[Federal Register: May 27, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 103)]
[Notices]
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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: dais.anthony@dol.gov.
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.
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