Proposed Collection, Comment Request, 50822-50823 [E9-23712]
Download as PDF
<![CDATA[
PWALKER on DSK8KYBLC1PROD with NOTICES
50822
Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 189 / Thursday, October 1, 2009 / Notices
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.
Agency: Employment and Training
Administration.
Type of Review: Extension with
change of a currently approved
collection.
Title of Collection: Distribution of
Characteristics of the Insured
Unemployed.
OMB Control Number: 1205–0009.
Agency Form Number: ETA–203.
Affected Public: State Governments.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 53.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 212.
Total Estimated Annual Costs Burden
(does not include hour costs): $0.
Description: The ETA–203 is the only
source of current, consistent
demographic information (age, race/
ethnic, sex, occupation, industry) on the
Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimant
population. These characteristics
identify important claimant cohorts for
legislative, economic and social
planning purposes, and evaluation of
the UI program on the Federal and State
levels. For additional information, see
related notice published at Volume 73
FR 77062 on December 18, 2008.
Agency: Employment and Training
Administration.
Type of Review: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Title of Collection: Placement
Verification and Follow-up of Job Corps
Participants.
OMB Control Number: 1205–0426.
Agency Form Number: N/A.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 73,373.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 15,593.
Total Estimated Annual Costs Burden
(does not include hour costs): $0.
VerDate Nov<24>2008
19:32 Sep 30, 2009
Jkt 217001
Description: This submission requests
approval of three primary and two
secondary data collection instruments
that will be used to collect follow-up
data on individuals who have but are no
longer actively participating in Job
Corps. For additional information, see
related notice published at Volume 74
FR 10776 on March 12, 2009.
Agency: Employment and Training
Administration.
Type of Review: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Title of Collection: Employment and
Training Administration Financial
Report.
OMB Control Number: 1205–0461.
Agency Form Number: ETA–9130.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 848.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 3,392.
Total Estimated Annual Costs Burden
(does not include hour costs): $0.
Description: ETA utilizes the data on
ETA–9130 to assess the effectiveness of
ETA programs and to monitor and
analyze the financial activity of its
grantees. Pre-designed software is
provided to the grantees to reflect the
requirements of ETA Form 9130 so that
the required data is reported directly
into the Enterprise Information
Management System (EIMS) by the grant
recipients. This data collection format
allows ETA to evaluate program
effectiveness and to monitor and
analyze financial activity, while
complying with OMB efforts to
streamline Federal financial reporting.
The focus of all ETA reporting has been
to provide ease and simplicity for the
grantees. The specific instruction
relating to the required data element is
visible at each data entry point.
Electronic financial reporting has
significantly increased the timeliness of
financial reporting. For additional
information, see related notice
published at Volume 74 FR 34592 on
July 16, 2009.
Agency: Employment and Training
Administration.
Type of Review: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Title of Collection: Recovery Act—
Applications for Unemployment
Insurance Modernization Incentive
Payments.
OMB Control Number: 1205–0470.
Agency Form Number: N/A.
Affected Public: State Governments.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 36.
PO 00000
Frm 00061
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 288.
Total Estimated Annual Costs Burden
(does not include hour costs): $0.
Description: Section 2003(f) of the
American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides for
unemployment insurance (UI)
‘‘modernization incentive payments’’ to
be made from the Unemployment Trust
Fund (UTF) to the states. The total
amount available for all states is $7
billion dollars. To obtain its share, the
state must make an application to the
Department of Labor demonstrating that
its UI law contains certain benefit
eligibility provisions. The last date on
which an incentive distribution may be
made is September 30, 2011. When
applying for a share of the UI
modernization incentive payments, a
state must document that the provisions
of its law meet the requirements for
obtaining an incentive payment. The
state is also required to describe how it
intends to use any incentive payment to
improve or strengthen its UI program. .
For additional information, see related
notices published at Volume 74 FR 9108
on March 2, 2009 and 74 FR 23886 on
May 21, 2009.
