[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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