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notice, especially the estimated public 

burden and associated response time, 

should be directed to Cathy Poston, 

Office on Violence Against Women, at 

202–514–5430 or Catherine.poston@

usdoj.gov. Written comments and/or 

suggestions can also be sent to the 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Attention Department of Justice 

Desk Officer, Washington, DC 20530 or 

sent to OIRA_submissions@

omb.eop.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written 

comments and suggestions from the 

public and affected agencies concerning 

the proposed collection of information 

are encouraged. Your comments should 

address one or more of the following 

four points: 

(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. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

(1) Type of Information Collection: 

Revisions to a currently approved 

collection. 

(2) Title of the Form/Collection: 

Semiannual Progress Report for the 

Improving Criminal Justice Responses to 

Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, 

Dating Violence, and Stalking Grant 

Program. 

(3) Agency form number, if any, and 

the applicable component of the 

Department of Justice sponsoring the 

collection: Form Number: 1122–0006. 

U.S. Department of Justice, Office on 

Violence Against Women. 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: The affected public includes 

200 grantees from the Improving 

Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual 

Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating 

Violence, and Stalking Grant 

Program(ICJR Program) (also known as 

Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and 

Enforcement of Protection Orders) 

which encourages state, local, and tribal 

governments and state, local, and tribal 

courts to treat domestic violence, dating 

violence, sexual assault, and stalking as 

serious violations of criminal law 

requiring the coordinated involvement 

of the entire criminal justice system. 

Eligible applicants are states and 

territories, units of local government, 

Indian tribal governments, coalitions, 

victim service providers and state, local, 

tribal, and territorial courts. 

OVW is proposing revisions to the 

progress reporting form to reflect 

statutory changes as a result of the 

reauthorization of VAWA grant 

programs in 2013 which added nine 

new purpose areas: Training 

prosecutors; improving the response of 

the criminal justice system to immigrant 

victims; developing and promoting 

legislation and policies to enhance best 

practices for responding to domestic 

violence, dating violence, sexual 

assault, and stalking; developing Sexual 

Assault Forensic Examiner programs; 

developing Sexual Assault Response 

Teams or similar CCRs to sexual assault; 

improving investigation and 

prosecution of sexual assault and 

treatment of victims; providing HIV 

testing, counseling, and prophylaxis for 

victims; addressing sexual assault 

evidence backlogs including notifying 

and involving victims; and developing 

multi-disciplinary high-risk teams for 

reducing domestic violence and dating 

violence homicides. 

(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond/reply: It is estimated that it will 

take the approximately 200 respondents 

(ICJR Program grantees) approximately 

one hour to complete a semi-annual 

progress report. The semi-annual 

progress report is divided into sections 

that pertain to the different types of 

activities in which grantees may engage. 

An ICJR Program grantee will only be 

required to complete the sections of the 

form that pertain to its own specific 

activities (victim services, law 

enforcement, training, etc.). 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: The total annual hour burden 

to complete the data collection forms is 

400 hours, that is 200 grantees 

completing a form twice a year with an 

estimated completion time for the form 

being one hour. 

If additional information is required 

contact: Melody Braswell, Deputy 

Clearance Officer, United States 

Department of Justice, Justice 

Management Division, Policy and 

Planning Staff, Two Constitution 

Square, 145 N Street NE., 3E, 405B, 

Washington, DC 20530. 

Dated: October 24, 2017. 

Melody Braswell, 

Department Clearance Officer, PRA, U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23391 Filed 10–26–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–FX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Forced 

or Indentured Child Labor in the 

Production of Goods in Foreign 

Countries and Efforts by Certain 

Foreign Countries To Eliminate the 

Worst Forms of Child Labor 

AGENCY: The Bureau of International 

Labor Affairs, United States Department 

of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice; Request for information 

and invitation to comment. 

SUMMARY: This notice is a request for 

information and/or comment on three 

reports issued by the Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs (ILAB) 

regarding child labor and forced labor in 

certain foreign countries. Relevant 

information submitted by the public 

will be used by the Department of Labor 

(DOL) in preparation of its ongoing 

reporting under Congressional mandates 

and Presidential directive. The 2016 

Findings on the Worst Forms of Child 

Labor report (TDA report), published on 

September 20, 2017, assesses efforts by 

138 countries to reduce the worst forms 

of child labor over the course of 2016 

and reports whether countries made 

significant, moderate, minimal, or no 

advancement during that year. It also 

suggests actions foreign countries can 

take to eliminate the worst forms of 

child labor through legislation, 

enforcement, coordination, policies, and 

social programs. The 2016 edition of the 

List of Goods Produced by Child Labor 

or Forced Labor (TVPRA List), 

published on September 30, 2016, 

makes available to the public a list of 

goods from countries that ILAB has 

reason to believe are produced by child 

labor or forced labor in violation of 

international standards. Finally, the List 

of Products Produced by Forced or 

Indentured Child Labor (EO List), most 

recently published on December 1, 

2014, provides a list of products, 

identified by country of origin, that 

DOL, in consultation and cooperation 

with the Departments of State (DOS) 

and Homeland Security (DHS), have a 

reasonable basis to believe might have 

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with forced or indentured child labor. 

Relevant information submitted by the 

public will be used by DOL in 

preparation of the next edition of the 

TDA report and TVPRA List, to be 

published in 2018, and for possible 

updates to the EO List as needed. 

DATES: Submitters of information are 

requested to provide their submission to 

the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, 

and Human Trafficking (OCFT) at the 

email or physical address below by 5 

p.m. January 12, 2018. 

To Submit Information: Information 

should be submitted directly to OCFT, 

Bureau of International Labor Affairs, 

U.S. Department of Labor. Comments, 

identified as ‘‘Docket No. DOL–2017– 

0002’’, may be submitted by any of the 

following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. 

The portal includes instructions for 

submitting comments. Parties 

submitting responses electronically are 

encouraged not to submit paper copies. 

Facsimile (fax): OCFT at 202–693– 

4830. 

Mail, Express Delivery, Hand Delivery, 

and Messenger Service (1 copy): Alexa 

Gunter at U.S. Department of Labor, 

OCFT, Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Room S–5315, Washington, DC 20210. 

Email: Email submissions should be 

addressed to both Alexa Gunter 

(Gunter.Alexa@dol.gov) and the TVPRA 

List Mailbox (ilab-tvpra@dol.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alexa Gunter, (202) 693–4829. Please 

see contact information above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. The Trade and Development Act of 

2000 (TDA), Public Law 106–200 (2000), 

established eligibility criterion for 

receipt of trade benefits under the 

Generalized System of Preferences 

(GSP). The TDA amended the GSP 

reporting requirements of Section 504 of 

the Trade Act of 1974, 19 U.S.C. 2464, 

to require that the President’s annual 

report on the status of internationally 

recognized worker rights include 

‘‘findings by the Secretary of Labor with 

respect to the beneficiary country’s 

implementation of its international 

commitments to eliminate the worst 

forms of child labor.’’ 

The TDA Conference Report clarifies 

this mandate, indicating that the 

President consider the following when 

considering whether a country is 

complying with its obligations to 

eliminate the worst forms of child labor: 

(1) Whether the country has adequate 

laws and regulations proscribing the 

worst forms of child labor; (2) whether 

the country has adequate laws and 

regulations for the implementation and 

enforcement of such measures; (3) 

whether the country has established 

formal institutional mechanisms to 

investigate and address complaints 

relating to allegations of the worst forms 

of child labor; (4) whether social 

programs exist in the country to prevent 

the engagement of children in the worst 

forms of child labor, and to assist with 

the removal of children engaged in the 

worst forms of child labor; (5) whether 

the country has a comprehensive policy 

for the elimination of the worst forms of 

child labor; and (6) whether the country 

is making continual progress toward 

eliminating the worst forms of child 

labor.’’ 

DOL fulfills this reporting mandate 

through annual publication of the U.S. 

Department of Labor’s Findings on the 

Worst Forms of Child Labor with 

respect to countries eligible for GSP. To 

access the 2016 TDA report and 

Frequently Asked Questions, please 

visit https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/ 

resources/reports/child-labor/findings/. 

