Service Contracts Act Occupational Employment Questionnaire

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary

Service Contracts Act Occupational Employment Questionnaire

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Labor.

SUMMARY: The Director, Office of Information Resources Management

Policy, invites comments on the following proposed expedited review

information collection request as required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1980, as amended.

DATES: This expedited review is being requested in accordance with the

Act, since allowing for the normal review period would adversely affect

the public interest. Approval by the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) has been requested by May 3, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Attention: Dan Chenok, Desk Officer, 725 17th St., NW., Room

10235, New Executive Office Building, Wash., DC 20503. Requests for

copies of the proposed information collection request should be

addressed to Kenneth A. Mills, Department of Labor, 200 Constitution

Ave., NW., Room N-1301, Wash., DC 20210.

[[Page 21831]] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kenneth A. Mills, (202) 219-5095. Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf (TTY/TDY) may call (202) 219-

4720 between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through

Friday.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 3517 of the Paperwork Reduction Act

of 1980 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 3517) requires that the Director of OMB

provide interested persons an early opportunity to comment on an

information collection request. OMB may amend or waive the requirement

for public consultation to the extent that public participation in the

approval process would defeat the purpose of the information

collection, violate State or Federal law, or substantially interfere

with the agency's ability to perform its statutory obligations. The

Director, Office of Information Resources Management and Policy,

publishes this notice simultaneously with the submission of this

request to OMB. This notice contains the following information:

Agency: Employment Standards Administration

Type of Review: Expedited.

Title: Service Contract Act Occupational Employment Questionnaire.

Frequency of Response: Completed one time.

Affected Public: Individuals or households; Businesses or other for

profit; not for profit institutions; Federal Government.

Number of Respondents: 5,500.

Estimated Time Per Response: 30 minutes.

Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,250.

Respondents Obligation To Reply: Voluntary.

Description: Section 2(a) of the Service Contract (SCA) provides that

every contract subject to the Act contain a provision specifying the

minimum monetary wages and fringe benefits to be paid the various

classes or service employees performing the contract work. The

Secretary of Labor is charged with determining the minimum monetary

wages and fringe benefits prevailing in the locality where the contract

work is to be performed. It is necessary to design and conduct a

statistically reliable, one-time survey of occupational employment on

SCA-covered contracts. Form WH-SCA will be used for this purpose. Once

this occupational distribution has been determined, the data will be

utilized in evaluating alternative methodologies for estimating

prevailing health and welfare benefits for SCA-covered projects. The

survey involves a random sample of a universe of approximately 83,000

contracts. The Employment Standards Administration, U.S. Department of

Labor, has provided the University of Tennessee with the universe of

SCA-covered contracts, which was obtained from the Federal Procurement

Data System for the most recent years. The University has designed and

selected a sample of contracts by three-digit SIC, and has designed a

questionnaire with accompanying instructions and definitions.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 28th day of April 1995.

Kenneth A. Mills,

Departmental Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 95-10971 Filed 5-2-95; 8:45 am]

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