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than an isolated incident; and whether 

recent and credible efforts are being 

made to address forced or indentured 

child labor in a particular country or 

industry (66 FR 5351). 

This notice constitutes the initial 

determination to revise the EO List 

issued July 23, 2013. 

Based on recent, credible and 

appropriately corroborated information 

from various sources, DOL preliminarily 

concludes that there is a reasonable 

basis to believe that the following 

product, identified by the country of 

origin, might have been mined, 

produced, or manufactured by forced or 

indentured child labor: 

Product Country 

Carpets ............................................. India. 

DOL invites public comment on 

whether this product (and/or other 

products, regardless of whether they are 

mentioned in this Notice) should be 

included in or removed from the revised 

EO List. To the extent possible, 

comments provided should address the 

criteria for inclusion of a product on the 

EO List contained in the Procedural 

Guidelines discussed above. 

A bibliography providing the 

preliminary basis for adding this good to 

the EO List are available on the Internet 

at http://www.dol.gov/ilab/reports/

child-labor/list-of-products/. 

Following receipt and consideration 

of comments on the addition to the EO 

List set out above, DOL, in consultation 

and cooperation with the Departments 

of State and Homeland Security, will 

issue a final determination in the 

Federal Register.The three Departments 

intend to continue to revise the EO List 

periodically to add and/or remove 

products as warranted by the receipt of 

new and credible information. 

II. Background 

On June 12, 1999 President Clinton 

signed EO 13126, which was published 

in the Federal Register on June 16, 1999 

(64 FR 32383). EO 13126 declared that 

it was ‘‘the policy of the United States 

Government . . . that executive 

agencies shall take appropriate actions 

to enforce the laws prohibiting the 

manufacture or importation of goods, 

wares, articles, and merchandise mined, 

produced or manufactured wholly or in 

part by forced or indentured child 

labor.’’ Pursuant to EO 13126, and 

following public notice and comment, 

DOL published in the January 18, 2001 

Federal Register the first EO List of 

products, along with their respective 

countries of origin, that DOL, in 

consultation and cooperation with the 

Departments of State and Treasury 

(whose relevant responsibilities are now 

within the Department of Homeland 

Security), had a reasonable basis to 

believe might have been mined, 

produced or manufactured with forced 

or indentured child labor (66 FR 5353). 

The Procedural Guidelines provide 

that the EO List may be revised through 

consideration of submissions by 

individuals and on DOL’s own 

initiative. When proposing a revision to 

the EO List, DOL must publish in the 

Federal Register a notice of initial 

determination, which includes any 

proposed alteration to the EO List. DOL 

will consider all public comments prior 

to the publication of a final 

determination of a revised EO List, 

which is made in consultation and 

cooperation with the Departments of 

State and Homeland Security. 

On January 18, 2001, pursuant to 

Section 3 of EO 13126, the Federal 

Acquisition Regulatory Council 

published a final rule to implement 

specific provisions of EO 13126 that 

requires, among other things, that 

federal contractors who supply products 

that appear on the EO List certify to the 

contracting officer that the contractor, 

or, in the case of an incorporated 

contractor, a responsible official of the 

contractor, has made a good faith effort 

to determine whether forced or 

indentured child labor was used to 

mine, produce, or manufacture any 

product furnished under the contract 

and that, on the basis of those efforts, 

the contractor is unaware of any such 

use of forced or indentured child labor. 

See 48 CFR Subpart 22.15. 

On September 11, 2009, DOL 

published an initial determination in 

the Federal Register proposing to revise 

the EO List to include 29 products from 

21 countries. The Notice requested 

public comments for a period of 90 

days. Public comments were received 

and reviewed by all relevant agencies 

and a final determination was issued on 

July 20, 2010. Following the same 

process, the EO List was revised again 

in 2011, 2012, and 2013. The most 

recent EO List, finalized on July 23, 

2013, includes 34 products from 26 

countries. 

The current EO List and the 

Procedural Guidelines can be accessed 

on the Internet at http://www.dol.gov/

ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-products/ 

or can be obtained from: OCFT, Bureau 

of International Labor Affairs, Room 

S–5317, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20210; telephone: (202) 693–4843; 

fax (202) 693–4830. 

III. Definitions 

Under Section 6(c) of EO 13126: 

‘‘Forced or indentured child labor’’ 

means all work or service— 

(1) Exacted from any person under the 

age of 18 under the menace of any 

penalty for its nonperformance and for 

which the worker does not offer himself 

voluntarily; or 

(2) Performed by any person under 

the age of 18 pursuant to a contract the 

enforcement of which can be 

accomplished by process or penalties. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 14th day of 

November 2014. 

Carol Pier, 

Deputy Undersecretary for International 

Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2014–27624 Filed 12–1–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–28–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Notice of Decisions on States’ 

Applications for Relief From Tax Credit 

Eductions Provided Under Section 

3302 of the Federal Unemployment Tax 

Act (FUTA) Applicable in 2014 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Sections 3302(c)(2)(A) and 

3302(d)(3) of the FUTA provide that 

employers in a State that has an 

outstanding balance of advances under 

Title XII of the Social Security Act at the 

beginning of January 1 of two or more 

consecutive years are subject to a 

reduction in credits otherwise available 

against the FUTA tax for the calendar 

year in which the most recent such 

January 1 occurs, if a balance of 

advances remains at the beginning of 

November 10 of that year. Further, 

section 3302(c)(2)(C) of FUTA provides 

for an additional credit reduction for a 

year if a State has outstanding advances 

on five or more consecutive January 

firsts and has a balance at the beginning 

of November 10 for such years. Section 

3302(c)(2)(C) also provides for waiver of 

this additional credit reduction and 

substitution of the credit reduction 

provided in section 3302(c)(2)(B) if a 

state meets certain conditions. 

