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Information is collected on the ETA
9002 and VETS 200 Reports under the
following authority:
• Wagner-Peyser Act sec. 3(a), 29
U.S.C. 49b(a)
• Wagner-Peyser Act sec. 3(c), 29
U.S.C. 49b(c)
• Wagner-Peyser Act sec. 7(b), 29
U.S.C. 49f(b)
• Wagner-Peyser Act sec. 10(c), 29
U.S.C. 49i(c)
• Wagner-Peyser Act sec. 13(a), 29
U.S.C. 49l(a)
• Wagner-Peyser Act sec. 15(e)(2)(I),
29 U.S.C. 49l–2(e)(2)(I).
• Provisional Guidance on the
Implementation of the 1997 Standards
for Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity,
Executive Office of the President, Office
of Management and Budget (66 FR
3829–3831).
• Revisions to the Standards for
Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting
Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (62
FR 58781–58790); and
• Priority of Service for veterans in
Department of Labor job training
programs, 38 U.S.C. 4215(a)(2).
By July 1, 2012, ETA must modify the
current reporting system to begin the
collection of several additional
statutorily required pieces of
information. The first pertains to the
priority of service provisions contained
in the Jobs for Veterans Act, Public Law
107–288. These provisions provide that
veterans and certain spouses of veterans
(together comprising the category of
covered persons) are entitled to priority
over non-covered persons for the receipt
of employment, training, and placement
services provided under new or existing
qualified job training programs.
Qualified job training programs are
defined at 38 U.S.C. 4215(a)(2) as any
workforce preparation, development or
delivery program or service that is
directly funded, in whole or in part, by
the Department.
Additional items are required under
Public Law 112–56, Title II, Vow to Hire
Heroes, Sections 238 and 239, and
pertain to: (1) Performance measures on
job counseling, training and placement
programs of the Department, and; (2)
clarifications of priority of service for
veterans in Departmental job training
programs.
These requirements impact both the
ETA 9002 and VETS 200 reports. Lastly,
the expansive focus on veterans
reemployment initiatives has
necessitated collection of additional
information on groups of veterans (such
as Post 9/11 era veterans), targeted
services they received, and additional
aspects of their outcomes in order to
monitor and oversee their effectiveness.
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II. Review Focus
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
The Department is particularly
interested in comments which:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
continuation of the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information has considerable 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.
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Employment and Training
Administration
III. Current Actions
Type of Review: Extension with
revisions.
Title: Labor Exchange Reporting
System (LERS).
OMB Number: 1205–0240.
Affected Public: State, local and tribal
government entities and private nonprofit organizations.
Form(s): ETA–9002, VETS–200, The
Employment and Training (ET)
Handbook No. 406, Employment Service
Record Layout, Labor Exchange DRVS
Software Version 7.2 User’s Guide.
Total Annual Respondents: 54.
Annual Frequency: Quarterly.
Total Annual Responses: 1944.
Average Time per Response: 375
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 728,889.
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 OMB approval of the
information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.
Dated: January 2, 2012.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and
Training.
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Proposed Collection of Information for
the Job Corps Process Study; 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
on a new information collection for the
Job Corps Process Study (Process
Study). A copy of the proposed
information collection request can be
obtained by contacting the office listed
below in the addresses section of this
notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addresses section below on or before
March 19, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
to Dan Ryan, Employment and Training
Administration, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW., Room N–5641,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone
number: (202) 693–3649 (this is not a
toll-free number). Fax number: (202)
693–2766. Email: ryan.dan@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Background
Job Corps is a comprehensive program
designed to assist eligible disadvantaged
youth aged 16 to 24 through intensive
education and training services. A total
of 125 primarily residential Job Corps
centers operate in 48 states, the District
of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Job Corps
provides academic instruction to
improve students’ reading and math
abilities and prepare students for
obtaining General Educational
Development certificates or high school
diplomas, career technical training in
over 100 programs, and development of
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social skills. In addition, Job Corps
provides dormitory-style housing,
meals, medical care, and counseling.
Finally, the program assists its enrollees
with career transitions through
placement in jobs, higher education,
and the military. Over the course of its
45 years of operation, Job Corps has
served almost 3 million youth.
In the fall of 2010, ETA contracted
with IMPAQ International, LLC (with
subcontracts to the Battelle Memorial
Institute and Decision Information
Resources, Inc.—henceforth, the IMPAQ
team) to conduct this Process Study to
address the following broad questions:
• What center practices appear to be
associated with center performance or
particular dimensions of performance
and what is the nature of such
associations?
• How do interactions among center
practices and characteristics mediate
these associations? Put differently, do
some strategies or practices work
especially well (or especially badly) for
certain kinds of centers?
ETA is requesting clearance for the
IMPAQ team to carry out two principal
research activities, integral to the
Process Study: (1) Site visits to 16 Job
Corps centers with interviews with
senior center and operator management,
instructors, staff, and partners and focus
groups with students and (2) a Webbased survey of all Job Corps center
directors.
The centers for visits will be selected
in a purposive fashion to represent
diversity of performance, using
established Job Corps performance
metrics on student outcomes both
during and after program enrollment,
adjusted for participant and local labor
market characteristics, supplemented by
additional measures of job placement
and student satisfaction. Practices
identified during the visits will also be
examined through the survey. The
ultimate use of the information
collection is to associate practices with
performance outcomes, an analysis
which should be useful for
programmatic improvement.
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
Agency: Employment and Training
Administration.
Type of Review: New collection.
Title: Job Corps Process Study.
OMB Number: 1205–0NEW.
