[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 103 (Thursday, May 27, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30333-30334]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-11993]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations: Reemployment 
Services

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 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 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 (ETA) is 
soliciting comments concerning the proposed three-year extension of the 
information collection request (ICR) for reemployment services 
reporting. A copy of the proposed ICR can be obtained by contacting the 
office listed below in the address section of this notice.

DATES: Submit comments on or before July 26, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Anthony D. Dais, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and 
Training Administration, Office of Workforce Investment, U.S. 
Employment Services, Room S-4231, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington DC 20210, (202-693-2784--not a toll free number) and 
Internet address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    Since Program Year (PY) 2001 the budget for Wagner-Peyser Act State 
Workforce Agencies (SWAs) has allocated funds for reemployment services 
to Unemployment Insurance claimants. Under Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) 1205-0424, SWAs have submitted annual plans and reports 
each program year to ETA. ETA is requesting extension of the 
authorization to require SWAs to submit an annual plan narrative and a 
progress report for each program year. These materials will assist ETA 
in reviewing the appropriateness of the selected

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activities for reemployment services and determining whether the 
purpose of the funds was achieved. Specific reporting is necessary to 
adequately evaluate the reemployment services activities separately 
from regular employment and training program operations and 
recordkeeping.

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, 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

    This is a request for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
approval of an extension to an existing collection of information 
previously approved for activities funded through reemployment services 
allotments, from current end date of December 31, 2004, to a new end 
date of December 31, 2007.
    Type of Review: Extension without change.
    Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
    Title: Reemployment Services Plan and Report.
    OMB Number: 1205-0424
    Affected Public: State government.

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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              40           2,160
Progress Report.................              54               1              54              16             864
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    Totals......................              54               2             108              56           3,024
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    Total Respondents: 54.
    Frequency: Annual.
    Total Responses: 108.
    Average Time per Response: 56 hours.
    Total Burden Hours: 3,024.
    Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup): 0.
    Total Burden Cost (Operating/Maintaining): $108.

    Dated: May 20, 2004.
Grace Kilbane,
Administrator, Office of Workforce Investment.
[FR Doc. 04-11993 Filed 5-26-04; 8:45 am]
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