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Reconsideration Investigations 

The following are reconsideration 

investigations following the receipt of a 

properly filed application for 

reconsideration. 

TA–W No. Subject firm Location Inv start 

date 

96,950 ............ Dometic Corporation .................................................... Elkhart, IN .................................................................... 3/16/2022 

A record of these investigations and 

petitions filed are available, subject to 

redaction, on the Department’s website 

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

tradeact under the searchable listing or 

by calling the Office of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance toll free at 888– 

365–6822. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 8th day of 

April 2022. 

Hope D. Kinglock, 

Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. 2022–08307 Filed 4–18–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Information Collection Activities; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as 

part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

conducts a pre-clearance 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. 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. The Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments 

concerning the proposed extension of 

the ‘‘Multiple Worksite Report and the 

Report of Federal Employment and 

Wages.’’ A copy of the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) can 

be obtained by contacting the individual 

listed below in the Addresses section of 

this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

Addresses section of this notice on or 

before June 21, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Carol 

Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer, Division 

of Management Systems, Bureau of 

Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 2 

Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, 

DC 20212. Written comments also may 

be transmitted by email to BLS_PRA_

Public@bls.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carol Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer, at 

202–691–7628 (this is not a toll-free 

number). (See ADDRESSES section.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Quarterly Census of Employment 

and Wages (QCEW) program is a 

Federal/State cooperative effort which 

compiles monthly employment data, 

quarterly wages data, and business 

identification information from 

employers subject to State 

Unemployment Insurance (UI) laws. 

These data are collected from State 

Quarterly Contribution Reports (QCRs) 

submitted to State Workforce Agencies 

(SWAs). The States send micro-level 

employment and wages data, 

supplemented with the names, 

addresses, and business identification 

information of these employers, to the 

BLS. The State data are used to create 

the BLS sampling frame, known as the 

longitudinal QCEW data. This file 

represents the best source of detailed 

industrial and geographical data on 

employers and is used as the sampling 

frame for most BLS surveys. The 

longitudinal QCEW data include the 

individual employers’ employment and 

wages data along with associated 

business identification information that 

is maintained by each State to 

administer the UI program as well as the 

Unemployment Compensation for 

Federal Employees (UCFE) program. 

The QCEW Report, produced for each 

calendar quarter, is a summary of these 

employer (micro-level) data by industry 

at the county level. Similar data for 

Federal Government employees covered 

by the UCFE program also are included 

in each State’s report. These data are 

submitted by all 50 States, the District 

of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin 

Islands to the BLS which then 

summarizes these micro-level data to 

produce totals for the States and the 

Nation. The QCEW Report provides a 

virtual census of nonagricultural 

employees and their wages, with 

approximately 49 percent of the workers 

in agriculture covered as well. 

For employers having only a single 

physical location or worksite in the 

State and, thus, operating under a single 

industrial and geographical code, the 

data from the States’ UI accounting files 

are sufficient for statistical purposes. 

However, such data are not sufficient for 

statistical purposes for those employers 

having multiple establishments or 

engaging in different industrial 

activities within the State. In such cases, 

the employer’s QCR reflects only 

statewide employment and wages and is 

not disaggregated by establishment or 

worksite. Although data at these levels 

are sufficient for many purposes of the 

UI program, more detailed information 

is required to create a sampling frame 

and to meet the needs of several ongoing 

Federal/State statistical programs. The 

Multiple Worksite Report (MWR) is 

designed to supplement the QCR when 

more detailed information is needed. 

Because of the data captured by the 

MWR, improved establishment business 

identification data elements have been 

incorporated into and maintained by the 

longitudinal QCEW database. The MWR 

collects a physical location address, 

secondary name (trade name, division, 

subsidiary, etc.), and reporting unit 

description (store number, plant name 

or number, etc.) for each worksite of 

multi-establishment employers. 

