82 FR 8186 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Submission for OMB Review

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 14 (January 24, 2017)

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) announces that it is submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for a three-year extension without change of the Local Union Report (EEO-3) (Form 274).

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 24, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8186-8187]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-01558]


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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Submission for OMB Review

AGENCY: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

ACTION: Final Notice of Submission for OMB Review--Extension Without 
Change: Local Union Report (EEO-3).

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) announces that 
it is submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request 
for a three-year extension without change of the Local Union Report 
(EEO-3) (Form 274).

DATES: Written comments on this notice must be submitted on or before 
February 23, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Comments on this notice must be submitted to Joseph B. Nye, 
Policy Analyst, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 
Management and Budget, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503, email 
[email protected]. Commenters are also encouraged to send 
comments to the EEOC online at http://www.regulations.gov, which is the 
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions on the Web site for 
submitting comments. In addition, the EEOC's Executive Secretariat will 
accept comments in hard copy. Hard copy comments should be sent to 
Bernadette Wilson, Acting Executive Officer, EEOC, 131 M Street NE., 
Washington, DC 20507. Finally, the Executive Secretariat will accept 
comments totaling six or fewer pages by facsimile (``fax'') machine 
before the same deadline at (202) 663-4114. (This is not a toll-free 
number.) Receipt of fax transmittals will not be acknowledged, except 
that the sender may request confirmation of receipt by calling the 
Executive Secretariat staff at (202) 663-4070 (voice) or (202) 663-4074 
(TTY). (These are not toll-free telephone numbers.) The EEOC will post 
online at http://www.regulations.gov all comments submitted via this 
Web site, in hard copy, or by fax to the Executive Secretariat. These 
comments will be posted without change, including any personal 
information you provide. However, the EEOC reserves the right to 
refrain from posting libelous or otherwise inappropriate comments 
including those that contain obscene, indecent, or profane language; 
that contain threats or defamatory statements; that contain hate speech 
directed at race, color, sex, national origin, age, religion, 
disability, or genetic information; or that promote or endorse services 
or products. All comments received, including any personal information 
provided, also will be available for public inspection during normal 
business hours by appointment only at the EEOC Headquarters Library, 
131 M Street NE., Washington, DC 20507. Upon request, individuals who 
require assistance viewing comments will be provided appropriate aids 
such as readers or print magnifiers. To schedule an appointment, 
contact EEOC Library staff at (202) 663-4630 (voice) or (202) 663-4641 
(TTY). (These are not toll-free numbers.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ronald Edwards, Director, Program 
Research and Surveys Division, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
131 M Street NE., Room 4SW30F, Washington, DC 20507; (202) 663-4949 
(voice) or (202) 663-7063 (TTY). Requests for this notice in an 
alternative format should be made to the Office of Communications and 
Legislative Affairs at (202) 663-4191 (voice) or (202) 663-4494 (TTY).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EEOC has collected information from 
local unions on the EEO-3 form since 1967. A notice that EEOC would be 
submitting this request was published in the Federal Register on 
September 13, 2016 allowing for a 60-day public comment period. There 
were no comments received from the public.

Overview of Information Collection

    Collection Title: Local Union Report (EEO-3).
    OMB Number: 3046-0006.
    Frequency of Report: Biennial.
    Type of Respondent: Referral local unions with 100 or more members.
    Description of Affected Public: Referral local unions and 
independent or unaffiliated referral unions and similar labor 
organizations.
    Responses: 1,075.\1\
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    \1\ This figure differs from the estimated number of respondents 
provided in the September 13, 2016 Federal Register notice. The 
figure was changed to reflect the most current information on the 
number of EEO-3 filers.
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    Biennial Reporting Hours: 2203.75.
    Biennial Cost Burden: $90,885.34.
    Biennial Federal Cost: $81,935.
    Number of Forms: 1.
    Form Number: EEOC Form 274.
    Abstract: Section 709(c) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 
1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 2000e-8(c), requires labor organizations to 
make and keep records relevant to a determination of whether unlawful 
employment practices

