Request for Certification of Compliance-Rural Industrialization Loan and Grant Program, 60299-60300 [E9-27871]
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and other efficiencies improved the
reliability of CPS data at the State level,
resulting in the current criterion on
monthly and annual average data of an
8 percent coefficient of variation on the
level of unemployment when the
unemployment rate is 6 percent. In
addition, North Carolina joined the
group of direct-use States. In 1989,
variable coefficient time-series models
for monthly estimation of State
employment and unemployment were
introduced for 39 States and the District
of Columbia. Further improvement was
effected with the implementation of
signal-plus-noise models in 1994. These
models rely heavily on monthly CPS
data, as well as current wage and salary
employment and unemployment
insurance statistics. State labor force
estimation for the direct-use States was
based the time series modeling
approach beginning in January 1996.
Improvements introduced with the
redesign in January 2005 ensured that
State estimates add to the national
estimates of employment and
unemployment each month, through
real-time benchmarking. In doing so, the
benchmark changed from annual Statelevel estimates of employment and
unemployment to monthly national
estimates of these measures. In this way,
economic shocks are reflected in the
State estimates on a real-time basis, and
end-of-year revisions are significantly
smaller.
Historical benchmarking is part of the
annual processing activities performed
on the models. The first two steps,
revision of inputs and model reestimation, are the same for both the
not-seasonally-adjusted (NSA) series
and the seasonally-adjusted series. The
final step, benchmarking to historical
control totals, differs by series. The NSA
estimates are benchmarked to monthly
Division model controls which have
been controlled to monthly national
CPS estimates. This ensures that the
monthly State NSA estimates sum to the
national CPS estimates. The annual
average of the NSA estimates is used to
control the monthly seasonally-adjusted
model estimates. This process preserves
the underlying smoothness in the model
estimates that would be lost by applying
the monthly benchmarking procedure.
However, the current procedure had
an unanticipated impact on the
historical benchmarking for the
seasonally-adjusted estimates during
2008. Unemployment rose steeply in the
nation and all States during 2008. The
benchmark methodology that required
the use of the annual average as the
historical control total for the
seasonally-adjusted estimates meant
that unemployment rates were adjusted
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downward during the latter months of
2008. This impacted comparisons with
January 2009 unemployment estimates
that continued to reflect the steep
economic decline. In addition to issues
with historical benchmarking, the
monthly real-time benchmarking
procedure introduces volatility into the
current seasonally-adjusted estimates,
producing estimates with spurious
turning points that are difficult to
explain to data users.
II. Current Action
To address these serious issues, the
BLS proposes modifying the procedures
for the seasonally-adjusted estimates
and implementing a smoothing
methodology for both current and
historical seasonally-adjusted series.
Smoothing the current series will
reduce the number of spurious turning
points in the estimates. For historical
estimates, the first two steps in annual
processing: revising model inputs and
re-estimating the series, are unchanged.
The last step, benchmarking to control
totals, will be revised for the seasonallyadjusted estimates. The use of the
annual average of the NSA series as the
control total will be dropped. Instead, as
in current monthly estimation, the
historical seasonally-adjusted series will
be adjusted by the same pro-rata factor
used in adjusting the NSA estimates to
the national control totals. Since the
pro-rata factors fluctuate from month-tomonth, this procedure will introduce
additional variability into the historical
series, which could dominate the
monthly change in the benchmarked
series. Smoothing the series following
the application of the pro-rata
adjustment will reduce the volatility
added. The smoother selected is the
Henderson Trend Filter (H13).
Detailed descriptions of the current
and proposed approaches are available
from the office listed above.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
Comments and recommendations are
requested from the public on the use of
the Henderson Trend Filter (H13) to
smooth the LAUS current and historical
seasonally adjusted estimates.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 17th day of
November 2009.
Kimberley Hill,
Acting Chief, Division of Management
Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Request for Certification of
Compliance—Rural Industrialization
Loan and Grant Program
AGENCY: Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The Employment and
Training Administration is issuing this
notice to announce the receipt of a
‘‘Certification of Non-Relocation and
Market and Capacity Information
Report’’ (Form 4279–2) for the
following:
Applicant/Location: Legacy Senior
Care Group, LLC/Richfield, Ohio.
Principal Product/Purpose: The loan,
guarantee, or grant application is to
enable a new business venture to
construct and manage an assisted living
facility that also offers memory care.
The NAICS industry code for this
enterprise is: 623311 Continuing Care
Retirement Communities.
DATES: All interested parties may submit
comments in writing no later than
December 4, 2009. Copies of adverse
comments received will be forwarded to
the applicant noted above.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments
concerning this notice to Anthony D.
Dais, U.S. Department of Labor,
Employment and Training
Administration, 200 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Room S–4231,
Washington, DC 20210; or e-mail
Dais.Anthony@dol.gov; or transmit via
fax (202) 693–3015 (this is not a toll-free
number).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anthony D. Dais, at telephone number
(202) 693–2784 (this is not a toll-free
number).