II. Section 105(b) of the Trafficking 

Victims Protection Reauthorization Act 

of 2005 (‘‘TVPRA of 2005’’), Public Law 

109–164 (2006), 22 U.S.C. 7112(b), 

directed the Secretary of Labor, acting 

through ILAB, to ‘‘develop and make 

available to the public a list of goods 

from countries that ILAB has reason to 

believe are produced by forced labor or 

child labor in violation of international 

standards’’ (TVPRA List). 

Pursuant to this mandate, on 

December 27, 2007, DOL published in 

the Federal Register a set of procedural 

guidelines that ILAB follows in 

developing the TVPRA List (72 FR 

73374). The guidelines set forth the 

criteria by which information is 

evaluated; established procedures for 

public submission of information to be 

considered by ILAB; and identified the 

process ILAB follows in maintaining 

and updating the List after its initial 

publication. 

ILAB published its first TVPRA List 

on September 30, 2009, and issued 

updates in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 

2014, and 2016. (In 2014, ILAB began 

publishing the TVPRA List every other 

year, pursuant to changes in the law. 

See 22 U.S.C. 7112(b).) The next TVPRA 

List will be published in 2018. For a 

copy of previous editions of the TVPRA 

List, Frequently Asked Questions, and 

other materials relating to the TVPRA 

List, see ILAB’s TVPRA Web page at 

http://www.dol.gov/ilab/reports/childlabor/list-of-goods/. 

III. Executive Order No. 13126 (E.O. 

13126) declared that it was ‘‘the policy 

of the United States Government . . . 

that the 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 E.O. 13126, and following 

public notice and comment, the 

Department of Labor published in the 

January 18, 2001, Federal Register, a 

final list of products (‘‘EO List’’), 

identified by country of origin, that the 

Department, in consultation and 

cooperation with the Departments of 

State (DOS) and Treasury [relevant 

responsibilities are now within the 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS)], had a reasonable basis to believe 

might have been mined, produced or 

manufactured with forced or indentured 

child labor (66 FR 5353). In addition to 

the List, the Department also published 

on January 18, 2001, ‘‘Procedural 

Guidelines for Maintenance of the List 

of Products Requiring Federal 

Contractor Certification as to Forced or 

Indentured Child Labor,’’ which provide 

for maintaining, reviewing, and, as 

appropriate, revising the EO List (66 FR 

5351). 

Pursuant to Sections D through G of 

the Procedural Guidelines, the EO List 

may be updated through consideration 

of submissions by individuals or 

through OCFT’s own initiative. 

DOL has officially revised the EO List 

four times, most recently on December 

1, 2014, each time after public notice 

and comment as well as consultation 

with DOS and DHS. 

The current EO List, Procedural 

Guidelines, and related information can 

be accessed on the Internet at http://

www.dol.gov/ilab/reports/child-labor/ 

list-of-products/index-country.htm. 

Information Requested and Invitation 

to Comment: Interested parties are 

invited to comment and provide 

information regarding these reports. 

DOL requests comments on or 

information relevant to maintaining and 

updating the TVPRA and EO Lists, 

updating the findings and suggested 

government actions for countries 

reviewed in the TDA report, and 

assessing each country’s individual 

advancement toward eliminating the 

worst forms of child labor during the 

current reporting period compared to 

previous years. For more information on 

the types of issues covered in the TDA 

report, please see Appendix III of the 

report. Materials submitted should be 

confined to the specific topics of the 

TVPRA List, EO List, and TDA report. 

DOL will generally consider sources 

with dates up to five years old (i.e., data 

not older than January 1, 2013). DOL 

appreciates the extent to which 


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submissions clearly indicate the time 

period to which they apply. In the 

interest of transparency in our reporting, 

classified information will not be 

accepted. Where applicable, information 

submitted should indicate its source or 

sources, and copies of the source 

material should be provided. If primary 

sources are utilized, such as research 

studies, interviews, direct observations, 

or other sources of quantitative or 

qualitative data, details on the research 

or data-gathering methodology should 

be provided. Please see the TVPRA List, 

EO List, and TDA report for a complete 

explanation of relevant terms, 

definitions, and reporting guidelines 

employed by DOL. Per our standard 

procedures, submissions will be 

published on the ILAB Web page at 

https://www.dol.gov/ilab/submissions/. 

