Proposed Information Collection Request Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations; Reporting and Performance Standards System for the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Program Under Title I, Section 167 of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998, 54522-54523 [E6-15347]
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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: August 28, 2006.
Gay M. Gilbert,
Administrator, Office of Workforce
Investment, Employment and Training
Administration.
[FR Doc. E6–15346 Filed 9–14–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Proposed Information Collection
Request Submitted for Public
Comment and Recommendations;
Reporting and Performance Standards
System for the Migrant and Seasonal
Farmworker Program Under Title I,
Section 167 of the Workforce
Investment Act (WIA) of 1998
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ACTION:
Notice.
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. Currently, the
Employment and Training
Administration is soliciting comments
concerning the extension of the data
collection for the Migrant and Seasonal
Farmworker Program, also known as the
National Farmworker Jobs Program
(NFJP). A copy of the proposed
information collection request (ICR) can
be obtained by contacting the office
listed below in the addressee section of
this notice or at this Web site: https://
www.doleta.gov/Performance/guidance/
OMBControlNumber.cfm.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addressee section below on or before
November 14, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Gay M. Gilbert,
Administrator, Office of Workforce
Investment, Employment and Training
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Administration, U.S. Department of
Labor, Room S–4231, 200 Constitution
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20210;
telephone: (202) 693–3980 (this is not a
toll-free number); fax: (202) 693–3981,
e-mail ETAperforms@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Each grantee administering funds
under the NFJP program is required to
submit a program planning report (ETA
Form 9094), a budget information
summary report (ETA Form 9093), and
a quarterly program status report (ETA
Form 9095). This latter form contains
information related to levels of
participation and service, related
assistance activities, and actual
placements in employment. In addition,
each grantee submits a quarterly file of
individual records on all participants
who exit the program, called the
Workforce Investment Act Standardized
Participant Record (WIASPR).
In 2001, under the President’s
Management Agenda, OMB and other
Federal agencies developed a set of
common measures to be applied to
certain federally funded employment
and training programs with similar
strategic goals. As part of this initiative,
ETA issued Training and Employment
Guidance Letter (TEGL) 28–04, Common
Measures Policy. The value of
implementing common measures is the
ability to describe in a similar manner
the core purposes of the workforce
system—how many people found jobs;
did they keep those jobs; and what were
their earnings. Implementing a set of
common measures can facilitate the
integration of service delivery, reduce
barriers to cooperation among programs,
and enhance the ability to assess the
effectiveness and impact of the
workforce investment system, including
the performance of the system in serving
individuals facing significant barriers to
employment.
The common measures are an integral
part of ETA’s performance
accountability system, and ETA will
continue to collect from grantees the
data on program activities, participants,
and outcomes that are necessary for
program management and to convey full
and accurate information on the
performance of workforce programs to
policymakers and stakeholders.
The extension to the NFJP reporting
system identifies a minimum level of
information collection that is necessary
to comply with Equal Opportunity
requirements, holds grantees
appropriately accountable for the
Federal funds they receive, assesses
progress against a set of common
performance measures, and allows the
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Department to fulfill its oversight and
management responsibilities.
The three adult common measures
that apply to NFJP grantees are Entered
Employment; Employment Retention;
and Average Earnings. Grantees
currently collect and submit the data
necessary to report on these
performance measures.
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: Extension.
Agency: Employment and Training
Administration.
Title: Reporting and Performance
Standards System for the National
Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) under
Title I, Section 167, of the Workforce
Investment Act (WIA).
OMB Number: 1205–0425.
Recordkeeping: Quarterly.
Affected Public: State, local or tribal
governments; not-for-profit institutions.
Total Respondents: 53 States and
grantees.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
70,562.
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.
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Signed at Washington, DC this 8th day of
September, 2006.
Gay M. Gilbert,
Administrator, Office of Workforce
Investment.
[FR Doc. E6–15347 Filed 9–14–06; 8:45 am]
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MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
CORPORATION
[MCC FR 06–15]
Report on the Criteria and
Methodology for Determining the
Eligibility of Candidate Countries for
Millennium Challenge Account
Assistance in FY 2007
Millennium Challenge
Corporation.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Section 608(d) of the
Millennium Challenge Act of 2003,
Public Law 108–199 (Division D)
requires the Millennium Challenge
Corporation to publish a report that lists
the countries determined by the Board
of Directors of the Corporation to be
eligible for assistance for Fiscal Year
2007. The report is set forth in full
below.
