Notice2022-20848
Notice of Request Under the Freedom of Information Act for Federal Contractors' Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Report Data; Correction
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Published
September 27, 2022
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Labor DepartmentFederal Contract Compliance Programs Office
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a notice in the Federal Register on August 19, 2022, providing federal contractors instructions on how to object to the release of their Type 2 EEO-1 Report data, requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The notice omitted a hyperlink and referenced a non-functional hyperlink for a collection that is not currently active. Additionally, this corrected notice extends the deadline for contractors to submit written objections to October 19, 2022.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 186 (Tuesday, September 27, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58534-58535]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20848]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
Notice of Request Under the Freedom of Information Act for
Federal Contractors' Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Report Data; Correction
AGENCY: Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Labor.
ACTION: Notice; correction and extension of deadline to respond.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract
Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a notice in the Federal Register
on August 19, 2022, providing federal contractors instructions on how
to object to the release of their Type 2 EEO-1 Report data, requested
under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The notice omitted a
hyperlink and referenced a non-functional hyperlink for a collection
that is not currently active. Additionally, this corrected notice
extends the deadline for contractors to submit written objections to
October 19, 2022.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Candice Spalding, Deputy Director,
Division of Management and Administrative Programs, Office of Federal
Contract Compliance Programs, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room C-3325,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: 1-855-680-0971 (voice) or 1-877-889-
5627 (TTY).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Corrections
OFCCP makes the following corrections to its August 19, 2022,
Federal Register notice (87 FR 51145):
On page 51145, column 3, lines 36-42 are corrected to remove the
phrase, ``see also EEO-1 Joint Reporting Committee, EEO-1 Instruction
Booklet 1, <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/upload/instructions_form.pdf">https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/upload/instructions_form.pdf</a> (describing the EEO-1 Report as ``jointly
developed by the EEOC and OFCCP'').''
On page 51145, column 3, the last full sentence, ``Although the
EEOC and OFCCP jointly collect the EEO-1 data through the JRC, as a
practical matter, because the JRC is housed at the EEOC, employers
submit their data to the EEOC,'' is corrected so the sentence reads as:
``Employers submit their data to the EEOC.''
On page 51145, column 3, footnote 2 is removed in its entirety.
On page 51146, column 1, lines 11-12, the phrase ``compliance
surveys'' is replaced with ``data collections'' so the sentence reads
as: ``Section 709(e) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
imposes criminal penalties and makes it unlawful for any officer or
employee of EEOC from making public the employment data derived from
any of its data collections prior to the institution of any proceeding
under EEOC's authority involving such information.''
On page 51146, column 2, line 6 is corrected to remove ``[INSERT
LINK]'' and embed a hyperlink to the OFCCP website at <a href="https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/submitter-notice-response-portal">https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/submitter-notice-response-portal</a> and remove
``15,000'' and replace with ``24,000,'' to read, ``Given OFCCP's best
estimate that the CIR FOIA request covers approximately 24,000 unique
Covered Contractors, OFCCP is fulfilling its notification obligation
through this Federal Register notice, a contemporaneous posting on the
OFCCP website, and notification to all federal contractors and federal
contractor representatives that have registered and provided electronic
mail contact information through the agency's Contractor Portal and/or
have subscribed to OFCCP's GovDelivery electronic mail listserv.''
Extension of Deadline
The August 19, 2022, Federal Register notice provided a deadline of
September
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19, 2022, for contractors to submit written objections to disclosure of
the requested Type 2 EEO-1 Report data (87 FR 51145). OFCCP is
extending this deadline to October 19, 2022, to ensure that Covered
Contractors have time to ascertain whether they are covered and submit
objections. There are multiple reasons for the extension, including the
following. First, since publication of that notice, numerous
contractors and contractor representatives have contacted the agency
requesting an extension of time to submit objections. Additionally,
since the publication of the original notice, some federal contractors
have raised questions regarding their efforts to verify whether they
are included in the universe of Covered Contractors during the
requested timeframe. To address this second issue, OFCCP will also take
the additional step of emailing contractors that OFCCP believes are
covered by this FOIA request, using the email address provided by
contractors that have registered in OFCCP's Contractor Portal and the
email addresses provided as a contact for the EEO-1 report.
Kelley J. Smith,
Director of the Division of Management and Administrative Programs,
Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
[FR Doc. 2022-20848 Filed 9-26-22; 8:45 am]
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