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unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. In addition, 

notwithstanding any other provisions of 

law, no person shall be subject to 

penalty for failing to comply with a 

collection of information if the 

collection of information does not 

display a currently valid OMB control 

number. See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 

1320.6. 

Parties interested in commenting on 

this request are encouraged to send 

comments to the OMB, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs at 

the address shown in the ADDRESSES

section within 30 days of publication of 

this notice in the Federal Register. In 

order to ensure the appropriate 

consideration, comments should 

reference OMB Information Collection 

Request Reference Number 201005– 

1240–004. The OMB is particularly 

interested in comments that: 

• 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 submission of 

responses. 

Agency: Office of Workers’ 

Compensation Programs. 

Type of Review: New collection 

(Request for a new OMB Control 

Number). 

Title of Collection: Contractor Survey 

under the Federal Employees’ 

Compensation Act. 

Form Numbers: None. 

OMB Control Number: 1240–ONEW. 

Affected Public: Private Sector: 

Business or other for-profit. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Responses: 330. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden 

Hours: 82. 

Estimated Time per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Total Estimated Annual Costs Burden: 

$0. 

Dated: September 28, 2010. 

Michel Smyth, 

Departmental Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–24769 Filed 10–1–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–CH–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Proposed Collection, Comment 

Request 

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. The Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments 

concerning the proposed revision of the 

‘‘National Compensation Survey.’’ A 

copy of the proposed information 

collection request (ICR) can be obtained 

by contacting the individual listed 

below in the ADDRESSES section of this 

notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice on or 

before November 3, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora 

Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, 

Division of Management Systems, 

Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 

2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE., 

Washington, DC 20212. Written 

comments also may be transmitted by 

fax to 202–691–5111 (this is not a toll 

free number.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, at 

202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free 

number). (See ADDRESSES section.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The National Compensation Survey 

(NCS) is an ongoing survey of earnings 

and benefits among private firms, State, 

and local government. The NCS is 

currently 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 time-series 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. The 

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. These data will 

consist of information about the duties, 

responsibilities, and compensation 

(earnings and benefits) for a sample of 

occupations for each sampled employer. 

Data will be updated on a quarterly 

basis. The updates will allow for 

production of data on change in 

earnings and total compensation. 

II. Current Action 

Office of Management and Budget 

clearance is being sought for the 

National Compensation Survey. 

The NCS collects earnings and work 

level data on occupations for the nation. 

The NCS also collects information on 

the cost, provisions, and incidence of all 

the major employee benefits through its 

benefit cost and benefit provision 

programs and publications. 

The Administration has proposed 

2011 budget calls for the elimination of 

the Locality Pay Survey (LPS), which is 

the part of the National Compensation 

Survey that provides occupational wage 

data by industry and specific geographic 

areas. The NCS is currently developing 

a new survey design that excludes the 

LPS. Planning and design for these 

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transition from an area-based survey 

design to a non-area-based national 

design, supplemented with modeled 

wages starting in FY 2011. Sample 

changes are reflected in the stated 

collection and respondent burden 

estimates. 

The NCS data on benefit costs is used 

to produce the ECI and Employer Costs 

for Employee Compensation. The data 

provided will be the same, and the 

series will be continuous. 

The NCS will continue to provide 

employee benefit provision and 

participation data. These data include 

estimates of how many workers receive 

the various employer-sponsored 

benefits. The data also will include 

information about the common 

provisions of benefit plans. 

NCS has modified the collection 

forms, to 14 forms (normally having 

unique private industry and government 

initiation and update collection forms 

and versions.) Two forms are unique for 

private industry and government sample 

members who report data through the 

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption 

Web-site. For NCS update collection, 

the forms give respondents their 

previously reported information, the 

dates they expected change to occur to 

these data, and space for reporting these 

changes. 

III. Desired Focus of Comments 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is 

particularly interested in comments 

that: 

• 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. 

• 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. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Title: National Compensation Survey. 

OMB Number: 1220–0164. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit; not-for-profit institutions; and 

State, local, and tribal government. 

