EEO-4 30 Day Notice

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number of respondents reducing from
60 to 30.
Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
[FR Doc. 2015–00768 Filed 1–16–15; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OECA–2014–0083; FRL–9920–
86—OEI]

Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP
for Leather Finishing Operations
(Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Environmental Protection
Agency has submitted an information
collection request (ICR), ‘‘NESHAP for
Leather Finishing Operations (40 CFR
part 63, subpart TTTT) (Renewal)’’ (EPA
ICR No. 1985.06, OMB Control No.
2060–0478) to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.). This is a proposed
extension of the ICR, which is currently
approved through January 1, 2015.
Public comments were previously
requested via the Federal Register (79
FR 30117) on May 27, 2014 during a 60day comment period. This notice allows
for an additional 30 days for public
comments. A fuller description of the
ICR is given below, including its
estimated burden and cost to the public.
An Agency may not conduct or sponsor
and a person is not required to respond
to a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before February 19,
2015.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–OECA–2014–0083, to (1) EPA
online using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to
[email protected], or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via
email to [email protected].
Address comments to OMB Desk Officer
for EPA.
EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public

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docket without change including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes profanity, threats,
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patrick Yellin, Monitoring, Assistance,
and Media Programs Division, Office of
Compliance, Mail Code 2227A,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
564–2970; fax number: (202) 564–0050;
email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents which explain in
detail the information that the EPA will
be collecting are available in the public
docket for this ICR. The docket can be
viewed online at www.regulations.gov
or in person at the EPA Docket Center,
William Jefferson Clinton West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC. The telephone number
for the Docket Center is 202–566–1744.
For additional information about EPA’s
public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/
dockets.
Abstract: Owners or operators of
leather finishing operations that are
subject to 40 CFR part 63, subpart TTTT
are require to provide initial
notifications, performance tests, and
periodic reports. They are also required
to maintain records of the occurrence
and duration of any startup, shutdown,
or malfunction in the operation of an
affected facility, or any period during
which the monitoring system is
inoperative. The required annual reports
are used to determine periods of excess
emissions, identify problems at the
facility, verify operation/maintenance
procedures and for compliance
determinations.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities:
Owners or operators of leather finishing
operations that are a major source of
HAP emissions.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, subpart
TTTT).
Estimated number of respondents: 10
(total).
Frequency of response: Initially,
occasionally and annually.
Total estimated burden: 334 hours
(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $32,651(per
year), including no annualized capital
or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is no
change of hours in the total estimated

