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relating to the settlement are available 

for public inspection at 1445 Ross 

Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202–2733. A 

copy of the proposed settlement may be 

obtained from Kevin Shade, 1445 Ross 

Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202–2733 or by 

calling (214) 665–2708. Comments 

should reference the Chief Supply/ 

Greenway Superfund Site, near Haskell, 

Wagoner County, Oklahoma, and EPA 

Docket Number 06–11–07, and should 

be addressed to Kevin Shade at the 

address listed above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gloria Moran, 1445 Ross Avenue, 

Dallas, Texas 75202–2733 or call (214) 

665–3193. 

Dated: September 29, 2008. 

Richard E. Greene, 

Regional Administrator, Region 6. 

[FR Doc. E8–23388 Filed 10–2–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities 

AGENCY: Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Information 

Collection—no change: Employer 

Information Report (EEO–1). 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission 

(EEOC) announces that it intends to 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) a request for an extension 

through January 2010. 

DATE: Written comments on this notice 

must be submitted on or before 

December 2, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• By mail to Stephen Llewellyn, 

Executive Officer, Executive Secretariat, 

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission, 10th Floor, 1801 L Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20507. 

• By facsimile (‘‘FAX’’) machine (202) 

663–4114. (This is not a toll-free 

number). Only comments of six or fewer 

pages will be accepted via FAX 

transmittal, in order to assure access to 

the equipment. Receipt of FAX 

transmittals will not be acknowledged, 

except that the sender may request 

confirmation of receipt by calling the 

Executive Secretariat staff at (202) 663– 

4070 (voice) or (202) 663–4074 (TTY). 

(These are not toll-free telephone 

numbers.) 

• By the Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. After 

accessing this Web site, follow its 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Comments need to be submitted in 

only one of the above formats, not all 

three. All comments received will be 

posted without change to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information you provide. 

Copies of the received comments will 

also be available for inspection in the 

EEOC Library, FOIA Reading Room, by 

advance appointment only, from 9 a.m. 

to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday 

except legal holidays, from December 2, 

2008 until the Commission publishes 

the 30-day notice for this item. People 

who schedule an appointment in EEOC 

Library, FOIA Reading Room, and need 

assistance to view the comments will be 

provided with appropriate aids upon 

request, such as readers or print 

magnifiers. To schedule an appointment 

to inspect the comments at EEOC 

Library, FOIA Reading Room, contact 

the EEOC Library by calling (202) 663– 

4630 (voice) or (202) 663–4641 (TTY). 

(These are not toll-free telephone 

numbers.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ronald Edwards, Director, Program 

Research and Surveys Division, 1801 L 

Street, NW., Room 9222, Washington, 

DC 20507; (202) 663–4958 (voice) or 

(202) 663–7063 (TDD). This notice is 

also available in the following formats: 

large print, Braille, audio tape and 

electronic file on computer disk. 

Requests for this notice in an alternative 

format should be made to the 

Publications Center at 1–800–669–3392. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, and OMB 

regulations 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), the 

Commission solicits public comment to 

enable it to: 

1. Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

Commission’s functions, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the 

Commission’s estimate of the burden of 

the proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

4. Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

Collection Title: Employer 

Information Report (EEO–1). 

OMB Number: OMB Number 3046– 

0007. 

Frequency of Report: Annual. 

Type of Respondent: Private industry 

employers with 100 or more employees 

and certain Federal Government 

contractors and first-tier subcontractors 

with 50 or more employees. 

Description of Affected Public: Private 

industry employers with 100 or more 

employees and certain Federal 

Government contractors and first-tier 

subcontractors with 50 or more 

employees. 

Reporting Hours: 599,000. 

Respondent Cost: $11.4 million. 

Federal Cost: $2.1 million. 

Number of Forms: 1. 

Abstract: Section 709(c) of Title VII of 

the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as 

amended, 42 U.S.C. 2000e–8(c), requires 

employers to make and keep records 

relevant to a determination of whether 

unlawful employment practices have 

been or are being committed and to 

make reports therefrom as required by 

the EEOC. Accordingly, the EEOC 

issued regulations, Title 29, Chapter 

XIV, Subpart B, § 1602.7, which set 

forth the reporting requirements for 

various kinds of employers. Employers 

in the private sector with 100 or more 

employees and some Federal contractors 

with 50 or more employees have been 

required to submit EEO–1 reports 

annually since 1966. The individual 

reports are confidential. EEO–1 data are 

used by EEOC to investigate charges of 

employment discrimination against 

employers in private industry and to 

provide information about the 

employment status of minorities and 

women. The data are shared with the 

Office of Federal Contract Compliance 

Programs (OFCCP), U.S. Department of 

Labor, and several other Federal 

agencies. Pursuant to § 709(d) of Title 

VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as 

amended, EEO–1 data are also shared 

with eighty-six State and local Fair 

Employment Practices Agencies 

(FEPAs). 

