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1See Notice of Information Collection 89 FR 

71901 (Sept. 4, 2024) at https://

www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/09/04/ 

2024-19743/agency-information-collectionactivities-existing-collection. 2Available at https://www.regulations.gov/ 

docket/EEOC-2024-0008. 3 42 U.S.C. 2000e, et seq. 

4Available at https://www.federalregister.gov/ 

documents/2024/09/04/2024-19743/agencyinformation-collection-activities-existing-collection. 

5Available at https://www.regulations.gov/ 

docket/EEOC-2024-0008. 

6This figure is based on the expanded frame of 

potentially eligible respondents and the response 

rate for the most recently completed EEO–4 data 

collection (the 2023 EEO–4 data collection). 

dated June 27, 2024, requesting that the 

EPA object to the issuance of operating 

permit number V20690.R02, issued by 

PCAQCD to APS Sundance in Casa 

Grande, Arizona. On November 6, 2024, 

the EPA Administrator issued an order 

denying the petition. The Order 

explains the basis for the EPA’s 

decision. 

Sections 307(b) and 505(b)(2) of the 

CAA provide that a petitioner may 

request judicial review of those portions 

of an order that deny issues in a 

petition. Any petition for review shall 

be filed in the United States Court of 

Appeals for the appropriate circuit no 

later than February 4, 2025. 

Dated: November 26, 2024. 

Martha Guzman Aceves 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. 2024–28530 Filed 12–5–24; 8:45 am] 

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Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Existing Collection 

AGENCY: Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of information 

collection—proposed revision of State 

and Local Government Information 

Report (EEO–4). 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), the 

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission (EEOC or Commission) 

announces that it has submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) a request for a three-year PRA 

approval of revisions to the currently 

approved State and Local Government 

Information Report (EEO–4). 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be submitted on or before January 

6, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent within 30 days of publication of 

this final notice to www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under Review—Open for 

Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

Guerino, Director, Data Development 

and Information Products Division, 

Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics 

(OEDA), Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission, 131 M Street 

NE, Washington, DC 20507; (202) 921– 

2928 (voice), (800) 669–6820 (TTY) or 

email at OEDA@eeoc.gov. Requests for 

this notice in an alternative format 

should be made to the EEOC’s Office of 

Communications and Legislative Affairs 

at (202) 921–3191 (voice), (800) 669– 

6820 (TTY), or (844) 234–5122 (ASL 

Video Phone). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice 

that the EEOC would be submitting this 

request was published in the Federal 

Register on September 4, 2024, allowing 

for a 60-day public comment period 

which ended on November 4, 2024.1

The EEOC received no comments during 

the public comment period.2

I. Background 

A. The EEO–4 Report 

Since 1973, the EEOC has required 

EEO–4 filers to submit workforce 

demographic data. All State and local 

governments that are covered by title VII 

of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as 

amended (title VII) 3 and that have 100 

or more employees are required to file 

the workforce demographic data. 

B. The 60-Day Notice: Request for 

Three-Year PRA Approval of Revisions 

to the EEO–4 

Pursuant to the PRA and OMB 

regulations found at 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), 

the Commission published a Notice in 

the Federal Register on September 4, 

2024, soliciting public comments during 

a 60-day period (‘‘60-day Notice’’) on 

the Commission’s intent to seek a threeyear OMB approval of revisions to the 

currently approved EEO–4. In 

particular, in its 60-day Notice, the 

EEOC sought comments to: (1) Evaluate 

whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the Commission’s 

functions, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

Commission’s estimate of the burden of 

the proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (3) 

Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(4) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including 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. The 

60-day Notice comment period ended 

on November 4, 2024. 

Based on data from the most recent 

EEO–4 data collection reporting year 

(i.e., 2023), as well as ongoing updates 

by the EEOC to the EEO–4 frame (i.e., 

filer roster or master list), the EEOC 

anticipates the total number of filers 

submitting an EEO–4 report may 

increase to 6,607 per biennial collection. 

Accordingly, the burden estimates in 

this Notice are based on this revised 

estimate of the number of filers. 

II. The Public Comments on the 60-Day 

Notice 

The 60-day Notice was published in 

the Federal Register on September 4, 

2024.4 The EEOC received no comments 

during the public comment period.5

III. Commission Decisions and Final 

EEOC Proposals to OMB 

The EEOC Will Seek Three-Year 

Approval of Revisions to the Currently 

Approved EEO–4 State and Local 

Government Information Report 

The Commission has decided it will 

seek a three-year approval by OMB of 

revisions to the EEO–4 State and Local 

Government Information Report as 

described in this Notice. 

