53346 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 168 / Tuesday, August 31, 2010 / Notices 

30 days from the date of this publication 

in the Federal Register. In order to 

ensure the appropriate consideration, 

comments should reference the 

applicable OMB Control Number (see 

below). 

The OMB is particularly interested in 

comments which: 

(1) 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; 

(2) 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; 

(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 through 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. 

Agency: Mine Safety and Health 

Administration. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Title of Collection: Safety Standards 

for Underground Coal Mine 

Ventilation—Belt Entry Used as an 

Intake Air Course to Ventilate Working 

Sections and Areas Where Mechanized 

Mining Equipment Is Being Installed or 

Removed. 

OMB Control Number: 1219–0144. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 2,055. 

Total Number of Responses: 24,767. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden 

Hours: 5,181. 

Total Estimated Annual Cost Burden 

(operating/maintaining): $863,397. 

Description: MSHA published a final 

rule revising the Agency’s requirements 

for mine rescue teams for underground 

coal mines on February 8, 2008. 

Background: The United Mine 

Workers of America challenged the final 

rule in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 

District of Columbia Circuit (Court). On 

February 10, 2009, the Court vacated 

several of the rule’s provisions. 

Consistent with the Court’s decision, 

MSHA revised its requirements for mine 

rescue teams for underground coal 

mines on June 17, 2009. The 2008 mine 

rescue team standard and 2009 revision 

added burden to existing information 

collection requirements and imposed 

two new information collection 

requirements. 

MSHA last submitted paperwork 

package 1219–0144 to OMB in May 

2009, under the emergency review 

procedures in 5 CFR 1320.13. 

Section 4 of the Mine Improvement 

and New Emergency Response (MINER) 

Act of 2006 required MSHA to 

promulgate standards for mine rescue 

teams for underground coal mines. The 

May 2009 paperwork package 1219– 

0144 addressed only the increased 

burden associated with the revised and 

new standards and did not include the 

information collection burden for the 

existing mine rescue team standard not 

addressed by the MINER Act, which had 

been approved under paperwork 

package 1219–0078 for both coal and 

metal and nonmetal mines. This 

paperwork package 1219–0144 

combines the additional burden from 

the revised and new standards for 

underground coal mine rescue teams 

with the existing information collection 

burden, which has been removed from 

paperwork package 1219–0078. (The 

metal and nonmetal mine rescue team 

paperwork package, OMB control 

number 1219–0078, has been extended 

to February 28, 2013, ICR reference 

number 200912–1219–003.) 

This package covers the following 

requirements for coal mines: 

• Each operator of a coal mine who 

provides rescue teams is required to 

send the District Manager a statement 

describing the mine’s method of 

compliance with the standard. 

• Small or remote mines may submit 

an application of an arrangement for 

alternative mine rescue capability to 

MSHA for approval. 

• A person trained in the use and care 

of the breathing apparatus is required to 

certify by signature and date that the 

required inspections and tests were 

done, take corrective action if indicated, 

and record any corrective action taken. 

• Each member of a mine rescue team 

must be examined annually by a 

physician who must certify that each 

person is physically fit to perform mine 

rescue and recovery work. 

• A record of the training received by 

each mine rescue team member in the 

use, care, and maintenance of the type 

of breathing apparatus that will be used 

by the mine rescue team must be made 

and kept on file at the mine rescue 

station for a period of one year. The 

operator must provide the District 

Manager information concerning the 

schedule of upcoming training when 

requested. 

• Each mine must have a mine rescue 

notification plan outlining the 

procedures to be followed in notifying 

the mine rescue teams when there is an 

emergency that requires their services. 

• Underground coal mine operators 

must certify that each designated coal 

mine rescue team meets the 

requirements of 30 CFR part 49 subpart 

B. 

• Coal mine operators must make 

arrangements for 24-hour emergency 

medical assistance and transportation 

for injured persons and to post this 

information at appropriate places at the 

mine, including the names, titles, 

addresses, and telephone numbers of all 

persons or services currently available 

under those arrangements. For 

additional information, see related 

notice published in the Federal Register 

on April 13, 2010 (Vol. 75 page 18888). 

Dated: August 24, 2010. 

Linda Watts Thomas, 

Acting Departmental Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–21580 Filed 8–30–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–43–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Submission for OMB Emergency 

Review: Comment Request 

August 24, 2010. 

The Department of Labor has 

submitted the following (see below) 

information collection request (ICR), 

utilizing emergency review procedures, 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and clearance in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95) (Pub. L. 

