Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 190 / Tuesday, October 2, 2007 / Notices 56103 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Senior Executive Service; Appointment 

of Members to the Performance 

Review Board 

Title 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4) provides that 

Notice of the Appointment of an 

individual to serve as a member of the 

Performance Review Board of the Senior 

Executive Service shall be published in 

the Federal Register. 

The following individuals are hereby 

appointed to a three-year term on the 

Department’s Performance Review 

Board: 

Cheryl Atkinson. 

Michael Connors. 

Patrick Pizzella. 

For Further Information Contact: Ms. 

Andrea Burckman, Director, Office of 

Executive Resources and Personnel 

Security, Room C5508, U.S. Department 

of Labor, Frances Perkins Building, 200 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20210, telephone: (202) 693–7628. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 21st day of 

September, 2007. 

Elaine L. Chao, 

Secretary of Labor. 

[FR Doc. 07–4853 Filed 10– 1–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Veterans’ Employment Training 

Service 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request; Federal Contractor Veterans’

Employment Reports VETS–100 and 

VETS–100A 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 

(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 

Veterans’ Employment and Training 

Service (VETS) is soliciting comments 

concerning the proposed revision of the 

currently approved information 

collection request for the ‘‘Federal 

Contractor Veterans’’ Employment 

Report VETS–100’’ to include the 

‘‘Federal Contractor Veterans’’

Employment Report VETS–100A.’’ A 

copy of the proposed information 

collection request can be obtained by 

contacting the office listed below in the 

ADDRESSES section of this Notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section below on or before 

December 3, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Comments are to be 

submitted to Robert Wilson, Chief, 

Division of Investigation and 

Compliance, VETS, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Room S–1316, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. 

Electronic transmission is the preferred 

method for submitting comments. Email may be sent to FCP–PRA–04–

VETS@dol.gov. Include ’’VETS–100A’’

in the subject line of the message. 

Written comments of 10 pages or fewer 

also may be transmitted by facsimile to 

(202) 693–4755 (this is not a toll free 

number). Receipt of submissions, 

whether by U.S. Mail, e-mail or FAX 

transmittal, will not be acknowledged; 

however, the sender may request 

confirmation that a submission has been 

received, by telephoning VETS at (202) 

693–4719 (VOICE) (this is not a toll-free 

number) or (202) 693–4753 (TTY/TDD). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Vietnam Era Veterans’

Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 

(‘‘VEVRAA’’), 38 U.S.C. 4212(d), 

requires Federal contractors and 

subcontractors subject to the Act’s 

affirmative action provisions in 38 

U.S.C. 4212(a) to track and report 

annually to the Secretary of Labor the 

number of employees in their 

workforces, by job category and hiring 

location, who belong to the specified 

categories of covered veterans. VETS 

has issued regulations set forth in 41 

CFR part 61–250 that currently require 

contractors to use the Federal Contractor 

Veterans’ Employment Report VETS–

100 (‘‘VETS–100 Report’’) form for 

reporting information on the number of 

covered veterans in their workforces. 

The VETS–100 Report is currently 

approved under OMB No. 1293–0005. 

The Jobs for Veterans Act (JVA) (Pub. 

L. 107–288), which was enacted in 

2002, amended VEVRAA by making two 

changes to the reporting requirements 

applicable to contracts entered into on 

or after December 1, 2003. The JVA 

amendments: (1) Increased from $25,000 

to $100,000, the dollar amount of the 

contract that subjects a Federal 

contractor to the requirement to report 

on veterans’ employment; and (2) 

changed the categories of covered 

veterans under VEVRAA, and thus the 

categories of veterans that contractors 

are required to track and report on 

annually. 

The JVA amendments to the reporting 

requirements under VEVRAA apply 

only to contracts entered into on or after 

December 1, 2003. Some contractors 

have Government contracts that were 

entered into before December 1, 2003, 

and are still subject to the reporting 

requirements in 41 CFR part 61–250. 

Therefore, VETS has determined that it 

will be necessary to maintain two sets 

of regulations to implement the 

reporting requirements under VEVRAA, 

and use two different forms for 

providing the required information on 

the employment of covered veterans. 

On August 8, 2006, VETS published 

a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

(NPRM), (71 FR 44945), to implement 

the changes made by JVA to the 

reporting requirements under VEVRAA. 

The NPRM proposed to adopt a new set 

of regulations that would be codified in 

a new 41 CFR part 61–300. The NPRM 

also proposed to adopt a new form for 

reporting the information on veterans’

employment required by the JVA 

amendments to VEVRAA and name it 

the Federal Contractor Veterans’

Employment Report VETS–100A. The 

existing regulations at 41 CFR part 60–

250 and the VETS–100 reporting 

requirements will continue to apply to 

Government contracts entered into 

before December 1, 2003. 

II. Desired Focus of Comments 

Currently VETS is soliciting 

comments concerning the proposed 

revision of the currently approved 

information collection request to 

include the ‘‘Federal Contractor 

Veterans’ Employment Report VETS–

100A.’’ 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 


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