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including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
* Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
* Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
III. Current Actions:
Type of Review: extension without
changes.
Title: Occupational Code Assignment.

OMB Number: 1205–0137.
Affected Public: Federal government,
state and local government, business or
other for-profit/non-profit institutions,
and individuals.
Form: ETA–741.
Total Respondents: 30.
Frequency: On occasion.

SUMMARY OF ANNUAL BURDEN FOR THE OCCUPATIONAL CODE ASSIGNMENT
Requests per
year 1

Form

OCA—Part A ...................................................................................................

Hours/
request 2

30

Hours burden
used
.58

15.51

Salary expenditure
used 3 (hours x
hourly income)
$653.75

1 Estimate

based on average for January 2007 through September 2009.
on OCA form—Part A = 30 minutes.
3 Salary based on America’s Career InfoNet data for Human Resource Manager, median income = $42.15/hour.
2 Estimates

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintaining): 0.
Average Time per Response: 30
minutes for the OCA Part A; 40 minutes
for the OCA Part A and OCA Request for
Additional Information combined.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 15.51.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice request will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office
of Management and Budget approval of
the information collection request; they
will also become a matter of public
record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 10th day of
November 2009.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Comment Request for Information
Collection for the National Agricultural
Workers Survey, OMB Control No.
1205–0453; Extension With Revisions

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AGENCY: Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden
conducts a preclearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

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(PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. Currently, the
Employment and Training
Administration is soliciting comments
concerning the continued collection of
data about hired farm workers via the
National Agricultural Workers Survey.
Office of Management and Budget
authorization for the current
questionnaire will expire on March 31,
2010.
A copy of the proposed information
collection request (ICR) can be obtained
by contacting the office listed below in
the addressee section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addressee’s section below on or before
January 29, 2010.
ADDRESSEE: Submit written comments
to Mr. Daniel Carroll, Room N–5641,
Employment and Training
Administration, 200 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210.
Telephone number: 202–693–2795 (this
is not a toll-free number). Fax: 202–693–
2766. E-mail: carroll.daniel.j@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department of Labor has been
continually surveying hired farm
workers since 1988 via the National
Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS).
The survey’s primary focus is to
describe the employment, demographic,
and health characteristics of hired crop
farm workers. It is the only nationallevel data source for this information.

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The NAWS provides an
understanding of the manpower
resources available to U.S. agriculture,
and both public and private service
programs use the data for planning,
implementing, and evaluating farm
worker programs.
The NAWS samples hired crop farm
workers in three cycles each year to
capture the seasonality of agricultural
employment. Workers are randomly
sampled at their work sites. Depending
on the information needs and resources
of the various Federal agencies that use
NAWS data, between 1,500 and 4,000
workers are interviewed each year.
The primary NAWS questionnaire
routinely provides a standard set of
information on the employment,
demographic, and health characteristics
of hired crop workers. When new
information is required, Federal
agencies add supplemental collection
instruments to the NAWS.
Changes to the Primary Questionnaire
In fiscal years 2005 through 2009, the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
added four questions to the primary
instrument that were administered to all
respondents who reported having
mixed, loaded, or applied pesticides in
the previous twelve months. The
questions solicited: (1) The type of
material(s) the respondent handled, (2)
the last time each material was handled,
(3) the crop the respondent was working
on when last handling each material,
and (4) the number of days the material
was handled. These four questions have
been removed from the questionnaire.
The EPA will analyze the data and
determine if the questions need to be
revised and reinserted in the future.

