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2. Data documentation, including
metadata content, codebooks, and data
dictionaries;
3. Data formats specific to certain
analysis patterns (e.g., spatial analysis,
machine learning, and program
evaluation) including tagging,
geocoding, and data encoding that
reduce burdens and increase efficiency;
4. Data quality issues that diminish
the benefit and utility of Departmental
data and limit transparency and
analyses; and
5. Challenges with data comparability
including linking across program data,
establishing common identifiers across
data sets, and merging Departmental
data with other Federal and non-Federal
data sources.
The Department also solicits public
comment on the following areas:
6. Identifying data sets that are
currently useful and merit prioritization
in forthcoming open data efforts;
7. Identifying data sets that are neither
public nor available through restricteduse access programs that could provide
value to the Department’s stakeholders
if made available;
8. The relative advantages and
disadvantages of various machinereadable formats including JavaScript
Object Notation (JSON), Extensible
Markup Language (XML), and ASCII
text files with or without commaseparated values (CSV) files;
9. The relative advantages and
disadvantages of providing open data
through DAAS vis-a-vis complexity,
efficiency, convenience, automation,
and user-friendliness;
10. Specific data sets and
methodologies that would be useful in
achieving the goals of President Biden’s
Executive Orders on Equity from
January 2021 and on Customer
Experience from November 2021; and
relevant data and metadata standards
that enhance interoperability, promote
transparency, aid discovery, provide
understanding, and facilitate integrating
data from multiple sources.
Respondents are encouraged to
associate the category numbering above
within their responses to facilitate
organization and analysis of the
comments.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 7th day of
June, 2022.
Scott Gibbons,
Chief Data Officer, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Wage and Hour Division
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Comment Request; Report
of Construction Contractor’s Wage
Rates
Wage and Hour Division,
Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of Labor (the
Department) is soliciting comments
concerning a proposed revision of the
information collection request (ICR)
titled ‘‘Report of Construction
Contractor’s Wage Rates,’’ which
describes the WD–10 form and its use in
wage surveys to implement the
prevailing wage requirements of the
Davis-Bacon and Related Acts. The
Department is proposing to revise the
WD–10 form and create a new WD–10A
pre-survey form that will be used to
identify potential respondents to the
WD–10. This comment request is part of
continuing Departmental efforts to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burden in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA). The PRA process 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. A copy of the
proposed information collection request
can be obtained by contacting the office
listed below in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
Notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
ADDRESSES section below on or before
August 15, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Control Number 1235–
0015, by either one of the following
methods: Email: WHDPRAComments@
dol.gov; Mail, Hand Delivery, Courier:
Division of Regulations, Legislation, and
Interpretation, Wage and Hour Division,
U.S. Department of Labor, Room S–
3502, 200 Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20210.
Instructions: Please submit one copy
of your comments by only one method.
All submissions received must include
the agency name and Control Number
identified above for this information
collection. Because we continue to
experience delays in receiving mail in
the Washington, DC area, commenters
are strongly encouraged to transmit their
comments electronically via email or to
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submit them by mail early. Comments,
including any personal information
provided, become a matter of public
record. They will also be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
approval of the information collection
request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Waterman, Division of
Regulations, Legislation, and
Interpretation, Wage and Hour Division,
U.S. Department of Labor, Room S–
3502, 200 Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202)
693–0406 (this is not a toll-free
number). Copies of this notice may be
obtained in alternative formats (Rich
Text Format (RTF) or text format (txt),
a thumb drive, an MP3 file, large print,
braille, audiotape, compact disc, or
other accessible format), upon request,
by calling (202) 693–0023 (not a toll-free
number). TTY/TTD callers may dial tollfree (877) 889–5627 to obtain
information or request materials in
alternative formats.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: The Davis-Bacon Act
(DBA), as enacted in 1931 and
subsequently amended, 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. See
40 U.S.C. 3141 et seq. Congress has also
included the Davis-Bacon requirements
in numerous other laws, known as the
Davis-Bacon Related Acts (the Related
Acts and, collectively with the DavisBacon Act, the DBRA), which provide
federal assistance for construction
projects through grants, loans, loan
guarantees, insurance, and other
methods.
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 Administrator of the
Wage and Hour Division, through this
delegation of authority, is responsible
for issuing these wage determinations
(WDs). The DBA implementing
regulations provide that, for the purpose
of making WDs, the Administrator will
conduct a continuing program for
obtaining and compiling wage rate
information. 29 CFR 1.3. As part of this
program, the Administrator developed
the WD–10 form to solicit information
that is used to determine locally