Section
188 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural
Development Act of 1972, as established
under 29 CFR Part 75, authorizes the
United States Department of Agriculture
to make or guarantee loans or grants to
finance industrial and business
activities in rural areas. The Secretary of
Labor must review the application for
financial assistance for the purpose of
certifying to the Secretary of Agriculture
that the assistance is not calculated, or
likely, to result in: (a) A transfer of any
employment or business activity from
one area to another by the loan
applicant’s business operation; or, (b)
An increase in the production of goods,
materials, services, or facilities in an
area where there is not sufficient
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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demand to employ the efficient capacity
of existing competitive enterprises
unless the financial assistance will not
have an adverse impact on existing
competitive enterprises in the area. The
Employment and Training
Administration within the Department
of Labor is responsible for the review
and certification process. Comments
should address the two bases for
certification and, if possible, provide
data to assist in the analysis of these
issues.
Signed at Washington, DC this 10th of
November, 2009.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and
Training.
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Reduction Act of 1995, we are providing
opportunity for public comment on this
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requests for copies of the proposed
information collection request should be
addressed to Suzanne Plimpton, Reports
Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard,
Room 295, Arlington, VA 22230, or by
e-mail to splimpton@nsf.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Suzanne Plimpton on (703) 292–7556 or
send e-mail to splimpton@nsf.gov.
Individuals who use a
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Title of Collection: Quantitative
Evaluation of the ADVANCE Program.
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Abstract: The ADVANCE Program
was established by the National Science
Foundation in 2001 to address the
underrepresentation and inadequate
advancement of women on STEM
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Mathematics) faculties at postsecondary
institutions. The evaluation being
conducted by Westat focuses on the
outcomes of two ADVANCE program
components: (a) The first two (2001 and
2003) cohorts of Institutional
Transformation (IT) awardees, and (b)
both (2002 and 2004) cohorts of
individuals receiving ADVANCE
Fellows awards. The study will rely on
a thorough review of project documents
and relevant literature; a survey
(facilitated online via WebEx) and an
outcome indicator data form
(distributed and completed
electronically) for the 19 IT awardee
institutions; and, a mail survey, with
telephone followup as needed, of all 59
former Fellows. In addition, the study
will use data from the 2001 and 2008
administrations of the Survey of
Doctorate Recipients (SDR) for
comparison purposes.
The evaluation of the IT component
has two primary goals: to compare
selected gender equity outcomes for
STEM faculty at the 19 IT Cohorts 1 and
2 institutions and at other similar U.S.
four-year colleges and universities that
have not subsequently received
ADVANCE IT awards, and to develop
innovative institutional-level measures
of changes in gender equity climate and
practices that can be applied to
evaluating the outcomes of the IT
award. The primary goal of the Fellows
evaluation is to compare the career
trajectories of ADVANCE Fellows with
those of similar individuals who were
not awarded these fellowships.
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Respondents: Faculty and staff at
institutions of higher education and
individuals holding doctoral degrees in
STEM fields awarded an NSF
ADVANCE Fellowship.
Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 139.
Burden on the Public: 1859 hours.
Dated: November 17, 2009.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Request for Certification of Compliance--Rural Industrialization
Loan and Grant Program
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Employment and Training Administration is issuing this
notice to announce the receipt of a ``Certification of Non-Relocation
and Market and Capacity Information Report'' (Form 4279-2) for the
following:
Applicant/Location: Legacy Senior Care Group, LLC/Richfield, Ohio.
Principal Product/Purpose: The loan, guarantee, or grant
application is to enable a new business venture to construct and manage
an assisted living facility that also offers memory care. The NAICS
industry code for this enterprise is: 623311 Continuing Care Retirement
Communities.
DATES: All interested parties may submit comments in writing no later
than December 4, 2009. Copies of adverse comments received will be
forwarded to the applicant noted above.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments concerning this notice to Anthony D.
Dais, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration,
200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room S-4231, Washington, DC 20210; or e-
mail Dais.Anthony@dol.gov; or transmit via fax (202) 693-3015 (this is
not a toll-free number).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anthony D. Dais, at telephone number
(202) 693-2784 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 188 of the Consolidated Farm and
Rural Development Act of 1972, as established under 29 CFR Part 75,
authorizes the United States Department of Agriculture to make or
guarantee loans or grants to finance industrial and business activities
in rural areas. The Secretary of Labor must review the application for
financial assistance for the purpose of certifying to the Secretary of
Agriculture that the assistance is not calculated, or likely, to result
in: (a) A transfer of any employment or business activity from one area
to another by the loan applicant's business operation; or, (b) An
increase in the production of goods, materials, services, or facilities
in an area where there is not sufficient
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demand to employ the efficient capacity of existing competitive
enterprises unless the financial assistance will not have an adverse
impact on existing competitive enterprises in the area. The Employment
and Training Administration within the Department of Labor is
responsible for the review and certification process. Comments should
address the two bases for certification and, if possible, provide data
to assist in the analysis of these issues.
Signed at Washington, DC this 10th of November, 2009.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training.
[FR Doc. E9-27871 Filed 11-19-09; 8:45 am]
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