[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 157 (Tuesday, August 15, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42185-42186]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-20133]



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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Proposed Information Collection Request Submitted for Public 
Comment and Recommendations; Data Collection Instruments for the 
Evaluation of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effect 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 (PRA95). This program helps to ensure that requested data 
can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden is minimized, 
reporting forms are clearly understood, and the impact of collection 
requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. Currently, the 
Unemployment Insurance Service of the Employment and Training 
Administration is soliciting comments concerning the proposed new 
collection of data for the evaluation of the Emergency Unemployment 
Compensation Program. A copy of the proposed information collection 
request can be obtained by contacting the employee listed below in the 
contact section of this notice.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before October 16, 
1995. If you anticipate submitting written comments, but find it 
difficult to do so within the length of time allowed by this notice, 
you should request an extension from the contact person listed below as 
soon as possible. An effort will be made to accommodate each request, 
unless otherwise justified

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Pavosevich, U.S. Dept of Labor, Unemployment Insurance Service, 
Room S-4519, 200 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20210, (202) 
219-8640.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The collection of survey data and State administrative records is 
being done to support an evaluation of the Emergency Unemployment 
Compensation (EUC) program implemented in 1991. The EUC program paid 
federally-financed extended unemployment insurance benefits from 
November 1991, through April 1994. More than $28 billion in benefits 
were paid in the program.

II. Current Actions:

    The data collection effort will consist of a telephone survey of 
4,000 individuals, and acquiring administrative data records from 
twenty-three States. The interview will take roughly thirty minutes and 
gather information on an EUC recipient's characteristics and behavior. 
Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) will be used to conduct 
the survey in order to reduce the burden on respondents and provide 
greater accuracy. All respondents will be informed that the information 
they provide will be kept strictly confidential. All data will be 
collected by a private contractor and only information that will 
preclude any individual's identification will be provided to the U.S. 
Dept. of Labor. This data collection process from individuals and 
States will occur only once. The total burden of conducting the survey 
and collecting administrative records from twenty-three States is 
estimated to be 4,520 hours.
    Public comments are being solicited to address the accuracy of the 
burden estimates and ways to minimize burden, including the use of 
automated collection techniques or the use of other forms of 
information technology.
    Type of Review: New.
    Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
    Title: Data Collection Instruments for the Evaluation of the 
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program.
    Frequency: One Time.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households and State Government.
    Number of Respondents: 4,000 and 23 States.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 30 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 4520.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice 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 or public record.


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    Signed at Washington, DC., this 9th day of August 1995.
Timothy M. Barnicle,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training.
[FR Doc. 95-20133 Filed 8-14-95; 8:45 am]
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