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obtained by contacting Savi Swick at
202–693–3382 (this is not a toll-free
number) or e-mail: swick.savi@dol.gov.
Comments are to be submitted to
Department of Labor/Employment and
Training Administration, Attn: Savi
Swick, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Room N–5641, Washington, DC 20210.
Written comments may be transmitted
by facsimile to 202–693–2766 (this is
not a toll-free number) or e-mailed to
swick.savi@dol.gov.
NW., Suite 6002, Washington, DC
20579. Telephone: (202) 616–6975.
Judith H. Lock,
Executive Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011–22140 Filed 8–25–11; 4:15 pm]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Collection of Information for
an Evaluation of the Implementation of
Green Jobs and Health Care Training
Grants; New Collection
Employment and Training
Administration (ETA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of Labor
(Department or DOL), 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 (PRA) [44 U.S.C.
3505(c)(2)(A)]. The 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 the collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed.
The proposed information collection
is for an evaluation of the
implementation of the Green Jobs and
Health Care training grants. This
evaluation is sponsored by ETA to
understand the processes surrounding
the design and implementation of these
grants.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addressee’s section below on or before
October 28, 2011.
ADDRESSES: A copy of this proposed
information collection request may be
SUMMARY:
I. Background
The proposed information collection
is for an evaluation of the
implementation of the Green Jobs and
Health Care training grants. This
evaluation is sponsored by ETA to
understand the processes surrounding
the design and implementation of four
specific grant programs.
In February 2009, President Obama
signed the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery
Act) into law in an effort to preserve and
create jobs, promote economic growth,
and assist those impacted by the
recession. The Recovery Act included
funding for four Solicitations for Grant
Applications (SGAs) with the goal of
training workers in the skills required to
be employed in specific high-growth
and emerging industries including
health care, energy efficiency, and
renewable energy. The four SGAs are:
• Energy Training Partnership ($100
million allocated across 25 projects)
• Pathways Out of Poverty ($150
million for 38 projects)
• State Energy Sector Partnership and
Training ($190 million for 34 projects)
• Health Care and Other High Growth
Emerging Industries ($225 million for 55
projects).
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;
Number of
respondents
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Data collection activity
In-Depth Interviews:
a. Grant Administrator ..............................................................................
b. Education/Training Provider Partner ....................................................
c. Workforce Partner .................................................................................
d. Employer/Union Partner .......................................................................
e. Support Services/Other Partner ...........................................................
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• 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.
III. Current Actions
This proposed information collection
will involve: (1) Collecting data from
recipients of four DOL/ETA grants that
provide funding to train unemployed,
underemployed, dislocated, and
incumbent workers for employment and
to create career pathways in health care
and other growing industries; (2)
conducting on-site in-depth interviews
with grantees and their program partner
staff; (3) conducting focus groups with
grant participants; and (4) administering
a web/telephone survey of all grant
project directors and selected program
partner staff.
Agency: Employment and Training
Administration.
Type of Review: New Collection.
Title of Collection: The Evaluation of
The Green Jobs and Health Care
Training Grants Implementation.
OMB Control Number: 1205–0NEW.
Affected Public: Community-based
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
2,252.
Frequency: Once at each type of
collection (interviews, focus groups,
survey).
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
2,252.
Estimated Average Time per
Response: 31 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,186.
Total Estimated Annual Cost Burden
(excluding hour costs): $0.
Total burden
hours
36
72
36
72
44
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Average
hourly wage
rate*
$44.84
25.01
19.48
31.25
19.48
Total
annualized
cost
$1,614
1,801
701
2,250
857
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Number of
respondents
Data collection activity
Total burden
hours
Subtotal—Interviews ..........................................................................
260
360
360
360
90
30
540
Subtotal—Focus Groups ...................................................................
1,080
660
Grantee Surveys:
a. Screening Calls ....................................................................................
b. Web/Telephone Survey ........................................................................