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prevailing wages under the Davis-Bacon
and Related Acts. The wage-data
collection using the WD–10 form is a
primary source of information and is
essential to the determination of
prevailing wages. The current WD–10
information collection, 1235–0015, has
been approved by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) and is
currently approved for use through
March 2024.
The Department is now proposing
changes to the WD–10 form to improve
the overall efficiency of the DBA survey
process. The proposed changes aim to
streamline the collection of data
required for the survey and make the
collection less burdensome for
respondents. The revised WD–10 form,
as proposed, contains questions and
requests for information that are
arranged in a manner that allows
respondents to quickly gather and report
information necessary for the Wage and
Hour Division to properly determine
and publish prevailing wage rates. For
example, on the proposed WD–10 form,
the respondent will no longer be asked
to determine a peak week(s) of
construction for reported projects,
identify the project value, or identify
contractors or subcontractors on the
project. Additionally, the proposed form
uses a ‘‘picklist’’ of labor classifications
from which a respondent may choose,
rather than requiring the respondent to
manually enter the labor classification
into an open text field. These proposed
changes to the WD–10 form, among
others, are designed to increase the ease
of participating in a survey and solicit
more usable wage data to issue more
comprehensive wage determinations.
The Department also proposes to add
a new WD–10A collection instrument,
which will be a companion form to the
WD–10 form. This collection instrument
will be used pre-survey to identify
potential respondents that performed
construction work within the survey
period in the survey area, which will
enable the Department to solicit for
survey participation. This pre-survey
information requests will better identify
additional contractors that performed
construction work in the survey area. A
complete listing of the proposed
changes to the information collection is
posted on the Department’s website at:
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/
government-contracts/construction/
surveys/wd10pra.
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

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whether the information will have
practical utility;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected;
• 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;
• 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: The Department
of Labor seeks approval for a revision of
this information collection in order to
ensure effective administration of
construction contractor wage rate
programs.
Type of Review: Revision.
Agency: Wage and Hour Division.
Title: Report of Construction
Contractor’s Wage Rates.
OMB Control Number: 1235–0015.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit, Not-for-profit institutions,
Federal, State, Local, or Tribal
Government.
Agency Numbers: Forms WD–10;
WD–10A.
Total Respondents: 3,641.
Total Annual Responses: 21,939.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 7,161.
Estimated Time per Response: WD–
10—20 minutes; WD–10A—10 minutes.
Frequency: On occasion.
Dated: June 10, 2022.
Amy DeBisschop,
Director, Division of Regulations, Legislation,
and Interpretation.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
National Artificial Intelligence
Research Resource Task Force; Notice
of Meeting
In accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–
463, as amended), the National Science
Foundation (NSF) announces the
following meeting:
Name and Committee Code: National
Artificial Intelligence Research Resource
Task Force (84629).
Date and Time: July 25, 2022, 11:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT.
Place: NSF, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue,
Alexandria, VA 22314/Virtual.

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Virtual meeting attendance only; to
attend the virtual meeting, please send
your request for the virtual meeting link
to the following email: cmessam@
nsf.gov.
Type of Meeting: Open.
Contact Person: Brenda Williams,
National Science Foundation, 2415
Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA
22314; Telephone: 703–292–8900;
email: bwilliam@nsf.gov.
Purpose of Meeting: The Task Force
shall investigate the feasibility and
advisability of establishing and
sustaining a National Artificial
Intelligence Research Resource; and
propose a roadmap detailing how such
resource should be established and
sustained.
Agenda: In this meeting, the Task
Force will receive readouts from
working-group discussions held on the
topics of developing a startup, funding,
and sustainment roadmap; defining
specific structures and processes around
the ownership and administration of the
NAIRR; implementing ethical/
responsible research controls; and
integrating computational, data, and
testbed resources into a federated
cyberinfrastructure. The Task Force will
also discuss international perspectives
on the NAIRR and statutory authorities
related to establishing the NAIRR, and
deliberate on an outline of the final
implementation plan.
Dated: June 9, 2022.
Crystal Robinson,
Committee Management Officer.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Proposal Review Panel for Materials
Research; Notice of Meeting
In accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–
463, as amended), the National Science
Foundation (NSF) announces the
following meeting:
Name and Committee Code: Site visit
review of Platform for the Accelerated
Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of
Interface Materials (PARADIM), a
Materials Innovation Platform (MIP), at
Cornell University (lead institution) and
Johns Hopkins University by the NSF
Division of Materials Research (DMR).
(#1203)
Date and Time: July 14, 2022; 8:00
a.m.–8:00 p.m.; July 15, 2022; 8:00 a.m.–
3:00 p.m.
Place: Johns Hopkins University,
Bloomberg Center for Physics and
Astronomy, 3701 San Martin Drive,
Room 462, Baltimore, MD 21218.

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