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II. Review Focus
The Department of Labor is
particularly interested in comments
which:
* Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
* Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
* Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
* Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
III. Current Actions
Type of Review: Extension with
Changes.
Title: National Agricultural Workers
Survey.
OMB Number: 1205–0453.
Affected Public: Individuals, Farms.
Form(s): Primary Questionnaire;
Injury Supplement.
Total Respondents: 2,003.
Frequency: Annual.
Total Responses: 2,003.
Average Time per Response: 48.7
minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,625.
Total Burden Cost for Respondents:
$0.
Comments submitted in response to
this comment request will be
summarized and/or included in the
request for Office of Management and
Budget approval of the information
collection request; they will also
become a matter of public record.
Dated: November 17, 2009.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
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amended (42 U.S.C. 1862n–5), and the
Government in the Sunshine Act (5
U.S.C. 552b), hereby gives notice in
regard to the scheduling of meetings for
the transaction of National Science
Board business and other matters
specified, as follows:
Agency Holding Meeting: National
Science Board.
Date and Time: Wednesday,
December 9, 2009, at 8 a.m.; and
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 8 a.m.
Place: National Science Foundation,
4201 Wilson Blvd., Rooms 1235 and
1295, Arlington, VA 22230. All visitors
must report to the NSF visitor desk at
the 9th and N. Stuart Streets entrance to
receive a visitor’s badge. Public visitors
must arrange for a visitor’s badge in
advance. Call 703–292–7000 to request
your badge, which will be ready for
pick-up at the visitor’s desk on the day
of the meeting.
Status: Some portions open, some
portions closed.
Open Sessions:
December 9, 2009
8 a.m.–8:05 a.m.
8:05 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
8:05 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
11:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
1 p.m.–2 p.m.
2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

Committee on Programs and Plans
(CPP)
Closed Session: 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.,
Room 1235.
• Committee Chairman’s Remarks.
• Subcommittee on Polar Issues
(SOPI):
ÆNSB Information Item: Arctic
Logistics in Support of Research
Contract.
• NSB Action Item: Award for the
Operations of the Cornell High Energy
Synchrotron Source (CHESS) and the
Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR).

December 10, 2009
8 a.m.–10:10 a.m.
1 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
Closed Sessions:
December 9, 2009
10:15 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
December 10, 2009
10:10 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
10:40 a.m.–11:10 a.m.
11:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Agency Contact: Kim Silverman,
ksilverm@nsf.gov, (703) 292–7000,
http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/.
Matters to be Discussed:
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Open Session: 8 a.m.–8:05 a.m., Room
1235.
• Chairman’s Remarks.

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Committee on Programs and Plans
(CPP)

National Science Board; Sunshine Act
Meetings; Notice

Open Session: 8:05 a.m.–10:30 a.m.,
Room 1235.

The National Science Board, pursuant
to NSF regulations (45 CFR part 614),
the National Science Foundation Act, as

• Approval of August 2009 and
September 2009 CPP Minutes.
• Committee Chairman’s Remarks.

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Æ Proposed Revision—Transmitting
DRB Packages to NSB.
• Discussion Items: Proposed
Revisions to ‘‘Annual Timeline for
Integration of Board MREFC Process
with NSF Budget Process’’ (September
2006) and Proposed Modification to
‘‘Setting Priorities for Large Research
Facility Projects supported by the NSF’’
(September 2005).
• NSB Information Item: National
Ecological Observatory Network.
• NSB Information Item: Plans for
Integration and Recompetition of the
EAR Solid Earth Deformation Facilities.
• CPP Subcommittee on Polar Issues
(SOPI):
Æ SOPI Chairman’s Remarks.
Æ Director’s Report—Office of Polar
Programs (OPP).
Æ Arctic Sea Ice update.
Æ NSF at the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC): Conference of the
Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen,
Denmark, December 2009.
Æ Report from Board Members on
Travel to the Antarctic.
Æ NSB Information Item: IceCube
O&M Renewal.

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Committee on Audit and Oversight
(A&O)
Open Session: 8:05 a.m.–10:15 a.m.,
Room 1295.
• Approval of Minutes:
Æ August 6, 2009 Meeting.
Æ November 6, 2009 Closed
Teleconference.
• Committee Chairman’s Opening
Remarks.
• Report of the Advisory Committee
on GPRA Performance Assessment
(http://www.nsf.gov/publications/
pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf09068).
• FY2009 NSF Financial Audit
Report (http://www.nsf.gov/
publications/
pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf10001).
• Chief Financial Officer’s Update
including ARRA Status Update.
• Inspector General’s ARRA Update.
• OIG Audit Plan for 2010.

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