Comment Request for Information Collection for the Evaluation of the Reintegration of Ex-Offenders-Adult Program (RExO), New Collection, 12758-12760 [2011-5194]
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Affected Public: Private sector—
businesses or other for-profits, not-forprofit institutions.
Estimated Total Annual Respondents:
500.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
1000.
Frequency: On Occasion.
Estimated Average Time Per
Response: 5–7 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 160 hours.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $0.
Signed: March 3, 2011.
Michel Smyth,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011–5241 Filed 3–7–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Proposed Information Collection
Request of the ETA–9016 (OMB
Control No. 1205–0268) on Alien
Claims Activity Report; Comment
Request on Extension Without Change
Employment and Training
Administration (ETA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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.
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 by
accessing: https://www.doleta.gov/
OMBCN/OMBControlNumber.cfm. This
collection authority expires on July 31,
2011.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addressee’s section below on or before
May 9, 2011.
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Send comments to Nancy
Dean, U.S. Department of Labor,
Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Workforce
Security, 200 Constitution Avenue,
NW., Frances Perkins Bldg., Room S–
4231, Washington, DC 20210, telephone
number (202) 693–3215 (this is not a
toll-free number) or by e-mail:
dean.nancy@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:
I. Background
The ETA–9016 Report is used by the
Department of Labor to assess whether
(and the extent to which) the
requirements of the U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services (USCIS),
Systematic Alien Verification for
Entitlement (SAVE) system are costeffective and otherwise appropriate for
the Unemployment Insurance (UI)
program. In addition, data from the
Alien Claims Activity report is being
used to assist the Secretary of Labor in
determining whether a State Workforce
Agency’s (SWA) administrative costs
associated with the verification program
are reasonable and reimbursable. There
is no other report or system available for
collecting this required information.
The report allows the Department of
Labor to determine the number of aliens
filing for UI, the number of benefit
issues detected, the denials of benefits
to aliens, the extent to which State
Agencies use the system, and the overall
effectiveness and cost efficiency of the
verification system. If SWAs are not
required to submit the information on
the Alien Claims Activity Report, the
Department of Labor would not be able
to fulfill its responsibilities to assess the
SAVE system.
II. Desired Focus of Comments
Currently, ETA is soliciting comments
concerning the proposed extension of
the collection for the ETA 9016 Report
on Alien Claims Activity, and is
particularly interested in comments
which:
* 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 electronic collection techniques.
III. Current Actions
Continued collection of the ETA–9016
data will provide for a comprehensive
evaluation of the UI Alien Claims
Activities. The data are collected
quarterly, and an analysis of the data
received is formulated into a report
summarizing the Alien Claims Activity
by the 53 SWAs.
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Type of Review: Extension without
change.
Title: ETA 9016, Alien Claims
Activity Report.
OMB Number: 1205–0268.
Affected Public: 53 State Workforce
Agencies.
Form(s): ETA 9016.
Total Annual Respondents: 53.
Annual Frequency: Quarterly.
Total Annual Responses: 212
responses.
Average Time per Response: 1 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 212 hours.
Total Annual Burden Cost for
Respondents: $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.
Dated: March 1, 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011–5238 Filed 3–7–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Comment Request for Information
Collection for the Evaluation of the
Reintegration of Ex-Offenders—Adult
Program (RExO), New Collection
Employment and Training
Administration (ETA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of Labor
(Department), 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, ETA is soliciting comments
concerning the collection of data for the
Evaluation of RExO. A copy of the
proposed information collection request
SUMMARY:
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can be obtained by contacting the office
listed below in the addressee section of
this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addressee’s section below on or before
May 9, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
to Bogdan Tereshchenko, Room N–5641,
Employment and Training
Administration, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210.
Telephone number: 202–693–3224 (this
is not a toll-free number). Fax number:
202–693–2766. E-mail:
tereshchenko.bogdan@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
More than two million people are
incarcerated in Federal and State
prisons and local jails, and over 600,000
people return from prisons to
communities across the country each
year. Released ex-offenders face
multiple challenges, including
difficulties with finding a job and
housing and accessing social and health
services, possible child support arrears,
and family troubles. A study conducted
for the Bureau of Justice Statistics
showed that two-thirds of individuals
released from prison in 1994 were
rearrested and half returned to prison
within three years. Recent research
suggests that released offenders consider
finding employment a high priority and
that higher employment and earnings
are associated with lower recidivism.
Through RExO, the Department
issued grants to urban faith-based and
community organizations (FBCOs) to
provide comprehensive employmentcentered services to nonviolent
offenders recently released from prison.
Building on the strengths that FBCOs
bring, RExO’s programs include
mentoring and various supportive
services and facilitate connections with
providers of housing services. Since
many of the grantees serve areas with
high concentrations of returning
prisoners, one of RExO’s aims is to
exercise a positive influence on the
communities’ broader social fabric.
