[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 6, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36404-36405]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-17008]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Proposed Collection; Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

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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 (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;

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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 proposed new collection of administrative and 
survey data on Unemployment Insurance (UI) exhaustees.
    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 section below on or before September 7, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Anissa Holm, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Room S-4231, Washington, DC 20210, phone: (202) 208-5915 
x201 (this is not a toll-free number), fax (202) 219-8506 (this is not 
a toll-free number), e-mail [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anissa Holm, U.S. Department of Labor, 
200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room S-4231, Washington, DC 20210, phone: 
(202) 208-5918 x201 (this is not a toll-free number), fax (202) 219-
8506 (this is not a toll-free number), e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    As part of its mandate under Section 906 of the Social Security Act 
to establish a continuing and comprehensive program of research to 
evaluate the unemployment compensation system, the U.S. Department of 
Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA), is conducting a 
study of Unemployment Insurance (UI) exhaustees. This study is intended 
to examine the extent to which recent changes in the U.S. labor market 
have affected the composition of UI recipients who exhaust benefits and 
have influenced their postexhaustion labor market experiences. A 
further objective of the study is to explore recipients' experiences 
with the delivery of reemployment services and examine whether changes 
in the workforce development system have affected these experiences.
    To meet these objectives, the study will: (1) Identify the factors 
that explain why recipients exhaust their UI benefit entitlements; (2) 
examine the labor market experiences of exhaustees and nonexhaustees; 
(3) assess the extent of recipients' participation in education, 
training, and reemployment services; (4) determine how patterns in 
recipient characteristics, labor market experiences, and participation 
in reemployment services have changed over time, especially over the 
past decade, and (5) consider the implications of the findings for UI 
benefit and reemployment services policies.

II. Current Actions

    To examine these issues, ETA is planning to collect administrative 
records on UI and reemployment service receipt for random samples of UI 
recipients drawn from 25 States. ETA is also planning to collect survey 
data from a subsample of UI exhaustees and, for comparison purposes, a 
subsample of nonexhaustees. The survey will collect data items 
unavailable from administrative records. These data include detailed 
information on background characteristics of sample members, including 
the characteristics of their pre-UI jobs; information on their 
employment and earnings and job characteristics following receipt of 
UI; and information on their use of education, training, and 
reemployment services.
    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.
    Type of Review: New.
    Agency: United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training 
Administration.
    Title: Study of Unemployment Insurance Exhaustees.
    Agency Number: 1205.
    Affected Public: Individuals, State governments.

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                                              Total                                            Total
             Cite/reference                respondents              Frequency                responses       Average time per response    Burden (hours)
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State administrative data request......              25  One time.......................              25  80 hours......................           2,000
UI recipient survey....................           4,000  One time.......................           4,000  35 minutes....................           2,333
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      Totals...........................  ..............  ...............................           4,025  ..............................           4,333
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    Total Burden Cost: $580,089.
    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 request; they will also become a 
matter of public record.

    Dated: June 29, 1999.
Grace A. Kilbane,
Director, Unemployment Insurance Service.
[FR Doc. 99-17008 Filed 7-2-99; 8:45 am]
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