96-30594. Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 232 (Monday, December 2, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63847-63848]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30594]


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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review

AGENCY: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

ACTION: Notice of extension request--no change.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act agencies are 
required to submit proposed information collection requests to OMB for 
review and approval, and to publish a notice in the Federal Register 
notifying the public that the agency has made such a submission. The 
EEOC has requested an extension of an existing collection as listed 
below.

ADDRESS: The Request for Clearance (SF 831), supporting statement, and 
other documents submitted to OMB for review may be obtained from: 
Margaret Ulmer Holmes, EEOC Clearance Officer, 1801 L Street, NW, Room 
2928, Washington, DC 20507.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joachim Neckere, Director, Program Research and Surveys Division, Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission, 1801 L Street, NW, Room 9222, 
Washington, DC 20507, [phone] (voice) or [phone] (TDD).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    Type of Review: Extension--No Change.
    Collection Title: Equal Employment Opportunity Local Union Report 
EEO-3.
    Form Number: EEOC Form 274.
    Frequency of Report: Biennial.
    Type of Respondent: Referral unions with 100 or more members.
    Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code: 863.
    Description of Affected Public: Labor unions and similar labor 
organizations.
    Responses: 3,000
    Reporting Hours: 4,500
    Federal Cost: $43,500.00.
    Number of Forms: 1
    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 and to make reports 
therefrom as required by the Commission. Pursuant to 29 C.F.R. 
Sec. 1602.22, referral unions with 100 or more members are required to 
submit EEO-3 reports biennially. The EEO-3 data collection program has 
existed since 1967. The individual reports are confidential.

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    EEO-3 data are used by the Commission to investigate charges of 
employment discrimination against local referral unions. Pursuant to 
Section 709(d) of Title VII, EEO-3 data are shared with 89 state and 
local fair employment practices agencies, and with other federal 
agencies.
    Burden Statement: The respondent burden for this collection is 
minimal. The estimated number of respondents included in the EEO-3 
survey is 3,000 local unions. The estimated number or responses per 
respondent is one EEO-3 report, taking an estimated one and one half 
hours to complete. The total number of burden hours therefore is 
estimated to be 4,500.
    This is an average burden estimate and is based on a long history 
(since 1985) of identical reporting experience. The burden is dependent 
on the size of the local union and on the number of referrals made by 
the union during the reporting period. Smaller unions may well take 
under an hour to complete the report. Over the years, the Commission 
has reduced the reporting and record keeping burden by eliminating all 
local unions with fewer than 100 members, by requiring record keeping 
for a two month period only, by changing the data collection 
instrument, and by changing the frequency of the data collection from 
an annual to a biennial basis. Further reductions, such as filing by 
diskette or magnetic tape, have been less successful as local unions 
appear less likely to have computerized record keeping and reporting 
capabilities.

    Dated: November 26, 1996.

    For the Commission.
Kassie A. Billingsley,
Director, Financial and Resource Management Service.
[FR Doc. 96-30594 Filed 11-29-96; 8:45 am]
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