60-Day Notice

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 176 (Tuesday, September 11, 2012)]

[Notices]

[Pages 55858-55859]

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

[FR Doc No: 2012-22256]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

[OMB Control Number 1615-0092]

Agency Information Collection Activities: E-Verify Program;

Revision of a Currently Approved Collection

ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: OMB-18,

E-Verify Program.

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and

Immigration Services (USCIS) will be submitting the following

information collection request for review and clearance in accordance

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The information collection

notice is published in the Federal Register to obtain comments from the

public and affected agencies. Comments are encouraged and will be

accepted for sixty days until November 13, 2012.

Written comments and suggestions regarding items contained in this

notice, and especially with regard to the estimated public burden and

associated response time, should be directed to the Department of

Homeland Security (DHS), USCIS, Office of Policy and Strategy, Laura

Dawkins, Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division, 20 Massachusetts

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20529. Comments may be submitted to DHS via

email at [email protected] and must include OMB Control Number

1615-0092 in the subject box. Comments may also be submitted via the

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov under e-Docket

ID number USCIS-2007-0023.

If submitting comment on one of the six E-Verify Memoranda of

Understanding (MOU), please identify the MOU that concerns your

business process, and, if possible, the article, section and paragraph

number within the MOU that is associated with the comment.

All submissions received must include the agency name and Docket

ID. Regardless of the method used for submitting comments or material,

all submissions will be posted, without change, to the Federal

eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov, and will include any

personal information you provide. Therefore, submitting this

information makes it public. You may wish to consider limiting the

amount of personal information that you provide in any voluntary

submission you make to DHS. DHS may withhold information provided in

comments from public viewing that it determines may impact the privacy

of an individual or is offensive. For additional information, please

read the Privacy Act notice that is available via the link in the

footer of http://www.regulations.gov.

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Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected

agencies 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 agencies 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: Revision of a currently

approved collection.

(2) Title of the Form/Collection: E-Verify Program.

(3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the

Department of Homeland Security sponsoring the collection: No Agency

Form Number; File OMB-18. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

(4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as

well as a brief abstract: Primary: Business or other for profit. E-

Verify allows employers to electronically verify the employment

eligibility status of newly hired employees.

(5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount

of time estimated for an average respondent to respond:

65,000 respondents averaging 2.26 hours (2 hours 16

minutes) per response (enrollment time includes review and signing of

the MOU, registration, new user training, and review of the user

guides); plus

425,000, the number of already-enrolled respondents

receiving training on new features and system updates averaging 1 hour

per response; plus

425,000, the number of respondents submitting E-Verify

cases averaging .129 hours (approximately 8 minutes) per case.

(6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated

with the collection: 3,587,275 annual burden hours.

If you have additional comments, suggestions, or need a copy of the

proposed information collection instrument with instructions, or

additional information, please visit the Federal eRulemaking Portal at

http://www.regulations.gov. We may also be contacted at: USCIS, Office

of Policy and Strategy, Regulatory Coordination Division, 20

Massachusetts Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20529, Telephone number 202-

272-1470.

Dated: September 5, 2012.

Laura Dawkins,

Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division, Office of Policy and Strategy,

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland

Security.

[FR Doc. 2012-22256 Filed 9-10-12; 8:45 am]

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