65706 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 214 / Wednesday, November 5, 2014 / Notices 

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 January 5, 2015. 

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. Data from the 

NCS program include estimates of 

wages covering broad groups of related 

occupations, and data that directly link 

benefit plan costs with detailed plan 

provisions. The NCS is used to produce 

the Employment Cost Trends, including 

the Employment Cost Index (ECI) and 

Employer Costs for Employee 

Compensation (ECEC), employee 

benefits data (on coverage, cost and 

provisions), data used by the President’s 

Pay Agent and this data is used by 

compensation administrators and 

researchers in the private sector. Data 

from the NCS are used to help 

determine monetary policy (as a 

Principal Federal Economic Indicator.) 

The integrated program’s single 

sample produces both time-series 

indexes and cost levels for industry and 

occupational groups, thereby increasing 

the analytical potential of the data. 

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. 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 

major employee benefits through its 

benefit cost and benefit provision 

programs and publications. 

BLS has for a number of years been 

using a revised approach to the Locality 

Pay Survey (LPS); this uses data from 

two current BLS programs—the 

Occupational Employment Statistics 

(OES) survey and the ECI program. This 

approach uses OES data to provide wage 

data by occupation and by area, while 

ECI data are used to specify grade level 

effects. This approach is also being used 

to extend the estimation of pay gaps to 

areas that were not included in the prior 

Locality Pay Survey sample, and these 

data have been delivered to the Pay 

Agent (in 2014, data for 92 areas were 

delivered.) 

The NCS in September 2012 started 

reverting to a national survey design in 

order to preserve the reliability of the 

ECI and the EBS. The NCS private 

industry sample is on a three-year 

rotational cycle, with one frozen sample 

year for the NCS private industry 

sample when a new NCS State and local 

government sample starts collection in 

2015. 

The NCS continues 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 include 

information about the common 

provisions of benefit plans. 

NCS collection will use eight forms 

(normally having unique private 

industry and government initiation and 

update collection forms and versions.) 

For NCS update collection, the forms or 

screens give respondents their 

previously reported information, the 

dates they expected change to occur to 

these data, and space for reporting these 

changes. 

The NCS for electronic collection uses 

a Web-based system (Web-Lite) that 

allows NCS respondents, using Secure 

Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption and the 

establishment’s schedule number, to 

upload data files to a secure BLS server 

and forwards those files to the assigned 

BLS field economist. A new more 

interactive Web page system was 

developed allowing respondents to 

further refine and break out the detailed 

data they send NCS using this Web 

application. 

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: 16,428 (three-year 

average). 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

$0. 

mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES

Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 214 / Wednesday, November 5, 2014 / Notices 65707 

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 

Average 

minutes Total hours 

Establishment collection form (NCS Form 15–1G) ............. 532 1 532 54 479 

Establishment collection form (NCS Form 15–1P) .............. 2247 1 2247 54 2022 

Earnings form (NCS Form 15–2G) ...................................... 532 1 532 20 177 

Earnings form (NCS Form 15–2P) ...................................... 2247 1 2247 20 749 

Wage Shuttle form computer generated earnings update 

form # ............................................................................... 12226 4 48904 20 16301 

Benefits Collection Form (NCS 15–3G) .............................. 532 1 532 180 1596 

Benefits Collection Form (NCS 15–3P) ............................... 2247 1 2247 180 6741 

Summary of Benefits (Benefit update form SO–1003) is 

computer generated # ...................................................... 12226 4 48904 20 16301 

Collection not tied to a specific form (testing, Quality Assurance/Quality Measurement, etc.) ................................ 1423 ........................ 3205 ........................ 613

Totals ............................................................................ 34212 109350 44979 

** 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.) 

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 30th day of 

October 2014. 

Kimberley D. Hill, 

Chief, Division of Management Systems, 

Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

[FR Doc. 2014–26278 Filed 11–4–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 

Notice of Intent To Award—Grant 

Awards for the Provision of Civil Legal 

Services to Eligible Low-Income 

Clients Beginning January 1, 2015 

AGENCY: Legal Services Corporation. 

ACTION: Announcement of intention to 

make FY 2015 Competitive Grant 

Awards. 

SUMMARY: The Legal Services 

Corporation (LSC) hereby announces its 

intention to award grants and contracts 

to provide economical and effective 

delivery of high quality civil legal 

services to eligible low-income clients, 

beginning January 1, 2015. 

DATES: All comments and 

recommendations must be received on 

or before the close of business on 

December 5, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Legal Services 

Corporation—Competitive Grants, Legal 

Services Corporation; 3333 K Street 

NW., Third Floor; Washington, DC 

20007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Reginald Haley, Office of Program 

Performance, at (202) 295–1545, or 

haleyr@lsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to LSC’s announcement of funding 

availability on April 11, 2014 (79 FR 

20243), and Grant Renewal applications 

due beginning June 2, 2014, LSC intends 

to award funds to provide civil legal 

services in the indicated service areas. 

Applicants for each service area are 

listed below. The amounts below reflect 

the most current information available, 

i.e., 100% implementation of the U.S. 

Census American Community Survey 

2009–2011 poverty population data and 

the current FY 2015 continuing 

resolution for LSC Basic Field 

Funding—$335,514,022. The amounts 

incorporate the reduction of .0554% 

contained in Public Law 113–164. 

Amounts are subject to change. LSC will 

post all updates and/or changes to this 

notice at www.grants.lsc.gov. Interested 

parties are asked to visit 

www.grants.lsc.gov regularly for updates 

on the LSC competitive grants process. 

Name of applicant organization State Service 

area 

Estimated 

annualized 

2015 funding 

Alaska Legal Services Corporation ............................................................................................................... AK AK–1 $645,180 

Alaska Legal Services Corporation ............................................................................................................... AK NAK–1 530,075 

Legal Services Alabama ............................................................................................................................... AL AL–4 5,839,519 

Legal Aid of Arkansas ................................................................................................................................... AR AR–6 1,462,142 

Center for Arkansas Legal Services ............................................................................................................. AR AR–7 2,134,430 

American Samoa Legal Aid .......................................................................................................................... AS AS–1 205,475 

Community Legal Services ........................................................................................................................... AZ AZ–3 4,905,799 

Community Legal Services ........................................................................................................................... AZ MAZ 145,206 

Southern Arizona Legal Aid .......................................................................................................................... AZ AZ–5 2,074,272 

Southern Arizona Legal Aid .......................................................................................................................... AZ NAZ–6 624,756 

DNA-People’s Legal Services ....................................................................................................................... AZ AZ–2 418,723 

DNA-People’s Legal Services ....................................................................................................................... AZ NAZ–5 2,557,639 

California Indian Legal Services ................................................................................................................... CA CA–1 23,947 

mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES