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some commenters during the associated 

public comment period (e.g., in the 

docket, see the document entitled: 

‘‘Response to Public Comments on the 

Final TSCA Chemical Data Reporting 

(CDR) Revisions Rule,’’ dated February 

2020). 

The information in this guidance is 

similar to and expands upon 

information that has already been 

available on the CDR website for the 

existing partial exemption petition 

process (40 CFR 711.6(b)(2)). Given that 

the new byproduct exemption petition 

process was modeled in part after the 

existing partial exemption petition 

process, EPA decided to have the 

guidance cover both petition processes. 

III. Does this guidance document 

contain binding requirements? 

As guidance, this document is not 

binding on the Agency or any outside 

parties, and the Agency may depart 

from it where circumstances warrant 

and without prior notice. While EPA 

has made every effort to ensure the 

accuracy of the discussion in the 

guidance, the obligations of EPA and the 

regulated community are determined by 

statutes, regulations, or other legally 

binding documents. In the event of a 

conflict between the discussion in the 

guidance document and any statute, 

regulation, or other legally binding 

document, the guidance document will 

not be controlling. 

IV. Is this guidance subject to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)? 

This action does not contain any new 

or revised information collections or 

burden subject to additional OMB 

approval under the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 

et seq. Burden is defined in 5 CFR 

1320.3(b). Information collection 

activities contained in CDR are already 

approved by OMB under OMB Control 

No. 2070–0162 (EPA ICR No. 1884). 

Under the PRA, an agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 

required to respond to a collection of 

information that requires OMB approval 

under the PRA, unless it has been 

approved by OMB and displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

The OMB control numbers for EPA’s 

regulations in Title 40 of the CFR, after 

appearing in the Federal Register, are 

listed in 40 CFR part 9, and included on 

the related collection instrument, or 

form, as applicable. 

The public reporting and 

recordkeeping burden associated with 

the submission of a petition under the 

CDR regulation is estimated to be 1 hour 

per response. Send comments on the 

Agency’s need for this information, the 

accuracy of the provided burden 

estimates and any suggested methods 

for minimizing respondent burden to 

the Regulatory Support Division 

Director, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (2821T), 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460. 

Include the OMB control number in any 

correspondence. Do not send the 

completed form, petition or other 

information to this address. 

(Authority: 15 U.S.C. 2607(a)) 

Dated: August 16, 2021. 

Michal Freedhoff, 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical 

Safety and Pollution Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17950 Filed 8–20–21; 8:45 am] 

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Extension Without Change 

of an Existing Collection; Comments 

Request 

AGENCY: Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission (EEOC or Commission) 

announces that it is submitting to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) a request for a three-year 

extension without change of the existing 

recordkeeping requirements under its 

regulations. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be submitted on or before 

September 22, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathleen Oram, Assistant Legal 

Counsel, at (202) 921–2665 or 

kathleen.oram@eeoc.gov, or Erin Norris, 

Senior Attorney, at (980) 296–1286 or 

erin.norris@eeoc.gov. Requests for this 

notice in an alternative format should be 

made to the Office of Communications 

and Legislative Affairs at (202) 921– 

3191 (voice), (800) 669–6820 (TTY), or 

(844) 234–5122 (ASL Video Phone). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission 

(EEOC) enforces Title VII of the Civil 

Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), Title I of 

the Americans with Disabilities Act 

(ADA), and Title II of the Genetic 

Information Nondiscrimination Act of 

2008 (GINA), which collectively 

prohibit discrimination on the basis of 

race, color, religion, sex, national origin, 

disability, or genetic information. 

Section 709(c) of Title VII, section 

107(a) of the ADA, and section 207(a) of 

GINA authorize the EEOC to issue 

recordkeeping and reporting regulations 

that are deemed reasonable, necessary 

or appropriate. The EEOC has 

promulgated recordkeeping regulations 

under those authorities that are 

contained in 29 CFR part 1602. These 

regulations do not require the creation 

of any particular records but generally 

require employers and labor 

organizations to preserve any personnel 

and employment records they make or 

keep for a period of one year or two 

years, and possibly longer if a charge of 

discrimination is filed. The EEOC seeks 

an extension without change of OMB’s 

clearance under the PRA of these 

recordkeeping requirements. 