IV. Formal Paperwork Reduction Act 

Statement 

A. Overview of Information Collection 

Collection Title: State and Local 

Government Information Report (EEO– 

4). 

OMB Number: 3046–0008. 

Frequency of Report: Biennial. 

Type of Respondent: State and local 

governments that have 100 or more 

employees and meet certain criteria. 

Description of Affected Public: State 

and local governments that have 100 or 

more employees and meet certain 

criteria. 

Reporting Hours: 18,094 hours per 

biennial collection. 

Respondent Burden Hour Cost: 

$563,868.27 per biennial collection. 

Federal Cost: $327,440.12 per 

biennial collection. 

Number of Filers: 6,607 per biennial 

collection.6

Number of Responses: 6,607 per 

biennial collection. 

Number of Forms: 1. 

Form Number: EEOC Form 164. 

Abstract: Section 709(c) of title VII 

requires employers to make and keep 


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7 42 U.S.C. 2000e–8(c). 

8The regulatory sections covered by this notice 

are 29 CFR 1602.30 and 1602.32 through 1602.37. 

The EEOC is responsible for obtaining OMB’s PRA 

approval for the EEO–4 report. 9Beginning in 1993, the EEO–4 report has been 

collected biennially in odd-numbered years. Prior 

to 1993, the EEO–4 report was collected annually. 

10EEO–4 filers may access the OFS through the 

EEOC’s dedicated EEO–4 website at 

www.eeocdata.org/eeo4. 

11All reports and any information from 

individual reports are subject to the confidentiality 

provisions of section 709(e) of title VII of the Civil 

Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000e–8(e), as 

amended (title VII), and may not be made public by 

the EEOC prior to the institution of any proceeding 

under title VII involving the EEO–4 data. Any EEOC 

employee who violates this prohibition may be 

found guilty of a criminal misdemeanor and could 

be fined or imprisoned. The confidentiality 

requirements allow the EEOC to publish only 

aggregated data, and only in a manner that does not 

identify any particular filer or reveal any individual 

employee’s personal information. With respect to 

other Federal agencies with a legitimate law 

enforcement purpose, the EEOC gives access to 

information collected under title VII only if the 

agencies agree in writing to comply with the 

confidentiality provisions of title VII. In addition, 

section 709(d) of title VII (42 U.S.C. 2000e–8(d)) 

provides that the EEOC shall furnish upon request 

and without cost to State or local civil rights 

agencies information about employers in their 

jurisdiction on the condition that they not make it 

public prior to starting a proceeding under State or 

local law involving such information. The EEOC 

shares EEO–4 data with Fair Employment Practices 

Agencies (FEPAs) pursuant to Worksharing 

Agreements that impose obligations on the 

contracted FEPA with respect to confidentiality, 

privacy, and data security. On a case-by-case basis, 

the EEOC may share EEO–4 data with a FEPA that 

does not have a Worksharing Agreement, but only 

if that FEPA agrees to comply with confidentiality, 

privacy, and data security obligations similar to 

those imposed on FEPAs with Worksharing 

Agreements. 

12Any reports the EEOC publishes based on EEO– 

4 data include only aggregated data that protect the 

confidentiality of each employer’s information, as 

well as the privacy of each employee’s personal 

information. 

13The Census of Governments is a three-phased 

program that collects State and local government 

data every five years in years ending in ‘‘2’’ and 

‘‘7.’’ See https://www.census.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/2023/census-of-governments.html. 

14This estimate covers State and local 

governments with 100 or more employees within 

the 50 United States and the District of Columbia. 

Please note that 6,607 respondents may ultimately 

turn out to be an overestimate. Following the initial 

enhancement of the EEO–4 frame, collection data 

may yield an unknown number of ineligible filers. 

