41146 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 131 / Monday, July 11, 2022 / Notices 

Issued: July 5, 2022. 

William Bishop, 

Supervisory Hearings and Information 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–14627 Filed 7–8–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Application for SelfInsurance Under the Black Lung 

Benefits Act 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(DOL) is submitting this Office of 

Workers’ Compensation Programs 

(OWCP)-sponsored information 

collection request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA). Public comments on the ICR are 

invited. 

DATES: The OMB will consider all 

written comments that the agency 

receives on or before August 10, 2022. 

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. 

Comments are invited on: (1) whether 

the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of 

the agency’s estimates of the burden and 

cost of the collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information collection; and 

(4) ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nicole Bouchet by telephone at 202– 

693–0213, or by email at DOL_PRA_

PUBLIC@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection is essential to the 

mission of OWCP’s Division of Coal 

Mine Workers’ Compensation, which 

administers the Black Lung Benefits Act 

(BLBA). The statute grants the 

Department authority to authorize and 

regulate coal mine operators who wish 

to self-insure their BLBA liabilities. This 

information collection would provide 

OWCP with sufficient information to 

determine whether a coal mine operator 

should be (or continue to be) authorized 

to self-insure. The information would 

also allow OWCP to determine the 

security amount a coal mine operator 

must deposit to guarantee that it will be 

able to meet its BLBA liabilities. For 

additional substantive information 

about this ICR, see the related notice 

published in the Federal Register on 

May 2, 2022 (87 FR 11738). 

This information collection is subject 

to the PRA. A Federal agency generally 

cannot conduct or sponsor a collection 

of information, and the public is 

generally not required to respond to an 

information collection, unless the OMB 

approves it and displays a currently 

valid OMB Control Number. In addition, 

notwithstanding any other provisions of 

law, no person shall generally be subject 

to penalty for failing to comply with a 

collection of information that does not 

display a valid OMB Control Number. 

See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. 

DOL seeks PRA authorization for this 

information collection for three (3) 

years. OMB authorization for an ICR 

cannot be for more than three (3) years 

without renewal. The DOL notes that 

information collection requirements 

submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs 

receive a month-to-month extension 

while they undergo review. 

Agency: DOL–OWCP. 

Title of Collection: Application for 

Self-Insurance Under the Black Lung 

Benefits Act. 

OMB Control Number: 1240–0057. 

Affected Public: Private Sector— 

Businesses or other for-profits. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 49. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Responses: 294. 

Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 

261 hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Costs 

Burden: $34,080. 

(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D)) 

Nicole Bouchet, 

Senior PRA Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2022–14664 Filed 7–8–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Wage and Hour Division 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; 

Information Collections: Labor 

Standards for Federal Service 

Contracts Regulations 

AGENCY: Wage and Hour Division, 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(Department) is soliciting comments 

concerning a proposed extension of the 

information collection request (ICR) 

titled, ‘‘Labor Standards for Federal 

Service Contracts Regulations.’’ This 

comment request is part of continuing 

Departmental efforts to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The Department 

proposes to extend its information 

collection without change to existing 

requirements. 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. A 

copy of the proposed information 

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 

September 9, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Control Number 1235– 

0007 by either one of the following 

methods: Email: WHDPRAComments@

dol.gov; Mail, Hand Delivery, Courier: 

Division of Regulations, Legislation, and 

Interpretation, Wage and Hour, 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 


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of Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval of the information collection 

request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy DeBisschop, 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). Alternative formats are 

available upon request by calling 1– 

866–487–9243. If you are deaf, hard of 

hearing, or have a speech disability, 

please dial 7–1–1 to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Department’s Wage and Hour 

Division (WHD) administers the 

McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act 

(SCA or Act), 41 U.S.C. 351 et seq. The 

SCA applies to every contract entered 

into by the United States or the District 

of Columbia, the principal purpose of 

which is to furnish services to the 

United States through the use of service 

employees. The SCA requires 

contractors and subcontractors 

performing services on covered federal 

or District of Columbia contracts in 

excess of $2,500 to pay service 

employees in various classes no less 

than the monetary wage rates and fringe 

benefits found prevailing in the locality, 

or the rates (including prospective 

increases) contained in a predecessor 

contractor’s collective bargaining 

agreement. Safety and health standards 

also apply to such contracts. WHD 

enforces the compensation requirements 

of the SCA. 

