[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 9, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38894-38895]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-16081]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 9000-0155; Docket 2014-0055; Sequence 12]
Information Collection; Prohibition on Acquisition of Products
Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor
AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Notice of request for public comments regarding an extension to
an existing OMB clearance.
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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35), the Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB) will be
submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to
review and approve an extension of a previously approved information
collection requirement regarding prohibition on acquisition of products
produced by forced or indentured child labor.
DATES: Submit comments on or before: September 8, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments identified by Information Collection 9000-
0155, Prohibition on Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or
Indentured Child Labor, by any of the following methods:
Regulations.gov: http://www.regulations.gov. Submit
comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching the OMB
control number 9000-0155. Select the link ``Comment Now'' that
corresponds with ``Information Collection 9000-0155, Prohibition on
Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor''.
Follow the instructions provided on the screen. Please include your
name, company name (if any), and ``Information Collection 9000-0155,
Prohibition on Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured
Child Labor'' on your attached document.
Fax: 202-501-4067.
Mail: General Services Administration, Regulatory
Secretariat Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC 20405.
ATTN: Ms. Hada Flowers/IC 9000-0155, Prohibition on Acquisition of
Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor.
Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information
Collection 9000-0155, Prohibition on Acquisition of Products Produced
by Forced or Indentured Child Labor, in all correspondence related to
this collection. All comments received will be posted without change to
http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal and/or business
confidential information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Michael O. Jackson, Procurement
Analyst, Acquisition Policy Division, GSA 202-208-4949 or email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Purpose
This information collection complies with Executive Order 13126,
Prohibition on Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured
Child Labor. Executive Order 13126 requires that this prohibition be
enforced within the federal acquisition system by means of: (1) A
provision that requires the contractor to certify to the contracting
officer that the contractor or, in the case of an incorporated
contractor, a responsible official of the contractor has made a good
faith effort to determine whether forced or indentured child labor was
used to mine, produce, or manufacture any product furnished under the
contract and that, on the basis of those efforts, the contractor is
unaware of any such use of child labor; and (2) A provision that
obligates the contractor to cooperate fully in providing reasonable
access to the contractor's records, documents, persons, or premises if
reasonably requested by authorized officials of the contracting agency,
the Department of the Treasury, or the Department of Justice, for the
purpose of determining whether forced or indentured child labor was
used to mine, produce, or manufacture any product furnished under the
contract.
The information collection requirements of the Executive Order are
evidenced via the certification requirements delineated at FAR 22.1505,
52.212-3, 52.222-18, and 52.222-19.
To eliminate some of the administrative burden on offerors who must
submit the same information to various contracting offices, the
Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition
Regulations Council (Councils) decided to amend the Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR) to require offerors to submit representations and
certifications electronically via the Business Partner Network (BPN),
unless certain exceptions apply. Online Representations and
Certifications Application (ORCA) was the specific application on the
BPN to replace the paper based Representations and Certifications
process. The change to the FAR was accomplished by FAR Case 2002-024.
The BPN and ORCA systems have now been incorporated into the System for
Award Management, also known as SAM.
B. Annual Reporting Burden
To date, there are 355,531 active registrants in SAM. Those
registrants are required to complete the Representations and
Certifications section of SAM. Of the 355,531 active registrants in
SAM, 949 registrants identified their business concern as one that may
supply an end product that is on the list of products requiring
contractor certification as to Forced or Indentured Child Labor,
identified by their country of origin. The 949 registrants will be used
as the basis for the number of respondents. This number represents an
increase from what was published in the Federal Register at 76 FR 42709
on July 19,
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2011. No public comments were received in prior years that have
challenged the validity of the Government's estimate.
Respondents: 949.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Hours per Response: 0.325.
Total Burden Hours: 308.
Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the
information collection documents from the General Services
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street
NW., Washington, DC 20405, telephone 202-501-4755.
Please cite OMB Control No. 9000-0155, Prohibition on Acquisition
of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor, in all
correspondence.
Dated: July 2, 2014.
Karlos Morgan,
Acting Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, Office of
Government-Wide Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition Policy,
Office of Government-Wide Policy.
[FR Doc. 2014-16081 Filed 7-8-14; 8:45 am]
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