Comment Request for Information Collection for State Integrated Workforce Plan Requirements for Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), Wagner-Peyser Act, and Department of Labor Workforce Programs, and for Unified Plan Requirements; Extension with Revisions, 42735-42736 [2011-18137]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Comment Request for Information
Collection for State Integrated
Workforce Plan Requirements for
Workforce Investment Act of 1998
(WIA), Wagner-Peyser Act, and
Department of Labor Workforce
Programs, and for Unified Plan
Requirements; Extension with
Revisions
AGENCY: Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
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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; the 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 collection of
data for State Integrated Workforce Plan
Requirements for Workforce Investment
Act/Wagner-Peyser Act and Department
of Labor Workforce Programs, and for
Unified Plan Requirements. The State
Integrated Workforce Plan Requirements
substantially revise and replace the
former WIA/Wagner-Peyser ‘‘standalone’’ planning guidance, formerly
entitled ‘‘Planning Guidance and
Instructions for Submission of the
Strategic State Plan for title I of the
Workforce Investment Act of 1998
(WIA) and the Wagner-Peyser Act.’’ The
new requirements also include data
collection for the Migrant and Seasonal
Farmworker (MSFW) Annual Outreach
Plan (AOP), Trade Adjustment
Assistance (TAA), and Senior
Community Service Employment
Program (SCSEP) State Plans. SCSEP
plans may now be optionally included
in the State Integrated Workforce Plan
submission. While these new
requirements provide an option for
states to integrate DOL-funded programs
into a single plan, it does not replace
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Unified Plan guidance that exists under
this same control number 1205–0398.
A copy of the proposed information
collection request (ICR) can be obtained
at https://www.doleta.gov/usworkforce/
wia-planning or 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
September 19, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
to Kimberly Vitelli, Office of Workforce
Investment, U.S. Department of Labor,
200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room
C–4510, Washington, DC 20210,
Telephone number: (202) 693–3045 (this
is not a toll-free number). Fax: (202)
693–3015. E-mail:
Vitelli.Kimberly@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Workforce Investment Act of
1998 (WIA) requires states to submit
either a ‘‘stand-alone’’ strategic plan for
title I of the Workforce Investment Act
of 1998 and the Wagner-Peyser Act
(WIA Section 112), or a Unified Plan
with partner programs (WIA Section
192). States also may submit requests for
waivers and work-flex as parts of the
Strategic State Plan. The State Integrated
Workforce Plan requirements provide a
framework for the collaboration of
governors, local elected officials,
businesses, and other partners to
continue the development of workforce
investment systems that address
customer needs, deliver integrated userfriendly services, and are accountable to
the customers and the public. This
proposed data collection extension
revises and replaces ‘‘stand-alone’’
planning guidance last published
December 1, 2008, in the Federal
Register. Training and Employment
Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 17–10
(Instructions for Submitting Workforce
Investment Act and Wagner-Peyser Act
State Plans and Waiver Requests for
Program Year 2011) described ETA’s
intention to update and redesign the
plan guidance, and to publish revised
guidance for use in Program Year 2012,
which begins July 1, 2012. In
consultation with multiple stakeholders,
ETA revised that guidance and now
seeks public comment on it. The
Unified Plan guidance that is part of this
proposed data collection extension
contains minor revisions, and may be
revised in future years.
The changes to this collection
include:
(1) In both the Integrated Workforce
Plan and Unified Plan requirements,
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removed the national strategic direction.
ETA now publishes the agency’s
strategic direction in guidance letters.
ETA’s strategic direction was
comprehensively discussed in TEGL No.
14–08, and policy direction was further
communicated in additional TEGLs
since.
(2) In the Integrated Workforce Plan
requirements, streamlined and reduced
the state plan collection elements to
those required by statute or regulation.
(3) In the Integrated Workforce Plan
requirements, reorganized the State Plan
requirements into three key sections: the
Strategic Plan, the Operational Plan, and
Assurances. A significant portion of
previously required narrative elements
have been replaced by Assurances and
allow for inclusion of state policy
attachments or Web links.
(4) In the Integrated Workforce Plan
requirements, added optional planning
requirements for SCSEP to allow states
to better integrate planned workforce
activities with WIA and Wagner-Peyser
programs and to optionally submit only
one plan to ETA for its programs. State
Integrated Workforce Plan submissions
that include SCSEP with the WIA/
Wagner-Peyser State Plan submission do
not need to submit a standalone plan for
that program.
(5) In the Integrated Workforce Plan
guidance, included the Wagner-Peyser
Agricultural Outreach Plan for provision
of equivalent and quantitatively
proportionate services for MSFWs, as
required by Wagner-Peyser regulations,
and TAA planning requirements.
(6) In both the Integrated Workforce
Plan and Unified Plan requirements,
added instructions on how to submit
waiver and work-flex requests.
