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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]
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Activities: Existing Collection
Equal Employment
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Notice of Information
Collection—Extension without change
of a currently approved collection
Elementary-Secondary Staff Information
Report (EEO–5) and request for
comments.

ACTION:

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
Elementary-Secondary Staff Information
Report (EEO–5) (EEOC Form 168A) as
described below.

SUMMARY:

Written comments on this notice
are encouraged and must be submitted
on or before April 12, 2021.

DATES:

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.

ADDRESSES:

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].
A notice
that EEOC would be submitting this
request was published in the Federal
Register on November 19, 2020,
allowing for a 60-day public comment
period. One comment was received from
the public; however, it did not address
the EEO–5 information collection.
Accordingly, no changes have been
made to the EEO–5 collection based
upon the unresponsive comment.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Overview of Information Collection
Collection Title: ElementarySecondary Staff Information Report
(EEO–5).
OMB Number: 3046–0003.
Frequency of Report: Biennial, even
years.
Type of Respondent: Public
elementary and secondary school
districts with 100 or more employees
within the 50 U.S. states and District of
Columbia.
Description of Affected Public: Public
elementary and secondary school
districts with 100 or more employees
within the 50 U.S. states and District of
Columbia.
Responses: 7,082 per biennial
collection.
Reporting Hours: 120,901.07 per
biennial collection.
Burden Hour Cost: $4,055,001.76 per
biennial collection.
Federal Cost: $240,120.85 per
biennial collection.
Number of Forms: 1.
Form Number: EEOC Form 168A.
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, 29 CFR
1602.39 and .41–.45, prescribing the
reporting and related record retention
requirements for public elementary and
secondary school districts. 29 CFR
1602.39 requires school districts to
make or keep all records necessary for
completion of an EEO–5 submission and
retain those records for three years. 29
CFR 1602.41 requires EEO–5 filers to
retain a copy of each filed EEO–5 report
for three years. These requirements 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.
Public elementary and secondary school
districts with 100 or more employees
within the 50 U.S. states and District of
Columbia were required to submit EEO–
5 reports annually from 1974 to 1981
and then biennially in even years from
1982 to the present. The individual
reports are confidential. The EEOC uses
EEO–5 data to investigate charges of
employment discrimination against
public elementary and secondary school
districts. The EEO–5 data are also used
for research. EEO–5 reports are shared
with the Department of Education
(Office for Civil Rights) and the
Department of Justice.
Burden Statement: The EEOC has
updated its methodology for calculating
annual burden to reflect the different
staff responsible for preparing and filing
the EEO–5. The EEOC’s revised burden
estimate reflects that the bulk of the
work in biennially preparing an EEO–5
report is performed by computer
support specialists, executive
administrative staff, and payroll and
human resource professionals; the
revised estimate also includes time
spent by school district finance
professionals and superintendents who,
in a few cases, may consult briefly
during the reporting process. After
accounting for the time spent by the
various employees who have a role in
preparing an EEO–5, the EEOC
estimates that a school district will
spend 17.07 hours to prepare the report
and estimates that the aggregate biennial
hour burden for all respondents is
120,901.07. The cost associated with the
burden hours was calculated using
hourly wage rates obtained from the
Department of Labor 1 for each job
identified above as participating in the
submission of the report; using those
rates, we estimate that the burden hour
cost per school district will be
approximately $572.58, while the
estimated total biennial burden hour
cost for all 7,082 school districts will be
$4,055,001.76 (See Table 1 for
calculations).

TABLE 1–ESTIMATE OF BIENNIAL BURDEN FOR EEO–5 REPORT
Hourly wage
rate

School district staff

Burden
hours per
district a

Burden hour
cost per
district

Total burden
hours

Total burden
hour cost

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N = 7,082
Computer Support Specialist (IT Professional/Data Processing Specialist) .............................................................
Director of School Finance (Financial Managers) ...............
Executive Clerical Staff ........................................................
Human Resource Specialist ................................................
1 Median hourly wage rates were obtained from
the Bureau of Labor Statistics (see U.S. Department

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26.33
62.45
26.35
29.77

3.43
0.14
2.93
5.43

$90.28
8.92
77.17
161.61

of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational
Outlook Handbook, http://www/bls.gov/ooh/).