A notice that EEOC would be 

submitting this request was published 

in the Federal Register on May 26, 

2021, allowing for a 60-day public 

comment period. One comment was 

received from the public; however, the 

comment did not address EEOC’s 

recordkeeping requirements. 

Accordingly, no changes have been 

made to the requirements based upon 

the comment. 

Overview of Current Information 

Collection 

Collection Title: Recordkeeping Under 

Title VII, the ADA, and GINA. 

OMB Number: 3046–0040. 

Description of Affected Public: 

Employers and labor organizations 

subject to Title VII. 

Number of Respondents: 989,379. 

Number of Reports Submitted: 0. 

Estimated Burden Hours: 162,223. 

Cost to Respondents: $0. 

Federal Cost: None. 

Number of Forms: None. 

Abstract: Section 709(c) of Title VII of 

the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as 

amended, 42 U.S.C. 2000e–8(c), section 

107(a) of the ADA, 42 U.S.C. 12117(a), 

and section 207(a) of GINA, 42 U.S.C. 

2000ff–6(a), direct the Commission to 

establish regulations pursuant to which 

entities subject to those Acts shall make 

and preserve certain records to assist the 

EEOC in ensuring compliance with the 

Acts’ prohibitions on employment 

discrimination. Accordingly, the EEOC 

issued regulations setting out 

recordkeeping requirements for private 


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1Source of original data: 2017 Economic Census. 

(https://www.census.gov/content/census/en/data/ 

datasets/2017/econ/susb/2017-susb.html). Local 

Downloadable CSV data. Select U.S. & states, 6 

digit NAICS. The original number of employers was 

adjusted to only include those with 15 or more 

employees. 

2Source of original data: 2017 Census of 

Governments: Employment. Individual Government 

Data File (https://www.census.gov/data/tables/ 

2017/econ/apes/annual-apes.html), Local 

Downloadable Data zip file ‘‘Individual Unit Files’’. 

The original number of government entities was 

adjusted to only include those with 15 or more 

employees. 

3Source: U.S. Department of Education, National 

Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Fall 2017. 

Postsecondary Institutions and Cost of Attendance 

in 2017–18; Degrees and Other Awards Conferred: 

2016–17; and 12-Month Enrollment: 2016–17: First 

Look (Provisional Data), See Table 1, ‘‘Number and 

percentage distribution of Title IV institutions, by 

control of institution, level of institution, and 

region: United States and other U.S. jurisdictions, 

academic year 2017–2018’’ (https://nces.ed.gov/ 

pubSearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2018060REV). 

4Source: U.S. Department of Labor. Registered 

Apprenticeship National Results Fiscal Year 2020. 

Number of active apprenticeship programs in 2020 

(https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/apprenticeship/ 

about/statistics/2020). 

5EEO–3 Reports filed by referral unions in 2018 

with EEOC. 

6Sources: Business Formation Statistics from the 

U.S. Census Bureau (https://www.census.gov/econ/ 

bfs/index.html). Total projected business formation 

statistics (series BF_PBF4Q) for 2020, across all 

industries, for the US, not seasonally adjusted; 

Department of Labor, New Apprenticeship 

programs for 2020 (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ 

eta/apprenticeship/about/statistics/2020). 

employers (29 CFR 1602.14); employers, 

labor organizations, and joint labormanagement committees that control 

apprenticeship programs (29 CFR 

1602.21(b)); labor organizations (29 CFR 

1602.28(a)); state and local governments 

(29 CFR 1602.31); elementary and 

secondary school systems or districts 

(29 CFR 1602.40); and institutions of 

higher education (29 CFR 1602.49(a)). 

Any of the records maintained which 

are subsequently disclosed to the EEOC 

during an investigation are protected 

from public disclosure by the 

confidentiality provisions of section 

706(b) and 709(e) of Title VII, which are 

also incorporated by reference into the 

ADA at section 107(a) and GINA at 

section 207(a). 