The States of California, Indiana, 

Kentucky, Missouri, New York, North 

Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South 

Carolina, Virgin Islands, and Wisconsin 

applied for a waiver of the 2014 

additional credit reduction under 

section 3302(c)(2)(C) of FUTA and it has 

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States met all of the criteria of that 

section necessary to qualify for the 

waiver of the additional credit 

reduction. Further, the additional credit 

reduction of section 3302(c)(2)(B) is zero 

for these States for 2014. Therefore, 

employers in these States will have no 

additional credit reduction applied for 

calendar year 2014. In addition, 

Missouri, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin 

did not have balance of advances at the 

beginning of November 10, 2014. 

Therefore, employers in those States 

will have no reduction in FUTA offset 

credit for calendar year 2014. 

Section 3302(g) of FUTA provides 

that a State may avoid any reduction in 

credit for a year by meeting certain 

criteria. South Carolina applied for 

avoidance of the 2014 credit reduction 

under this section. It has been 

determined that South Carolina met all 

of the criteria of section 3302(g) and 

thus qualifies for credit reduction 

avoidance. Therefore, South Carolina 

employers will have no reduction in 

FUTA credit for calendar year 2014. 

Portia Wu, 

Assistant Secretary for Employment and 

Training. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28328 Filed 12–1–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FW–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2014–0245] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of pending NRC action to 

submit an information collection 

request to the Office of Management and 

Budget and solicitation of public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) invites public 

comment about our intention to request 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB) approval for renewal of an 

existing information collection that is 

summarized below. We are required to 

publish this notice in the Federal 

Register under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35). 

Information pertaining to the 

requirement to be submitted: 

1. The title of the information 

collection: 10 CFR part 20, ‘‘Standards 

for Protection Against Radiation.’’ 

2. Current OMB approval number: 

3150–0014. 

3. How often the collection is 

required: Annually for most reports and 

at license termination for reports 

dealing with decommissioning. 

4. Who is required or asked to report: 

NRC licensees and Agreement State 

licensees, including those requesting 

license terminations. Types of licensees 

include civilian commercial, industrial, 

academic, and medical users of nuclear 

materials. Licenses are issued for, 

among other things, the possession, use, 

processing, handling, and importing and 

exporting of nuclear materials, and for 

the operation of nuclear reactors. 

5. The number of annual respondents: 

21,018 (3,003 NRC licensees and 18,015 

Agreement State licensees). 

6. The number of hours needed 

annually to complete the requirement or 

request: 640,776 hours (91,545 hours for 

NRC licensees and 549,231 hours for 

Agreement State licensees). 

7. Abstract: 10 CFR part 20 establishes 

standards for protection against ionizing 

radiation resulting from activities 

conducted under licenses issued by the 

NRC and by Agreement States. These 

standards require the establishment of 

radiation protection programs, 

maintenance of radiation protection 

programs, maintenance of radiation 

records recording of radiation received 

by workers, reporting of incidents 

which could cause exposure to 

radiation, submittal of an annual report 

to NRC and to Agreement States of the 

results of individual monitoring, and 

submittal of license termination 

information. These mandatory 

requirements are needed to protect 

occupationally exposed individuals 

from undue risks of excessive exposure 

to ionizing radiation and to protect the 

health and safety of the public. 

Submit, by February 2, 2015, 

comments that address the following 

questions: 

1. Is the proposed collection of 

information necessary for the NRC to 

properly perform its functions? Does the 

information have practical utility? 

2. Is the burden estimate accurate? 

3. Is there a way to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected? 

4. How can the burden of the 

information collection be minimized, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology? 

The public may examine and 

purchase copies of the publiclyavailable documents, including the draft 

supporting statement, at the NRC’s 

Public Document Room, Room O–1F21, 

One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The 

OMB clearance requests are available at 

the NRC’s Web site: http://www.nrc.gov/ 

public-involve/doc-comment/omb/. 

The document will be available on the 

NRC’s home page site for 60 days after 

the signature date of this notice. 

Comments submitted in writing or in 

electronic form will be made available 

for public inspection. Because your 

comments will not be edited to remove 

any identifying or contact information, 

the NRC cautions you against including 

any information in your submission that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed. 

Comments submitted should 

reference Docket No. NRC–2014–0245. 

You may submit your comments by any 

of the following methods. Electronic 

comments go to http://

www.regulations.gov and search for 

Docket No. NRC–2014–0245. Mail 

comments to NRC Clearance Officer, 

Tremaine Donnell (T–5 F53), U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

Questions about the information 

collection requirements may be directed 

to the NRC Clearance Officer, Tremaine 

Donnell (T–5 F53), U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001, by telephone at 301– 

415–6258, or by email to 

INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@NRC.GOV. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day 

of November, 2014. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Tremaine Donnell, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information 

Services. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28246 Filed 12–1–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2014–0250] 

Applications and Amendments to 

Facility Operating Licenses and 

Combined Licenses Involving 

Proposed No Significant Hazards 

Considerations and Containing 

Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards 

Information and Order Imposing 

Procedures for Access to Sensitive 

Unclassified Non-Safeguards 

Information 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: License amendment request; 

opportunity to comment, request a 

hearing, and petition for leave to 

intervene; order. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) received and is 

considering approval of 4 amendment 


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