[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 145 (Monday, July 29, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49042-49043]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-19098]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Proposed Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.

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 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 the collection requirements on 
respondents can be properly assessed. Currently, the Employment and 
Training Administration is soliciting comments concerning a proposed 
extension of a currently approved data collection: the Youth Employment 
Survey (YES). The extension will allow for an analysis of changes in 
the youth employment and educational attainment rates in the Youth 
Opportunity areas. The baseline estimates have already been completed 
under the current OMB approval; the extension of this collection will 
allow for the completion of the follow-ups.
    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 27, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Kerri Vitalo, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. 
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Room N-5637, Washington, 
DC 20210; 202-693-3912 (this is not a toll-free number); 
[email protected]; Fax: 202-693-2766 (this is not a toll-free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The Youth Opportunity Area (Kulick) Demonstration is an initiative 
designed to improve the labor market prospects of out-of-school youth 
in a small number of high poverty areas. Under this demonstration, 
eleven Opportunity Areas have been created to expand employment, 
education, and training opportunities for out-of-school youth ages 16-
24, with priority given to high school dropouts. Each Opportunity Area 
consists of an identified target area within a designated empowerment 
zone or enterprise community with a population between 10,000 and 
20,000 persons and a poverty rate among the highest in the community. 
Grants were awarded starting in 1996, 1997, and 1999. The Opportunity 
Areas are in the cities of Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, New York. 
Boston, Detroit, Denver, Baltimore, Oakland, San Diego, and in 
Kentucky's Lake County Area Development District. They have been 
designated incrementally over a three year period.
    In February 2000, ETA awarded 36 Youth Opportunity (YO) Grants as 
Kulick grants' successors to cities, rural areas, and Native American 
reservations across the nation to attack the problem of persistent 
unemployment and underemployment among youth in high-poverty urban and 
rural areas. The YO grants are intended to be the foundation for 
community-wide efforts to mobilize resources in helping these youth to 
enter the economic mainstream. The YO grants are a sustained, five-year 
effort in each community that, in addition to increasing the labor 
market and educational success of area youth, also are to provide other 
developmental benefits for program participants. It is expected that 
communities will supplement the YO grants with other programs funded at 
the Federal, state, and local levels that are designed to

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help youth make a successful transition to employment or to post-
secondary education or training.
    An important part of determining whether these demonstrations and 
grants are successful is to measure the youth employment rate in the 
subject areas before the program begins in each area and again after 
several years of operation. The pre-program estimates for both Kulick 
and YO grants have already been completed under the current OMB 
approval; the extension of this collection will allow for the 
completion of the post-program comparisons in the final five Kulick 
sites (Detroit, Denver, Baltimore, Oakland, San Diego) and the thirty-
six YO sites. The currently approved YES survey is strongly based on 
the Current Population Survey (OMB Control No. 1220-0100).

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 or responses.

III. Current Actions

    Type of Review: Extension.
    Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
    Title: Youth Employment Survey.
    OMB Number: 1205-0373.
    Affected Public: Individuals and households.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: See chart below. The total burden to 
respondents is 19,499 hours--13,345 for the screener and 6,154 for the 
administration of the questionnaire.

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                                                              Total respondents             Burden  (hours)
                          Site                          --------------------------------------------------------
                                                          Screener    Questionnaire    Screener   Questionnaire
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Kulick Site............................................     12,350             3,285      1,027              820
YO Site................................................    147,814            21,338     12,318            5,334
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    Total..............................................    160,050            24,623     13,345            6,154
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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: July 22, 2002.
Gerard F. Fiala,
Administrator, Office of Policy and Research.
[FR Doc. 02-19098 Filed 7-26-02; 8:45 am]
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