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have been or are being committed and to produce reports from the data. 
The EEOC issued regulations requiring referral local unions with 100 or 
more members to submit EEO-3 reports. The individual reports are 
confidential. The EEOC uses EEO-3 data to investigate charges of 
discrimination and for research.
    Burden Statement: The EEOC has updated its methodology for 
calculating annual burden to reflect the different staff that are 
responsible for preparing and filing the EEO-3. The EEOC now accounts 
for time to be spent biennially on EEO-3 reporting by business agents 
and administrative staff, as well as time spent by attorneys who, in a 
few cases, may consult briefly during the reporting process. As shown 
in Table 1 below, we estimate that Secretaries/Administrative 
Assistants and Business Agents will each spend 1 hour per report, and 
Legal Counsel will spend .05 hour per report. The estimated number of 
respondents included in the biennial EEO-3 survey is 1,075 referral 
unions, as this is the number of filers from the 2014 reporting cycle. 
Table 1, below, was utilized to quantify estimates of the annual burden 
of EEO-3 survey respondents. Burden hour cost was calculated using 
median hourly wage rates for administrative staff and legal counsel, 
and average hourly wage rates for labor union business agents.\2\ The 
estimated hour burden per report will be 2.05 hours, and the estimated 
total biennial respondent burden hours will be 2,203.75. The burden 
hour cost per respondent will be $84.54, and the estimated total 
biennial burden hour cost for all respondents will be $90,885.34. (See 
Table 1 for calculations.)
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    \2\ Median hourly wage rates for administrative staff and legal 
counsel were obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (see U.S. 
Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook 
Handbook, http://www/bls.gov/ooh/) and the average hourly wage rate 
for a labor union business agent was obtained from salaryexpert.com 
(see https://www.salaryexpert.com/salarysurveydata/job=labor-union-business-agent/salary).

                                  Table 1--Estimate of Burden for EEO-3 Report
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                                    Hourly wage      Hours per    Cost per local   Total burden    Total burden
   Local referral union staff          rate            local            \3\          hours \4\     hour cost \5\
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                                          Number of Local Unions = 1075
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Secretaries and Administrative            $17.55               1          $17.55            1075       $18866.25
 Assistants.....................
Business Agent..................           64.21               1           64.21            1075        69025.75
Legal Counsel...................           55.69            0.05          2.7845           53.75       2993.3375
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    Total.......................          137.45            2.05         84.5445         2203.75      90885.3375
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    Estimated burden hours were calculated by multiplying the number of 
reports expected to be filed biennially (1,075 in 2014) by the 
estimated average time to complete and submit each report (2.05 hours). 
These estimates are based on an assumption of paper reporting. However, 
the EEOC has made electronic filing much easier for respondents 
required to file the EEO-3 Report. As a result, more jurisdictions are 
using this filing method. This development, along with the greater 
availability of human resource information software, is expected to 
have significantly reduced the actual burden of reporting, but 
empirical data in this area is lacking. The Commission continues to 
develop more reliable estimates of reporting burdens given the 
significant increase in electronic filing and explore new approaches to 
make such reporting even less burdensome. In order to help reduce 
survey burden, respondents are encouraged to report data electronically 
whenever possible.
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    \3\ The figures in this column were calculated by multiplying 
the figures in the Hourly Wage Rate column by those in the Hours Per 
Local Column.
    \4\ The figures in this column were calculated by multiplying 
the figures in the Hours Per Local column by 1075, the total number 
of respondents.
    \5\ The figures in this column were calculated by multiplying 
the figures in the Cost Per Local column by 1075, the total number 
of respondents.

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    Dated: January 13, 2017.

    For the Commission.
Jenny R. Yang,
Chair.
[FR Doc. 2017-01558 Filed 1-23-17; 8:45 am]
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