15The Occupational Employment and Wage 

Statistics (OEWS) program produces employment 

and wage estimates annually for approximately 830 

occupations. See https://www.bls.gov/oes/. 

records relevant to the determination of 

whether unlawful employment practices 

have been or are being committed, to 

preserve such records, and to produce 

reports as the Commission prescribes by 

regulation or order.7 Pursuant to this 

statutory authority, the EEOC issued 

regulations prescribing the reporting 

and related record retention 

requirements for State and local 

governments.8 The regulations require 

State and local governments to make or 

keep all records necessary for 

completion of an EEO–4 submission and 

retain those records for three years, and 

also require EEO–4 filers to retain a 

copy of each filed EEO–4 report for 

three years. These recordkeeping 

requirements are part of standard 

administrative practices, and as a result, 

the EEOC believes that any impact on 

burden would be negligible and nearly 

impossible to quantify. Additionally, 

the regulations require State and local 

governments to file executed copies of 

the EEO–4 in conformity with the 

directions set forth in the form and 

accompanying instructions. Under this 

authority, State and local governments 

with 100 or more employees are 

required to report biennially 9 the 

number of individuals they employ by 

job category and by sex, salary band, 

and race or ethnicity. 

Please note that on March 28, 2024, 

OMB published revisions, the first since 

1997, to its Statistical Policy Directive 

No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, 

Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data 

on Race and Ethnicity. See https://

spd15revision.gov/. The revisions 

include, for example, using a single 

combined race and ethnicity question 

and adding Middle Eastern or North 

African (MENA) as a new minimum 

reporting category. Federal agencies, 

including the EEOC, are required to 

bring their data collections into 

compliance with these standards by 

March 28, 2029. Because the EEOC’s 

current EEO–4 PRA clearance expires 

January 31, 2025, the agency is not 

proposing updates to its collection of 

race and ethnicity data under this 

Notice in order to provide filers with 

sufficient notice of the revised standards 

and to give the EEOC sufficient time to 

implement the revisions across its EEO 

collections. 

The EEOC currently collects EEO–4 

data electronically through a web-based 

data collection application (i.e., portal) 

referred to as the EEO–4 Online Filing 

System (OFS).10 Filers must submit their 

data electronically to the web-based 

portal by either manual entry or by 

uploading a data file. The individual 

EEO–4 reports are confidential.11 The 

EEOC uses EEO–4 data to investigate 

charges of employment discrimination 

against State and local governments and 

to publish periodic reports on workforce 

demographics.12

B. Burden Statement 

The EEOC’s Office of Enterprise Data 

and Analytics (OEDA) administers the 

agency’s data collections, including the 

EEO–4. Since OEDA’s creation in 2018, 

the EEOC has undertaken several efforts 

to modernize the agency’s data 

collections and improve the quality of 

data collected. OEDA has also 

streamlined functions, such as 

providing additional self-service 

options, resource materials, and an 

online support message center. 

As part of these ongoing 

modernization efforts, OEDA has 

undertaken measures to enhance the 

agency’s existing EEO–4 data frame of 

potentially eligible filers and make the 

EEO–4 filing process more user-friendly 

and less burdensome. By comparing the 

EEOC’s 2023 EEO–4 frame to the U.S. 

Census Bureau’s Census of 

Governments,13 OEDA identified 

approximately 1,220 additional State 

and local governments that may be 

eligible to file during the next biennial 

data collection. With the addition of 

these filers to the EEO–4 frame and 

considering response rates during the 

2023 EEO–4 data collection, OEDA now 

estimates 6,607 potential respondents to 

the agency’s next EEO–4 data 

collection.14

Additionally, the EEOC proposes to 

update the salary bands in the next 

biennial EEO–4 data collection to keep 

pace with inflation and account for an 

increasing portion of employees falling 

into the highest salary bands. The EEOC 

reviewed several other Federal data 

collections of salaries and wages and 

determined that the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics’ Occupational Employment 

and Wage Statistics (OEWS) 15 program 

most closely aligns with the EEO–4. 

Therefore, the EEOC proposes adopting 

the OEWS salary bands and will 

periodically update them as 

appropriate. The EEOC recognizes there 

may be a one-time increase in burden as 

filers need to update their systems to 

produce reports in the new categories, 

but this increase is expected to be 

negligible. The proposed pay bands for 

the next biennial EEO–4 data collection 

are listed in the table below. 


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16Hourly wage rates for these six job categories 

were obtained from the U.S. Department of Labor’s 

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupational 

Outlook Handbook. See https://www.bls.gov/ooh/. 

Please note that the actual job titles reported during 

the 2023 EEO–4 data collection were collapsed into 

these six BLS occupational categories. 

17The time estimates are based on the average 

time elapsed among filers who completed their 

report during the same calendar day within the 

EEO–4 OFS. This methodology was chosen because 

a single-session submission would also 

approximate the completion time over several, 

multi-day sessions. 

