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[Federal Register: September 11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 176)]
[Notices]
[Page 54863-54864]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Proposed Collection; Comment Request
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent burden conducts a preclearance
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.
Currently, the Employment and Training Administration is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed extension collection of the Domestic
Agricultural In-Season Wage Report, ETA-232 and Wage Survey Interview
Record, ETA-232A. A Copy of the proposed information collection request
(ICR) can be obtained by contacting the office listed below in the
addressee section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addressee section below on or before November 13, 2000.
ADDRESSES: Grace A. Kilbane, Attention Dale Ziegler, Officer of
Workforce Security, Employment Training Administration, U.S. Department
of Labor, Room C-4318, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC
20210-0001, 202-693-3010, (this is not a toll-free number), fax: 202-
693-2769.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended, provides that the Office of
Workforce Security shall assist in coordinating the State public
employment services throughout the country and in promoting uniformity
in their administrative and statistical procedures, furnishing and
publishing information as to opportunities for employment and other
information of value in the operation of the system and maintaining a
system for clearing labor between the States.
Pursuant to the Wagner Peyser Act, the U.S. Department of Labor has
established regulations at 20 CFR 653.500 covering the processing of
agricultural intrastate and interstate job orders. Section 653.501
provides that wages offered by employers must not be less than the
prevailing wages or the applicable Federal or State minimum wage,
whichever is higher. Also the regulations for the temporary employment
of alien agricultural and logging workers in the United States, 20 CFR,
Part 655, Subparts B and C, the H-2A program, under the Immigration
Reform and Control Act of 1986, require farmers and other agricultural
employers to pay workers the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing
wage rate, or the legal Federal or State minimum wage rate, whichever
is highest.
The prevailing wage rate is used to implement these regulations
covering intrastate and interstate recruitment of farmworkers. The
vehicle for establishing the prevailing wage rate is Form ETA-232, The
Domestic Agricultural In-Season Wage Report, and Form ETA-232A, Wage
Survey Interview Record. The ETA-232 report contains the prevailing
wage finding based on survey data collected from employers and reported
by the State on the ETA-232A.
II. Review Focus
The Department of Labor is 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 submissions of responses.
III. Current Actions
Activity covered by regulations at 20 CFR 653.500 and 20 CFR
655(B)(C), particularly the H-2A program, continues to expand, further
increasing the need for accurate and timely wage information on which
to base prevailing agricultural wage determinations. There is no
similar age information which is available or can be used for these
determinations which apply to a specific crop or livestock activity, in
a specific agricultural wage reporting area for a specific period of
time during the peak harvest season.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
Title: Domestic Agricultural In-Season Wage Report, ETA-232 and
Wage Survey Interview Record, ETA-232A.
OMB Number: 1205-0017.
Agency Numbers: ETA-232 and ETA-232A.
Affected Public: Business and State Government.
Total Burden Hours: 16,301.
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Total Total Average time per Burden
Cite/reference respondents Frequency responses response hours
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ETA-232......................... 600 Annually........... 600 11 hours.......... 6,600
ETA-232A........................ 38,805 Annually........... 38,805 \1/4\ hour........ 9,701
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Total....................... ........... ................... 39,405 .................. 16,301
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Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): -0-.
Total Burden Cost (operating/maintaining):
Business: The salary range of representatives of business
respondents (employees of small family owned farms up through large
agribusiness firms) could be from the minimum wage to several hundred
thousand dollars of a CEO. Therefore, the hourly salaries of
individuals participating in the wage survey can range from about $5.15
to $300.00 or more per hour.
State Government: Average cost to the State agencies conducting the
agricultural wage surveys range from $1,500.00 to $6,000.00 per survey,
depending upon the complexity of the crop or livestock activity to be
surveyed, including considerations such as size of employer and worker
universes, and geographic expanse of wage reporting areas.
Comments submitted in response to this comment request will be
summarized and/or included in the request for Office of Management and
Budget approval of the information collection request; they will also
become a matter of public record.
Dated: September 5, 2000.
Grace A. Kilbane,
Administrator, Office of Workforce Security, Employment and Training
Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-23235 Filed 9-8-00; 8:45 am]
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