Total Respondents: 14,433 (three-year 

average). 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

$0. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/ 

maintenance): $0. 

All figures in the table below are 

based on a three-year average. The total 

respondents in the table are greater than 

the figure shown above because many 

respondents are asked to provide 

information relating to more than one 

form. 

Form 

Total 

respondents 

per form 

Frequency Total annual 

responses 

Avg. minutes 

for the 

predominant 

form use ** 

Total hours 

Establishment collection form (NCS Form 11– 

1G).

* ......................................... * 19 * 

Establishment collection form (NCS Form 11– 

1P).

1,960 At initiation ........................... 1,960 19 621 

Earnings form (NCS Form 11–2G) .................... * ......................................... * 20 * 

Earnings form (NCS Form 11–2P) .................... 1,960 At initiation ........................... 1,960 20 653 

Wage Shuttle form computer generated earnings update form #.10,665 Quarterly (3.827 avg.) ......... 40,823 20 13,608 

Work Level Form (NCS Form 11–3G) ............... * ......................................... * 25 * 

Work Level Form (NCS FORM 11–3P) ............. 1,960 At initiation ........................... 1,960 25 817 

Work Schedule Form (NCS 11–4G) .................. * ......................................... * 10 * 

Work Schedule Form (NCS 11–4P) .................. 1,960 At initiation ........................... 1,960 10 327 

Benefits Collection Form (NCS 11–5G) ............ * ......................................... * 177 * 

Benefits Collection Form (NCS 11–5P) ............. 1,960 At initiation ........................... 1,960 178.5 5,831 

Summary of Benefits (Benefit update form SO– 

1003) is computer generated #.

10,665 Quarterly ..............................

(3.83 avg.) ...........................

40,823 19.92 13,553 

Collection not tied to a specific form (testing, 

Quality Assurance/Quality Measurement, 

etc.).** 

1,808 1.89 ..................................... 3,420 30 1,710 

Totals .......................................................... 32,938 ......................................... 94,866 ........................ 37,120 

* Most NCS Government forms (NCS 11–XG), are only used for government sample initiations, which is not currently planned during this 

Clearance cycle. 

** Collection forms can have multiple uses. The table above shows the average collection times for the predominant uses of the forms. Record 

checks (for quality assurance and measurement) are done on a sub-sample of respondents verifying responses for pre-selected sections of the 

collection forms. 

# Includes IDCF form time (Web based screen for SSL encryption web-site secure.) 


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Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they also 

will become a matter of public record. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 28th day of 

September 2010. 

Kimberley Hill, 

Chief, Division of Management Systems, 

Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

[FR Doc. 2010–24775 Filed 10–1–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Notice of Availability of Funds and 

Solicitation for Grant Applications 

(SGA) for YouthBuild Grants 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor. 

Announcement Type: Notice of 

Solicitation for Grant Applications. 

Funding Opportunity Number: SGA/ 

DFA PY 10–02. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 17.274. 

Key Dates: The closing date for receipt 

of applications under this 

announcement is December 3, 2010. 

Applications must be received no later 

than 4 p.m. Eastern Time. A Virtual 

Prospective Applicant Conference 

(Webinar) will be held for this grant 

competition. The date and access 

information for this Virtual Prospective 

Applicant Conference will be posted on 

ETA’s Web site at http://

www.doleta.gov/youth%5Fservices/

youthbuildgrantee.cfm. While a review 

of this Webinar is encouraged, it is not 

mandatory that applicants view this 

recording. 

SUMMARY: The Employment and 

Training Administration (ETA), U.S. 

Department of Labor (DOL, or the 

Department), announces the availability 

of up to approximately $130 million in 

grant funds for YouthBuild Grants (the 

final amount available depends upon 

the amount of funds appropriated for 

YouthBuild in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 

Department of Labor Appropriations 

Act). These funds are from separate 

appropriations and will be awarded 

separately. Thirty million dollars in FY 

2010 funds are available for immediate 

award and will be reserved for awards 

to organizations that did not receive 

funding in the FY 2009 YouthBuild 

competition [SGA/DFA PY 08–07]. 