Under contract with ETA, Social
Policy Research Associates is
conducting a random assignment
evaluation of 24 of RExO’s first
generation grants. Participants at each
site are randomly assigned to either the
program (60 percent) or the control (40
percent) group. The evaluation includes:
• An implementation component.
This component involves documenting
the processes, used by the grantee
organizations to assign participants to
either the program group, which was
offered program services, or the control
group, which was not; describing the
characteristics of the program
participants; examining the community
contexts of the RExO grantee programs;
and identifying the differences in the
services provided to the program and
control groups (the latter could access
non-RExO services) as well as variations
across grantees. By shedding light on
the programmatic practices of RExO,
this component will support the
interpretation of impact findings.
Information for it will come from site
visits to the grantees and the program’s
management information system.
• An impact component. Comparing
the two groups’ employment-related and
recidivism outcomes will allow the
research team to estimate the impacts of
RExO services for eligible ex-offenders
overall and for key subgroups. Outcome
data will be obtained from telephone
surveys of members of the RExO
program and control groups conducted
at 12 and 36 months after random
assignment.
The RExO evaluation will rely on the
following information sources for the
implementation and impact
components:
• Unstructured in-person interviews
with program staff at each site. The
research team will conduct a visit to
each of the 24 grantee sites. Interviews
with grantee program staff, carried out
during these visits, will yield detailed
information on program operations,
administrative issues, service delivery,
and promising practices; and
• 12-month and 36-month participant
surveys. The survey questions will
address employment and training
services received from RExO and other
sources; outcomes including
employment, job characteristics (such as
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respondents
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hourly wages, available fringe benefits,
and occupations), earnings, and
recidivism; as well as health status,
receipt of public assistance, and
housing. Responses to the survey will be
the main data source for estimating the
program impacts.
II. Review Focus
The Department 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 collection.
Title: Evaluation of the Reintegration
of Ex-Offenders—Adult Program.
OMB Number: 1205–0NEW.
Affected Public: Individuals, Private
sector, Not-for profit.
Total Annual Respondents: 4,032.
Annual Frequency: The survey will be
administered twice (12 and 36 months
after enrollment), and the unstructured
interviews will be conducted once.
Total Annual Responses: 4,032.
Average Time per Response: 30
minutes for the survey and 120 minutes
for each interview.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3,984.
Total Annual Burden Cost for
Respondents: $47,280.
Average time
per response
(min)
Frequency
Burden hours
Impact component:
12-month survey .........................................................................................
36-month survey .........................................................................................
Implementation component:
Unstructured interviews ...............................................................................
3,840
3,360
Once ...........
Once ...........
30
30
1,920
1,680
192
Once ...........
120
384
Total .....................................................................................................
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Total
respondents
Information collection activity
Annual burden
(hours)
Average cost
per hour
Annual burden
cost
Impact component:
12-month survey .......................................................................................
36-month survey .......................................................................................
Implementation component:
Unstructured interviews ............................................................................
3,840
3,360
1,920
1,680
$10
$11
$19,200
$18,480
192
384
$25
$9,600
Total ...................................................................................................
........................
3,984
........................
$47,280
Comments submitted in response to
this comment request will be
summarized and/or included in the
request for the Office of Management
and Budget approval of the information
collection request; they will also
become a matter of public record.
Dated: February 23, 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011–5194 Filed 3–7–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Comment Request for Information
Collection for Report ETA 902, Disaster
Unemployment Assistance Activities
(OMB Control No. 1205–0051):
Extension Without Change
Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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
extension of the ETA 902, Disaster
Unemployment Assistance Activities
under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act,
for which collection authority expires
on July 31, 2011.
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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.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addressee’s section below on or before
May 9, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
to Miriam Thompson, U.S. Department
of Labor, Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Workforce
Security, 200 Constitution Avenue,
NW., Frances Perkins Bldg., Room S–
4231, Washington, DC 20210, telephone
number (202) 693–3226 (this is not a
toll-free number) or by e-mail:
thompson.miriam@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The ETA 902 Report, Disaster
Unemployment Assistance (DUA)
Activities, is a monthly report submitted
by an impacted State(s) when a major
disaster is declared by the President that
provides for individual assistance
(including DUA). The report contains
data on DUA claims and payment
activities associated with administering
the DUA program. The information is
used by ETA’s Office of Workforce
Security (OWS) to determine workload
counts, for example, the number of
individuals determined eligible or
ineligible for DUA, the number of
appeals filed, and the number of
overpayments issued. The report also
allows OWS to track States’
administrative costs for the DUA
program(s).
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;
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* 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 electronic collection techniques.
III. Current Actions
Type of Review: Extension without
change.
Title: Disaster Unemployment
Assistance, Disaster Payment Activities
Report.
OMB Number: 1205–0051.
Affected Public: State Workforce
Agencies.
Form(s): ETA 902, ETA 902a.
Total Estimated Annual Respondents:
30.
Estimated Annual Frequency:
Approximately six (6) months per year.