152
760
13
253
Subtotal—Surveys .............................................................................
912
266
Total ...........................................................................................
2,252
1,186
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and may
be included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
final information collection request. The
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: August 22, 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011–22002 Filed 8–26–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Labor Surplus Area Classification
Under Executive Orders 12073 and
10582
Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice
AGENCY:
The purpose of this notice is
to announce the annual list of labor
surplus areas for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012.
DATES: Effective Date: The annual list of
labor surplus areas is effective October
1, 2011, for all states, the District of
Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Samuel Wright, Office of Workforce
Investment, Employment and Training
Administration, 200 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Room S–4231,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone:
(202) 693–2870 (This is not a toll-free
number).
SUMMARY:
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Total
annualized
cost
260
Focus Groups:
a. Participant Information Sheet ...............................................................
b. Informed Consent .................................................................................
c. Discussion ............................................................................................
Average
hourly wage
rate*
The
Department of Labor’s regulations
implementing Executive Orders 12073
and 10582 are set forth at 20 CFR part
654, Subparts A and B. These
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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8,640
10,560
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28.01
583
7,087
7,670
n/a
25,453
regulations require the Employment and
Training Administration (ETA) to
classify jurisdictions as labor surplus
areas pursuant to the criteria specified
in the regulations and to publish
annually a list of labor surplus areas.
Pursuant to those regulations, ETA is
hereby publishing the annual list of
labor surplus areas.
In addition, the regulations provide
exceptional circumstance criteria for
classifying labor surplus areas when
catastrophic events, such as natural
disasters, plant closings, and contract
cancellations are expected to have a
long-term impact on labor market area
conditions, discounting temporary or
seasonal factors.
(c) A county, except those counties
which contain any type of civil
jurisdictions defined in A or B above
and a county in the States of
Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island; or
(d) A ‘‘balance of county’’ consisting
of a county less any component cities
and townships identified in paragraphs
A or B above; or
(e) A county equivalent which is a
town in the States of Connecticut,
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, or a
municipio in the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico.
Eligible Labor Surplus Areas
A Labor Surplus Area (LSA) is a civil
jurisdiction that has a civilian average
annual unemployment rate during the
previous two calendar years of 20
percent or more above the average
annual civilian unemployment rate for
all states during the same 24-month
reference period. Only official
unemployment estimates provided to
ETA by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
are used in making these classifications.
The average unemployment rate for all
states includes data for the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The
basic LSA classification criteria include
a ‘‘floor unemployment rate’’ (6.0%) and
a ‘‘ceiling unemployment rate’’ (10.0%).
Civil jurisdictions are defined as
follows:
(a) A city of at least 25,000 population
on the basis of the most recently
available estimates from the Bureau of
the Census; or
(b) A town or township in the States
of Michigan, New Jersey, New York, or
Pennsylvania of 25,000 or more
population and which possess powers
and functions similar to those of cities;
or
The Department of Labor (DOL) issues
the labor surplus area list on a fiscal
year basis. The list becomes effective
each October 1 and remains in effect
through the following September 30.
The reference period used in preparing
the current list was January 2009
through December 2010. The national
average unemployment rate during this
period was 9.5 percent. Twenty percent
higher than the national unemployment
rate is 11.4 percent. Since the ceiling
unemployment rate is 10.0 percent, the
qualifying rate is 10.0 percent.
Therefore, areas included on the FY
2012 labor surplus area list had an
average unemployment rate of 10.0
percent or above during the reference
period. When a civil jurisdiction is part
of a county and meets the
unemployment qualifier as a labor
surplus area, then the balance of county
will be used if the balance of county
also meets the unemployment criteria of
a labor surplus area. The FY 2012 labor
surplus area list and the list of labor
surplus areas in Puerto Rico can be
accessed at the ETA’s LSA website at
https://www.doleta.gov/programs/
lsa.cfm.
