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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michel Smyth by telephone at 202–693– 

4129 (this is not a toll-free number) or 

by email at DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Reporting 

forms ETA–9048 and ETA–9049 are 

used to identify those claimants who are 

most likely to exhaust their 

Unemployment Insurance benefits and 

to provide reemployment services to 

expedite those beneficiaries return to 

suitable work. The ETA–9048 report 

provides a count of the claimants who 

were referred to Worker Profiling and 

Reemployment Services (WPRS) and a 

count of those who completed the 

services. The ETA–9049 report provides 

the subsequent collection of wage 

records, which is a useful management 

tool for monitoring the success of the 

WPRS program in the State. This ICR 

also covers preliminary activities when 

States collect information from program 

beneficiaries. 

This information collection is subject 

to the PRA. A Federal agency generally 

cannot conduct or sponsor a collection 

of information, and the public is 

generally not required to respond to an 

information collection, unless it is 

approved by the OMB under the PRA 

and displays a currently valid OMB 

Control Number. In addition, 

notwithstanding any other provisions of 

law, no person shall generally be subject 

to penalty for failing to comply with a 

collection of information that does not 

display a valid Control Number. See 5 

CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. The DOL 

obtains OMB approval for this 

information collection under Control 

Number 1205–0353. The current 

approval is scheduled to expire on 

March 31, 2013; however, it should be 

noted that existing information 

collection requirements submitted to the 

OMB receive a month-to-month 

extension while they undergo review. 

For additional information, see the 

related notice published in the Federal 

Register on November 27, 2012 (77 FR 

70833). 

Interested parties are encouraged to 

send comments to the OMB, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs at 

the address shown in the ADDRESSES

section within 30 days of publication of 

this notice in the Federal Register. In 

order to help ensure appropriate 

consideration, comments should 

mention OMB Control Number 1205– 

0353. The OMB 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; 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: DOL–ETA. 

Title of Collection: Worker Profiling 

and Reemployment Services Activities 

and Worker Profiling and 

Reemployment Outcomes. 

OMB Control Number: 1205–0353. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households and State, Local, and Tribal 

Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 1,342,807. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Responses: 2,685,932. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden 

Hours: 2,819,995. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Costs 

Burden: $0. 

Dated: March 18, 2013. 

Michel Smyth, 

Departmental Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2013–06597 Filed 3–21–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FW–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Bureau of International Labor Affairs; 

National Advisory Committee for Labor 

Provisions of U.S. Free Trade 

Agreements 

ACTION: Notice of Charter Renewal. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as 

amended (5 U.S.C. App. 2), the North 

American Agreement on Labor 

Cooperation (NAALC), and the Labor 

Chapters of U.S. Free Trade Agreements 

(FTAs), the Secretary of Labor has 

determined that the renewal of the 

charter of the National Advisory 

Committee for Labor Provisions of U.S. 

Free Trade Agreements (NAC) is 

necessary and in the public interest and 

will provide information that cannot be 

obtained from other sources. The 

committee shall provide its views to the 

Secretary of Labor through the Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs of the U.S. 

Department of Labor, which is the point 

of contact for the NAALC and the Labor 

Chapters of U.S. FTAs. The committee 

shall comprise twelve members, four 

representing the labor community, four 

representing the business community, 

and four representing the public. 

Purpose: In accordance with the 

provisions of the FACA, Article 17 of 

the NAALC, Article 17.4 of the United 

States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, 

Article 18.4 of the United States-Chile 

Free Trade Agreement, Article 18.4 of 

the United States-Australia Free Trade 

Agreement, Article 16.4 of the United 

States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement, 

Article 16.4 of the Central AmericaDominican Republic-United States Free 

Trade Agreement (CAFTA–DR), Article 

15.4 of the United States-Bahrain Free 

Trade Agreement, Article 16.4 of the 

United States-Oman Free Trade 

Agreement, Article 17.5 of the United 

States-Peru Trade Promotion 

Agreement, Article 17.5 of the United 

States-Colombia Trade Promotion 

Agreement, Article 19.5 of the United 

States-Korea Free Trade Agreement, and 

Article 16.5 of the United States-Panama 

Trade Promotion Agreement, the 

Secretary of Labor has determined that 

the renewal of the charter of the NAC is 

necessary and in the public interest and 

will provide information that cannot be 

obtained from other sources. 

The Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs of the U.S. Department of Labor 

serves as the U.S. point of contact under 

the FTAs listed above. The committee 

shall provide its advice to the Secretary 

of Labor through the Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs concerning 

the implementation of the NAALC and 

the Labor Chapters of U.S. FTAs. The 

committee may be asked to provide 

advice on the implementation of labor 

provisions of other FTAs to which the 

United States may be a party or become 

a party. The committee should provide 

advice on issues within the scope of the 

NAALC and the Labor Chapters of the 

FTAs, including cooperative activities 

and the labor cooperation mechanism of 

each FTA as established in the Labor 

Chapters and the corresponding 

annexes. The committee may be asked 

to provide advice on these and other 

matters as they arise in the course of 

administering the labor provisions of 

other FTAs. 

The committee shall comprise 12 

members, four representing the labor 

community, four representing the 

business community, and four 

representing the public. Unless already 

employees of the United States 

Government, no members of the 


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committee shall be deemed to be 

employees of the United States 

Government for any purpose by virtue 

of their participation on the committee. 

Members of the committee will not be 

compensated for their services or 

reimbursed for travel expenses. 