Employers with more than one 

establishment reporting under the same 

UI account number within a State are 

requested to complete the MWR if the 

sum of the employment in all of their 

secondary establishments is 10 or 

greater. The primary worksite is defined 

as the establishment with the greatest 

number of employees. Upon receipt of 

the first MWR form, each employer is 

requested to supply business location 

identification information. Thereafter, 

this reported information appears on the 

MWR each quarter. The employer is 

requested to verify the accuracy of this 

business location identification 

information and to provide only the 


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employment and wages for each 

worksite for that quarter. By using a 

standardized form, the reporting burden 

on many large employers, especially 

those engaged in multiple economic 

activities at various locations across 

numerous States, is reduced. 

The function of the Report of Federal 

Employment and Wages (RFEW) is to 

collect employment and wages data for 

Federal establishments covered under 

the UCFE program. The MWR and 

RFEW are essentially the same. The 

MWR/RFEW forms are designed to 

collect data for each establishment of a 

multi-establishment employer. 

No other standardized report is 

available to collect current 

establishment-level monthly 

employment and wages data by SWAs 

for statistical purposes each quarter 

from the private sector nor State and 

local governments. Also, no other 

standardized report currently is 

available to collect installation-level 

Federal monthly employment and 

wages data each quarter by SWAs for 

statistical purposes. Completion of the 

MWR is required by law in 31 States 

and territories. 

II. Current Action 

Office of Management and Budget 

clearance is being sought for an 

extension of the Multiple Worksite 

Report and the Report of Federal 

Employment and Wages. 

The BLS has taken steps to help 

reduce employer reporting burden by 

developing a standardized format for 

employers to use to send these data to 

the States in an electronic medium. The 

BLS established an Electronic Data 

Interchange (EDI) Collection Center to 

improve and expedite the MWR 

collection process. Employers who 

complete the MWR for multi-location 

businesses can submit employment and 

wages information on any electronic 

medium directly to the data collection 

center, rather than separately to each 

State agency. The data collection center 

then distributes the appropriate data to 

the respective States. In addition, the 

BLS developed a web-based system, 

MWRweb, to collect these data from 

small to medium-size businesses. The 

BLS continues to see much greater 

utilization of this reporting option. 

III. Desired Focus of Comments 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics 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. 

• 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. 

Title of Collection: Multiple Worksite 

Report (MWR) and the Report of Federal 

Employment and Wages (RFEW). 

OMB Number: 1220–0134. 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits, Not-for-profit institutions, and 

the Federal Government. 

Form No. Total 

respondents Frequency Total responses 

Average time 

per response 

Estimated 

total burden 

(hours) 

BLS 3020 (MWR/Federal) ................................................... 146,727 4 586,908 22.2 minutes 217,156 

BLS 3021 (RFEW/Non-Federal) .......................................... 1,715 4 6,860 22.2 minutes 2,538 

Totals: ........................................................................... 148,442 4 593,768 ........................ 219,694 

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 also 

will become a matter of public record. 

Signed at Washington, DC, on April 13, 

2022. 

Eric Molina, 

Acting Chief, Division of Management 

Systems. 

[FR Doc. 2022–08309 Filed 4–18–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0197] 

Occupational Safety and Health State 

Plans; Extension of the Office of 

Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

Approval of Information Collection 

(Paperwork) Requirements 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Request for public comments. 

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public 

comments concerning its request to 

extend OMB’s approval of information 

collection regarding the State Plans 

program and regulations for the 

development and enforcement of state 

occupational safety and health 

standards. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by June 

21, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Electronically: You may 

submit comments, including 

attachments, electronically at http://

www.regulations.gov, the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal. Follow the 

instructions online for submitting 

comments. 

Docket: To read or download 

comments or other material in the 

docket, go to http://

www.regulations.gov. Documents in the 

docket are listed in the http://

www.regulations.gov index; however, 

some information (e.g., copyrighted 

material) is not publicly available to 

read or download through the website. 

All submissions, including copyrighted 

material, are available for inspection 

through the OSHA Docket Office. 

Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 

693–2350 (TTY (877) 889–5627) for 


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