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Indian country as defined in 18 U.S.C.
1151. Please see SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION, Unit B.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–10021–03–Region 8]

A. Why are revisions to State programs
necessary?

Public Water System Supervision
Program Revision for the State of
Colorado
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

Public notice is hereby given
that the state of Colorado has revised its
Public Water System Supervision
(PWSS) Program by adopting federal
regulations for the Revised Total
Coliform Rule (RTCR) that correspond
to the National Primary Drinking Water
Regulations (NPDWR). EPA has
reviewed Colorado’s regulations and
determined they are no less stringent
than the federal regulations. EPA is
proposing to approve the RTCR for
Colorado.
This approval action does not extend
to public water systems in Indian
country. Please see SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION, Unit B.
DATES: Any interested parties may
request a public hearing on this
determination by April 12, 2021. Please
see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION, Unit C,
for details. Should no timely and
appropriate request for a hearing be
received, and the Regional
Administrator (RA) does not elect to
hold a hearing on his/her own motion,
this determination shall become
applicable April 12, 2021 and no further
notice will be issued.
ADDRESSES: Requests for a public
hearing should be submitted to: Robert
Clement by email at clement.robert@
epa.gov or by phone (303) 312–6653.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Clement, Drinking Water B
Section, EPA Region 8, Denver,
Colorado by email at clement.robert@
epa.gov or by phone toll-free at 1–(800)
227–8917 extension 312–6653, or
directly at (303) 312–6653.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with section 1413 of the
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), 42
U.S.C. 300g–2, and 40 CFR 142.13,
public notice is hereby given that the
state of Colorado has revised its PWSS
program by adopting federal regulations
for the RTCR that correspond to the
NPDWR in 40 CFR parts 141 and 142.
EPA has reviewed Colorado’s
regulations and determined they are no
less stringent than the federal
regulations. EPA is proposing to
approve Colorado’s primacy revision for
the RTCR. This approval action does not
extend to public water systems in

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States with primary PWSS
enforcement authority must comply
with the requirements of 40 CFR part
142 to maintain primacy. They must
adopt regulations that are at least as
stringent as the NPDWRs at 40 CFR
parts 141 and 142, as well as adopt all
new and revised NPDWRs in order to
retain primacy (40 CFR 142.12(a)).
B. How does this action affect Indian
country (18 U.S.C. 1151) in Colorado?
EPA’s approval of Colorado’s revised
PWSS program does not extend to
Indian country as defined in 18 U.S.C.
1151. Indian country in Colorado
generally includes (1) lands within the
exterior boundaries of the following
Indian reservations located within
Colorado, in part or in full: The
Southern Ute Indian Reservation and
the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation; (2)
any land held in trust by the United
States for an Indian tribe; and (3) any
other areas which are ‘‘Indian country’’
within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. 1151.
EPA or eligible Indian tribes, as
appropriate, will retain PWSS program
responsibilities over public water
systems in Indian country.
C. Requesting a Hearing
Any interested party may request a
hearing on this determination within
thirty (30) days of this notice. All
requests shall include the following
information: Name, address, and
telephone number of the individual,
organization, or other entity requesting
a hearing; a brief statement of interest
and information to be submitted at the
hearing; and a signature of the
interested individual or responsible
official, if made on behalf of an
organization or other entity. Frivolous
or insubstantial requests for a hearing
may be denied by the RA.
Notice of any hearing shall be given
not less than fifteen (15) days prior to
the time scheduled for the hearing and
will be made by the RA in the Federal
Register and in a newspaper of general
circulation in the state. A notice will
also be sent to both the person(s)
requesting the hearing and the state. The
hearing notice will include a statement
of purpose of the hearing, information
regarding time and location for the
hearing, and the address and telephone
number where interested persons may
obtain further information. The RA will
issue an order affirming or rescinding

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the determination upon review of the
hearing record.
Please bring this notice to the
attention of any persons known by you
to have an interest in this
determination.
Dated: March 5, 2021.
Debra H. Thomas,
Acting Regional Administrator Region 8.
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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Existing Collection
Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission.
ACTION: Final Notice of Information
Collection—Extension without change
of a currently approved collection Local
Union Report (EEO–3) and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC or
Commission) announces that it is
submitting to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request for a threeyear extension without change of the
existing Local Union Report (EEO–3)
(EEOC Form 274) as described below.
DATES: Written comments on this notice
are encouraged and must be submitted
on or before April 12, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rashida Dorsey, Employer Data Team,
Data Development and Information
Products Division, Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, 131 M Street
NE, Room 4SW32J, Washington, DC
20507; (202) 663–4355 (voice), (202)
663–7063 (TTY) or email at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice
that the EEOC would be submitting this
request was published in the Federal
Register on November 19, 2020,
allowing for a 60-day public comment
period. No comments were received
from the public during the 60-day
public comment period.
SUMMARY:

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Overview of Information Collection
Collection Title: Local Union Report
(EEO–3).
OMB Number: 3046–0006.
Frequency of Report: Biennial.
Type of Respondent: Local referral
unions with 100 or more members.
Description of Affected Public: Local
referral unions and independent or
unaffiliated referral unions and similar
labor organizations.
Responses: 1,100 1 per biennial
collection.
Reporting Hours: 2,252 per biennial
collection.
Burden Hour Cost: $70,415.95 per
biennial collection.
Federal Cost: $390,120.85 per
biennial collection.
Number of Forms: 1.
Form Number: EEOC Form 274.
Abstract: Section 709(c) of Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as
amended, 42 U.S.C. 2000e–8(c), requires
labor organizations to make and keep
records relevant to a determination of
whether unlawful employment practices
have been or are being committed and
produce reports required by the EEOC.