A. Vacation Benefit Seniority List 

Section 2(a) of the SCA provides that 

every contract subject to the Act must 

contain a provision specifying the 

minimum monetary wages and fringe 

benefits to be paid to the various classes 

of service employees performing work 

on the contract. Many wage 

determinations issued for recurring 

services performed at the same federal 

facility provide for certain vested fringe 

benefits (e.g., vacations), which are 

based on the employee’s total length of 

service with a contractor or any 

predecessor contractor. See 29 CFR 

4.162. When found to prevail, such 

fringe benefits are incorporated in wage 

determinations and are usually stated as 

‘‘one-week paid vacation after one year’s 

service with a contractor or successor, 

two weeks after two years,’’ etc. These 

provisions ensure that employees 

receive the vacation benefit payments 

that they have earned and accrued by 

requiring that such payments be made 

by successor contractors who hire the 

same employees who have worked over 

the years at the same facility in the same 

locality for predecessor contractors. 

B. Conformance Record 

Section 2(a) of the SCA provides that 

every contract subject to the Act must 

contain a provision specifying the 

minimum monetary wage and fringe 

benefits to be paid the various classes of 

service employees employed on the 

contract work. See 41 U.S.C. 351, et seq. 

Problems sometimes arise (1) when 

employees are working on service 

contracts in job classifications that the 

Department was not previously 

informed about and (2) when there are 

job classifications for which no wage 

data are available. 

Section 4.6(b)(2) of 29 CFR part 4 

provides a process for ‘‘conforming’’ 

(i.e., adding) classifications and wage 

rates to the wage determinations for 

classes of service employees not 

previously listed on a wage 

determination but where employees are 

actually working on an SCA covered 

contract. This process ensures that the 

requirements of section 2(a) of the Act 

are fulfilled and that a formal record 

exists as part of the contract which 

documents the wage rate and fringe 

benefits to be paid for a conformed 

classification while a service 

employee(s) is employed on the 

contract. 

The contracting officer is required to 

review each contractor-proposed 

conformance to determine if the 

unlisted classes have been properly 

classified by the contractor so as to 

provide a reasonable relationship (i.e., 

appropriate level of skill comparison) 

between such unlisted classifications 

and the classifications (and wages) 

listed in the wage determination. See 29 

CFR 4.6(b)(2). Moreover, the contracting 

agency is required to forward the 

conformance action to WHD for review 

and approval. Id. 

C. Indexing 

In any case where a contract succeeds 

a contract under which a class was 

previously conformed, the contractor 

may use an optional procedure known 

as indexing (i.e., adjusting) to determine 

a new wage rate for a previously 

conformed class. See 29 CFR 

4.6(b)(2)(iv)(B). This procedure does not 

require the Department’s approval, but 

it requires the contractor to notify the 

contracting agency in writing that a 

previously conformed class has been 

indexed and to include information 

describing how the new rate was 

computed. Id. 

D. Submission of Collective Bargaining 

Agreement (CBA) 

Sections 2(a) and 4(c) of the SCA 

provide that any contractor that 

succeeds a contract subject to the Act 

and under which substantially the same 

services are furnished shall pay any 

service workers employed on the 

contract no less than the wages and 

fringe benefits to which such workers 

would have been entitled if employed 

under the predecessor contract. See 29 

CFR 4.163(a). 

29 CFR 4.6(l)(1) requires a 

predecessor contractor to provide to the 

contracting officer a copy of any CBA 

governing the wages and fringe benefits 

paid service employees performing 

work on the contract during the contract 

period. The contracting agency submits 

these CBAs to WHD where they are used 

in issuing wage determinations for 

successor contracts subject to sections 

2(a) and 4(c) of the SCA. See 29 CFR 

4.4(c). 

WHD uses this information to 

determine whether covered employers 

have complied with various legal 

requirements of the laws administered 

by the agency. The Department seeks 

approval to extend this information 

collection related to labor standards for 

federal service contracts. 

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; 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; 

• 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; or 

• 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 

The Department of Labor seeks an 

approval for the extension of this 

information collection that requires 


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employers to make, maintain, and 

preserve records in accordance with 

statutory and regulatory requirements. 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Agency: Wage and Hour Division. 

Title: Labor Standards for Federal 

Service Contracts Regulations. 

OMB Control Number: 1235–0007. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit, Not-for-profit institutions. 