(7) In both the Integrated Workforce
Plan and Unified Plan guidance,
eliminated assurances that were
duplicative of those that states sign in
annual grant agreements, such as
uniform administrative requirements.
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
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* 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 with
revisions.
Title: State Integrated Workforce Plan
Requirements for Workforce Investment
Act of 1998 (WIA), Wagner-Peyser Act,
and Department of Labor Workforce
Programs, and for Unified Plan
Requirements.
OMB Number: 1205–0398.
Affected Public: State and local
governments.
Form: See above instructions. There is
no form.
Total Estimated Annual Respondents:
57.
Estimates Annual Frequency: Once
per year.
Average Time per Response: 40 hours.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,280
Hours.
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.
3. Proposed Rule—Part 712 of
NCUA’s Rules and Regulations, Credit
Union Service Organizations.
4. Appointment of Deputy Executive
Director as the Agency Chief Operating
Officer.
5. Clarification and Standardization of
Corporate Credit Union Calculations of
Moving Daily Average Net Assets and
Moving Monthly Average Net RiskWeighted Assets.
6. Stabilization Fund Borrowing.
7. Reprogramming of NCUA’s
Operating Budget for 2011.
8. Insurance Fund Report.
RECESS: 11:15 a.m.
TIME AND DATE: 11:30 a.m., Thursday,
July 21, 2011.
PLACE: Board Room, 7th Floor, Room
7047, 1775 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA
22314–3428.
STATUS: Closed.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED
1. Consideration of Supervisory
Activity. Closed pursuant to some or all
of the following: exemptions (8),
(9)(A)(ii) and 9(B).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mary Rupp, Secretary of the Board,
Telephone: 703–518–6304.
Mary Rupp,
Board Secretary.
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Dated: July 12, 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
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ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
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AGENCY: The National Endowment for
the Humanities, National Foundation on
the Arts and the Humanities.
ACTION: Notice of meetings.
Meetings of Humanities Panel
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Meeting
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TIME AND DATE: 10 a.m., Thursday, July
21, 2011.
PLACE: Board Room, 7th Floor, Room
7047, 1775 Duke Street (All visitors
must use Diagonal Road Entrance),
Alexandria, VA 22314–3428.
STATUS: Open.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED
1. Final Rule—Parts 700, 701, 702,
and 741 of NCUA’s Rules and
Regulations, Net Worth and Equity Ratio
Definitions.
2. Interim Final Rule—Section 701.30
of NCUA’s Rules and Regulations,
Remittance Transfers.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(Pub. L. 92–463, as amended), notice is
hereby given that the following
meetings of Humanities Panels will be
held at the Old Post Office, 1100
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20506.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael P. McDonald, Advisory
Committee Management Officer,
National Endowment for the
Humanities, Washington, DC 20506;
telephone (202) 606–8322. Hearingimpaired individuals are advised that
information on this matter may be
obtained by contacting the
Endowment’s TDD terminal on (202)
606–8282.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
proposed meetings are for the purpose
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of panel review, discussion, evaluation
and recommendation on applications
for financial assistance under the
National Foundation on the Arts and the
Humanities Act of 1965, as amended,
including discussion of information
given in confidence to the agency by the
grant applicants. Because the proposed
meetings will consider information that
is likely to disclose trade secrets and
commercial or financial information
obtained from a person and privileged
or confidential and/or information of a
personal nature the disclosure of which
would constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy, pursuant
to authority granted me by the
Chairman’s Delegation of Authority to
Close Advisory Committee meetings,
dated July 19, 1993, I have determined
that these meetings will be closed to the
public pursuant to subsections (c) (4),
and (6) of section 552b of Title 5, United
States Code.
1. Date: August 1, 2011.
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Room 315.
Program: This meeting will review
applications for Art History II in
Fellowships Program, submitted to the
Division of Research Programs at the
May 3, 2011 deadline.
2. Date: August 1, 2011.
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Room 415.
Program: This meeting will review
applications for Communication,
Rhetoric and Linguistics in Fellowships
Program, submitted to the Division of
Research Programs at the May 3, 2011
deadline.
3. Date: August 2, 2011.
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Room 315.
Program: This meeting will review
applications for American History I in
Fellowships Program, submitted to the
Division of Research Programs at the
May 3, 2011 deadline.
4. Date: August 2, 2011.
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Room 415.
Program: This meeting will review
applications for Musicology and Dance
History in Fellowships, submitted to the
Division of Research Programs at the
May 3, 2011 deadline.
5. Date: August 2, 2011.
Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Room 421.
Program: This meeting will review
applications for Colleges & Universities
II, submitted to the Office of Challenge
Grants at the May 4, 2011 deadline.
6. Date: August 2, 2011.
Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Room 527.
