[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 103 (Wednesday, May 30, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30034-30035]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-10353]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Proposed Information Collection Request Submitted for Public 
Comment and Recommendations

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. ETA is 
soliciting comments on a new data collection for the High Growth Job 
Training Initiative (HGJTI) and Community-Based Job Training (CBJT) 
programs. A copy of the proposed information collection request (ICR) 
can be obtained by contacting the office listed in the Addressee 
section of this notice or at this Web site: http://www.doleta.gov/OMBCN/OMBControlNumber.cfm

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the 
Addressee section on or before July 30, 2007.

ADDRESSES: Ms. Jennifer McNelly, Business Relations Group, Office of 
Workforce Investment, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. 
Department of Labor, Room N-4643, 200 Constitution Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20210. Phone (202) 693-3949 (this is not a toll-free 
number). Fax (202) 693-3890 or e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    Grantees that are awarded High Growth Job Training Initiative 
(HGJTI) grants and the Community-Based Job Training Grants (CBJTG) will 
be required to submit standardized quarterly reports summarizing the 
number and types of participants served by grantees, the number of 
exiters, the number of participants engaged in training activities, and 
participant outcomes. These outcomes include the number of participants 
who received a degree or certificate, who were placed in employment, 
and who were placed in training-related employment. In addition, ETA 
will require grantees to submit records of program exiters on a 
quarterly basis. These records will help ETA compute the Office of 
Management and Budget's (OMB) common job training and employment 
performance measures, gauge the effects of the HGJTI and CBJTG grants, 
identify grantees that could serve as useful models, and target 
technical assistance appropriately.
    The HGJTI and CBJTG reporting and record keeping requirements are 
consistent with the President's Management Agenda to improve the 
management and performance of the Federal government and OMB's common 
performance measures. The measures are applied to certain Federally 
funded employment and training programs with similar strategic goals, 
including the HGJTI and CBJTG programs. These common performance 
measures enhance the government's ability to assess the effectiveness 
of the workforce investment system as a whole, including its 
performance in serving people who face significant barriers to 
employment. By minimizing the differences in reporting and performance 
requirements across programs, common performance measures facilitate 
the integration of service delivery and break down barriers to 
coordination among programs. Common performance measures also reduce 
the reporting burden for states and grantees, by providing consistent 
performance measurement definitions and methodologies across programs.
    The common job training and employment measures are, therefore, a 
key component of the HGJTI and CBJTG performance accountability system, 
because they permit the core purposes of the workforce system to be 
described in a similar manner.

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;
     Suggest how to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 
of the information to be collected; and
     Suggest how to 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 responses.

III. Current Actions

    Type of Review: New.

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    Agency: Department of Labor, Employment and Training 
Administration.
    Title: High Growth and Community-Based Job Training Grants: General 
Quarterly Reporting Forms & Instructions.
    OMB Number: 1205-0NEW.
    Agency Number(s): Form ETA-9134.
    Recordkeeping: 3 Years.
    Affected Public: Grantees and program participants.
    Cite/Reference/Form: Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and the 
American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000.
    Type of Response: Mandatory.
    Frequency: Quarterly.
    Total Respondents: 272 Grantees.
    Total Annual Responses: 2,176 submissions annually--Each grantee 
submits a file of program exiter records and a summary report each 
quarter, for a total of eight submissions each year per grantee.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 53,464 (see table for details).

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                                                                                                 Average annual
             Form/activity                Annual national           Total respondents               hours per
                                          burden (hours)                                           respondent
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Participant Data Collection............            23,000  272 grantees.......................                85
Quarterly Performance Report...........            30,464  272 grantees.......................               112
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    Total..............................            53,464  ...................................               197
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    Average Response Time: 197 hours per grantee each year.
    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: May 24, 2007.
Emily Stover DeRocco,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-10353 Filed 5-29-07; 8:45 am]
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