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1https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/ 

2019/03/26/2019-05720/secretarys-order-02-2019- 

chief-data-officer-and-dol-data-board. 

2https://strategy.data.gov/. 

3https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW115publ435/pdf/PLAW-115publ435.pdf. 

4Examples of DOL data as they are currently 

offered include enforcement databases (https://

enforcedata.dol.gov/homePage.php), Wage and 

Hour Division’s enforcement data (https://

www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/data/charts), the Office 

of Foreign Labor Certification’s performance data 

(https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/ 

performance), and assorted data from the 

Unemployment Insurance program (https://

oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/DataDashboard.asp). 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

[Agency Docket Number: DOL–2022–0003] 

Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

Policy; Request for Information on 

Design and Implementation Features 

for Open Data Services Provided by 

the Department of Labor 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Policy, Department of 

Labor. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: The Department is seeking 

public input in support of its open data 

efforts to ensure that expanding public 

access to Federal data will best reflect 

public interests, serve public needs, and 

continue to be customer focused, while 

protecting the confidentiality of its data 

providers. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal as described below 

on or before December 12, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit electronic 

comments in the following way: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Comments submitted electronically, 

including attachments, to https://

www.regulations.gov will be posted to 

the docket unchanged. Because your 

comment will be made public, you are 

solely responsible for ensuring that your 

comment does not include any 

confidential information that you or a 

third party may not wish to be posted, 

such as personally identifying 

information, your or anyone else’s 

Social Security number, or confidential 

business information, such as a 

manufacturing process. Please note that 

if you include your name, contact 

information, or other information that 

identifies you in the body of your 

comments, that information will be 

posted on https://www.regulations.gov. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the Docket No. DOL– 

2021–0005 for ‘‘Request for information 

on design and implementation features 

for open data services provided by the 

Department of Labor.’’ Received 

comments, those filed in a timely 

manner (see DATES), will be placed in 

the docket and be publicly viewable at 

https://www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Scott Gibbons, Chief Data Officer, Office 

of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, 

U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20210, gibbons.scott.m@dol.gov, 

202–693–5075 (this is not a toll-free 

number), or for individuals with hearing 

or speech impairments, 1–877–889– 

5627 (this is the TTY toll-free Federal 

Information Relay Service number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Department of Labor 

(Department) is committed to fostering a 

strong, open data policy that provides 

simple and meaningful public access to 

data, in formats that are most useful for 

public consumption and analyses of the 

data. The Department’s open data policy 

must also comply with the law, 

including protecting personal and 

private information subject to the 

Privacy Act. The Department’s open 

data policy is also consistent with 

Secretary’s Order (SO) 02–2019,1 the 

Federal Data Strategy,2 and the 

Foundations for Evidence-Based 

Policymaking Act of 2018 (Evidence 

Act).3

SO 02–2019 provides the 

Department’s framework for building 

data capacity and includes the following 

requirements: 

• Identify the critical role that data 

play in informing and influencing how 

the Department carries out its mission, 

and acknowledge that these data need to 

be leveraged, housed, described and 

documented, formatted, and made 

public in an optimal manner; 

• Formalize the Data Board as the 

Department’s data governance body, and 

as a forum to work across organizational 

lines to collaborate and coordinate 

effectively on data strategy, 

management, and policy issues, as well 

as data governance, stewardship, 

architecture, and utilization; 

• Provide Departmental programs 

with clear descriptions of the 

motivation, context, and values 

associated with data governance and 

data strategy by linking evidence-based 

policymaking with the need for modern 

data infrastructure and strengthened 

data capacity; and 

• Task the Data Board and the Chief 

Data Officer with serving the needs of 

the Department and its stakeholders to 

focus on the quality, consistency, and 

availability of data. 

In addition, the Evidence Act and the 

recently published Federal Data Strategy 

have expanded the requirements for 

Federal agencies to build data capacity 

that benefits the public and to be 

transparent with their data assets. 

Examples of these expansions include 

Section 303 of the Evidence Act, which 

expands requirements for access to data 

for evidence and adds a presumption of 

accessibility to data, and Section 202(b) 

of the Evidence Act, which includes 

guidance to make data open by default. 

In similar fashion, the Federal Data 

Strategy explicitly calls on agencies to 

identify priority data sets (Action 1) and 

to identify their initial list of priority 

data assets for agency open data plans 

(Action 5). 

Consistent with all of these 

requirements, the Department is 

building capacity for open data through 

the development of a new Application 

Programming Interface (API), and plans 

to provide open data through a data-asa-service (DAAS) model. This model is 

expected to offer efficient, on-demand 

methods that enable users to create 

customized data extracts in a machinereadable format. The Department is also 

seeking to increase the quantity and 

types of data sets offered through DAAS, 

providing more standardized data 

documentation in electronic formats— 

including machine-readable—and 

designing a central portal for customers 

to find data, metadata, tools for 

ingesting data, and data-specific 

documentation. 

II. Review Focus 

The Department seeks public 

comment on specific approaches that 

could lead to wider and easier access, 

greater utility, and increased 

comprehensibility to data and 

associated documentation that the 

Department makes available. The 

Department also seeks comment on 

challenges with using existing 

Department data,4 including access 

mechanisms, so that the Data Board and 

various Departmental programs can 

work to make improvements. 

Respondents should note that this 

request for comments does not address 

data products designed, collected, and 

published by the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics. 