Program: This meeting will review
applications for Research and
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Comment Request for Information Collection for State Integrated
Workforce Plan Requirements for Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA),
Wagner-Peyser Act, and Department of Labor Workforce Programs, and for
Unified Plan Requirements; Extension with Revisions
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
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 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; the
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 collection of data for State
Integrated Workforce Plan Requirements for Workforce Investment Act/
Wagner-Peyser Act and Department of Labor Workforce Programs, and for
Unified Plan Requirements. The State Integrated Workforce Plan
Requirements substantially revise and replace the former WIA/Wagner-
Peyser ``stand-alone'' planning guidance, formerly entitled ``Planning
Guidance and Instructions for Submission of the Strategic State Plan
for title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) and the
Wagner-Peyser Act.'' The new requirements also include data collection
for the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker (MSFW) Annual Outreach Plan
(AOP), Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), and Senior Community Service
Employment Program (SCSEP) State Plans. SCSEP plans may now be
optionally included in the State Integrated Workforce Plan submission.
While these new requirements provide an option for states to integrate
DOL-funded programs into a single plan, it does not replace Unified
Plan guidance that exists under this same control number 1205-0398.
A copy of the proposed information collection request (ICR) can be
obtained at https://www.doleta.gov/usworkforce/wia-planning or 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 September 19, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to Kimberly Vitelli, Office of
Workforce Investment, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Room C-4510, Washington, DC 20210, Telephone number: (202)
693-3045 (this is not a toll-free number). Fax: (202) 693-3015. E-mail:
Vitelli.Kimberly@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) requires states to
submit either a ``stand-alone'' strategic plan for title I of the
Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and the Wagner-Peyser Act (WIA Section
112), or a Unified Plan with partner programs (WIA Section 192). States
also may submit requests for waivers and work-flex as parts of the
Strategic State Plan. The State Integrated Workforce Plan requirements
provide a framework for the collaboration of governors, local elected
officials, businesses, and other partners to continue the development
of workforce investment systems that address customer needs, deliver
integrated user-friendly services, and are accountable to the customers
and the public. This proposed data collection extension revises and
replaces ``stand-alone'' planning guidance last published December 1,
2008, in the Federal Register. Training and Employment Guidance Letter
(TEGL) No. 17-10 (Instructions for Submitting Workforce Investment Act
and Wagner-Peyser Act State Plans and Waiver Requests for Program Year
2011) described ETA's intention to update and redesign the plan
guidance, and to publish revised guidance for use in Program Year 2012,
which begins July 1, 2012. In consultation with multiple stakeholders,
ETA revised that guidance and now seeks public comment on it. The
Unified Plan guidance that is part of this proposed data collection
extension contains minor revisions, and may be revised in future years.
The changes to this collection include:
(1) In both the Integrated Workforce Plan and Unified Plan
requirements, removed the national strategic direction. ETA now
publishes the agency's strategic direction in guidance letters. ETA's
strategic direction was comprehensively discussed in TEGL No. 14-08,
and policy direction was further communicated in additional TEGLs
since.
(2) In the Integrated Workforce Plan requirements, streamlined and
reduced the state plan collection elements to those required by statute
or regulation.
(3) In the Integrated Workforce Plan requirements, reorganized the
State Plan requirements into three key sections: the Strategic Plan,
the Operational Plan, and Assurances. A significant portion of
previously required narrative elements have been replaced by Assurances
and allow for inclusion of state policy attachments or Web links.
(4) In the Integrated Workforce Plan requirements, added optional
planning requirements for SCSEP to allow states to better integrate
planned workforce activities with WIA and Wagner-Peyser programs and to
optionally submit only one plan to ETA for its programs. State
Integrated Workforce Plan submissions that include SCSEP with the WIA/
Wagner-Peyser State Plan submission do not need to submit a standalone
plan for that program.
(5) In the Integrated Workforce Plan guidance, included the Wagner-
Peyser Agricultural Outreach Plan for provision of equivalent and
quantitatively proportionate services for MSFWs, as required by Wagner-
Peyser regulations, and TAA planning requirements.
(6) In both the Integrated Workforce Plan and Unified Plan
requirements, added instructions on how to submit waiver and work-flex
requests.
(7) In both the Integrated Workforce Plan and Unified Plan
guidance, eliminated assurances that were duplicative of those that
states sign in annual grant agreements, such as uniform administrative
requirements.
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
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* 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 with revisions.
Title: State Integrated Workforce Plan Requirements for Workforce
Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), Wagner-Peyser Act, and Department of
Labor Workforce Programs, and for Unified Plan Requirements.
OMB Number: 1205-0398.
Affected Public: State and local governments.
Form: See above instructions. There is no form.
Total Estimated Annual Respondents: 57.
Estimates Annual Frequency: Once per year.
Average Time per Response: 40 hours.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,280 Hours.
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: July 12, 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
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