[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 190 (Friday, October 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53416-53417]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25569]


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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, 
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 revision and extension collection of 
the ETA 5159, Claims and Payment Activities.
    A copy of the proposed information collection request (ICR) can be 
obtained

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by contacting the office listed below in the ADDRESSES section of this 
notice.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the 
ADDRESSES section below on or before November 30, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Cynthia L. Ambler, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and 
Training Administration, Room S-4231, 200 Constitution Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC Phone: 202-219-6209 x129 (this is not a toll free 
number). E-mail: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cynthia Ambler, U.S. Department of 
Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Room S-4231, 200 
Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20210. Phone number: 202-219-6209 
x129. Fax: 202-219-8506. (These are not toll free numbers.) E-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

I. Background

    The ETA 5159 report contains information on claims activities 
including initial claims, weeks claimed, weeks compensated, and the 
amount of benefit payments. These data are used in budgetary and 
administrative planning, program evaluation, and reports to Congress 
and the public. The change being proposed concerns continued weeks 
claims filed by interstate claimants. Revised interstate claims taking 
procedures provide that interstate continued weeks can no longer be 
filed through the agent State. All such claims are now mailed or phoned 
directly to the liable State. Therefore the data item interstate 
continued weeks claimed taken by the agent State will be zero. This 
change removes that data item from the report form.

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 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.

III. Current Actions

    The ETA 5159 report continues to be needed for administrative 
financing, program evaluation and public information. The revision 
eliminates a data item no longer needed.
    Type of Review: Extension with change.
    Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
    Title: Claims and Payment Activities.
    OMB Number: 1205-0010.
    Agency Number: ETA 5159.
    Affected Public: State Government.
    Cite/Reference/Form/etc: ETA 5159.
    Total Respondents: 53.
    Frequency: Monthly.
    Total Responses: 636.
    Average Time per Response: 1.89 hrs.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1359 hrs.
    Total Burden Cost (operating/maintaining): $33,975.
    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 collection request; they will also 
become a matter of public record.

    Dated: September 24, 1999.
Grace A. Kilbane,
Director, Unemployment Insurance Service.
[FR Doc. 99-25569 Filed 9-30-99; 8:45 am]
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