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Federal Register
/Vol. 72, No. 190/Tuesday, October 2, 2007/Notices
DEPARTMENT OF LABOROffice of the SecretarySenior Executive Service; Appointmentof Members to the PerformanceReview Board
Title 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4) provides thatNotice of the Appointment of anindividual to serve as a member of thePerformance Review Board of the SeniorExecutive Service shall be published inthe
Federal Register
.The following individuals are herebyappointed to a three-year term on theDepartment
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s Performance ReviewBoard:Cheryl Atkinson.Michael Connors.Patrick Pizzella.
For Further Information Contact:
Ms.Andrea Burckman, Director, Office of Executive Resources and PersonnelSecurity, Room C5508, U.S. Departmentof Labor, Frances Perkins Building, 200Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,DC 20210, telephone: (202) 693
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7628.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 21st day of September, 2007.
Elaine L. Chao,
Secretary of Labor.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABORVeterans
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Employment TrainingServiceProposed Collection; CommentRequest; Federal Contractor Veterans
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 Employment Reports VETS
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100 andVETS
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100A
ACTION
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Notice.
SUMMARY
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The Department of Labor, aspart of its continuing effort to reducepaperwork and respondent burden,conducts a pre-clearance consultationprogram to provide the general publicand Federal agencies with anopportunity to comment on proposedand/or continuing collections of information in accordance with thePaperwork Reduction Act of 1995(PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. Thisprogram helps to ensure that requesteddata can be provided in the desiredformat, reporting burden (time andfinancial resources) is minimized,collection instruments are clearlyunderstood, and the impact of collectionrequirements on respondents can beproperly assessed. Currently, theVeterans
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Employment and TrainingService (VETS) is soliciting commentsconcerning the proposed revision of thecurrently approved informationcollection request for the
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FederalContractor Veterans
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EmploymentReport VETS
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100
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to include the
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Federal Contractor Veterans
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 Employment Report VETS
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100A.
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Acopy of the proposed informationcollection request can be obtained bycontacting the office listed below in the
ADDRESSES
section of this Notice.
DATES
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Written comments must besubmitted to the office listed in the
ADDRESSES
section below on or beforeDecember 3, 2007.
ADDRESSES
:
Comments are to besubmitted to Robert Wilson, Chief,Division of Investigation andCompliance, VETS, U.S. Department of Labor, Room S
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1316, 200 ConstitutionAvenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210.Electronic transmission is the preferredmethod for submitting comments. E-mail may be sent to
FCP 
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PRA
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04
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 VETS@dol.gov.
Include
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VETS
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100A
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 in the subject line of the message.Written comments of 10 pages or feweralso may be transmitted by facsimile to(202) 693
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4755 (this is not a toll freenumber). Receipt of submissions,whether by U.S. Mail, e-mail or FAXtransmittal, will not be acknowledged;however, the sender may requestconfirmation that a submission has beenreceived, by telephoning VETS at (202)693
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4719 (VOICE) (this is not a toll-freenumber) or (202) 693
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4753 (TTY/TDD).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
I. Background
The Vietnam Era Veterans
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 Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974(
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VEVRAA
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), 38 U.S.C. 4212(d),requires Federal contractors andsubcontractors subject to the Act
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saffirmative action provisions in 38U.S.C. 4212(a) to track and reportannually to the Secretary of Labor thenumber of employees in theirworkforces, by job category and hiringlocation, who belong to the specifiedcategories of covered veterans. VETShas issued regulations set forth in 41CFR part 61
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250 that currently requirecontractors to use the Federal ContractorVeterans
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Employment Report VETS
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 100 (
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VETS
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100 Report
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) form forreporting information on the number of covered veterans in their workforces.The VETS
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100 Report is currentlyapproved under OMB No. 1293
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0005.The Jobs for Veterans Act (JVA) (Pub.L. 107
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288), which was enacted in2002, amended VEVRAA by making twochanges to the reporting requirementsapplicable to contracts entered into onor after December 1, 2003. The JVAamendments: (1) Increased from $25,000to $100,000, the dollar amount of thecontract that subjects a Federalcontractor to the requirement to reporton veterans
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employment; and (2)changed the categories of coveredveterans under VEVRAA, and thus thecategories of veterans that contractorsare required to track and report onannually.The JVA amendments to the reportingrequirements under VEVRAA applyonly to contracts entered into on or afterDecember 1, 2003. Some contractorshave Government contracts that wereentered into before December 1, 2003,and are still subject to the reportingrequirements in 41 CFR part 61
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250.Therefore, VETS has determined that itwill be necessary to maintain two setsof regulations to implement thereporting requirements under VEVRAA,and use two different forms forproviding the required information onthe employment of covered veterans.On August 8, 2006, VETS publisheda Notice of Proposed Rulemaking(NPRM), (71 FR 44945), to implementthe changes made by JVA to thereporting requirements under VEVRAA.The NPRM proposed to adopt a new setof regulations that would be codified ina new 41 CFR part 61
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300. The NPRMalso proposed to adopt a new form forreporting the information on veterans
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 employment required by the JVAamendments to VEVRAA and name itthe Federal Contractor Veterans
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 Employment Report VETS
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100A. Theexisting regulations at 41 CFR part 60
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 250 and the VETS
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100 reportingrequirements will continue to apply toGovernment contracts entered into before December 1, 2003.
II. Desired Focus of Comments
Currently VETS is solicitingcomments concerning the proposedrevision of the currently approvedinformation collection request toinclude the
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Federal ContractorVeterans
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Employment Report VETS
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 100A.
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The Department of Labor isparticularly interested in commentswhich:
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Evaluate whether the proposedcollection of information is necessaryfor the proper performance of thefunctions of the agency, includingwhether the information will havepractical utility;
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evaluate the accuracy of theagency
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s estimate of the burden of theproposed collection of information,including the validity of themethodology and assumptions used;
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enhance the quality, utility andclarity of the information to becollected; and
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