Authority: The authority for this notice is 

granted by the FACA (5 U.S.C. App. 2) and 

the Secretary of Labor’s Order No. 18–2006 

(71 FR 77560 (12/26/2006)). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Paula Church Albertson, Division Chief, 

Monitoring and Enforcement of Free 

Trade Agreements, Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs, U.S. 

Department of Labor, telephone (202) 

693–4789. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 15th day of 

March 2013. 

Carol Pier, 

Acting Deputy Undersecretary, Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2013–06630 Filed 3–21–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–28–P 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

U.S. Copyright Office 

[Docket No. 2013–2] 

Technological Upgrades to 

Registration and Recordation 

Functions 

AGENCY: U.S. Copyright Office, Library 

of Congress. 

ACTION: Notice of Inquiry. 

SUMMARY: The United States Copyright 

Office (hereinafter Copyright Office or 

Office) is in the process of identifying 

and evaluating potential improvements 

and technical enhancements to the 

information technology platforms that 

support its registration and recordation 

functions, including its online 

registration system. These efforts are 

part of the Office’s ongoing special 

projects, commenced October 25, 2011 

(available at the Office’s Web site at 

www.copyright.gov/docs/priorities.pdf). 

The information garnered through this 

process has and will continue to inform 

the development of the Copyright 

Office’s long-term strategic plan, 

scheduled to commence in October 

2013. 

At this time, the Office seeks 

comments regarding existing 

capabilities and future possibilities. 

Broadly, the Office seeks comments on 

(1) how stakeholders use the current 

online offerings of the Copyright Office, 

especially with respect to registration 

and recorded documents, and how the 

current offerings meet, fail to meet, or 

exceed user expectations; and (2) how 

stakeholders would like to interact with 

the Copyright Office electronically in 

the future, or, put differently, what 

online services, or aspects of existing 

online services stakeholders would like 

to see. The Office appreciates the 

comments and suggestions of those who 

use the national registration and 

recordation systems to protect their 

intellectual property, as well as those 

who regularly use Copyright Office 

resources to identify copyright owners, 

investigate the copyright status of works 

and the public domain, and perform 

other research, including statistical 

analysis on aggregated data sets. 

DATES: Comments on the Notice of 

Inquiry and Requests for Comments are 

due on or before May 21, 2013. 

Submission: All comments shall be 

submitted electronically. A comment 

page containing a comment form is 

posted on the Copyright Office Web site 

at http://www.copyright.gov/docs/ 

technical_upgrades. The Web site 

interface requires submitters to 

complete a form specifying name and 

organization, as applicable, and to 

upload comments as an attachment via 

a browse button. To meet accessibility 

standards, all comments must be 

uploaded in a single file in either the 

Portable Document File (PDF) format 

that contains searchable, accessible text 

(not an image); Microsoft Word; 

WordPerfect; Rich Text Format (RTF); or 

ASCII text file format (not a scanned 

document). The maximum file size is 6 

megabytes (MB). The name of the 

submitter and organization should 

appear on both the form and the face of 

the comments. All comments will be 

posted publicly on the Copyright Office 

web site exactly as they are received, 

along with names and organizations. If 

electronic submission of comments is 

not feasible, please contact the 

Copyright Office at 202–707–8350 for 

special instructions. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Douglas Ament, Director of Information 

Technology, Copyright, by email at 

uscotechupgrades@loc.gov; Christopher 

S. Reed, Senior Advisor for Policy & 

Special Projects, Office of the Register of 

Copyrights, by email at creed@loc.gov; 

or call the U.S. Copyright Office by 

phone at 202–707–8350. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

In 2000, the Copyright Office initiated 

a comprehensive business process 

reengineering initiative intended to 

update the Office’s technology platform 

and improve operational efficiency. 

With the assistance of outside 

consultants and business analysts, the 

Office identified opportunities for 

efficiency enhancements and process 

improvements. The most significant 

recommendation was to convert the 

existing paper-based copyright 

registration system to an electronic 

system, which included the 

development of related new business 

processes and the automated production 

of public copyright records. 

Funding available for the 

reengineering effort was limited and 

decisions made by the Copyright Office 

and the greater Library were necessarily 

constrained. Ultimately the Office 

implemented a commercial off-the-shelf 

software package. The Office piloted the 

internal business process functions of 

the software with a subset of 

constituents in February 2005, followed 

by full implementation of the Copyright 

Office’s electronic processing system in 

August 2007. The public-facing 

electronic registration system—the 

system that enables copyright 

registration applicants to submit 

materials online—was launched in July 

2008. The Office implemented a 

significant upgrade to its software and 

hardware platforms in August 2010, and 

implemented periodic upgrades and 

enhancements to accommodate the 

needs of the system’s stakeholders— 

namely those that submit materials for 

registration, those that search the 

Copyright Office database for copyright 

ownership information, and the 

Copyright Office’s staff that process and 

examine copyright claims. 

Today, more than eighty percent of 

the Office’s applications for copyright 

registration come through the electronic 

system, demonstrating the copyright 

community’s widespread interest in 

electronic registration functions. 

Although the current system, and the 

periodic upgrades and enhancements, 

have allowed the Office to maintain a 

functional electronic platform for many 

types of works, there is room for 

substantial improvement. Notably, the 

Office’s recordation services were 

included in the initial reengineering 

plan, but were later dropped for 

budgetary reasons. Recordation 

processes are, thus, still paper-based 

and are a top concern of the Copyright 

Office. Thus, the Office’s current 

systems represent the ‘‘first generation’’ 

of the Office’s electronic processing 

capabilities. 

II. Discussion 

In recent months, project leaders from 

the Copyright Office have engaged 

copyright owners, users of copyright 

records, technical experts, public 

interest organizations, and lawyers, 


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