[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 15, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14099-14100]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-6010]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Proposed Collection of Information for an Evaluation of the Young 
Parents Demonstration Project (YPDP); Comment Request

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA), 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 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 (PRA) [44 U.S.C. 3505(c)(2)(A)]. The 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.
    The proposed information collection is for an evaluation of the 
YPDP. The YPDP is sponsored by ETA to test innovative strategies that 
can improve the skills and education of young parents and, ultimately 
their employment and earnings.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the 
addressee's section below on or before May 16, 2011.

ADDRESSES: A copy of this proposed information collection request may 
be obtained by contacting Savi Swick at 202-693-3382 (this is not a 
toll-free number) or e-mail: [email protected]. Comments are to be 
submitted to Department of Labor/Employment and Training 
Administration, Attn: Savi Swick, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., (Room 
N-5641) Washington, DC 20210). Written comments may be transmitted by 
facsimile to 202-693-2766 (this is not a toll-free number) or e-mailed 
to [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The proposed information collection is for an evaluation of the 
YPDP. The YPDP is sponsored by ETA to test innovative strategies that 
can improve the skills and education of young parents and, ultimately 
their employment and earnings.

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    The YPDP grantees are required to develop a ``bump-up'' 
intervention providing an additional level of services above and beyond 
the existing services currently provided that are specifically intended 
to increase an individual's education, job training and employment. A 
key factor in the bump-up design is having a single, persistent 
intervention for the treatment group that is substantially different 
from what the control group receives. Each of the grantees is 
implementing one of the following two bump-up interventions:
     Mentoring Models--Intensive professional staff mentoring 
specifically for education, employment, and training; and specifically 
for pregnant and parenting teens and young parents; or
     Employment/Education/Training Models--Guided employment, 
education, training and related supports specifically for pregnant and 
parenting teens and young parents.\1\

    \1\ U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training 
Administration, ``Young Parents Demonstration Program (YPDP) SGA/DFA 
PY 08-08,'' Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 193, October 3, 2008 
(available over the Internet at: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-23319.pdf). This notice also provides additional background 
on the demonstration effort, grant requirements, and the structure 
of the ``bump-up'' interventions to be offered by YPDP grantees.

Individuals enrolling in YPDP have a 50/50 chance of receiving this 
additional level of services. Those individuals not receiving the bump 
up services receive the existing services offered by the grantee. To 
evaluate the YPDP bump-up interventions, education, employment, and 
other outcomes of the two groups will be compared over time. The 
evaluation will estimate the success in providing educational and 
occupational skills training that fosters family economic self-
sufficiency to young parents (both mothers and fathers) and expectant 
parents ages 16-24.

II. Desired Focus of Comments

    The Department 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 submission of responses.

III. Current Actions

    This proposed information collection will involve (1) collecting 
participant data from organizations that received grants under the 
YPDP; (2) conducting semi-structured interviews with key administrators 
and staff in the demonstration projects to document the structure and 
implementation of the demonstration intervention; and (3) conducting a 
follow-up survey of YPDP participants.
    Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
    Type of Review: New Collection.
    Title of Collection: The Evaluation Of The Young Parents 
Demonstration.
    OMB Control Number: 1205-0NEW.
    Affected Public: Young parents, community-based organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 9,176.
    Frequency: Once per application during site visit interviews and 
follow-up surveys, six times during Participant Tracking System data 
collection.
    Total Estimated Annual Responses: 6,711.
    Estimated Average Time per Response: 38 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 5,854.
    Total Estimated Annual Cost Burden (excluding hour costs): 
$110,195.

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                                              Number of       Total burden     Average hourly         Total
        Data collection activity             respondents          hours             wage         annualized cost
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PTS--Data Collection....................             4,102             4,102            $18.76           $76,954
Site Visit Interviews...................               144               108             22.21             2,399
12-Month Survey.........................             2,465               822             18.76            15,421
30-Month Survey.........................             2,465               822             18.76            15,421
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    Total...............................             9,176             5,854  ................           110,195
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    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and may be included in the request for Office of Management and Budget 
approval of the final information collection request. The comments will 
become a matter of public record.

    Dated: March 9, 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
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