These third-party notifications and
recordkeeping requirements help ensure polygraph examinees receive
the protections and rights provided by the Employee Polygraph
Protection Act (EPPA).
US Code:
29 USC 2001, et seq. Name of Law: The Employee Polygraph
Protection Act of 1988
The DOL is revising the format
of Form WH-1481 to show the WHD logo and update the OMB Control
Number. The DOL does not believe these cosmetic changes affect the
public burden; however, as these are considered formatting issues,
this submission is characterized as a revision. The DOL has also
further disaggregated burden in ROCIS and refined its estimates to
calculate the employer recordkeeping burden transactions. The
Notice to Polygraph Examiner Identifying Persons to be Examined
information collection data entries previously counted providing
the notice to the examiner and maintaining a record of the results
of the examination as a single action that took 7 minutes to
complete. The DOL now believes a better characterization would be
counting providing the notice to the examiner as one action that
takes 6 minutes and maintaining a record of the examination results
as a second action that takes 1 minute. The number of annual
responses is increasing by 164,000, because the DOL now counts
maintaining a record of the notice to the polygraph examiner as a
separate event from maintaining an equal number of examination
results. While the number of responses is increasing, total annual
burden hours is unchanged because the prior calculation included
all burden hours for both events. For the data entries, this has
resulted in a shifting of the burden hours from the "Notice to
Polygraph Examiner Identifying Persons to be Examined" information
collection to a new "Test Results Written Report and Test Record
MaintenanceEmployer" information collection (no net change) and an
increase of 164,000 responses (from 593,400 to 757,400). Federal
costs increased, due to higher postage costs.
$82,000
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Mary Ziegler 202
693-0517
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.