Agency Recordkeeping/Reporting Requirements Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary

Agency Recordkeeping/Reporting Requirements Under Review by the

Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

June 22, 1995.

The Department of Labor has submitted the following public

information collection requests (ICRs) to the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act

(44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) of 1980, as amended (Pub. L. 96-511). Copies may

be obtained by calling the Department of Labor Acting Departmental

Clearance Officer, Theresa M. O'Malley ([202] 219-5095). Comments and

questions about the ICRs listed below should be directed to Ms.

O'Malley, Office of Information Resources Management Policy, U.S.

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N-1301,

Washington, DC 20210. Comments should also be sent to the Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for (BLS/DM/

ESA/ETA/OAW/MSHA/OSHA/PWBA/VETS), Office of Management and Budget, Room

10325, Washington, DC 20503 ([202] 395-7316).

Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TTY/

TDD) may call [202] 219-4720 between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern

time, Monday through Friday.

Type of Review: New.

Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Title: Logging Operations (29 CFR 1910.226).

OMB Number: 1218-0 new.

Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

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Estimated time

Category Frequency Respondents per respondent

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Operator's Manual... One-time............ 11,658 .17 hour.

CPR................. Annual.............. 11,658 4 hours.

First-Aid........... Every 3rd year...... 11,658 4 hours.

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Total Burden Hours: 55,016.

Description: Section 1910.266(f)(iii) requires employers to assure

that operating and maintenance instructions are available on the

machine or in the area when the machine is being operated. Also,

paragraph 1910.266(i)(7)(ii) requires that all employers assure that

each employee receives first-aid training at least every three years

and receives CPR training at least annually.

Type of Review: Reinstatement.

Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Title: Mechanical Power Press Standard (29 CFR 1910.217).

OMB Number: 1218-0143.

Frequency: Annual.

Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 2.238.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 11.43 hours.

Total Burden Hours: 25,578.

Description: The prohibition on the use of Presence Sensing Devices

Initiation (PSDI) has been removed. To assure the safety of the system,

this regulation requires a certification program. The manufacturers and

employers who choose to the PSDI will have to maintain some records in

order to meet the requirements of this standard.

Type of Review: Extension.

Agency: Employment Standards Administration.

Title: Report of Changes that may Affect your Black Lung Benefits.

OMB Number: 1215-0084.

Agency Number: CM-929.

Frequency: Annual.

Affected Public: Individuals or households.

Number of Respondents: 80,000.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 5 to 8 minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 7,067.

Description: The CM-929 is used to help determine continuing

eligibility of primary beneficiaries receiving benefits from the Black

Lung Disability Trust Fund. It is also used to verify and update on an

annual basis factor that affect a beneficiary's entitlement to

benefits, including income, marital status, receipt of State worker's

compensation, and dependents' status.

Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously

approved collection for which approval has expired.

Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.

Title: Alternative Method of Compliance for Certain Simplified

Employee Pensions.

OMB Number: 1210-0034.

Frequency: Annual.

Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 1,393.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 116.

Description: In keeping with Section 408(k) the Internal Revenue

Code, the regulation provides an alternative type of reporting and

disclosure arrangement for Simplified Employee Pensions (SEPs) that is

easier to establish and administer than otherwise required under the

Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously

approved collection for which approval has expired.

Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.

Title: Suspension of Benefits Regulation.

OMB Number: 1210-0048.

Frequency: On occasion.

Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 57,374.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 15 minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 13,344.

Description: This regulation allows a plan to suspend an

individual's pension benefits if the individual continues to work or

returns to work. The plan is required to notify the individual during

the first calendar month or payroll [[Page 33436]] period in which the

plan withholds payment.

Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously

approved collection for which approval has expired.

Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.

Title: Class Exemption 77-4 for Certain Transactions Between

Investment Companies and Employee Benefit Plans.

OMB Number: 1210-0049.

Frequency: On occasion.

Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 624.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 4,212.

Description: This class exemption exempts from the prohibited

transaction restrictions of Employee Retirement Income Security Act the

purchase and sale by an employee benefit plan of shares of a

registered, open-end mutual fund when a fiduciary with respect to the

plan (e.g. an investment manager) is also investment adviser for the

mutual fund.

Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously

approved collection for which approval has expired.

Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.

Title: Prohibited Transaction Exemption 90-1--Certain Transactions

Involving Insurance Company Pooled Separate Accounts (formerly 78-19).

OMB Number: 1210-0054.

Frequency: On occasion.

Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 1

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1 hour.

Total Burden Hours: 1.

Description: This exemption allows parties in interest of an

employee benefit plan that invests in an insured pooled separate

account to engage in transactions with the separate account if the

plan's participation in the separate account does not exceed certain

limits. Six year recordkeeping is required.

Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously

approved collection for which approval has expired.

Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.

Title: Prohibited Transaction Exemption 81-8.

OMB Number: 1210-0061.

Frequency: 5 per year.

Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 18,245.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 15,204

Description: This class exemption exempts from the prohibited

transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act

the investment of plan assets which involve the purchase or other

acquisition, holding, sale, exchange or redemption by or on behalf of

an employee benefit plan of certain types of short-term investments.

Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously

approved collection for which approval has expired.

Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.

Title: Prohibited Transaction Exemption 77-8

OMB Number: 1210-0063.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 18,712.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 1,352.

Description: This class exempts from the prohibited transaction

restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) the

sale of individual life insurance of annuity contracts by a plan to

participants, relatives or participants, employers any of whose

employees are covered by the plan or other employee benefit plans which

are parties in interest.

Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously

approved collection for which approval has expired.

Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.

Title: Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 81-6

OMB Number: 1210-0065.

Frequency: On occasion.

Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 18,245.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 3,041.

Description: This class exemption allows banks and registered

broker-dealers to borrow securities that are assets of employee benefit

plans.

Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously

approved collection for which approval has expired.

Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.

Title: Adoption of ERISA Class Exemption for Purposes of FERSA.

OMB Number: 1210-0074.

Frequency: On occasion.

Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 1.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1 hour.

Total Burden Hours: 1.

Description: The adoption of this class exemption under the

Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) for purposes of the

Federal Employees' Retirement System Act (FERSA) would permit

fiduciaries with respect to the FERS Thrift Savings Fund to engage in

certain transactions that would otherwise be prohibited under FERSA.

Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously

approved collection for which approval has expired.

Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.

Title: Participant Loans.

OMB Number: 1210-0076.

Frequency: One time.

Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 7,000.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 3 hours.

Total Burden Hours: 21,000.

Description: This regulation clarifies requirements under the

Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 with respect to loans

from pension plans which are made to plan participants and

beneficiaries who are parties in interest with respect to the plan.

Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.

Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.

Title: Transaction between Individual Retirement Accounts and

Authorized Purchasers of American Eagle coins Class Exemptions, PTE 91-

55.

OMB Number: 1210-0079.

Frequency: on occasion.

Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 12.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1.5 minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 36,666.

Description: This proposed class exemption provides relief from

certain taxes imposed by the Internal Revenue Code on broker-dealers

who are disqualified persons under the code with respect to certain

individual retirement accounts, regarding transactions involving

American Eagle Coins.

Type of Review: Extension.

Agency: Employment and Training Administration.

Title: Unemployment Insurance Quality Control

Program. [[Page 33437]]

OMB Number: 1205-0245.

Agency Number: ETA Handbook No. 395.

Frequency: Weekly.

Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-

profit; Not-for-profit institutions; Federal Government; State, Local

or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 52.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 2,575 hours.

Total Burden Hours: 133,900.

Description: An extension of the existing Benefits Quality Control

(BQC) data collection with no change in size or methods is being

requested. The BQC program provides reliable estimates of the accuracy

of benefit payments in the unemployment insurance program, and

identifies the sources of mispayments so that their causes can be

eliminated.

Type of Review: Extension.

Agency: Employment and Training Administration.

Title: Occupational Code Request.

OMB Number: 1205-0137.

Agency Number: ETA 741.

Frequency: As needed.

Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 55.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 30 minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 28.

Description: ETA 741, Occupational Code Request (OCR), is provided

as a public service to the States to obtain occupational codes and

titles for jobs not included in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.

Type of Review: Revision.

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Title: Employee Benefits Survey.

OMB Number: 1220-0084.

Frequency: Annual (varies).

Affected Public: State and local governments and small private

establishments in even-numbered years; Medium and large private

establishments in odd-numbered years; Business or other for-profit

organizations; Not-for-profit institutions.

Number of Respondents:

Estimated Time Per Respondent:

1996, 1998: 3,550 respondents; 1.12 hours per respondent; 3,975

Total Burden Hours

1997: 2,300 respondents; 1.25 hours per respondent; 2,875 Total

Burden Hours

Description: The Employee Benefits Survey (EBS) will present data

on employee benefits in small (1-99 employees) private establishments

and in State and local governments in 1996 and 1998, and in medium and

large private establishments in 1997. The EBS, which covers State and

local governments, and small, medium, and large private establishments

in private industry, is used by Federal agencies and the Congress to

determine policy affecting benefits of all workers; and by the private

sector and State and local governments in benefits administration,

union negotiations, and research.

Type of Review: New.

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Title: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1996.

OMB Number: 1220-0new.

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Average

time

Form Number Frequency Affected Public Respondents respondent

(minutes)

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Screeners...................... Once...................... Individuals.............. 91,433 5.09

Youth Questionnaire and Pretest Annual.................... ......do................. 15,733 64

Parent Questionnaire and Annual.................... ......do................. 12,633 60.72

Pretest.

School Survey.................. Annual.................... Schools.................. 8,333 40.79

CAT-ASVAB...................... Once...................... Individuals.............. 21,030 120.85

Interest Finder................ Once...................... ......do................. 20,490 44

On-Line Eval................... Once...................... ......do................. 20,490 15

ASVAB Pencil and Paper......... Once...................... ......do................. 540 180

DOD Subset of Youth Questions.. Once...................... ......do................. 9,570 15

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Total Burden Hours: 109,499.

(Note: Total number of respondents does not equal the sum of the numbers in the same column above because of

overlap. There will be about 75,800 household screeners where there is no youth in scope, about 12,633 parents

interviewed (screener and parent interview) for the main BLS sample and Learning Disabled (LD) oversample,

6,000 screeners in households having only an ASVAB respondents (but not in BLS sample), 8,333 schools, 15,733

youths in the BLS main or LD oversamples and 9,570 youths in the ASVAB study but not in either the BLS main

sample of LD oversample.)

Description: The information provided in this survey will be used

by the Department of Labor and other government agencies to help

understand the school to work transition of young men and women in this

age group. It will also be used by the Department of Defense to assess

the pool of potential entrants to the Armed Forces.

Theresa M. O'Malley,

Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 95-15852 Filed 6-27-95; 8:45 am]

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