[Federal Register: November 15, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 219)]
[Notices]
[Page 65592-65593]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 9000-0155]
Submission for OMB Review; Prohibition on Acquisition of Products
Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor
AGENCIES: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Notice of request for comments regarding an extension to an
existing OMB clearance.
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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a currently
approved information collection requirement regarding prohibition on
acquisition of products produced by forced or indentured child labor. A
request for public comments was published at 69 FR 54767 on September
10, 2004. No comments were received.
DATES: Submit comments on or before: December 15, 2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding this burden estimate or any other
aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for
reducing this burden to the Regulatory Secretariat (VR), General
Services Administration, Room 4035, 1800 F Street, NW., Washington, DC
20405. Please cite OMB Control No. 9000-0155, Prohibition on
Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor,
in all correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Craig R. Goral, Contract Policy
Division, GSA (202) 501-3856.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Purpose
This information collection complies with Executive Order 13126,
Prohibition on Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured
Child Labor, signed by the President on June 12, 1999. 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) is the specific application on the
BPN to replace the paper based Representations and Certifications (Reps
and Certs) process. The change to the FAR is being accomplished by FAR
Case 2002-024. The clearance associated with this case referenced this
OMB Control No. 9000-0155 and reduced the hours of burden by 35%--
attributable to mandated use of ORCA. This reduction is already
reflected in the figures below.
B. Annual Reporting Burden
Respondents: 500.
Responses Per Respondent: 1.
Hours Per Response: 0.325.
Total Burden Hours: 162.
Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the
information collection documents from the General Services
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat (VR), 1800 F Street, NW, Room
4035, Washington, DC 20405, telephone (202) 501-4755. Please cite OMB
Control No. 9000-0155, Prohibition on Acquisition of Products
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Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor, in all correspondence.
Dated: September 10, 2004
Laura Auletta,
Director, Contract Policy Division.
[FR Doc. 04-25292 Filed 11-12-04; 8:45 am]