Burden Statement: The estimated 

number of respondents included in the 

annual EEO–1 survey is 45,000 private 

employers. The estimated number of 

establishment-based responses per 

reporting company is between 3 and 4 

EEO–1 reports annually. The annual 

number of responses is approximately 

170,000. The form is estimated to 

impose 599,000 burden hours annually. 

In order to help reduce survey burden, 

respondents are encouraged to report 

data electronically whenever possible. 

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Dated: September 29, 2008. 

For the Commission. 

Reed L. Russell, 

Legal Counsel. 

[FR Doc. E8–23288 Filed 10–2–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6570–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Information 

Collection(s) Being Submitted for 

Review to the Office of Management 

and Budget 

September 29, 2008. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork burden 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection(s), as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. 

An agency may not conduct or sponsor 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid control 

number. No person shall be subject to 

any penalty for failing to comply with 

a collection of information subject to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that 

does not display a valid control number. 

Comments are requested concerning (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; and (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) comments should be 

submitted on or before November 3, 

2008. If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting PRA comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the FCC contact listed below as 

soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 

Management and Budget, (202) 395– 

5887, or via fax at 202–395–5167 or via 

internet at 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and 

to Judith-B.Herman@fcc.gov, Federal 

Communications Commission, or an email to PRA@fcc.gov. To view a copy of 

this information collection request (ICR) 

submitted to OMB: (1) Go to the Web 

page http://reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain, (2) look for the section of the 

Web page called ‘‘Currently Under 

Review’’, (3) click on the downwardpointing arrow in the ‘‘Select Agency’’ 

box below the ‘‘Currently Under 

Review’’ heading, (4) select ‘‘Federal 

Communications Commission’’ from the 

list of agencies presented in the ‘‘Select 

Agency’’ box, (5) click the ‘‘Submit’’ 

button to the right of the ‘‘Select 

Agency’’ box, and (6) when the list of 

FCC ICRs currently under review 

appears, look for the title of this ICR (or 

its OMB Control Number, if there is one) 

and then click on the ICR Reference 

Number to view detailed information 

about this ICR. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information or copies of the 

information collection(s), contact Judith 

B. Herman at 202–418–0214 or via the 

Internet at Judith-B.Herman@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1116. 

Title: Submarine Cable Reporting. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit. 

Number of Respondents: 28 

respondents; 53 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 190 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion, 

annual and one-time reporting 

requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Voluntary. 

Total Annual Burden: 10,070 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: N/A. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

Information provided pursuant to this 

request will be viewed as presumptively 

confidential upon submission because 

the information would reflect reports on 

weaknesses in or damage to national 

communications infrastructure, and the 

release of this sensitive information to 

the public could potentially facilitate 

terrorist targeting of critical 

infrastructure and key resources. The 

submissions also may contain internal 

confidential information that constitutes 

trade secrets and commercial/financial 

information that the respondent does 

not rountinely make public and public 

release of the submitted information 

could cause competitive harm by 

revealing information about the types 

and deployment of cable equipment and 

the traffic that flows across the system. 

See item 10 of the supporting statement 

submitted to OMB with this submission. 

Needs and Uses: The Federal 

Communications Commission sought 

and received emergency OMB approval 

for this information collection on April 

16, 2008. The Commission is now 

submitting this information collection 

(IC) to the OMB as a revision during this 

comment period to obtain the full threeyear clearance from them. The 

Commission is reporting a –17,430 

burden hour reduction (adjustment). 

This adjustment is due to a 

recalculation of a re-estimate of the 

average burden per respondent which 

was reduced from 550 hours per 

response to 190 hours per response. 

The Commission initially contacted 

AT&T and Verizon, two of the largest 

submarine cable operators, regarding 

this information request. Subsequently, 

the Commission provided the 

submarine cable operators an 

opportunity to comment on this 

information collection request by having 

informal discussions with them and by 

inviting them to a meeting held at the 

Commission’s headquarters on May 13, 

2008. Based on our discussions, we 

believe the submarine cable operators 

already have much of this information, 

and we amended the information 

request to clarify that the operators 

would not be required to generate new 

information in order to comply with this 

request but should supply the 

information to the extent it is generated 

in the normal course of business. We, 

therefore, are not asking for the operator 

to provide information not already 

generated in the operation of the 

submarine cable systems or in 

possession of the operator. 

Specifically, the Commission requests 

that the cable landing licensees provide 

the following information regarding the 

submarine cable systems: (1) System 

status and restoration; (2) terrestrial 

route map; (3) undersea location 

spreadsheet; and (4) restoration 

capability. 

With this revision to the OMB, there 

are some differences between this 

information collection request and the 

one for which emergency approval was 

granted. First, it recognizes that 

operator-generated information covering 

system status and restoration data in 

item (1) varies widely in format, 

content, threshold, and volume. Some 

may not generate all fields of data. 

Further, it clarifies that operators are not 

required to generate new information in 

order to comply with this request but 

should supply the information to the 

extent that it is generated in the normal 

course of business. Second, it allows 

operators to provide a terrestrial route 

map as either a map or an Excel 

spreadsheet (approved as only a map 

requirement in the emergency request). 

Third, it clarifies that operators should 

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