Notice2023-05946
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Report of Construction Contractor's Wage Rates
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Published
March 23, 2023
Issuing agencies
Labor Department
Abstract
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Wage and Hour Division (WHD)-sponsored information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). Public comments on the ICR are invited.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 56 (Thursday, March 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17629-17630]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-05946]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Report of Construction Contractor's Wage Rates
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Wage and Hour
Division (WHD)-sponsored information collection request (ICR) to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). Public
comments on the ICR are invited.
DATES: The OMB will consider all written comments that the agency
receives on or before April 24, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
Comments are invited on: (1) whether the collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the
Department, including whether the information will
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have practical utility; (2) if the information will be processed and
used in a timely manner; (3) the accuracy of the agency's estimates of
the burden and cost of the collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (4) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the information collection; and (5)
ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mara Blumenthal by telephone at 202-
693-8538, or by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6f2b2023303f3d2e303f3a2d23262c2f0b000341080019"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="db9f9497848b899a848b8e999792989bbfb4b7f5bcb4ad">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Davis-Bacon Act (DBA), requires the
payment of minimum prevailing wages determined by the Department of
Labor to laborers and mechanics working on federal contracts in excess
of $2,000 for the construction, alteration, or repair, including
painting and decorating, of public buildings and public works. The DBA
delegates to the Secretary of Labor the responsibility to determine the
wage rates that are ``prevailing'' for each classification of covered
laborers and mechanics on similar projects ``in the civil subdivision
of the State in which the work is to be performed.'' 40 U.S.C. 3142(b).
The Department is responsible for issuing these wage determinations
(WDs). The implementing regulations provide that the Administrator of
WHD will conduct a continuing program for obtaining and compiling wage
rate information for issuing WDs. As a part of this program, the
regulation provides that the Administrator will encourage the voluntary
submission of wage rate data by contractors, contractors' associations,
labor organizations, public officials, and other interested parties,
reflecting wage rates paid to laborers and mechanics on various types
of construction in the area. See 29 CFR 1.3(a). Form WD-10 is used by
the Department to solicit construction project data from contractor
associations, contractors, and unions. The wage data is used to
determine locally prevailing wages under the Davis-Bacon and Related
Acts. A new pre-survey, WD-10A, requests that general contractors and
subcontractors supply a list of their subcontractors to whom WHD may
send notification of the survey. For additional substantive information
about this ICR, see the related notice published in the Federal
Register on June 15, 2022 (87 FR 36152).
This information collection is subject to the PRA. A Federal agency
generally cannot conduct or sponsor a collection of information, and
the public is generally not required to respond to an information
collection, unless the OMB approves it and displays a currently valid
OMB Control Number. In addition, notwithstanding any other provisions
of law, no person shall generally be subject to penalty for failing to
comply with a collection of information that does not display a valid
OMB Control Number. See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
DOL seeks PRA authorization for this information collection for
three (3) years. OMB authorization for an ICR cannot be for more than
three (3) years without renewal. The DOL notes that information
collection requirements submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs receive
a month-to-month extension while they undergo review.
Agency: DOL-WHD.
Title of Collection: Report of Construction Contractor's Wage
Rates.
OMB Control Number: 1235-0015.
Affected Public: Private Sector--Businesses or other for-profits.
Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 3,641.
Total Estimated Number of Responses: 21,939.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 7,161 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $0.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D))
Dated: March 17, 2023.
Mara Blumenthal,
Senior PRA Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2023-05946 Filed 3-22-23; 8:45 am]
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