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
180 responses.
Average Time per Response: One (1)
hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 180 hours.
Total Annual Burden Cost for
Respondents: $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.
Dated: March 1, 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011–5249 Filed 3–7–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Comment Request for Information Collection for the Evaluation of
the Reintegration of Ex-Offenders--Adult Program (RExO), New Collection
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (Department), 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, ETA is soliciting comments concerning the collection of
data for the Evaluation of RExO. A copy of the proposed information
collection request
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can be obtained by contacting the office listed below in the addressee
section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addressee's section below on or before May 9, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to Bogdan Tereshchenko, Room N-5641,
Employment and Training Administration, 200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone number: 202-693-3224 (this is not a
toll-free number). Fax number: 202-693-2766. E-mail:
tereshchenko.bogdan@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
More than two million people are incarcerated in Federal and State
prisons and local jails, and over 600,000 people return from prisons to
communities across the country each year. Released ex-offenders face
multiple challenges, including difficulties with finding a job and
housing and accessing social and health services, possible child
support arrears, and family troubles. A study conducted for the Bureau
of Justice Statistics showed that two-thirds of individuals released
from prison in 1994 were rearrested and half returned to prison within
three years. Recent research suggests that released offenders consider
finding employment a high priority and that higher employment and
earnings are associated with lower recidivism.
Through RExO, the Department issued grants to urban faith-based and
community organizations (FBCOs) to provide comprehensive employment-
centered services to nonviolent offenders recently released from
prison. Building on the strengths that FBCOs bring, RExO's programs
include mentoring and various supportive services and facilitate
connections with providers of housing services. Since many of the
grantees serve areas with high concentrations of returning prisoners,
one of RExO's aims is to exercise a positive influence on the
communities' broader social fabric.
Under contract with ETA, Social Policy Research Associates is
conducting a random assignment evaluation of 24 of RExO's first
generation grants. Participants at each site are randomly assigned to
either the program (60 percent) or the control (40 percent) group. The
evaluation includes:
An implementation component. This component involves
documenting the processes, used by the grantee organizations to assign
participants to either the program group, which was offered program
services, or the control group, which was not; describing the
characteristics of the program participants; examining the community
contexts of the RExO grantee programs; and identifying the differences
in the services provided to the program and control groups (the latter
could access non-RExO services) as well as variations across grantees.
By shedding light on the programmatic practices of RExO, this component
will support the interpretation of impact findings. Information for it
will come from site visits to the grantees and the program's management
information system.
An impact component. Comparing the two groups' employment-
related and recidivism outcomes will allow the research team to
estimate the impacts of RExO services for eligible ex-offenders overall
and for key subgroups. Outcome data will be obtained from telephone
surveys of members of the RExO program and control groups conducted at
12 and 36 months after random assignment.
The RExO evaluation will rely on the following information sources
for the implementation and impact components:
Unstructured in-person interviews with program staff at
each site. The research team will conduct a visit to each of the 24
grantee sites. Interviews with grantee program staff, carried out
during these visits, will yield detailed information on program
operations, administrative issues, service delivery, and promising
practices; and
12-month and 36-month participant surveys. The survey
questions will address employment and training services received from
RExO and other sources; outcomes including employment, job
characteristics (such as hourly wages, available fringe benefits, and
occupations), earnings, and recidivism; as well as health status,
receipt of public assistance, and housing. Responses to the survey will
be the main data source for estimating the program impacts.
II. Review Focus
The Department 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 collection.
Title: Evaluation of the Reintegration of Ex-Offenders--Adult
Program.
OMB Number: 1205-0NEW.
Affected Public: Individuals, Private sector, Not-for profit.
Total Annual Respondents: 4,032.
Annual Frequency: The survey will be administered twice (12 and 36
months after enrollment), and the unstructured interviews will be
conducted once.
Total Annual Responses: 4,032.
Average Time per Response: 30 minutes for the survey and 120
minutes for each interview.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,984.
Total Annual Burden Cost for Respondents: $47,280.
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Average time
Information collection activity Total Frequency per response Burden hours
respondents (min)
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Impact component:
12-month survey.................. 3,840 Once..................... 30 1,920
36-month survey.................. 3,360 Once..................... 30 1,680
Implementation component:
Unstructured interviews.......... 192 Once..................... 120 384
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Total........................ .............. ......................... .............. 3,984
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Total Annual burden Average cost Annual burden
Information collection activity respondents (hours) per hour cost
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Impact component:
12-month survey............................. 3,840 1,920 $10 $19,200
36-month survey............................. 3,360 1,680 $11 $18,480
Implementation component:
Unstructured interviews..................... 192 384 $25 $9,600
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Total................................... .............. 3,984 .............. $47,280
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Comments submitted in response to this comment request will be
summarized and/or included in the request for the Office of Management
and Budget approval of the information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.
Dated: February 23, 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-5194 Filed 3-7-11; 8:45 am]
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