104–13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) and 5 

CFR 1320.13. OMB approval has been 

requested by September 16, 2010. A 

copy of this ICR, with applicable 

supporting documentation, including 

among other things a description of the 

likely respondents, proposed frequency 

of responses, and estimated total burden 

may be obtained from the RegInfo.gov 

Web site at http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain or by contacting 

Linda Watts-Thomas on 202–693–4223 

(this is not a toll-free number)/e-mail: 

DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. Interested 

parties are encouraged to send 

comments to the Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk 

Officer for the Department of Labor— 

BLS, Office of Management and Budget, 

Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, 

Telephone: 202–395–7314/Fax: 202– 

395–6974 (these are not toll-free 

numbers), e-mail: 

OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Comments and questions about the ICR 

listed below should be received 5 days 


srobinson on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 168 / Tuesday, August 31, 2010 / Notices 53347 

prior to the requested OMB approval 

date. 

The OMB 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 

• 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. 

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Type of Review: Revision of currently 

approved collection. 

Title of Collection: National 

Compensation Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 1220–0164. 

Affected Public: Private sector 

establishments and State and local 

governments. 

Total 

respondents Frequency 

Total 

annual 

responses 

Average 

minutes per 

response 

Burden 

hours 

Private Sector ........................................................................ 34,929 Annual .......... 63,508 46.58 49,303 

State and Local Governments .............................................. 4,974 Annual .......... 10,312 34.92 6,002 

Totals to NCS Program .................................................. 39,904 ...................... 73,820 ........................ 55,305 

Total Burden Cost: (capital/startup): 

$0. 

Total Burden Cost: (operating/ 

maintenance): $0. 

Description: The National 

Compensation Survey (NCS) is an 

ongoing survey of earnings and benefits 

among private firms, State, and local 

government. NCS is the integration of 

the sampling, collection, and processing 

for the Employment Cost Index (ECI), 

the Employee Benefits Survey (EBS), 

and the Locality Pay Surveys (LPS) into 

a single, unified program of 

compensation statistics. This integration 

improves data for policymakers and 

researchers, reduces respondent burden, 

improves the utilization of BLS 

resources, and enhances the published 

measures of compensation. Data from 

the integrated program include 

estimates of wages by job levels 

covering broad groups of related 

occupations, and data that directly links 

benefit plan costs with detailed plan 

provisions. The integrated program’s 

single sample also produces both timeseries indexes and cost levels for 

industry and occupational groups, 

thereby increasing the analytical 

potential of the data. Benefits of the 

integrated sample include: improved 

measures of trends; better integration of 

benefit costs and plan provisions; data 

for narrow occupations; and broad 

regional and occupational coverage. 

NCS employs probability methods for 

selection of occupations. This ensures 

that sampled occupations represent all 

occupations in the workforce, while 

minimizing the reporting burden on 

respondents. Data from the NCS are 

critical for setting Federal white-collar 

salaries, determining monetary policy 

(as a Principal Federal Economic 

Indicator), and for compensation 

administrators and researchers in the 

private sector. The survey collects data 

from a sample of employers. The data 

consist of information about the duties, 

responsibilities, and compensation 

(earnings and benefits) for a sample of 

occupations for each sampled employer. 

The NCS is proposing to add two 

questions on domestic partner benefits. 

This collection timeline will allow data 

on domestic partner benefits to be 

published in 2011. These questions will 

only be asked of wage and benefits 

sample members who offer defined 

benefit (DB) and/or health benefits to 

their employees. Currently in private 

industry DB plans are offered in 11% of 

establishments and health benefits to 

63%. In State and local governments DB 

access is 84% and health benefits access 

is 88%. These two questions will add 

approximately 180 hours annually to 

private industry sample respondent 

burden hours (14,614 total sample of 

private establishments). For the 

government sample these two questions 

will add approximately 62 hours 

annually to government respondent 

burden hours (2,164 total sample of 

State and local government 

establishments). 

Why are we requesting Emergency 

Processing? Emergency clearance is 

being sought for the National 

Compensation Survey for the purpose of 

the addition of two questions on 

domestic partner benefits to the existing 

‘‘Other Benefits’’ questions. The 

Department of Labor’s LGBT (Lesbian, 

Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) 

roundtable and recent Congressional 

actions on the proposed Domestic 

Partnership Benefits and Obligations 

Act (HR 2517) have greatly increased 

the need for information on domestic 

partner benefits in both private industry 

and State and local governments. In 

order for BLS to produce data in 2011, 

NCS data collection of these questions 

must begin in September 2010 during 

the NCS collection quarter (which starts 

September 16, 2010). 

The BLS will submit an ICR 

immediately following this approval, as 

the current NCS package expires in 

January 2011. This ICR will be 

submitted to OMB under the standard 

clearance process and will give the 

public a second opportunity chance to 

comment on this collection in 

accordance with PRA95 (44 USC 3506). 

Linda Watts-Thomas, 

Acting, Departmental Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–21617 Filed 8–30–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Cooperative Agreements Under the 

Disability Employment Initiative; 

Solicitation for Grant Applications 

(SGA) SGA–DFA–PY–10–01; 

Amendment Number 1 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA), U.S. Department 

of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice: Amendments, revision 

of phone number for grants management 

specialist, and revision of point value 

for one criterion. 


srobinson on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with NOTICES