Burden Statement: The estimated 

number of respondents subject to this 

recordkeeping requirement is 989,379 

entities, which combines estimates from 

private employment,1 the public sector,2

colleges and universities,3

apprenticeship programs,4 and referral 

unions.5 An entity subject to the 

recordkeeping requirement in 29 CFR 

part 1602 must retain all personnel or 

employment records, records relating to 

apprenticeship, or union membership or 

referral records made or kept by that 

entity for one year (private employers 

and referral unions) or two years (public 

sector, colleges and universities, 

apprenticeship programs), and must 

retain any records relevant to charges of 

discrimination filed under Title VII, the 

ADA, or GINA until final disposition of 

those matters, which may be longer than 

one or two years. This recordkeeping 

requirement does not require reports or 

the creation of new documents, but 

merely requires retention of documents 

that an entity has already made or kept 

in the normal course of its business 

operations. Thus, existing employers 

and labor organizations bear no burden 

under this analysis, because their 

systems for retaining these types of 

records are already in place. Newly 

formed entities may incur a small 

burden when setting up their data 

collection and retention systems to 

ensure compliance with EEOC’s 

recordkeeping requirements. We assume 

some effort and time must be expended 

by new employers or labor organizations 

to familiarize themselves with Title VII, 

ADA, and GINA recordkeeping 

requirements and explain those 

requirements to the appropriate staff. 

We estimate that 30 minutes would be 

needed for this one-time familiarization 

process. Using projected business 

formation estimates from the U.S. 

Census Bureau for 2020 and the number 

of new apprenticeship programs 

established in 2020 provided by the 

Department of Labor, we estimate that 

there are 324,446 entities that would 

incur this start-up burden.6 Assuming a 

30-minute burden per entity, the total 

annual hour burden is 162,223 hours (.5 

hour × 324,446 new entities = 162,223 

hours). 

For the Commission. 

Dated: August 13, 2021. 

Charlotte A. Burrows, 

Chair. 

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BILLING CODE 6570–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[DA 21–979; FR ID 43302] 

Disability Advisory Committee; 

Announcement of Fourth Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Commission announces and provides an 

agenda for the second meeting of the 

fourth term of its Disability Advisory 

Committee (DAC or Committee). 

DATES: Thursday, September 9, 2021. 

The meeting will come to order at 1:30 

p.m. Eastern Time. 

ADDRESSES: The DAC meeting will be 

held remotely, with video and audio 

coverage at www.fcc.gov/live. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Will 

Schell, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), at (202) 418–0767 or DAC@

fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting is open to members of the 

general public. The meeting will be 

webcast with American Sign Language 

interpreters and open captioning at: 

www.fcc.gov/live. In addition, a reserved 

amount of time will be available on the 

agenda for comments and inquiries from 

the public. Members of the public may 

comment or ask questions of presenters 

via the email address livequestions@

fcc.gov. 

Requests for other reasonable 

accommodations or for materials in 

accessible formats for people with 

disabilities should be submitted via 

email to: fcc504@fcc.gov or by calling 

the Consumer and Governmental Affairs 

Bureau at (202) 418–0530. Such requests 

should include a detailed description of 

the accommodation needed and a way 

for the FCC to contact the requester if 

more information is needed to fill the 

request. Requests should be made as 

early as possible; last minute requests 

will be accepted but may not be possible 

to accommodate. 

Proposed Agenda: At this meeting, 

the DAC is expected to receive and 

consider reports and recommendations 

from its working groups. The DAC may 

also receive briefings from Commission 

staff on issues of interest to the 

Committee and may discuss topics of 

interest to the committee, including, but 

not limited to, matters concerning 

communications transitions, 

telecommunications relay services, 

emergency access, and video 

programming accessibility. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Suzanne Singleton, 

Chief, Disability Rights Office, Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17960 Filed 8–20–21; 8:45 am] 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–0508; FR ID 43942] 

Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

Commission 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 


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