Dated: September 11, 2006.
William G. Anderson, Jr.,
Vice President & General Counsel (Acting),
Millennium Challenge Corporation.
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Report on the Criteria and Methodology
for Determining the Eligibility of
Candidate Countries for Millennium
Challenge Account Assistance in FY
2007
Summary
This report to Congress is provided in
accordance with Section 608(b) of the
Millennium Challenge Act of 2003, 22
U.S.C.A. 7701, 7707(b) (the ‘‘Act’’).
The Act authorizes the provision of
Millennium Challenge Account (MCA)
assistance to countries that enter into
Compacts with the United States to
support policies and programs that
advance the prospects of such countries
achieving lasting economic growth and
poverty reduction. The Act requires the
Millennium Challenge Corporation
(MCC) to take a number of steps in
determining the countries that, based on
their demonstrated commitment to just
and democratic governance, economic
freedom and investing in their people
and the opportunity to reduce poverty
and generate economic growth in the
country, will be eligible for MCA
assistance during Fiscal Year 2007
(FY07). These steps include the
submission of reports to the
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congressional committees specified in
the Act and the publication of Notices
in the Federal Register that identify:
1. The countries that are ‘‘candidate
countries’’ for MCA assistance during
FY07 based on their per-capita income
levels and their eligibility to receive
assistance under U.S. law, and countries
that would be candidate countries but
for specified legal prohibitions on
assistance (Section 608(a) of the Act);
2. The criteria and methodology that
the Board of Directors of MCC (the
‘‘Board’’) will use to measure and
evaluate the relative policy performance
of the candidate countries consistent
with the requirements of Section 607 of
the Act in order to select ‘‘MCA eligible
countries’’ from among the ‘‘candidate
countries’’ (Section 608(b) of the Act);
and
3. The list of countries determined by
the Board to be ‘‘MCA eligible
countries’’ for FY07, with justification
for eligibility determination and
selection for compact negotiation,
including which of the MCA eligible
countries the Board will seek to enter
into MCA compacts (Section 608(d) of
the Act).
This report sets out the criteria and
methodology to be applied in
determining eligibility for FY07 MCA
assistance.
Changes to the Criteria and
Methodology for FY07
MCC has received constructive input
on the indicators since the
announcement of FY06’s selection
criteria and methodology. That input
has been taken into account in creating
the criteria and methodology for the
selection of eligible countries for FY07.
Natural Resource Management
Indicators
In the FY06 report, MCC signaled
interest in finding a better measure of a
country’s demonstrated commitment to
‘‘ * * * economic policies that promote
* * * the sustainable management of
natural resources.’’ To that end, MCC
launched a public process, spearheaded
by Governor Whitman, to seek broad
input from the academic community,
public and private sector practitioners,
researchers at think tanks and NGOs.
We conducted extensive consultations,
hosted several public meetings and
researched over 120 potential natural
resource indicators. In June 2005, at a
large meeting of experts co-hosted by
The Brookings Institution, MCC
announced a public ‘‘call for ideas’’ to
seek suggestions for an indicator. We
also assembled a group of economists
and natural resources management
experts to help us evaluate the ideas we
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received. Eight ideas were evaluated,
and two received high ratings from both
the evaluators and MCC staff: a Natural
Resources Management index from
Columbia University’s Center for
International Earth Science Information
Network (CIESIN) and the Yale Center
for Environmental Law and Policy
(YCLEP) and an Access to Land
indicator from the International Fund
for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
As a result of technical consultations
with experts in the environmental and
land communities, MCC explored
modifications to the original
submissions and determined that the
two indices, with some modifications,
measure separate aspects of natural
resources management and, thus taken
together, represent a more
comprehensive measurement of this
criteria (as well as other criteria noted
below).
