Nonsubstantive Change Request

JUSTIFICATION FOR EMERGENCY REQUEST FOR OMB APPROVAL

UNDER THE PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995

OF A NON-SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE TO AN ALREADY APPROVED

INFORMATION COLLECTION

OMB Control Number: 1205-0017

Title: Domestic Agricultural In-Season Wage Report: In January 2017, OMB approved ETA Form 232 and ETA Form 232A under the Information Collection Request (ICR), OMB control number 1205-0017. These forms are used in the Department’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC’s) H-2A. On January 10, 2017, the Department of Labor met informally with all commenters of the ETA Form 232 and ETA Form 232A to discuss their comments.  As a result, the Department has revised ETA Form 232A in order to reconcile and resolve those comments from the commenters.

The Department is requesting a non-substantive change as we are not making any regulatory changes and the changes to the form do not contribute to any previously calculated burden changes. The changes being made are only to ETA Form 232A and the accompanying instructions. The changes are an addition of two questions of “[W]as information collected with the cooperation of another organization?” and “[W]as information collected from employer payroll records?” The accompanying instructions also reflect the non-substantive changes as well.