Darrin A. King,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E9–23659 Filed 9–30–09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4510–FW–P
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Proposed Collection, Comment
Request
AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments
concerning the revision of the ‘‘The
E:\FR\FM\01OCN1.SGM
01OCN1
50823
Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 189 / Thursday, October 1, 2009 / Notices
Consumer Expenditure Surveys: The
Quarterly Interview and the Diary.’’ A
copy of the proposed information
collection request (ICR) can be obtained
by contacting the individual listed
below in the ADDRESSES section of this
notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice on or
before November 30, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora
Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE.,
Washington, DC 20212. Written
comments also may be transmitted by
fax to 202–691–5111 (this is not a toll
free number).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, at
202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free
number). (See ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Consumer Expenditure (CE)
Surveys collect data on consumer
expenditures, demographic information,
and related data needed by the
Consumer Price Index (CPI) and other
public and private data users. The
continuing surveys provide a constant
measurement of changes in consumer
expenditure patterns for economic
analysis and to obtain data for future
CPI revisions. The CE Surveys have
been ongoing since 1979.
The data from the CE Surveys are
used (1) for CPI revisions, (2) to provide
a continuous flow of data on income
and expenditure patterns for use in
economic analysis and policy
formulation, and (3) to provide a
flexible consumer survey vehicle that is
available for use by other Federal
Government agencies. Public and
private users of price statistics,
including Congress and the economic
policymaking agencies of the Executive
branch, rely on data collected in the CPI
in their day-to-day activities. Hence,
data users and policymakers widely
accept the need to improve the process
used for revising the CPI. If the CE
Surveys were not conducted on a
continuing basis, current information
necessary for more timely, as well as
more accurate, updating of the CPI
would not be available. In addition, data
would not be available to respond to the
continuing demand from the public and
private sectors for current information
on consumer spending.
In the Quarterly Interview Survey,
each consumer unit (CU) in the sample
is interviewed every three months over
five calendar quarters. The sample for
each quarter is divided into three
panels, with CUs being interviewed
every three months in the same panel of
every quarter. The Quarterly Interview
Survey is designed to collect data on the
types of expenditures that respondents
can be expected to recall for a period of
three months or longer. In general the
expenses reported in the Interview
Survey are either relatively large, such
as property, automobiles, or major
appliances, or are expenses which occur
on a fairly regular basis, such as rent,
utility bills, or insurance premiums.
The Diary (or recordkeeping) Survey
is completed at home by the respondent
family for two consecutive one-week
periods. The primary objective of the
Diary Survey is to obtain expenditure
data on small, frequently purchased
items which normally are difficult to
recall over longer periods of time.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget
clearance is being sought for the
Total
respondents
Frequency
CEQ—Interview .................................................
CEQ—Reinterview ............................................
CED—Diary (record-keeping) ...........................
CED—Diary (Interview) .....................................
CED—Diary (Reinterview) .................................
Totals ..........................................................
PWALKER on DSK8KYBLC1PROD with NOTICES
Form
8,825
4,000
7,050
7,050
1,300
........................
4
1
2
3
1
........................
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $0.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they also
will become a matter of public record.
VerDate Nov<24>2008
19:32 Sep 30, 2009
Jkt 217001
PO 00000
Consumer Expenditure Surveys: The
Quarterly Interview and the Diary.
The continuing CE Surveys provide a
constant measurement of changes in
consumer expenditure patterns for
economic analysis and obtain data for
future CPI revisions.
The Consumer Expenditure program
is planning several tests over the next
several years in an effort to improve the
CE surveys in the areas of both data
quality and respondent burden.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is
particularly interested in comments
that:
• 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.
• 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.
Type of Review: Revision.
Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Title: The Consumer Expenditure
Surveys: The Quarterly Interview and
the Diary.
OMB Number: 1220–0050.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Total
responses
Average
time per response
35,300
4,000
14,100
21,150
1,300
75,850
65 minutes .......................
10 minutes .......................
105 minutes .....................
25 minutes .......................
10 minutes .......................
..........................................
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
38,242
667
24,675
8,813
217
72,614
Signed at Washington, DC, this 21st day of
September 2009.
