[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 178 (Wednesday, September 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55286-55287]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23513]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Proposed Collection; Comment Request

September 6, 2000.

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 extension (Pending emergency OMB approval) of 
the collection of the One-Stop Labor Market Information Grant Plan and 
Progress Reports. A copy of this ICR, with applicable supporting 
documentation, may 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's section below on or before November 13, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Steve Aaronson, U.S. Employment Service, Office of Workforce 
Security, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room C-4512, Washington, DC 
20210; telephone 202-219-9092 x 151 fax 202-208-5844 (these are not 
toll-free numbers).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    This extension is being requested in order to continue collecting 
information from States for One-Stop Labor Market Information Grant 
Plan and Progress Reports. This information will be used by the 
Department of Labor and its managing State partners to assure that an 
employment statistics system required by Wagner Peyser as amended by 
the Workforce Investment Act meets the needs of its customers. States 
seeking grants are requested to provide an annual grant narrative that 
provides specific information on how the grant funds will accomplish 
any of seven priorities developed by the Department through the 
Workforce Information Council. In addition the States are requested to 
provide a brief progress report twice during the grant period which 
explains the progress of the grantee in accomplishing the plan.

II. Review Focus

    The Office of Management and Budget 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;

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     Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collection; 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 response.

III. Current Actions

    Type of Review: Extension (Pending emergency OMB approval).
    Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
    Title: One-Stop Labor Market Information Grant Reporting.
    OMB Number: 1205-ONEW.
    Affected Public: States.

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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
              Form                  respondents        year          responses       response          hours
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Annual Plan.....................              54               1              54              36           1,944
Progress Reports................              54               2             108               6             648
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    Totals......................              54               3             162              42           2,592
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    Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0.
    Total Burden Cost (operating/maintaining): $0.
    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 8, 2000.
Grace Kilbane,
Administrator, Office of Workforce Security.
[FR Doc. 00-23513 Filed 9-12-00; 8:45 am]
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