[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 178 (Wednesday, September 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55287-55288]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23514]


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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 of the collection of the One-Stop 
Occupational Employment Statistics Survey 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:

I. Background

    This extension is being requested in order to continue collecting 
information from States for One-Stop Occupational Employment Statistics 
survey grants. Specifically we are seeking approval for an annual grant 
narrative and two brief progress reports. This information is needed in 
order for the Secretary of Labor to assure that the Department is 
meeting in part the responsibilities in Wagner-Peyser section 15 for an 
employment statistics system. Further, this information is necessary in 
order that departmental staff, primarily in the Employment and Training 
Administration, may make intelligent and informed decisions as to 
whether or not funds awarded to the States were productive and produced 
a return on investment and met customer needs.

II. Review and 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 have a 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 automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic 
submissions of response.

III. Current Action

    Type of Review: Extension.
    Agency: Employment & Training.
    Title: One-Stop Occupational Employment Statistics Survey Grant 
Reporting.
    OMB Number: 1205-ONEW.
    Affected Public: States.

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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hour per      Total burden
              Form                  respondents        year          responses       response          hours
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Annual Plan.....................              54               1              54              36            1944
Progress Reports (2)............              54               2             108               6             648
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    Totals......................              54               3             162              42            2592
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    Total Burden Hours: 2592.
    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. 00-23514 Filed 9-12-00; 8:45 am]
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