Notice2025-13525

Information Collection; General Services Administration Regulation; Construction Payrolls and Basic Records

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Published
July 18, 2025

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General Services Administration

Abstract

Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Regulatory Secretariat Division will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve the renewal of an existing information collection.

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 136 (Friday, July 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33949-33950]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-13525]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control No. 3090-0326; Docket No. 2025-0001; Sequence No. 10]


Information Collection; General Services Administration 
Regulation; Construction Payrolls and Basic Records

AGENCY: Office of Acquisition Policy, General Services Administration 
(GSA).

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the 
Regulatory Secretariat Division will be submitting to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve the renewal 
of an existing information collection.

DATES: Submit comments on or before September 16, 2025.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments identified by Information Collection 3090-
0326; Construction Payrolls and Basic Records to: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>. Submit comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal 
by searching for ``Information Collection 3090-0326; Construction 
Payrolls and Basic Records''. Select the link ``Submit a Comment'' that 
corresponds with ``Information Collection 3090-0326; Construction 
Payrolls and Basic Records''. Follow the instructions provided at the 
``Submit a Comment'' screen. Please include your name,

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company name (if any), and ``Information Collection 3090-0326; 
Construction Payrolls and Basic Records'' on your attached document. If 
your comment cannot be submitted using <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>, 
call or email the points of contact in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT section of this document for alternate instructions.
    Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information 
Collection 3090-0326; Construction Payrolls and Basic Records, in all 
correspondence related to this collection. Comments received generally 
will be posted without change to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>, including 
any personal and/or business confidential information provided. To 
confirm receipt of your comment(s), please check <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>, 
approximately two-to-three days after submission to verify posting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Johnie McDowell, Senior 
Procurement Analyst, GSA, at telephone 202-718-6112 or via email at 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#197e6a786b697675707a60597e6a78377e766f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3156425043415e5d585248715642501f565e47">[email&#160;protected]</span></a> for clarification of content.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose

    The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Clause 52.222-8 Payrolls 
and Basic Records requires United States construction contracts in 
excess of $2,000 to submit weekly for each week in which any contract 
work is performed a copy of all payrolls to the Contracting Officer. 
The clause allows contractors to submit the required weekly payroll 
information using the DOL WH-347 form or any other form desired. GSA 
deviated from the FAR clause to allow these construction contractors to 
use an electronic means to submit the required weekly payroll data. The 
proposed revision will increase the efficiency of the weekly payroll 
certification process for the contractor, GSA and the contractor's 
employee through the use of an automated process. The current manual 
process for reviewing weekly certified payroll data requires an 
enormous amount of labor hours and has a large probability of human 
error, i.e. non-identification or delayed identification of errors in 
pay for covered workers. Delays in identifying payroll errors are 
costly to the contractor who will need to pay retroactive wage 
adjustments and the employee will have suffered reduced economic 
purchase power due to the error in wages.

B. Annual Reporting Burden

    GSA bases the following burden estimates for certified payrolls on 
<a href="http://SAM.gov">SAM.gov</a> reports for Fiscal Year 2023. The report indicated 182 
construction contractors for GSA projects were subject to the Davis-
Bacon or Related Act. GSA's automation of the data collection process 
will not increase the existing data collection burden from the DOL Wage 
and Hour Division (WHD) the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
Information Control No. 1235-0008, Davis-Bacon Certified Payroll or 
1235-0018, Records to be kept by Employers--Fair Labor Standards Act.
    Respondents: 182 (170 prime contractors plus 12 subcontractors).
    Responses per Respondent: 52 (1 for each week of the year).
    Total Annual Responses: 9,464 (182 respondents x 52 responses).
    Hours per Response: 33 minutes (weighted average of 56 minutes (DOL 
estimated time to input information plus 1 minute recordkeeping for 
initial entry) + 31 minutes (estimated time to certify payroll in new 
system plus 1 minute recordkeeping).
    Total Burden Hours: 5,205 (9,464 annual responses x 33 minutes) / 
60 minutes).

C. Public Comments

    Public comments are particularly invited on: Whether this 
collection of information is necessary, whether it will have practical 
utility; whether our estimate of the public burden of this collection 
of information is accurate, and based on valid assumptions and 
methodology; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and ways in which we can minimize the 
burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, 
through the use of appropriate technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology.
    Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the 
information collection documents from the Regulatory Secretariat 
Division by calling 202-501-4755 or emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#98dfcbd9cafdffcbfdfbd8ffebf9b6fff7ee"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="04435745566163576167446377652a636b72">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>. Please 
cite OMB Control No. 3090-0326, Construction Payrolls and Basic 
Records, in all correspondence.

William F. Clark,
Director, Office of Government-wide Acquisition Policy, Office of 
Acquisition Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy.
[FR Doc. 2025-13525 Filed 7-17-25; 8:45 am]
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