Accordingly, the EEOC issued
regulations, 29 CFR 1602.22 and
1602.27–.28, which set forth the
reporting requirements and related
record retention policies for various
kinds of labor organizations. 29 CFR
1602.22 requires every local union to
retain the most recent report filed, and
29 CFR 1602.27–.28 require filers to
make records necessary for completion
of the EEO–3 and preserve them for a
year (or if a charge of discrimination is
filed, relevant records must be retained
until final disposition of the matter). 29
CFR 1602.22 and 1602.27–.28 are
related to recordkeeping which is part of
standard administrative practices, and
as a result, the EEOC believes that any
impact on burden would be negligible
and nearly impossible to quantify. Local
referral unions with 100 or more
members have been required to submit
EEO–3 reports since 1967 (biennially
since 1986). The EEOC uses EEO–3 data
for research and to investigate charges of
discrimination. The individual reports
are confidential.
Burden Statement: The methodology
for calculating annual burden reflects

the different staff that are responsible
for preparing and filing the EEO–3.
These estimates stem from a limited
study that was conducted in 2015 with
nine EEO–3 respondents. The EEOC
accounts for time to be spent biennially
on EEO–3 reporting by business agents
and administrative staff, as well as time
spent by attorneys who, in a few cases,
may consult briefly during the reporting
process. The estimated number of
respondents included in the biennial
EEO–3 collection is 1,100 local referral
unions, as this is the approximate
number of filers from the 2018 reporting
cycle. The estimated hour burden per
report will be 2.05 hours, and the
estimated total biennial respondent
burden hours will be 2,251.80. Burden
hour cost was calculated using median
hourly wage rates for administrative
staff and legal counsel, and average
hourly wage rates for labor union
business agents.
The burden hour cost per report will
be $67.33, and the estimated total
burden hour cost per biennial collection
will be $70,415.95 (See Table 1 for
calculations).

TABLE 1—ESTIMATE OF BIENNIAL BURDEN FOR EEO–3 REPORT
Hourly wage
rate a

Local referral union staff

Hours per
local

Cost per
local

Total burden
hours

Total burden
hour cost

Secretaries and Administrative Assistants ..........................
Business Agent ....................................................................
Corporate Legal Counsel .....................................................

$18.84
45.00
69.86

1
1
0.05

$18.84
45.00
3.49

1,100
1,100
55

$20,724.00
49,500.00
191.95

Total ..............................................................................

........................

2.05

67.33

2,251.80

70,415.95

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Note: A limited study was conducted by the EEOC of local referral union EEO–3 respondents. The methodology included surveying nine local
referral union respondents by asking a series of survey questions approved by the EEOC’s Office of Legal Counsel regarding the type of local
union staff involved in submitting EEO–3 data. The EEOC asked responding study participants to estimate how long on average it took identified
local union staff members to complete the EEO–3 report and what proportion of that time was allocated to each staff member job title. The burden hours per local union by job title, 2.05, is estimated based on filer responses. The results of the study were published in the Final Notice of
Submission for OMB Review—Extension Without Change: Local Union Report (EEO–3) on January 24, 2017: https://www.federalregister.gov/
documents/2017/01/24/2017-01558/agency-information-collection-activities-proposed-collection-submission-for-omb-review.
a Hourly wage rates for administrative staff and legal counsel were obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2019 (see U.S. Dept. of
Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm) and the average hourly wage
rate for a labor union business agent was obtained from salaryexpert.com (see https://www.salaryexpert.com/salary/job/labor-union-businessagent/united-states).

These estimates are based upon filers’
use of the EEO–3 online web-based
application system to submit reports.
During the 2018 EEO–3 collection cycle,
approximately 1,100 local referral
unions were identified as being eligible
to report EEO–3 data, and all but 31 of
the 975 responsive EEO–3 filers
submitted their data electronically.
Online electronic filing remains the
most popular, efficient, accurate, and
secure means of reporting for
respondents required to submit the
EEO–3 report. The EEOC has made
online electronic filing much easier for

respondents required to file the EEO–3
report and as a result, more respondents
are using this method. Accordingly, the
EEOC will continue to encourage EEO–
3 filers to submit data through online
electronic filing and will only accept
paper records from filers who have
secured permission to submit data via
paper submission.

1 This figure is based on the total number of
respondents who were eligible to submit EEO–3

data in 2018, which is the most recently completed
EEO–3 data year.

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Dated: March 5, 2021.

For the Commission.
Charlotte A. Burrows,
Chair.
[FR Doc. 2021–05058 Filed 3–10–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6570–01–P

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Existing Collection
Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission.

AGENCY:

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