Kimberley D. Hill,
Acting Chief, Division of Management
Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
[FR Doc. E9–23712 Filed 9–30–09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4510–24–P
Frm 00062
Estimated
total
burden
E:\FR\FM\01OCN1.SGM
01OCN1
]]>Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 189 (Thursday, October 1, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50822-50823]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-23712]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Proposed Collection, Comment Request
AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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. The
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments concerning the
revision of the ``The
[[Page 50823]]
Consumer Expenditure Surveys: The Quarterly Interview and the Diary.''
A copy of the proposed information collection request (ICR) can be
obtained by contacting the individual listed below in the Addresses
section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section of this notice on or before November 30, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE., Washington, DC 20212. Written comments
also may be transmitted by fax to 202-691-5111 (this is not a toll free
number).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
at 202-691-7628 (this is not a toll free number). (See ADDRESSES
section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Consumer Expenditure (CE) Surveys collect data on consumer
expenditures, demographic information, and related data needed by the
Consumer Price Index (CPI) and other public and private data users. The
continuing surveys provide a constant measurement of changes in
consumer expenditure patterns for economic analysis and to obtain data
for future CPI revisions. The CE Surveys have been ongoing since 1979.
The data from the CE Surveys are used (1) for CPI revisions, (2) to
provide a continuous flow of data on income and expenditure patterns
for use in economic analysis and policy formulation, and (3) to provide
a flexible consumer survey vehicle that is available for use by other
Federal Government agencies. Public and private users of price
statistics, including Congress and the economic policymaking agencies
of the Executive branch, rely on data collected in the CPI in their
day-to-day activities. Hence, data users and policymakers widely accept
the need to improve the process used for revising the CPI. If the CE
Surveys were not conducted on a continuing basis, current information
necessary for more timely, as well as more accurate, updating of the
CPI would not be available. In addition, data would not be available to
respond to the continuing demand from the public and private sectors
for current information on consumer spending.
In the Quarterly Interview Survey, each consumer unit (CU) in the
sample is interviewed every three months over five calendar quarters.
The sample for each quarter is divided into three panels, with CUs
being interviewed every three months in the same panel of every
quarter. The Quarterly Interview Survey is designed to collect data on
the types of expenditures that respondents can be expected to recall
for a period of three months or longer. In general the expenses
reported in the Interview Survey are either relatively large, such as
property, automobiles, or major appliances, or are expenses which occur
on a fairly regular basis, such as rent, utility bills, or insurance
premiums.
The Diary (or recordkeeping) Survey is completed at home by the
respondent family for two consecutive one-week periods. The primary
objective of the Diary Survey is to obtain expenditure data on small,
frequently purchased items which normally are difficult to recall over
longer periods of time.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget clearance is being sought for the
Consumer Expenditure Surveys: The Quarterly Interview and the Diary.
The continuing CE Surveys provide a constant measurement of changes
in consumer expenditure patterns for economic analysis and obtain data
for future CPI revisions.
The Consumer Expenditure program is planning several tests over the
next several years in an effort to improve the CE surveys in the areas
of both data quality and respondent burden.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is particularly interested in
comments that:
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.
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.
Type of Review: Revision.
Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Title: The Consumer Expenditure Surveys: The Quarterly Interview
and the Diary.
OMB Number: 1220-0050.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Total Average time Estimated
Form respondents Frequency responses per response total burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CEQ--Interview................ 8,825 4 35,300 65 minutes...... 38,242
CEQ--Reinterview.............. 4,000 1 4,000 10 minutes...... 667
CED--Diary (record-keeping)... 7,050 2 14,100 105 minutes..... 24,675
CED--Diary (Interview)........ 7,050 3 21,150 25 minutes...... 8,813
CED--Diary (Reinterview)...... 1,300 1 1,300 10 minutes...... 217
Totals.................... .............. .............. 75,850 ................ 72,614
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/maintenance): $0.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval of the information collection request; they also will become a
matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 21st day of September 2009.
Kimberley D. Hill,
Acting Chief, Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
[FR Doc. E9-23712 Filed 9-30-09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4510-24-P
