[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 103 (Wednesday, May 29, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37442-37443]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-13404]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Proposed Information Collection; Request Submitted for Public 
Comment and Recommendations; Management Information System Reporting 
Requirements for Youth Opportunity Grants

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL), as part of its continuing 
effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-
clearance 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 Paper-work 
Reduction Act of 1995, (PRA95)(44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). This program 
helps to ensure that requested data could be provided in the desired 
format, reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized, 
collection instruments are clearly under-stood, and the impact of 
collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. 
Currently, the Employment and Training Administration is soliciting 
comments concerning the proposed extension of information collection 
for the management information system (MIS) reporting requirements for 
Youth Opportunity Grants. A copy of the current information collection 
request forms ETA-9086 and ETA-9087, 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 July 29, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Gregg Weltz, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. 
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N-4511, 
Washington, DC 20210, telephone: 202-693-3527. (this is not a toll-free 
number), e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:]

I. Background

    Youth Opportunity Grants concentrate a large amount of resources in 
high-poverty neighborhoods to increase the employment, high school 
graduation, and college enrollment rates of youth growing up in these 
communities. In February 1999, the DOL announced Youth Opportunity 
awards to 36 urban, rural, and Native American sites. The MIS 
requirements for these grants currently include information on enrollee 
characteristics, services received, outcomes, retention in jobs and 
school. Youth Opportunity program operators currently maintain 
individual records of enrollees through an electronic method. The 
purpose of this collection provides grantees, services providers and 
the Employment and Training Administration with critical program data 
in order to ensure effective an efficient delivery of program services 
under these grants.

II. Review Focus

    The Department of Labor is particularly interested in comments 
which:
    [sbull] Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    [sbull] 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
    [sbull] Minimize the burden and 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 Action

    The Youth Opportunity Grant program is a five year initiative. The 
current OMB approval instrument will expire in the middle of the third-
year of program operation. In order to continue to monitor in real-
time, the effective and efficient delivery of program services 
delivered through the grant funds for the remaining years of program 
operation, this collection of information is necessary. In addition, 
through the collection of this information the Employment and Training 
Administration is able to calculate the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) 
youth performance measures. The WIA youth performance measures data is 
also sent to the States in which grants are located to generate 
additional performance calculations that require Unemployment Insurance 
wage record data. Without this collection it would be impossible to 
generate the WIA youth performance measures, a Youth Opportunity 
Grant's required under the WIA legislation.
    At this time, no revision will be made to the existing collection.

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                                                     Total                                                     Total
                Cite/reference                    respondents                   Frequency                    responses        Average         Burden
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ETA-9086......................................              36  Monthly.................................             432             104          44,928
ETA-9087......................................              36  Quarterly...............................             144              48            6912
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    Totals....................................  ..............  ........................................  ..............  ..............          51,840
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    Type of Review: Extension (without change).
    Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
    Title: Management Information System Requirements for Youth 
Opportunity Grants OMB Number: 1205-0414 and Agency Number: ETA-9086 
and ETA-9087.
    Affected Public: Local Workforce Investment Boards and Youth 
Opportunity Service Providers such as community-based organizations, 
schools, Tribal Governments and community colleges.
    Total Respondents: 36 Youth Opportunity Grantees.
    Frequency: Monthly.
    Total Responses: 576 each year.
    Average Time Per Response: 130 hours. This is based on the 
following assumptions: Each site will need to enter updated information 
for an average of 1,250, participant records over the course of a year 
at an average time of one hour a year, or 104 hours per month. Sites 
will require an average of 16 hours to prepare each quarterly report 
site per month.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 51,840 hours.
    Estimated Total Burden Costs: $777,600 to maintain data collection 
each year.
    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; and they will become a 
matter of public record.

    Dated: May 13, 2002.
Lorenzo D. Harrison,
Administrator, Office of Youth Services.
[FR Doc. 02-13404 Filed 5-28-02; 8:45 am]
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