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Total
respondents

Form

Frequency

Average time
per response
(minutes)

Estimated total
burden

CEQ—Interview ...................................................................
CEQ—Reinterview ...............................................................
CED—Diary (record-keeping) ..............................................
CED—Diary (Interview) ........................................................
CED—Diary (Reinterview) ...................................................

6,015
2,887
7,535
7,535
1,507

4
1
2
2.3
1

24,060
2,887
15,070
17,332
1,507

67
10
70
19
10

26,867
481
17,582
5,488
251

Totals ............................................................................

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

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

60,856

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

50,669

Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they also
will become a matter of public record.

Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue NE,
Washington, DC 20212. Written
comments also may be transmitted by
email to [email protected].

Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of
June 2020.
Mark Staniorski,
Chief, Division of Management Systems.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, at
202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free
number.) (See ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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I. Background
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Information Collection Activities;
Comment Request
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments
concerning the proposed extension of
the ‘‘National Compensation Survey.’’ A
copy of the proposed information
collection request can be obtained by
contacting the individual listed below
in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice on or
before August 10, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora
Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
SUMMARY:

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The National Compensation Survey
(NCS) is an ongoing survey of earnings
and benefits among private firms, State,
and local government. Data from the
NCS program include estimates of
wages covering broad groups of related
occupations, and data that directly links
benefit plan costs with detailed plan
provisions. The NCS is used to produce
the Employment Cost Trends, including
the Employment Cost Index (ECI) and
Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation (ECEC), employee
benefits data (on coverage, cost, and
provisions), and data used by the
President’s Pay Agent. This data is used
by compensation administrators and
researchers in the public and private
sectors. Data from the NCS are used to
help in determining monetary policy (as
a Principal Federal Economic Indicator.)
The integrated program’s single sample
produces both time-series indexes and
cost levels for industry and
occupational groups, thereby increasing
the analytical potential of the data.
The NCS employs probability
methods for selection of occupations.
This ensures that sampled occupations
represent all occupations in the
workforce, while minimizing the
reporting burden on respondents. The
survey collects data from a sample of
employers. These data will consist of
information about the duties,
responsibilities, and compensation
(earnings and benefits) for a sample of
occupations for each sampled
employer.Data will be updated on a
quarterly basis. The updates will allow
for production of data on change in
earnings and total compensation.

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II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget
clearance is being sought for a extension
of the National Compensation Survey.
This survey was revised to temporarily
add questions to the National
Compensation Survey to cover sick
leave policy changes due to the
coronavirus pandemic. These questions
will be collected primarily through
email in June and July of 2020. These
data were approved for collection under
Emergency OMB Clearance Package
1220–0195, which expires on November
30, 2020. Respondents will
electronically complete and submit
responses through a simple fillable
form. The additional sick leave policy
questions are not intended to be
collected beyond the July timeframe.
At this time, BLS has discontinued in
person data collection in response to the
coronavirus pandemic. NCS will return
to using in person interviews as a
method of collection once restrictions
are lifted. During this time, the NCS is
relying heavily on telephone, email, and
mail for current collection. Video
interview collection is also available in
response to the pandemic and is being
considered as a standard collection
method.
The NCS collects earnings and work
level data on occupations for the nation.
The NCS also collects information on
the cost, provisions, and incidence of
major employee benefits through its
benefit cost and benefit provision
programs and publications. BLS has for
a number of years been using a revised
approach to the Locality Pay Survey
(LPS) component of the NCS; this uses
data from two current BLS programs—
the Occupational Employment Statistics
(OES) survey and the ECI program. This
approach uses OES data to provide wage
data by occupation and by area, while
ECI data are used to specify grade level
effects. This approach is also being used
to extend the estimation of pay gaps to
areas that were not included in the prior
Locality Pay Survey sample, and these
data have been delivered to the Pay
Agent (in 2019, data for 95 areas were
delivered).

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The NCS has a national survey design
for the ECI and the EBS. The NCS
private industry sample is on a threeyear rotational cycle, with one frozen
sample year every ten years for the NCS
private industry sample when a new
NCS State and local government sample
starts (approximately in 2025).
The NCS continues to provide
employee benefit provision and
participation data. These data include
estimates of how many workers receive
the various employer-sponsored
benefits. The data also include
information about the common
provisions of benefit plans.
NCS collection will use a number of
collection forms (normally having
unique private industry and government
initiation and update collection forms
and versions). For NCS update
collection, the forms or screens give
respondents their previously reported
information, the dates they expected
change to occur to these data, and space
for reporting these changes.
The NCS for electronic collection uses
a Web-based system (Web-Lite) that

allows NCS respondents, using Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption and the
establishment’s schedule number, to
upload data files to a secure BLS server
that forwards those files to the assigned
BLS field economist.
Some benefits (called ‘‘Other
benefits’’) data are collected to track the
emergence of new or changing benefits
over time. The BLS only asks whether
sampled occupations receive these
benefits and periodically modifies this
list.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is
particularly interested in comments
that:
• 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.
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
Respondents

Average
responses per
year

Total # of
responses

Average
minutes

Total hours

15863

3.1342

49,717

53.0736

43,978

Three-year average .............................................................

Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they also
will become a matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of
June 2020.
Mark Staniorski,
Chief, Division of Management Systems.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration

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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Announcement of the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
Control Numbers Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.

AGENCY:

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Notice; announcement of the
Office of Management and Budget’s
(OMB) approval of information
collection requirements.

ACTION:

The Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA)
announces that OMB extended approval
for information collection requirements
found in OSHA’s standards and a new
collection of information pertaining to
OSHA’s Alliance Program outlined in
this notice. OSHA sought approval of
these requirements under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), and, as
required by that Act, is announcing the
approval numbers and expiration dates
for these requirements and regulations.
DATES: Applicable June 11, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Seleda Perryman or Theda Kenney,
Directorate of Standards and Guidance,
OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor,
telephone (202) 693–2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a series
of Federal Register notices, the agency
provided 60-day comment periods for
the public to respond to OSHA’s burden
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including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used.
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected.
• 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 submissions
of responses.
Title of Collection: National
Compensation Survey.
OMB Number: 1220–0164.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit; not-for-profit institutions; and
State, local, and tribal government.
Total Respondents: 15,863 (three-year
average).
All figures are based on a three-year
average. The total responses are higher
as some respondents are contacted
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hour and cost estimates. The various
information collection (paperwork)
requirements in the safety and health
standards pertain to general industry,
construction, and maritime (i.e., 29 CFR
parts 1910, 1915, and 1926), and a
collection of information pertaining to
OSHA’s Alliance Program.
In accordance with the PRA (44
U.S.C. 3501–3520), OMB approved
these information collection
requirements. The table provides the
following information for each of these
requirements approved by OMB: The
title of the Federal Register notice; the
Federal Register citation (date, volume,
and leading page); OSHA docket
number; OMB’s Control Number; and
the new expiration date.
In accordance with 5 CFR 1320.5(b),
an agency cannot conduct, sponsor, or
require a response to a collection of
information unless the collection
displays a valid OMB control number
and the agency informs respondents that
they need not respond to the collection
of information.

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