[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 52 (Thursday, March 18, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13433-13434]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-6612]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
Proposed Collection; Comment Request
AGENCY: Office for Equal Opportunity, Office of the Secretary, DOI.
ACTION: Notice
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office for Equal Opportunity announces the
proposed public information collection and seeks public comments on the
provisions thereof.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by May 17,
1999.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations on the proposed
information collection should be sent to the Office for Equal
Opportunity, Attn: Michael Dole, Department of the Interior, 1849 C St
NW., Washington, DC 20240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on this
proposed information collection or to obtain a copy of the proposal and
associated collection instrument, please write to the above address, or
call Michael Dole, (202) 208-5183. The collection instrument is also
available on the internet at: http://www.doi.gov/diversity/doc/
di__1935.pdf.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOI is below parity with the relevant
Civilian Labor Force representation for many of our mission critical
occupations, and has developed a 5 year Strategic Plan to improve
representation and be more responsive to the changing demographics of
the country. The only way to determine if there are barriers in the
recruitment and selection process is to track the groups that apply and
the groups at each stage of the selection process. There is no other
objective way to make these determinations, and no source of this
information other than directly from applicants.
The information is not provided to selecting officials and plays no
part in the selection of individuals. Instead, it is used in summary
form to determine trends over many selections within a given occupation
or organizational area. The information is treated in a very
confidential manner. No information from this form is entered into the
Personnel File of the individual selected, and the records of those not
selected are destroyed after the conclusion of the selection process.
The format of the questions on ethnicity and race are compliant
with the new OMB requirements, and are
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identical to those which will be used in the year 2000 census. This
form is a simplification and update of a similar applicant background
survey used by DOI for many years. In light of this long term routine
use and the need to quickly move to the new format, OMB has granted a 6
month emergency approval of the form to allow its use during the period
for public comment.
Comments are invited on : (a) whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the agency,
including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed
information collection; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be collected: and (d) ways to minimize
the burden of the information collection on respondents, including
through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Title, Associated Form, and OMB Number: Applicant Background
Survey, DI form 1935; OMB Control No.: 1091-0001.
Needs and Uses: This form is used to obtain source of recruitment,
ethnicity, race, and disability data on job applicants to determine if
the recruitment is effectively reaching all aspects of the relevant
labor pool and to determine if there are proportionate acceptance rates
at various stages of the recruitment process. Response is optional. The
information is used for evaluating recruitment only, and plays no part
in the selection of who is hired.
Affected Public: Applicants for DOI jobs.
Annual Burden Hours: 9,960.
Number of Respondents: 120,000.
Responses Per Respondent: 1.
Average Burden Per Response: no more than 5 minutes.
Frequency: 1 per application.
Dated: March 8, 1999.
Michael Dole,
Affirmative Employment Program Administrator, Department of the
Interior.
[FR Doc. 99-6612 Filed 3-17-99; 8:45am]
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