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24,281.35
1,012.02
20,740.35
38,445.35

$639,327.82
63,200.51
546,508.10
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TABLE 1–ESTIMATE OF BIENNIAL BURDEN FOR EEO–5 REPORT—Continued
Hourly wage
rate

School district staff

Burden
hours per
district a

Burden hour
cost per
district

Total burden
hours

Total burden
hour cost

Payroll Specialist ..................................................................
Senior Human Resource Managers ....................................
Superintendent (School Management Occupations) ...........

19.49
56.11
50.33

1.43
3.43
0.29

27.84
192.38
14.38

10,117.35
24,281.35
2,023.33

197,187.06
1,362,426.28
101,834.07

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

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

17.07

572.58

120,901.07

4,055,001.76

Note: Burden Hours per district were determined through interviews with a stratified heterogeneous mixture of school districts used to estimate
burden, as approved in the 2018 Paperwork Reduction Act.
a Burden Hours are rounded to the tenth decimal place in this publication.

These estimates are based on the
assumption of some paper reporting.
During the 2018 EEO–5 filing period,
the EEOC experienced a 49.8 percent
increase in paper filing since the 2016
EEO–5 report filing. Despite the
increase, paper filing represents 3.3
percent of total reports received in 2018.
Online electronic filing remains the
most popular, efficient, accurate, and
secure means of reporting for
respondents required to submit the
EEO–5 report. The EEOC has made
online electronic filing much easier for
respondents required to file the EEO–5
and as a result, more respondents are
using this method. Accordingly, the
EEOC will continue to encourage EEO–
5 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.
Dated: March 5, 2021.
For the Commission.
Charlotte A. Burrows,
Chair.
[FR Doc. 2021–05059 Filed 3–10–21; 8:45 am]
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[OMB 3060–1028, FRS 17548]

Information Collection Being Reviewed
by the Federal Communications
Commission Delegated Authority
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burdens, and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC or
Commission) invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on the
following information collections.

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Comments are requested concerning:
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimate; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on the respondents,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; and ways to
further reduce the information
collection burden on small business
concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) control
number. No person shall be subject to
any penalty for failing to comply with
a collection of information subject to the
PRA that does not display a valid OMB
control number.
DATES: Written PRA comments should
be submitted on or before May 10, 2021.
If you anticipate that you will be
submitting comments, but find it
difficult to do so within the period of
time allowed by this notice, you should
advise the contact listed below as soon
as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to
Cathy Williams, FCC, via email to PRA@
fcc.gov and to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information about the
information collection, contact Cathy
Williams at (202) 418–2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control No.: 3060–1028.
Title: International Signaling Point
Code (ISPC).
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities.
Number of Respondents: 5
respondents; 5 responses.

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Estimated Time per Response: .333
hours (20 minutes).
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement; Third party
disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. The statutory
authority for this collection is contained
in 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i)–(j), 201–205,
211, 214, 219–220, 303(r), and 403.
Total Annual Burden: 2 hours.
Annual Cost Burden: No cost.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
In general, there is no need for
confidentiality with this collection of
information.
Needs and Uses: This collection will
be submitted as an extension (no change
in reporting or recordkeeping
requirements) after this 60-day comment
period to Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) in order to obtain the full
three-year clearance.
An International Signaling Point Code
(ISPC) is a unique, seven-digit code
synonymously used to identify the
signaling network of each international
carrier. The ISPC has a unique format
that is used at the international level for
signaling message routing and
identification of signaling points. The
Commission receives ISPC applications
from international carriers on the
electronic, internet-based International
Bureau Filing System (IBFS). After
receipt of the ISPC application, the
Commission assigns the ISPC code to
each applicant (international carrier)
free of charge on a first-come, firstserved basis. The collection of this
information is required to assign a
unique identification code to each
international carrier and to facilitate
communication among international
carriers by their use of the ISPC code on
the shared signaling network. The
Commission informs the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU) of its
assignment of ISPCs to international
carriers on an ongoing basis.

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