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DC 20212. Written comments also may
be transmitted by email to BLS_PRA_
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carol Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer,
202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free
number). (See ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

without the exhibits and signature
pages, the cost is $17.50.
Lori Jonas,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental
Enforcement Section, Environment and
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2024–02338 Filed 2–5–24; 8:45 am]
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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 the
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 revision of the
‘‘Report on Current Employment
Statistics.’’ 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 April 8, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Carol
Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer, Division
of Management Systems, Bureau of
Labor Statistics, Room G225, 2
Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington,

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SUMMARY:

I. Background
The Current Employment Statistics
(CES) program provides current
monthly statistics on employment,
hours, and earnings, by industry and
geography. CES estimates are among the
most visible and widely-used Principal
Federal Economic Indicators (PFEIs).
CES data are also among the timeliest of
the PFEIs, with their release each month
by the BLS in the Employment
Situation, typically on the first Friday of
each month. The statistics are
fundamental inputs in economic
decision processes at all levels of
government, private enterprise, and
organized labor.
The CES monthly estimates of
employment, hours, and earnings are
based on a sample of U.S.
nonagricultural establishments.
Information is derived from
approximately 349,000 reports (from a
sample of 122,000 employers with State
Unemployment Insurance (UI) accounts
comprised of 666,000 individual
worksites). Each month, firms report
their employment, payroll, and hours on
forms identified as the BLS–790. The
sample is collected under a probabilitybased design. Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands collect an additional 8,800
reports.
A list of all form types currently used
appears in the table below. Respondents
receive variations of the basic collection
forms, depending on their industry.
The CES program is a voluntary
program under Federal statute.
Reporting to the State agencies is
voluntary in all but four States
(California, New Mexico, Oregon, and
South Carolina), Puerto Rico, and the
Virgin Islands. To our knowledge, the
States that do have mandatory reporting
rarely exercise their authority. The
collection form’s confidentiality
statement cites the Confidential
Number of
annual
reports

Industry

Natural Resources & Mining ................................................
Construction .........................................................................
Manufacturing ......................................................................
Services ...............................................................................
Public Administration ...........................................................
Education .............................................................................

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7,742
6,223
80,425
29,241
13,786

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Information Protection and Statistical
Efficiency Act and mentions the State
mandatory reporting authority.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget
clearance is being sought for the Report
on Current Employment Statistics.
Automated data collection methods
are now used for most of the CES
sample. Approximately 124,000 reports
are received through Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI). Web data collection
accounts for 26,000 reports. Computer
Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
is used to collect 66,000.
The balance of the sample is collected
through other methods including
submission of transcripts, emails, fax,
and other special arrangements.
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,
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: Report on Current
Employment Statistics.
OMB Number: 1220–0011.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: State or local
governments; businesses or other for
profit; non-profit institutions.
Total
annual
responses
8,616
92,904
74,676
965,100
350,892
165,432

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Estimated
average
annual
burden
(hours)
0.167
0.167
0.167
0.167
0.100
0.100

Estimated
total annual
burden
(hours)
1,439
15,515
12,471
161,172
35,089
16,543

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Number of
annual
reports

Industry

EDI Firms .............................................................................

124,349

All Industries .................................................................

262,484

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, on January 29,
2024.
Eric Molina,
Chief, Division of Management Systems,
Branch of Policy Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2024–02269 Filed 2–5–24; 8:45 am]
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS
ADMINISTRATION
[NARA–24–0002; NARA–2024–013]

Records Schedules; Availability and
Request for Comments
National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA).
ACTION: Notice of availability of
proposed records schedules; request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA)
publishes notice of certain Federal
agency requests for records disposition
authority (records schedules). We
publish notice in the Federal Register
and on regulations.gov for records
schedules in which agencies propose to
dispose of records they no longer need
to conduct agency business. We invite
public comments on such records
schedules.

SUMMARY:

We must receive responses on
the schedules listed in this notice by
March 25, 2024.
ADDRESSES: To view a records schedule
in this notice, or submit a comment on
one, use the following address: https://
www.regulations.gov/docket/NARA-240002/document. This is a direct link to
the schedules posted in the docket for
this notice on regulations.gov. You may
submit comments by the following
method:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
https://www.regulations.gov. On the
website, enter either of the numbers
cited at the top of this notice into the
search field. This will bring you to the
DATES:

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Public Comment Procedures
We are publishing notice of records
schedules in which agencies propose to
dispose of records they no longer need
to conduct agency business. We invite
public comments on these records
schedules, as required by 44 U.S.C.
3303a(a), and list the schedules at the
end of this notice by agency and
subdivision requesting disposition
authority.
In addition, this notice lists the
organizational unit(s) accumulating the
records or states that the schedule has
agency-wide applicability. It also
provides the control number assigned to
each schedule, which you will need if
you submit comments on that schedule.
We have uploaded the records
schedules and accompanying appraisal
memoranda to the regulations.gov
docket for this notice as ‘‘other’’
documents. Each records schedule
contains a full description of the records
at the file unit level as well as their
proposed disposition. The appraisal
memorandum for the schedule includes
information about the records.

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docket for this notice, in which we have
posted the records schedules open for
comment. Each schedule has a
‘comment’ button so you can comment
on that specific schedule. For more
information on regulations.gov and on
submitting comments, see their FAQs at
https://www.regulations.gov/faq.
If you are unable to comment via
regulations.gov, you may email us at
[email protected] for
instructions on submitting your
comment. You must cite the control
number of the schedule you wish to
comment on. You can find the control
number for each schedule in
parentheses at the end of each
schedule’s entry in the list at the end of
this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Eddie Germino, Strategy and
Performance Division, by email at
[email protected] or at
301–837–3758. For information about
records schedules, contact Records
Management Operations by email at
[email protected] or by phone
at 301–837–1799.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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annual
responses

Estimated
average
annual
burden
(hours)
1.000

Estimated
total annual
burden
(hours)
1,044
243,273

We will post comments, including
any personal information and
attachments, to the public docket,
unchanged. Because comments are
public, you are responsible for ensuring
that you do not include any confidential
or other information that you or a third
party may not wish to be publicly
posted. If you want to submit a
comment with confidential information
or cannot otherwise use the
regulations.gov portal, you may contact
[email protected] for
instructions on submitting your
comment.
We will consider all comments
submitted by the posted deadline and
consult as needed with the Federal
agency seeking the disposition
authority. After considering comments,
we may or may not make changes to the
proposed records schedule. The
schedule is then sent for final approval
by the Archivist of the United States.
After the schedule is approved, we will
post on regulations.gov a ‘‘Consolidated
Reply’’ summarizing the comments,
responding to them, and noting any
changes we made to the proposed
schedule. You may elect at
regulations.gov to receive updates on
the docket, including an alert when we
post the Consolidated Reply, whether or
not you submit a comment. If you have
a question, you can submit it as a
comment, and can also submit any
concerns or comments you would have
to a possible response to the question.
We will address these items in
consolidated replies along with any
other comments submitted on that
schedule.
We will post schedules on our
website in the Records Control Schedule
(RCS) Repository, at https://
www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/rcs,
after the Archivist approves them. The
RCS contains all schedules approved
since 1973.
Background
Each year, Federal agencies create
billions of records. To control this
accumulation, agency records managers
prepare schedules proposing retention
periods for records and submit these
schedules for NARA’s approval. Once
approved by NARA, records schedules

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