This notice is a general solicitation of 

comments from the public. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 19 day of 

October 2017. 

Martha Newton, 

Deputy Undersecretary for International 

Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23319 Filed 10–26–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–28–P 

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 

ADMINISTRATION 

[NARA–2018–002] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed extension 

request. 

SUMMARY: NARA proposes to request an 

extension from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) of 

approval to collect information from 

individuals requesting a research card. 

People must have a research card to use 

original archival records in a NARA 

facility. We invite you to comment on 

certain aspects of this proposed 

information collection. 

DATES: We must receive written 

comments on or before December 26, 

2017. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to 

Paperwork Reduction Act Comments 

(MP), Room 4100, National Archives 

and Records Administration, 8601 

Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740– 

6001, or email them to tamee.fechhelm@

nara.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Contact Tamee Fechhelm by telephone 

at 301–837–1694, or by email at 

tamee.fechhelm@nara.gov, with 

requests for additional information or 

copies of the proposed information 

collection and supporting statement. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We invite 

the public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on information collections we 

propose to renew. We submit proposals 

to renew information collections first 

through a public comment period and 

then to OMB for review and approval 

pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (PRA; 44 U.S.C. 3501 et 

seq.). We invite comments and 

suggestions on one or more of the 

following points: (a) Whether the 

proposed information collection is 

necessary for NARA to properly perform 

its functions, including whether the 

proposed information collection will 

have practical utility; (b) our estimate of 

the information collection’s burden on 

respondents; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information we propose to collect; (d) 

ways to minimize the burden on 

respondents of collecting the 

information, including through use of 

information technology; and (e) whether 

this collection affects small businesses. 

We will summarize any comments you 

submit and include the summary in our 

request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. In this notice, NARA 

solicits comments concerning the 

following information collection: 

Title: Researcher Application. 

OMB number: 3095–0016. 

Agency form number: NA Form 

14003. 

Type of review: Regular. 

Affected public: Individuals or 

households, business or other for-profit, 

not-for-profit institutions, Federal, State, 

Local or Tribal Government. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

15,967. 

Estimated time per response: 8 

minutes. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

2,129 hours. 

Abstract: The information collection 

is prescribed by 36 CFR 1254.8. The 

collection is an application for a 

research card. Respondents are 

individuals who wish to use original 

archival records in a NARA facility and 

we request their name, address, contact 

information, and information about the 

research purpose and the records they 

wish to access. NARA uses the 

information to screen individuals, to 

identify which types of records they 

should use, and to allow further contact. 

Swarnali Haldar, 

Executive for Information Services/CIO. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23446 Filed 10–26–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7515–01–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

Meeting of National Council on the 

Humanities 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, notice is 

hereby given that the National Council 

on the Humanities will meet to advise 

the Chairman of the National 

Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 

with respect to policies, programs and 

procedures for carrying out his 

functions; to review applications for 

financial assistance under the National 

Foundation on the Arts and Humanities 

Act of 1965 and make recommendations 

thereon to the Chairman; and to 

consider gifts offered to NEH and make 

recommendations thereon to the 

Chairman. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Thursday, November 16, 2017, from 

10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., and Friday, 

November 17, 2017, from 9:00 a.m. until 

adjourned. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20506. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth Voyatzis, Committee 

Management Officer, 400 7th Street 

SW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20506; 

(202) 606–8322; evoyatzis@neh.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Council on the Humanities is 

meeting pursuant to the National 

Foundation on the Arts and Humanities 

Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 951–960, as 

amended). The Committee meetings of 

the National Council on the Humanities 

will be held on November 16, 2017, as 

follows: The policy discussion session 

(open to the public) will convene at 

10:30 a.m. until approximately 11:00 

a.m., followed by the discussion of 

specific grant applications and programs 

before the Council (closed to the public) 

from 11:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. The 

following Committees will meet in the 

NEH offices: 

Digital Humanities. 

Education Programs. 

Federal/State Partnership. 


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