Total Respondents: 137,394. 

Total Annual Responses: 137,394. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

136,462. 

Estimated Time per Response: 

Vacation Benefit Seniority List: 1 hour. 

Conformance Record: 30 minutes. 

Conformance Indexing: 2 hours. 

Collective Bargaining Agreement: 5 

minutes. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup): 

$0. 

Total Burden Costs (Operation/ 

Maintenance): $0. 

Dated: July 1, 2022. 

Amy DeBisschop, 

Director, Division of Regulations, Legislation, 

and Interpretation. 

[FR Doc. 2022–14663 Filed 7–8–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–27–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

The National Science Board’s (NSB) 

Executive Committee hereby gives 

notice of the scheduling of a 

teleconference for the transaction of 

National Science Board business 

pursuant to the National Science 

Foundation Act and the Government in 

the Sunshine Act. 

TIME AND DATE: Monday, July 11, 2022, 

from 12:30–1:30 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: This meeting will be held by 

video conference through the National 

Science Foundation. 

STATUS: Open. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The agenda 

of the teleconference is: Committee 

Chair’s Opening Remarks; Approval of 

Executive Committee Minutes of April 

5, 2022; and Discuss issues and topics 

for an agenda of the NSB meeting 

scheduled for August 3–4, 2022. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Point of contact for this meeting is: 

Nirmala Kannankutty, (nkannank@

nsf.gov), 703/292–8000. Members of the 

public can observe this meeting through 

a You Tube livestream. Access the 

livestream at: https://

www.youtube.com/?v=gicfB6iPjpU. 

Chris Blair, 

Executive Assistant to the National Science 

Board Office. 

[FR Doc. 2022–14752 Filed 7–7–22; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2022–0001] 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: Weeks of July 11, 18, 25, 

August 1, 8, 15, 2022. The schedule for 

Commission meetings is subject to 

change on short notice. The NRC 

Commission Meeting Schedule can be 

found on the internet at: https://

www.nrc.gov/public-involve/publicmeetings/schedule.html. 

PLACE: The NRC provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you 

need a reasonable accommodation to 

participate in these public meetings or 

need this meeting notice or the 

transcript or other information from the 

public meetings in another format (e.g., 

braille, large print), please notify Anne 

Silk, NRC Disability Program Specialist, 

at 301–287–0745, by videophone at 

240–428–3217, or by email at 

Anne.Silk@nrc.gov. Determinations on 

requests for reasonable accommodation 

will be made on a case-by-case basis. 

STATUS: Public. 

Members of the public may request to 

receive the information in these notices 

electronically. If you would like to be 

added to the distribution, please contact 

the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Office of the Secretary, Washington, DC 

20555, at 301–415–1969, or by email at 

Wendy.Moore@nrc.gov or 

Betty.Thweatt@nrc.gov. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Week of July 11, 2022 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of July 11, 2022. 

Week of July 18, 2022—Tentative 

Thursday, July 21, 2022 

9:00 a.m. Update on 10 CFR part 53 

Licensing and Regulation of 

Advanced Nuclear Reactors; 

(Contact: Greg Oberson: 301–415– 

2183) 

Additional Information: The meeting 

will be held in the Commissioners’ 

Conference Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland. The public is 

invited to attend the Commission’s 

meeting in person or watch live via 

webcast at the Web address—https://

video.nrc.gov/. 

Week of July 25, 2022—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of July 25, 2022. 

Week of August 1, 2022—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of August 1, 2022. 

Week of August 8, 2022—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of August 8, 2022. 

Week of August 15, 2022—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of August 15, 2022. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

For more information or to verify the 

status of meetings, contact Wesley Held 

at 301–287–3591 or via email at 

Wesley.Held@nrc.gov. 

The NRC is holding the meetings 

under the authority of the Government 

in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b. 

Dated: July 7, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Wesley W. Held, 

Policy Coordinator, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–14845 Filed 7–7–22; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. MC2022–78 and CP2022–84] 

New Postal Products 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a 

recent Postal Service filing for the 

Commission’s consideration concerning 

a negotiated service agreement. This 

notice informs the public of the filing, 

invites public comment, and takes other 

administrative steps. 

DATES: Comments are due: July 13, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http://

www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit 

comments electronically should contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by 

telephone for advice on filing 

alternatives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction 


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