[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 87 (Thursday, May 6, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24990-24991]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-10603]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Proposed Information Collection for the Evaluation of the 
Community-Based Job Training Grants; Comment Request

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration.

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 is soliciting 
comments on a new data collection for the Evaluation of the Community-
Based Job Training Grants.
    A copy of the proposed information collection request can be 
obtained by contacting the office listed below in the addressee section 
of this notice or by accessing: http://www.doleta.gov/OMBCN/OMBControlNumber.cfm.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the 
addressee's section below on or before July 6, 2010.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to the Employment and Training 
Administration, Room N-5641, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 
DC 20210, Attention: Garrett Groves, Telephone number: 202-693-3684 
(this is not a toll-free number), Fax number: 202-693-2766. E-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The Community-Based Job Training Grants (CBJTG) program is 
sponsored by ETA as an investment in building the capacity of community 
colleges to train workers in the skills required to succeed in high-
growth, high-demand industries. CBJTG provides grants for the 
development and implementation of industry-specific job training 
programs at community colleges to meet the workforce needs of industry, 
including health care, energy, and advanced manufacturing, among 
others. Over 200 grants were issued from 2005 through 2008 in three 
rounds of grant competition, with a fourth round of grants awarded in 
early 2009. Grant recipients are primarily community and technical 
colleges, although in the later rounds of grants, some community 
college districts, State community college systems and organizations 
and agencies within the public workforce investment system were awarded 
grants.
    ETA has contracted with the Urban Institute, a non-profit, non-
partisan, research organization based in Washington, DC, to conduct an 
evaluation of the CBJTG program. The evaluation will mainly be based on 
data collected through a survey of grant recipients as well as a review 
of grant documents and exploratory site visits to a small number of 
grant projects. The survey data collected through this effort are the 
main data source for this study and will provide a comprehensive 
picture of the different grant-funded projects and identify grant 
implementation issues to date.
    The survey will be administered to all grantees receiving awards in 
the first three rounds. To reduce respondent burden, the survey will be 
administered in a Web-based format that allows for automatic skip 
patterns. Grantees will also have the option to complete and return a 
paper version. Survey data will be complemented by data collected 
through ETA's existing quarterly reporting system to avoid any 
duplication and further reduce reporting burden for respondents. The 
survey will gather data on grantee organization type, size, and 
structure, project design and objectives, recruitment efforts and 
target populations, training and other program activities, capacity-
building activities, partners' contributions and activities, and plans 
for sustaining programming and leveraging resources.

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 of responses.

III. Current Actions

    Type of Review: New.
    Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
    Title: Evaluation of the Community-Based Job Training Grants.
    OMB Number: 1205-0NEW.
    Record Keeping: N/A.
    Affected Public: Community-Based Job Training Grantees.
    Total Respondents: 190.
    Frequency: Once.
    Total Annual Responses: 190.
    Average Time per Response: 40 minutes.

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    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 126.67 hours.
    Total Burden Cost: The estimated total burden cost is $4,862.89 as 
shown below:

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                                                     Estimated                                         Total
                    Category                         number of      Total hours    Median hourly    annualized
                                                    respondents                        wage            cost
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Postsecondary education administrators (95.3                 181          120.67          $38.79       $4,680.79
 percent of respondents)........................
Local government social and community service                  9            6.00           30.35          182.10
 managers (4.7 percent of respondents)..........
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    Total.......................................  ..............          126.67  ..............        4,862.89
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    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.

    Signed: At Washington, DC this 30th day of April, 2010.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
[FR Doc. 2010-10603 Filed 5-5-10; 8:45 am]
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