The Department seeks comments on 

the specific characteristics of data and 

supporting materials that would allow 

the public to better use and benefit from 

our open data. Examples may include: 

1. Data content and format; 


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2. Data documentation, including 

metadata content, codebooks, and data 

dictionaries; 

3. Data formats specific to certain 

analysis patterns (e.g., spatial analysis, 

machine learning, and program 

evaluation) including tagging, 

geocoding, and data encoding that 

reduce burdens and increase efficiency; 

4. Data quality issues that diminish 

the benefit and utility of Departmental 

data and limit transparency and 

analyses; and 

5. Challenges with data comparability 

including linking across program data, 

establishing common identifiers across 

data sets, and merging Departmental 

data with other Federal and non-Federal 

data sources. 

The Department also solicits public 

comment on the following areas: 

6. Identifying data sets that are 

currently useful and merit prioritization 

in forthcoming open data efforts; 

7. Identifying data sets that are neither 

public nor available through restricteduse access programs that could provide 

value to the Department’s stakeholders 

if made available; 

8. The relative advantages and 

disadvantages of various machinereadable formats including JavaScript 

Object Notation (JSON), Extensible 

Markup Language (XML), and ASCII 

text files with or without commaseparated values (CSV) files; 

9. The relative advantages and 

disadvantages of providing open data 

through DAAS vis-a-vis complexity, 

efficiency, convenience, automation, 

and user-friendliness; 

10. Specific data sets and 

methodologies that would be useful in 

achieving the goals of President Biden’s 

Executive Orders on Equity from 

January 2021 and on Customer 

Experience from November 2021; and 

relevant data and metadata standards 

that enhance interoperability, promote 

transparency, aid discovery, provide 

understanding, and facilitate integrating 

data from multiple sources. 

Respondents are encouraged to 

associate the category numbering above 

within their responses to facilitate 

organization and analysis of the 

comments. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 7th day of 

June, 2022. 

Scott Gibbons, 

Chief Data Officer, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–HX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Wage and Hour Division 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; Report 

of Construction Contractor’s Wage 

Rates 

AGENCY: Wage and Hour Division, 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (the 

Department) is soliciting comments 

concerning a proposed revision of the 

information collection request (ICR) 

titled ‘‘Report of Construction 

Contractor’s Wage Rates,’’ which 

describes the WD–10 form and its use in 

wage surveys to implement the 

prevailing wage requirements of the 

Davis-Bacon and Related Acts. The 

Department is proposing to revise the 

WD–10 form and create a new WD–10A 

pre-survey form that will be used to 

identify potential respondents to the 

WD–10. This comment request is part of 

continuing Departmental efforts to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA). The PRA process 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. A copy of the 

proposed information collection request 

can be obtained by contacting the office 

listed below in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

Notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section below on or before 

August 15, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Control Number 1235– 

0015, by either one of the following 

methods: Email: WHDPRAComments@

dol.gov; Mail, Hand Delivery, Courier: 

Division of Regulations, Legislation, and 

Interpretation, Wage and Hour Division, 

U.S. Department of Labor, Room S– 

3502, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20210. 

Instructions: Please submit one copy 

of your comments by only one method. 

All submissions received must include 

the agency name and Control Number 

identified above for this information 

collection. Because we continue to 

experience delays in receiving mail in 

the Washington, DC area, commenters 

are strongly encouraged to transmit their 

comments electronically via email or to 

submit them by mail early. Comments, 

including any personal information 

provided, become a matter of public 

record. They will also be summarized 

and/or included in the request for Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval of the information collection 

request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Waterman, Division of 

Regulations, Legislation, and 

Interpretation, Wage and Hour Division, 

U.S. Department of Labor, Room S– 

3502, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202) 

693–0406 (this is not a toll-free 

number). Copies of this notice may be 

obtained in alternative formats (Rich 

Text Format (RTF) or text format (txt), 

a thumb drive, an MP3 file, large print, 

braille, audiotape, compact disc, or 

other accessible format), upon request, 

by calling (202) 693–0023 (not a toll-free 

number). TTY/TTD callers may dial tollfree (877) 889–5627 to obtain 

information or request materials in 

alternative formats. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: The Davis-Bacon Act 

(DBA), as enacted in 1931 and 

subsequently amended, requires the 

payment of minimum prevailing wages 

determined by the Department of Labor 

to laborers and mechanics working on 

federal contracts in excess of $2,000 for 

the construction, alteration, or repair, 

including painting and decorating, of 

public buildings and public works. See 

40 U.S.C. 3141 et seq. Congress has also 

included the Davis-Bacon requirements 

in numerous other laws, known as the 

Davis-Bacon Related Acts (the Related 

Acts and, collectively with the DavisBacon Act, the DBRA), which provide 

federal assistance for construction 

projects through grants, loans, loan 

guarantees, insurance, and other 

methods. 

The DBA delegates to the Secretary of 

Labor the responsibility to determine 

the wage rates that are ‘‘prevailing’’ for 

each classification of covered laborers 

and mechanics on similar projects ‘‘in 

the civil subdivision of the State in 

which the work is to be performed.’’ 40 

U.S.C. 3142(b). The Administrator of the 

Wage and Hour Division, through this 

delegation of authority, is responsible 

for issuing these wage determinations 

(WDs). The DBA implementing 

regulations provide that, for the purpose 

of making WDs, the Administrator will 

conduct a continuing program for 

obtaining and compiling wage rate 

information. 29 CFR 1.3. As part of this 

program, the Administrator developed 

the WD–10 form to solicit information 

that is used to determine locally 


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