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[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2011-22002]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Proposed Collection of Information for an Evaluation of the
Implementation of Green Jobs and Health Care Training Grants; New
Collection
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (Department or DOL), 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 (PRA) [44 U.S.C. 3505(c)(2)(A)]. The 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 the
collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed.
The proposed information collection is for an evaluation of the
implementation of the Green Jobs and Health Care training grants. This
evaluation is sponsored by ETA to understand the processes surrounding
the design and implementation of these grants.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addressee's section below on or before October 28, 2011.
ADDRESSES: A copy of this proposed information collection request may
be obtained by contacting Savi Swick at 202-693-3382 (this is not a
toll-free number) or e-mail: swick.savi@dol.gov. Comments are to be
submitted to Department of Labor/Employment and Training
Administration, Attn: Savi Swick, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N-
5641, Washington, DC 20210. Written comments may be transmitted by
facsimile to 202-693-2766 (this is not a toll-free number) or e-mailed
to swick.savi@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The proposed information collection is for an evaluation of the
implementation of the Green Jobs and Health Care training grants. This
evaluation is sponsored by ETA to understand the processes surrounding
the design and implementation of four specific grant programs.
In February 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) into law in an effort to
preserve and create jobs, promote economic growth, and assist those
impacted by the recession. The Recovery Act included funding for four
Solicitations for Grant Applications (SGAs) with the goal of training
workers in the skills required to be employed in specific high-growth
and emerging industries including health care, energy efficiency, and
renewable energy. The four SGAs are:
Energy Training Partnership ($100 million allocated across
25 projects)
Pathways Out of Poverty ($150 million for 38 projects)
State Energy Sector Partnership and Training ($190 million
for 34 projects)
Health Care and Other High Growth Emerging Industries
($225 million for 55 projects).
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 submission of responses.
III. Current Actions
This proposed information collection will involve: (1) Collecting
data from recipients of four DOL/ETA grants that provide funding to
train unemployed, underemployed, dislocated, and incumbent workers for
employment and to create career pathways in health care and other
growing industries; (2) conducting on-site in-depth interviews with
grantees and their program partner staff; (3) conducting focus groups
with grant participants; and (4) administering a web/telephone survey
of all grant project directors and selected program partner staff.
Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
Type of Review: New Collection.
Title of Collection: The Evaluation of The Green Jobs and Health
Care Training Grants Implementation.
OMB Control Number: 1205-0NEW.
Affected Public: Community-based organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,252.
Frequency: Once at each type of collection (interviews, focus
groups, survey).
Total Estimated Annual Responses: 2,252.
Estimated Average Time per Response: 31 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,186.
Total Estimated Annual Cost Burden (excluding hour costs): $0.
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Average Total
Data collection activity Number of Total burden hourly wage annualized
respondents hours rate* cost
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In-Depth Interviews:
a. Grant Administrator...................... 36 36 $44.84 $1,614
b. Education/Training Provider Partner...... 72 72 25.01 1,801
c. Workforce Partner........................ 36 36 19.48 701
d. Employer/Union Partner................... 72 72 31.25 2,250
e. Support Services/Other Partner........... 44 44 19.48 857
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Subtotal--Interviews.................... 260 260 .............. 7,223
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Focus Groups:
a. Participant Information Sheet............ 360 90 16.00 1,440
b. Informed Consent......................... 360 30 16.00 480
c. Discussion............................... 360 540 16.00 8,640
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Subtotal--Focus Groups.................. 1,080 660 .............. 10,560
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Grantee Surveys:
a. Screening Calls.......................... 152 13 44.84 583
b. Web/Telephone Survey..................... 760 253 28.01 7,087
---------------------------------------------------------------
Subtotal--Surveys....................... 912 266 .............. 7,670
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total............................... 2,252 1,186 n/a 25,453
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Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and may be included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval of the final information collection request. The comments will
become a matter of public record.
Dated: August 22, 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-22002 Filed 8-26-11; 8:45 am]
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