28930 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 102 / Friday, May 25, 2001 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

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 preclearance 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

Employment and Training

Administration (ETA) is soliciting

comments concerning the proposed

extension collection of the

reemployement services reporting

request. A copy of the proposed

information collection request (ICR) can

be obtained by contacting the office

listed below in the addressee section of

this notice.

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted to the office listed in the

addressee’s section below on or before

July 24, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Gay Gilbert, Office of

Workforce Security, U.S. Employment

Service, 200 Constitution Ave. NW

Room C4512, Washington, DC 20210,

(202) 693–3046, (This is not a toll free

number), FAX (202) 693–3229.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

In Program Year 2001 budget for

Wagner-Peyser Act State Employment

Service Agencies (SESA) were allocated

funds for reemployment services to UI

claimants. ETA is requesting

authorization to require SESAs to

submit an annual plan narrative and one

progress report at the end of the year.

The materials will assist ETA in

reviewing the appropriateness of the

selected activity for reemployment

services and determining whether or not

the purpose of the funds was achieved.

Specific reporting is necessary to

adequately tract this activity separately

from regular operations and record

keeping.

II. Review Focus

The Department of Labor is

particularly interested in comments

which:

• 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.

III. Current Actions

This is a request for the OMB

approval of an extension to an existing

collection of information previously

approved under the emergency

processing for activities funded through

reemployment services allotments. The

activities funded under the

reemployment services allotments will

go beyond the OMB six month

emergency processing approval.

Therefore this request is being

submitted to permit the data collection

for the total period of the reemployment

services allotment activities for the first

year and any new allotments during the

next three years.

Type of Review: Extension (without

change).

Agency: Employment and Training.

Title: Reemployment Services Plan

and Report.

OMB Number: 1205–ONEW.

Affected Public: States.

Total Respondents: 54.

Frequency: Annual.

Total Responses: 108.

Average Time per Response: 56.

Form Number of

respondents

Responses

per year

Total

responses

Hours per

response

Total burden

hours

Annual Plan .......................................................................... 54 1 54 40 2,160

Progress Report ................................................................... 54 1 54 16 864

Totals ......................................................................... 54 2 108 56 3,024

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 3,024.

Total Burden Cost: (capital/startup): 0.

Total Burden Cost: (operating/

maintaining): $108.

Comments submitted in response to

this comment request 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: May 14, 2001.

Gay Gilbert,

Division Chief of U.S. Employment Service/

ALMIS.

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[NAFTA–04779]

Mar-Bax Shirt Co., Capital Mercury

Apparel Ltd., Gassville, AR; Notice of

Termination of Investigation

Pursuant to Section 221 of the Trade

Act of 1974, an investigation was

initiated on March 16, 2001 in response

to a worker petition which was filed on

behalf of workers at Mar-Bax Shirt Co.,

Capital Mercury Apparel Ltd., Gassville,

Arkansas.

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The petitioning group of workers is

subject to an ongoing investigation for

which a determination has not yet been

issued NAFTA–04752. Consequently,

further investigation in this case would

serve no purpose, and the investigation

has been terminated.

Signed at Washington, DC this 17th day of

May 2001.

Linda G. Poole,

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade

Adjustment Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–13223 Filed 5–24–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[NAFTA–4617]

NAPCO Button, Inc., Coppell, TX;

Notice of Termination of Investigation

Pursuant to Title V of the North

American Free Trade Agreement

Implementation Act (P.L. 103–118)

concerning transitional adjustment

assistance, hereinafter called NAFTA–

TAA and in accordance with section

250(a), Subchapter D, Chapter 2, Title II,

of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended

(19 USC 2331), an investigation was

initiated on March 9, 2001, in response

to a petition filed on behalf of workers

at NAPCO Button, Inc., Coppell, Texas.

Workers produced dyed buttons.

The petitioner has requested that the

petition be withdrawn. Consequently,

further investigation in this case would

serve no purpose, and the investigation

has been terminated.

Signed in Washington, DC this 16th day of

May, 2001.

Linda G. Poole,

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade

Adjustment Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–13224 Filed 5–24–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[NAFTA–04433]

VF Imagewear (West), Inc., Formerly

Known as VF Workwear, Inc.,

Clarksville, TX; Amended Certification

Regarding Eligibility To Apply for

NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment

Assistance

In accordance with section 250(A),

Subchapter D, Chapter 2, Title II, of the

Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2273), the

Department of Labor issued a

Certification of NAFTA Transitional

Adjustment Assistance on February 2,

2001, applicable to workers of VF

Imagewear (West), Inc., Clarksville,

Texas. The notice was published in the

Federal Register on March 2, 2001 (66

FR 13087).

At the request of the State agency, the

Department reviewed the certification

for workers of the subject firm. New

findings show that the Department

incorrectly identify the subject firm title

name in its entirety. The Department is

amending the certification

determination to correctly identify the

subject firm title name to read VF

Imagewear (West), Inc. formerly known

as VF Workwear, Inc.

The amended notice applicable to

NAFTA–04433 is hereby issued as

follows:

All workers of VF Imagewear (West), Inc.,

formerly known as VF Workwear, Inc.,

Clarksville, Texas who became totally or

partially separated from employment on of

after December 19, 1999 through February 2,

2003 are eligible to apply for NAFTA–TAA

under Section 250 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed at Washington, DC this 17th day of

May, 2001.

Linda G. Poole,

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade

Adjustment Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–13226 Filed 5–24–01; 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

supersede as 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

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