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respondent burden compared with the
ICR currently approved by OMB.
Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Submission for OMB Review
Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission.
ACTION: Final notice of submission for
OMB review—Extension with change:
State and Local Government
Information Report (EEO–4).
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), the
Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC or Commission)
hereby gives notice that it has submitted
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) a request for a three-year
extension with change of the State and
Local Government Information Report
(EEO–4). The EEOC is proposing
revisions to the race and ethnicity
categories on the EEO–4 report to
conform to OMB’s Revisions to the
Standards for the Classification of
Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity
(October 30, 1997) (Revised Standards),
as applied in OMB Bulletin No. 00–02,
Guidance on Aggregation and
Allocation of Data on Race for Use in
Civil Rights Monitoring and
Enforcement (March 9, 2000).
DATES: Written comments on this notice
must be submitted on or before February
19, 2015.
ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR and
applicable supporting documentation
submitted to OMB for this review may
be obtained from: Ronald Edwards,
Director, Program Research and Surveys
Division, Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, 131 M Street
NE., Room 4SW30F, Washington, DC
20507. Comments on this final notice
must be submitted to Chad A.
Lallemand, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725 17th
Street NW., Room 10235, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503 or electronically mailed to
[email protected].
Copies of comments should be sent to
Bernadette Wilson, Acting Executive
Officer, Executive Secretariat, Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission,
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131 M Street NE., Washington, DC
20507. As a convenience to
commenters, the Executive Secretariat
will accept comments totaling six or
fewer pages by facsimile (‘‘FAX’’)
machine. This limitation is necessary to
assure access to the equipment. The
telephone number of the fax receiver is
(202) 663–4114. (This is not a toll-free
number). Receipt of FAX transmittals
will not be acknowledged, except that
the sender may request confirmation of
receipt by calling the Executive
Secretariat staff at (202) 663–4070
(voice) or (202) 663–4074 (TTY). (These
are not toll-free telephone numbers.)
Instead of sending written comments to
EEOC, you may submit comments and
attachments electronically at http://
www.regulations.gov, which is the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the
instructions online for submitting
comments. All comments received
through this portal will be posted
without change, including any personal
information you provide. Copies of
comments submitted by the public to
EEOC directly or through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal will be available for
review, by advance appointment only,
at the Commission’s library between the
hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time or can be reviewed at http://
www.regulations.gov. To schedule an
appointment to inspect the comments at
EEOC’s library, contact the library staff
at (202) 663–4630 (voice) or (202) 663–
4641 (TTY). (These are not toll-free
numbers.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ronald Edwards, Director, Program
Research and Surveys Division, Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission,
131 M Street NE., Room 4SW30F,
Washington, DC 20507; (202) 663–4949
(voice) or (202) 663–7063 (TTY).
Requests for this notice in an alternative
format should be made to the Office of
Communications and Legislative Affairs
at (202) 663–4191 (voice) or (202) 663–
4494 (TTY).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EEOC
has collected information from state and
local governments with 100 or more
full-time employees since 1974. The
Commission is proposing revisions to
the EEO–4 report to conform with
OMB’s Revisions to the Standards for
the Classification of Federal Data on
Race and Ethnicity (October 30, 1997)
(Revised Standards), as applied in OMB
Bulletin No. 00–02, Guidance on
Aggregation and Allocation of Data on
Race for Use in Civil Rights Monitoring
and Enforcement (March 9, 2000). The
revisions to the EEO–4 report, Form
164, include the following race and
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White; Black or African American;
Asian; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific
Islander; American Indian or Alaska
Native; and Two or More Races.
A notice that EEOC would be
submitting this request was published
in the Federal Register on August 27,
2014 allowing for a 60-day public
comment period. There were no
comments received from the public.
Overview of Current Information
Collection
Collection Title: State and Local
Government Information Report (EEO–
4).
OMB—Number: 3046–0008.
Frequency of Report: Biennial.
Type of Respondent: State and local
government jurisdictions with 100 or
more employees.
Description of Affected Public: State
and local governments excluding
elementary and secondary public school
districts.
Number of Responses: 12,458.
Reporting Hours: 89,188.
Cost Burden: $21,600,000.
Number of Forms: 1.
Form Number: EEOC FORM 164.
Federal Cost: $226,549.
ABSTRACT: Section 709(c) of Title
VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as
amended, 42 U.S.C. 2000e–8(c), requires
employers to make and keep records
relevant to a determination of whether
unlawful employment practices have
been or are being committed, to preserve
such records and to produce reports as
the Commission prescribes by
regulation or order. Accordingly, the
EEOC issued regulations at 29 CFR
1602.32–1602.37 prescribing the
reporting requirements for State and
local governments. State and local
governments with 100 or more
employees have been required to submit
EEO–4 reports since 1974 (biennially in
odd-numbered years since 1993). The
individual reports are confidential.
EEO–4 data are used by the EEOC to
investigate charges of discrimination
against state and local governments and
to provide information on the
employment status of minorities and
women. The data are shared with
several other Federal agencies. Pursuant
to section 709(d) of Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000e–
8(d), as amended, EEO–4 data are
shared with State and Local Fair
Employment Practices Agencies
(FEPAs). Aggregated data are also used
by researchers and the general public.
Burden Statement: The estimated
number of respondents included in the
EEO–4 survey is 9,000 state and local
governments. (These 9,000 jurisdictions
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2011 filing of the EEO–4.) Reports
exceed jurisdictions due to the
requirement for some to file separate
reports by function. The changes
discussed herein will increase
respondent burden hours from 73,185 to
89,188 and EEOC costs from $187,500 to
$226,549. The burden per report will be
7.16 hours.
Estimated burden hours were
calculated by multiplying the number of
reports expected to be filed annually
(12,458 in 2011) by the estimated
average time to complete and submit
each report (7.16 hours).
These burden estimates are largely
based on an assumption of paper
reporting. However, the EEOC has made
electronic filing much easier for
employers required to file the EEO–4
Report. As a result, more jurisdictions
are using this filing method. This
development, along with the greater
availability of human resource
information software, is expected to
have significantly reduced the actual
burden of reporting, but empirical data
in this area is lacking. Accordingly,
efforts will be undertaken by the
Commission to (1) develop more reliable
estimates of reporting burdens given the
significant increase in electronic filing
and (2) to implement new approaches to
make such reporting even less
burdensome.
The other new burden is the one-time
cost of employers changing the manner
in which they collect and store the new
race and ethnicity changes as well as
changes to computer programs and
systems. There will be no cost for
employers whose current systems are
already designed to handle the full
multiple race and ethnicity
classifications, and we estimate that
about ten percent of employers
currently have this ability. The
estimated cost for employers that will
have to re-survey the workforce to
comply with the new race and ethnicity
changes is $21,600,000.
Dated: January 9, 2015.
For the Commission.
Jenny R. Yang,
Chair.
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COMMISSION
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Activities: Proposed Collection;
Submission for OMB Review
Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission.

AGENCY:

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