Notices 17545 

Titles: Application for Certificate to 

Employ Homeworkers; Piece-Rate 

Measurements; and Homeworker 

Handbook. 

OMB Number: 1215–0013. 

Agency Numbers: Forms WH–46 and 

WH–75. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Respondents: 302,080. 

Total Annual Responses: 1,208,195. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

614,241. 

Estimated Time per Response: Varies; 

from 30 seconds to 30 minutes. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup): 

$0. 

Total Burden Cost (Operating/ 

Maintenance): $0. 

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 will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: April 9, 2009. 

Hazel Bell, 

Acting Chief, Branch of Management Review 

and Internal Control, Division of Financial 

Management, Office of Management, 

Administration and Planning, Employment 

Standards Administration. 

[FR Doc. E9–8504 Filed 4–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–27–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Announcing the New iCERT Portal 

System for Temporary and Permanent 

Labor Certifications 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Employment and 

Training Administration (ETA) is 

announcing a new electronic system for 

submitting the Labor Condition 

Application (LCA) and the Application 

for Permanent Employment 

Certification. 

DATES: This Notice is effective April 15, 

2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical issues stemming from the 

iCERT portal, please contact David 

Wilson, Chief, Division of Technology 

Applications, Office of Performance and 

Technology, 200 Constitution Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20210, telephone 

(202) 693–3493 (this is not a toll-free 

number), e-mail Wilson.david@dol.gov. 

For technical assistance with the iCERT 

Portal System you may also write to 

OFLC.Portal@dol.gov or see the iCERT 

Factsheet on the ETA Web site. For 

program-related issues, please contact 

the appropriate National Processing 

Center’s help desk. For LCA questions 

write to lca.chicago@dol.gov. For PERM 

questions write to plc.atlanta@dol.gov 

or call: (312) 886–8000 (this is not a tollfree number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Department of Labor’s 

Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA), Office of Foreign 

Labor Certification (OFLC) provides 

national leadership and policy guidance 

and develops regulations and 

administrative procedures to carry out 

the responsibilities of the Secretary of 

Labor under the Immigration and 

Nationality Act (INA) concerning 

foreign workers seeking admission to 

the United States in order to work under 

the labor certification programs 

authorized by the INA. In the H–1B 

(including H–1B1 and E–3) program, the 

Secretary of Labor must receive an 

attestation from the employer about 

wages, working conditions, strikes, 

lockouts, notice, recruitment and other 

issues related to the possible 

displacement of U.S. workers as 

specified by Congress in 8 U.S.C. 

1182(n) and (t). See also 20 CFR part 

653 and 20 CFR part 655, subparts H 

and I. 

In the permanent labor certification 

program (PERM), the Secretary of Labor 

must certify that: (1) There are not 

sufficient workers who are able, willing, 

qualified, and available at the time of 

application for a visa and admission to 

the United States and at the place where 

the alien is to perform such skilled or 

unskilled labor; and (2) employment of 

the foreign worker will not adversely 

affect the wages and working conditions 

of similarly employed U.S. workers. See 

8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(5)(A)(i); 20 CFR part 

656. 

The H–1B nonimmigrant program 

provides a means for U.S. employers to 

employ foreign workers on a temporary 

basis in specialty occupations while the 

PERM program allows employers to 

employ foreign workers on a permanent 

basis. Currently, both programs have 

electronic applications that can be filled 

out and submitted on-line. The H–1B 

nonimmigrant program requires 

electronic submission. However, the 

two electronic systems are not linked 

and an employer desiring to file 

applications in both systems must set 

up separate accounts. In addition, the 

PERM system does not allow attorneys 

or agents to have their own accounts. 

The new iCERT system will allow 

program users to set up one account and 

multiple subaccounts and utilize the 

account to file in both programs. There 

are enhanced security measures that 

allow employers, attorneys, and agents 

to control who is authorized to input 

data and who is authorized to submit 

applications. 

II. Information on iCERT System 

Activation Dates 

The Department plans to initially 

activate the iCERT system for purposes 

of establishing user accounts and filing 

the new LCA form (9035E). The system 

will be located at http://icert.doleta.gov. 

On and after April 15, 2009, the iCERT 

portal will be available for the 

submission of ETA 9035E (electronic 

LCA H–1B application). The current 

electronic LCA system will continue to 

be available through May 14, 2009. 

However, effective May 15, 2009, the 

LCA for the H–1B program will be 

available for submission only through 

the iCERT portal system. 

The PERM application, Form ETA 

9089, will become available for 

application submission on September 1, 

2009. To allow for an appropriate 

transition, both systems will be active 

during the month of September. 

However, beginning October 1, 2009, 

PERM applications will be submitted 

electronically only through iCERT 

system accounts. 

III. Information on Deactivation of Old 

Electronic Forms 

The Department will deactivate the 

current electronic version of the Form 

ETA 9035E on May 15, 2009. The 

Department will deactivate the current 

electronic version of the Form ETA 9089 

on October 1, 2009. Employers are 

encouraged to copy all necessary 

application information into the new 

iCERT system prior to these 

deactivation dates. The status of 

applications submitted prior to 

deactivation will continue to be 

available through current system 

accounts. 