To measure the sustainable
management of natural resources for
FY07, MCC has added the Natural
Resources Management index and a
Land Rights and Access index (IFAD’s
Access to Land indicator combined with
the International Finance Corporation’s
(IFC’s) Time and Cost of Property
Registration indicators) as sources of
supplemental information. MCC’s Board
will consider later this year
incorporating natural resource
management indicators as part of the
formal selection matrix for the FY08
selection process. MCC strives for
transparency and continuity between
years in our selection process and the
indicators in order to maximize the
incentive effect of the country selection
process. The addition of two new
indicators is a significant modification
of the overall evaluation of candidate
country performance. By using these
indicators as supplemental information
for FY07, with full consideration later
this year of formal adoption as selection
indicators for FY08, MCC will provide
notice to countries of their performance
and an opportunity to learn how they
are being measured. MCC will engage
countries in a dialogue about
performance and potential reforms in
these areas and will encourage countries
to seek feedback from the institutions
that produce these indicators.
It is important to recognize that all of
MCC’s indicators have limitations,
including these two additional
indicators. For example, the Eco-Region
Protection indicator described below
attempts to measure the breadth and
comprehensiveness of a government’s
commitment to habitat preservation and
biodiversity protection but does not
measure the effectiveness of such
efforts. Therefore, MCC will continue to
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Proposed Information Collection Request Submitted for Public
Comment and Recommendations; Reporting and Performance Standards System
for the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Program Under Title I, Section
167 of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
Currently, the Employment and Training Administration is soliciting
comments concerning the extension of the data collection for the
Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Program, also known as the National
Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP). A copy of the proposed information
collection request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the office
listed below in the addressee section of this notice or at this Web
site: https://www.doleta.gov/Performance/guidance/OMBControlNumber.cfm.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addressee section below on or before November 14, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Gay M. Gilbert, Administrator, Office of Workforce
Investment, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of
Labor, Room S-4231, 200 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20210;
telephone: (202) 693-3980 (this is not a toll-free number); fax: (202)
693-3981, e-mail ETAperforms@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Each grantee administering funds under the NFJP program is required
to submit a program planning report (ETA Form 9094), a budget
information summary report (ETA Form 9093), and a quarterly program
status report (ETA Form 9095). This latter form contains information
related to levels of participation and service, related assistance
activities, and actual placements in employment. In addition, each
grantee submits a quarterly file of individual records on all
participants who exit the program, called the Workforce Investment Act
Standardized Participant Record (WIASPR).
In 2001, under the President's Management Agenda, OMB and other
Federal agencies developed a set of common measures to be applied to
certain federally funded employment and training programs with similar
strategic goals. As part of this initiative, ETA issued Training and
Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 28-04, Common Measures Policy. The
value of implementing common measures is the ability to describe in a
similar manner the core purposes of the workforce system--how many
people found jobs; did they keep those jobs; and what were their
earnings. Implementing a set of common measures can facilitate the
integration of service delivery, reduce barriers to cooperation among
programs, and enhance the ability to assess the effectiveness and
impact of the workforce investment system, including the performance of
the system in serving individuals facing significant barriers to
employment.
The common measures are an integral part of ETA's performance
accountability system, and ETA will continue to collect from grantees
the data on program activities, participants, and outcomes that are
necessary for program management and to convey full and accurate
information on the performance of workforce programs to policymakers
and stakeholders.
The extension to the NFJP reporting system identifies a minimum
level of information collection that is necessary to comply with Equal
Opportunity requirements, holds grantees appropriately accountable for
the Federal funds they receive, assesses progress against a set of
common performance measures, and allows the Department to fulfill its
oversight and management responsibilities.
The three adult common measures that apply to NFJP grantees are
Entered Employment; Employment Retention; and Average Earnings.
Grantees currently collect and submit the data necessary to report on
these performance measures.
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: Extension.
Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
Title: Reporting and Performance Standards System for the National
Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) under Title I, Section 167, of the
Workforce Investment Act (WIA).
OMB Number: 1205-0425.
Recordkeeping: Quarterly.
Affected Public: State, local or tribal governments; not-for-profit
institutions.
Total Respondents: 53 States and grantees.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 70,562.
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.
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Signed at Washington, DC this 8th day of September, 2006.
Gay M. Gilbert,
Administrator, Office of Workforce Investment.
[FR Doc. E6-15347 Filed 9-14-06; 8:45 am]
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