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20503; You can submit comments to 

OMB by email at OIRA_submission@

omb.eop.gov. The OMB will consider all 

written comments it receives within 30 

days of publication of this notice. 

II. Desired Focus of Comments: DOL 

and OMB are 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 submission of 

responses. 

Agency: Office of Federal Contract 

Compliance Programs. 

Type of Review: New Collection. 

Title of Collection: Prohibiting 

Discrimination Based on Sexual 

Orientation and Gender Identity by 

Contractors and Subcontractors. 

OMB Control Number: 1250—0NEW. 

Affected Public: Private Sector— 

Business. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

100,000. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 38,769. 

Total estimated Annual Cost Burden 

(excluding hour monetization): $0. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and may 

be included in the request for OMB 

approval of the final information 

collection request. The comments will 

become a matter of public record. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 3rd day of 

December, 2014. 

Patricia A. Shiu, 

Director, Office of Federal Contract 

Compliance Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28723 Filed 12–5–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–CM–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 Longitudinal Survey of Youth 

1997.’’ A copy of the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) can 

be obtained by contacting the individual 

listed in the Addresses section of this 

notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

Addresses section below on or before 

February 6, 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, 

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

number). (See Addresses section.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The National Longitudinal Survey of 

Youth 1997 (NLSY97) is a nationally 

representative sample of persons who 

were born in the years 1980 to 1984. 

These respondents were ages 12–17 

when the first round of annual 

interviews began in 1997; starting with 

round sixteen, the NLSY97 is conducted 

on a biennial basis. Round seventeen 

interviews will occur from September 

2015 to May 2016. The Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS) contracts with a vendor 

to conduct the NLSY97. The primary 

objective of the survey is to study the 

transition from schooling to the 

establishment of careers and families. 

The longitudinal focus of this survey 

requires information to be collected 

from the same individuals over many 

years in order to trace their education, 

training, work experience, fertility, 

income, and program participation. 

One of the goals of the Department of 

Labor (DOL) is to produce and 

disseminate timely, accurate, and 

relevant information about the U.S. 

labor force. The BLS contributes to this 

goal by gathering information about the 

labor force and labor market and 

disseminating it to policymakers and 

the public so that participants in those 

markets can make more informed, and 

thus more efficient, choices. Research 

based on the NLSY97 contributes to the 

formation of national policy in the areas 

of education, training, work experience, 

fertility, income, and program 

participation. In addition to the reports 

that the BLS produces based on data 

from the NLSY97, members of the 

academic community publish articles 

and reports based on NLSY97 data for 

the DOL and other funding agencies. To 

date, approximately 372 articles 

examining NLSY97 data have been 

published in scholarly journals. The 

survey design provides data gathered 

from the same respondents over time to 

form the only dataset that contains this 

type of information for this important 

population group. Without the 

collection of these data, an accurate 

longitudinal dataset could not be 

provided to researchers and 

policymakers, thus adversely affecting 

the DOL’s ability to perform its policyand report-making activities. 

II. Current Action 

The BLS seeks approval to conduct 

round 17 of biennial interviews of the 

NLSY97. Respondents of the NLSY97 

will undergo an interview of 

approximately 61 minutes during which 

they will answer questions about 

schooling and labor market experiences, 

family relationships, and community 

background. 

During the fielding period for the 

main round 17 interviews, about 2 

percent of respondents will be asked to 

participate in a brief validation 

interview a few weeks after the initial 

interview. The purpose of the validation 

interview is to verify that the initial 

interview took place as the interviewer 

reported and to assess the data quality 

of selected questionnaire items. 

The BLS plans to record randomly 

selected segments of the main 

interviews during round 17. Recording 

interviews helps the BLS and NORC to 

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ensure that the interviews actually took 

place and interviewers are reading the 

questions exactly as worded and 

entering the responses properly. 

Recording also helps to identify parts of 

the interview that might be causing 

problems or misunderstanding for 

interviewers or respondents. Each 

respondent will be informed that the 

interview may be recorded for quality 

control, testing, and training purposes. 

If the respondent objects to the 

recording of the interview, the 

interviewer will confirm to the 

respondent that the interview will not 

be recorded and then proceed with the 

interview. 

The round 17 questionnaire will 

resemble the round 16 questionnaire 

with few modifications. The round 17 

questionnaire proposes an experiment 

to investigate the efficacy of preloads in 

bounding the respondents’ recall of 

migration dates. This experiment will 

allow us to build a body of knowledge 

about the feasibility of web 

questionnaire administration, which 

may require fielding questions without 

preloads. The results will give us some 

insight into the impact of removing 

these preloads on data quality. 

New questions include respondents’ 

business ownership, new wage 

bargaining questions, questions about 

nonresident children, one question 

about medical debt and mental health 

scale questions. Round 17 also 

reintroduced the child care long section, 

parent supportiveness, ‘‘whom do you 

turn to’’, alcohol and drug use, and 

health behaviors questions from 

previous rounds. 

As in prior rounds of the NLSY97, 

round 17 will include a pretest 

conducted several months before the 

main fielding to test survey procedures 

and questions and resolve problems 

before the main fielding begins. 

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 Longitudinal Survey of 

Youth 1997. 

OMB Number: 1220–0157. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Form Total 

respondents Frequency Total responses 

Average 

time per 

response 

Estimated 

total burden 

(hours) 

NLSY97 Pretest June–July ............................................. 150 One-time ............................ 150 61 152.5 

NLSY97 R16 advance web test June–July 2013 ........... 1,200 One-time ............................ 1,200 10 200 

Main NLSY97: September 2013–May 2014 ................... 7,200 One-time ............................ 7,200 61 7,320 

Validation interview: October 2013–June 2014 .............. 144 One-time ............................ 144 4 9.6 

Totals* ...................................................................... 7,400 ............................................ 8,694 .................... 7,682 

* The difference between the total number of respondents and the total number of responses reflects the fact that about 7,200 are expected to 

complete the main interview. In addition, about 144 respondents will be interviewed twice, once in the main survey and a second time in the 4- 

minute validation interview. We estimate achieving about 1,200 web updates; most of these will be from respondents who also complete the 

main interview, but a small number (perhaps 50) may complete only the web update and not also the main interview. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

$0. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/ 

maintenance): $0. 

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 3rd day of 

December 2014. 

Kimberly D. Hill, 

Chief, Division of Management Systems, 

Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28655 Filed 12–5–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice: 14–126] 

Notice of Information Collection 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice of information collection. 

SUMMARY: The National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). 

DATES: All comments should be 

submitted within 30 calendar days from 

December 8, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments 

regarding the proposed information 

collection to the Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, 725 7th Street 

NW., Washington DC, 20543. Attention: 

Desk Officer for NASA. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Frances Teel, NASA PRA 

Clearance Officer, NASA Headquarters, 

300 E Street SW., Mail Code JF000, 

Washington, DC 20546, Frances.C.Teel@

nasa.gov. 

I. Abstract 

NASA’s founding legislation, the 

Space Act of 1958, as amended, directs 

the agency to expand human knowledge 

of Earth and space phenomena and to 

preserve the role of the United States as 

a leader in aeronautics, space science, 

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