IV. Help Desk 

The Office of Foreign Labor 

Certification has implemented a 

dedicated Help Desk Unit for program 

assistance at the Chicago National 

Processing Center (CNPC) to serve as a 

resource to those employers and/or their 

representatives in filing LCAs with the 

Department of Labor. Please submit 

program-related questions by e-mail to 

LCA.Chicago@dol.gov. The LCA Help 

Desk e-mail box will be monitored by 

the CNPC during the business hours of 

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17546 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 71 / Wednesday, April 15, 2009 / Notices 

Monday through Friday. Your e-mail 

inquiries will be handled as 

expeditiously as possible. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 6th day of 

April 2009. 

Douglas F. Small, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–8505 Filed 4–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FP–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

Meetings of Humanities Panel 

AGENCY: The National Endowment for 

the Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice of additional meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463, as amended), notice is 

hereby given that the following meeting 

of Humanities Panels will be held at the 

Old Post Office, 1100 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20506. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael P. McDonald, Advisory 

Committee Management Officer, 

National Endowment for the 

Humanities, Washington, DC 20506; 

telephone (202) 606–8322. Hearingimpaired individuals are advised that 

information on this matter may be 

obtained by contacting the 

Endowment’s TDD terminal on (202) 

606–8282. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

proposed meeting is for the purpose of 

panel review, discussion, evaluation 

and recommendation on applications 

for financial assistance under the 

National Foundation on the Arts and the 

Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 

including discussion of information 

given in confidence to the agency by the 

grant applicants. Because the proposed 

meeting will consider information that 

is likely to disclose trade secrets and 

commercial or financial information 

obtained from a person and privileged 

or confidential and/or information of a 

personal nature the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy, pursuant 

to authority granted me by the 

Chairman’s Delegation of Authority to 

Close Advisory Committee meetings, 

dated July 19, 1993, I have determined 

that this meeting will be closed to the 

public pursuant to subsections (c)(4), 

and (6) of section 552b of Title 5, United 

States Code. 

1. Date: May 28, 2009. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Room: 402. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for JISC/NEH Transatlantic 

Digitization Collaboration Grants, 

submitted to the Division of 

Preservation and Access, at the March 

26, 2009 deadline. 

Michael P. McDonald, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–8594 Filed 4–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7536–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2009–0164] 

Notice of Availability of Draft NUREG– 

1536, Revision 1A, ‘‘Standard Review 

Plan for Spent Fuel Dry Storage 

Systems at a General License Facility’’, 

and Opportunity To Provide Comments 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

opportunity to provide comments. 

DATES: Comments must be provided by 

July 14, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron 

Parkhill, Senior Mechanical Engineer, 

Thermal and Containment Branch, 

Division of Spent Fuel Storage and 

Transportation Division, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

Washington, DC 20005–0001. 

Telephone: (301) 492–3324; fax number: 

(301) 492–3342; e-mail: 

ron.parkhill@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) is issuing Draft Revision 1A to 

NUREG–1536, ‘‘Standard Review Plan 

for Spent Fuel Dry Storage Systems at a 

General License Facility.’’ Its previous 

title, ‘‘Standard Review Plan for Dry 

Cask Storage Systems,’’ has been 

changed to better reflect its 

applicability. This revision incorporates 

Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) documents 

1 through 22, as applicable, as well as 

other current NRC staff practices (e.g. 

addition of a materials chapter) utilized 

in its review of licensee integrated 

safety analyses, license applications or 

amendment requests, or other related 

licensing activities for dry storage 

systems under 10 CFR part 72. 

Additionally, the guidance contained in 

the Review Procedures section of each 

chapter of the subject document has 

been risk-informed to assist the NRC 

staff in prioritizing its review with 

respect to relative level of effort, and to 

increase efficiency. 

The purpose of this notice is to 

provide the public with an opportunity 

to review and solicit comments on the 

Draft NUREG–1536, Revision 1A, 

‘‘Standard Review Plan for Spent Fuel 

Dry Storage Systems at a General 

License Facility’’. These comments will 

be considered in the final version or 

subsequent revisions. 

II. Opportunity To Provide Comments 

Comments and questions on Draft 

NUREG–1536, Revision 1A, should be 

directed to Ron Parkhill, Thermal and 

Containment Branch, Division of Spent 

Fuel Storage and Transportation, Office 

of Nuclear Materials Safety and 

Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20005– 

0001 by July 14, 2009. Comments 

received after this date will be 

considered if it is practical to do so, but 

only those comments received on or 

before the due date can be assured 

consideration. Comments can also be 

submitted by telephone, fax, or e-mail to 

the following: Telephone: (301) 492– 

3324; fax number: (301) 492–3331; email: Ron.Parkhill@NRC.gov. 

III. Further Information 

Documents related to this action are 

available electronically at the NRC’s 

Electronic Reading Room at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

From this site, you can access the NRC’s 

Agencywide Document Access and 

Management System (ADAMS), which 

provides text and image files of NRC’s 

public documents. The ADAMS 

accession number for the document 

related to this notice is [ML090400676]. 

If you do not have access to ADAMS, or 

if there are problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS, contact 

the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

415–4737, or by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. ISGs that have 

been incorporated, as appropriate, into 

the subject document can be viewed at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

doc-collections/isg/spent-fuel.html. 

During the public comment period for 

this document, other ISGs could be 

issued separately for public comment, 

and may be incorporated into the final 

version of NUREG–1536. 

This document may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at the NRC’s PDR, O–1 F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR 

reproduction contractor will copy 

documents for a fee. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day 

of April, 2009. 


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