Awards from the FY 2011 appropriation 

will be selected after April 1, 2011, 

pending availability of funds. 

YouthBuild Grants will be awarded 

through a competitive process. Grant 

funds will be used to provide 

disadvantaged youth with: The 

education and employment skills 

necessary to achieve economic selfsufficiency in occupations in high 

demand and postsecondary education 

and training opportunities; 

opportunities for meaningful work and 

service to their communities; and 

opportunities to develop employment 

and leadership skills and a commitment 

to community development among 

youth in low-income communities. As 

part of their program, YouthBuild 

grantees will tap the energies and 

talents of disadvantaged youth to 

increase the supply of permanent 

affordable housing for homeless 

individuals and low-income families 

and to help youth develop the 

leadership, learning, and high-demand 

occupational skills needed to succeed in 

today’s global economy. 

Based on the amount of FY 2010 

funds available and our projections for 

FY 2011 funding, DOL hopes to serve 

approximately 8,500 youth participants 

during the grant period of performance, 

with projects operating in 

approximately 128 communities across 

the country. Under this solicitation, 

DOL will be awarding grants to 

organizations to oversee the provision of 

education and employment services to 

disadvantaged youth in their 

communities. Each applicant should 

indicate the proposed number of 

participants to be served based on an 

average cost per participant of between 

$15,000 and $18,000. 

This solicitation provides background 

information and describes the 

application submission requirements, 

outlines the process that eligible entities 

must use to apply for funds covered by 

this solicitation, and details the 

evaluation criteria used as a basis for 

selecting grantees. Applicants should 

read the entire SGA and note specific 

sections that contain required 

information, such as in Section III.D, 

Section IV.B, and Section V.A, where 

failure to comply will be considered 

non-responsive and those applicants 

will then not be considered for funding. 

The Department is committed to 

providing the public with an open and 

transparent grant selection process and 

to providing useful information to assist 

prospective applicants with developing 

quality proposals. One way to achieve 

these goals is through public access to 

selected and non-selected grant 

applications. Applicants are advised 

that the information they submit in 

response to this solicitation may be 

posted on a publicly accessible Web site 

or may otherwise be made available to 

the public. 

ADDRESSES: Mailed applications must be 

addressed to the U.S. Department of 

Labor, Employment and Training 

Administration, Division of Federal 

Assistance, Attention: Donna Kelly, 

Grant Officer, Reference SGA/DFA PY 

10–02, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Room N4716, Washington, DC 20210. 

For complete ‘‘Application and 

Submission Information,’’ please refer to 

section IV. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

solicitation consists of nine sections: 

• Section I provides background 

information on YouthBuild, YouthBuild 

program objectives, and additional 

information on the key components of 

YouthBuild to consider when preparing 

an application. 

• Section II describes the size and 

nature of the anticipated awards. 

• Section III describes eligibility 

information. 

• Section IV provides information on 

the application and submission process. 

• Section V describes the criteria 

against which applications will be 

reviewed and explains the proposal 

review process. 

• Section VI provides award 

administration information. 

• Section VII contains ETA agency 

contact information. 

• Section VIII lists additional 

resources of interest to applicants. 

• Section IX lists other pertinent 

information. 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

YouthBuild is a youth and 

community development program that 

simultaneously addresses several core 

issues facing low-income communities: 

housing, education, employment, crime 

prevention, and leadership 

development. Part A of this section 

provides a background of the 

YouthBuild program. Part B describes 

the core objectives of the YouthBuild 

program, with Part C providing 

additional information on key 

components of YouthBuild to consider 

when preparing a grant application. 

A. Background 

The YouthBuild model balances inschool learning that leads to the 

achievement of a high school diploma 

or passing the General Education 

Development (GED) test, and 

construction skills training that prepares 

youth for career placement. The inschool component is an alternative 

education program that assists youth 


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