TABLE 1—UPDATED SALARY BANDS FOR EEO–4 

Interval 

Wages 

Annual Hourly 

Range A ............................................................. Under $19,240 .................................................. Under $9.25. 

Range B ............................................................. 19,240 to 24,959 .............................................. 9.25 to 11.99. 

Range C ............................................................ 24,960 to 32,239 .............................................. 12.00 to 15.49. 

Range D ............................................................ 32,240 to 41,079 .............................................. 15.50 to 19.74. 

Range E ............................................................. 41,080 to 53,039 .............................................. 19.75 to 25.49. 

Range F ............................................................. 53,040 to 68,119 .............................................. 25.50 to 32.74. 

Range G ............................................................ 68,120 to 87,359 .............................................. 32.75 to 41.99. 

Range H ............................................................ 87,360 to 112,319 ............................................ 42.00 to 53.99. 

Range I .............................................................. 112,320 to 144,559 .......................................... 54.00 to 69.49. 

Range J ............................................................. 144,560 to 186,159 .......................................... 69.50 to 89.49. 

Range K ............................................................. 186,160 to 239,199 .......................................... 89.50 to 114.99. 

Range L ............................................................. 239,200 and over ............................................. 115.00 and over. 

The EEOC has also updated its 

methodology for calculating the biennial 

burden of the EEO–4 to better reflect the 

types of personnel responsible for 

preparing and filing these reports on 

behalf of their employers. Based upon 

job titles provided during the 2023 

EEO–4 data collection by individuals 

completing the report within the EEO– 

4 OFS, the EEOC has identified six 

specific job categories which account for 

the largest amount of time spent 

biennially on EEO–4 reporting. These 

job categories include: (1) Human 

Resource Specialists; (2) ExecutiveLevel Staff; (3) Secretaries and 

Administrative Assistants; (4) 

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing 

Clerks; (5) Administrative Services and 

Facilities Managers; and (6) Database 

Administrators and Architects.16

Additionally, the EEO–4 OFS captures 

detailed information on when each filer 

starts and certifies its report. The EEOC 

used this information from the most 

recent EEO–4 data collection to 

calculate more precise burden hour 

estimates.17 In Table 2 below, the 

estimated average hour burden per 

report is 2.7 hours. The total estimated 

biennial respondent burden for all filers 

is 18,094 hours. The estimated average 

burden hour cost per report is $85.34, 

and the estimated total burden hour cost 

for all filers per biennial collection is 

$563,868.27. 

TABLE 2—PROJECTED BURDEN FOR EACH EEO–4 BIENNIAL REPORTING YEAR

[N=6,607] 

Staff job category Percent in job 

category 

Median hourly 

wage rate Hours per filer Total burden hours Cost per filer Total burden hour cost 

Human Resource Specialists ................... 68.0 $30.88 2.8 12,575 $86.46 $388,309.82 

Executive-Level Staff ............................... 4.1 48.12 2.6 710 125.11 34,155.58 

Secretaries and Administrative Assistants 8.1 21.19 2.4 1,289 50.86 827,309.67 

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing 

Clerks ................................................... 8.8 22.05 2.5 1,450 55.13 31,972.50 

Administrative Services and Facilities 

Managers .............................................. 4.5 48.98 3.4 1,003 166.53 49,126.94 

Database Administrators and Architects 0.1 53.91 0.5 3 26.96 134.78 

Other a ...................................................... 6.3 30.86 2.5 1,065 77.14 32,858.98 

Average ............................................. ........................ ........................ 2.7 ........................ 85.34 ........................

Total b ................................................ 100.0 ........................ ........................ 18,094 ........................ 563,868.27 

aThe average hourly wage rate for the ‘‘Other’’ category was derived by taking the weighted mean average of the hourly wage rates of the six 

BLS job categories listed in the above table. bThese estimates are based upon filers’ use of the EEO–4 OFS to submit reports electronically because paper submissions are no longer accepted. Electronic filing remains the most efficient, accurate, and secure means of reporting for respondents required to submit the EEO–4 

report. 

Dated: December 2, 2024. 

For the Commission. 

Charlotte A. Burrows, 

Chair. 

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Existing Collection 

AGENCY: Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of information 

collection—proposed revision of 

Elementary-Secondary Staff Information 

Report (EEO–5). 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), the 

Equal Employment Opportunity 


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