Affected Public: Job Corps center
management and staff; Job Corps
students; Job Corps partner
organizations’ staff; and Job Corps
center operators’ staff.
Total Respondents: 637.
Frequency: Twice for directors of the
16 visited centers and once for all other
respondents.
Total Responses: 653.
Average Time per Response: 85
minutes.1
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 927.
Total Other Burden Cost for
Respondents: $0.
Total burden
hours for position
type across all
centers Concerned
Data collection activity (interview unless noted as survey)
32
8
24
24
16
16
24
8
16
16
48
48
48
32
16
32
32
32
16
64
375
TOTAL ......................................................................................................................................................................................
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Center Directors ...............................................................................................................................................................................
Human Resources Managers ..........................................................................................................................................................
Academic Instruction Managers ......................................................................................................................................................
Career Technical Training (CTT) Managers ...................................................................................................................................
Work-Based Learning Coordinators ................................................................................................................................................
Career Preparation Period Managers .............................................................................................................................................
Counseling Managers ......................................................................................................................................................................
Peer Leadership Coordinators .........................................................................................................................................................
Social Development Managers ........................................................................................................................................................
Center Safety Officers .....................................................................................................................................................................
Academic Instructors .......................................................................................................................................................................
CTT Instructors ................................................................................................................................................................................
Residential Advisors ........................................................................................................................................................................
Senior Administration Staff, Including from Operators ....................................................................................................................
Business and Community Liaisons .................................................................................................................................................
Organizational Partners: Outreach and Admissions and Career Technical Services ....................................................................
Community Partners, Other than Employers ..................................................................................................................................
Employer Partners ...........................................................................................................................................................................
Regional Office Project Managers ...................................................................................................................................................
Students ...........................................................................................................................................................................................
Center Director Survey ....................................................................................................................................................................
927
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
1 This is the average across all types of
information collection activities.
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collection request; they will also
become a matter of public record.
ADDRESSES
section below on or before
March 19, 2012.
I. Guam Military Base Realignment
Contractors Recruitment Standards
Dated: Signed in Washington, DC, on this
11th day of January, 2012.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and
Training.
ADDRESSES:
Submit written comments
to Anthony D. Dais, Office of Workforce
Investment, Room C–4512, Employment
and Training Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW., Room S–4231,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone (202)
693–2784 (this is not a toll-free
number). Individuals with hearing or
speech impairments may access the
telephone number above via TTY by
calling the toll-free Federal Information
Relay Service at 1–(877) 889–5627
(TTY/TDD). Fax: (202) 693–3015. Email:
dais.anthony@dol.gov.
Guam military base realignment
contractors must take the following
actions to recruit U.S. workers.
1. At least 60 days before the start
date of workers under a base
realignment contract, contractors must:
(a) Submit a job posting with GDOL
at https://dol.guam.gov/index.php?
option=com_jobline&Itemid=0&task
=add, or by submitting a completed Job
Order (Form GES 514) in person at the
Guam Employment Service office. The
job posting must be posted on the GDOL
Job Bank for at least 21 consecutive
days;
(b) Submit a job posting with the state
workforce agency’s Internet job bank in
American Samoa at www.usworks.com/
americansamoa/, the Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands at
https://marianaslabor.net/employer.asp,
and in the following states:
i. Alaska (www.jobs.state.ak.us);
ii. California (www.caljobs.ca.gov);
iii. Hawaii (www.hirenethawaii.com);
iv. Oregon (www.emp.state.or.us/
jobs); and
v. Washington (https://
fortress.wa.gov/esd/worksource/
Employment.aspx).
The job posting must be posted for at
least 21 consecutive days. If for any
reason the Internet job bank in
American Samoa is not available, the
contractor must place an advertisement
on two Sundays in a newspaper that: (1)
Is of general circulation in the territory;
(2) has a reasonable distribution and is
appropriate to the occupation; and (3) is
likely to be seen by workers interested
in applying for construction
employment.
(c) Submit a job posting with an
Internet-based job bank that is:
i. National in scope, including the
entire United States, Guam, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, American Samoa, the Virgin
Islands, and the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico;
ii. Allows job postings for all
occupations; and
iii. Is free of charge for job seekers and
their intermediaries in One-Stop Career
Centers and the employment service
delivery system nationwide.
(d) Where the occupation or industry
is customarily unionized, contact the
local union in Guam in writing to seek
U.S. workers who are qualified and who
will be available for the job opportunity.
The postings are separate and distinct
requirements—i.e., a posting under
Section 1(b) cannot be used to satisfy
the posting requirement under Section
1(c).
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Comment Request for
Information Collection: Guam Military
Base Realignment Contractor
Recruitment Standards, Extension
Without Revisions
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 (PRA 95) [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 extension of data
collection on its Guam Military Base
Realignment Contractors Recruitment
Standards, which expire April 30, 2012.
This information collection follows an
emergency review that was conducted
in accordance with the PRA 95 and 5
CFR 1320.13. The submission for Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
emergency review was approved on
October 19, 2011. A copy of the
proposed information collection request
can be obtained either by: (1) Accessing
the RegInfo.gov Web site at https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAViewDocument?ref_nbr=
201108-1205-007, or (2) by contacting
the office listed below in the ADDRESSES
section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Section 2834(a) of the National
Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for
Fiscal Year 2010 (Pub. L. 111–84,
enacted October 28, 2009) amended
Section 2824(c) of the Military
Construction Authorization Act (Pub. L.
110–417, Division B) by adding a new
subsection (6). This provision prohibits
contractors engaged in construction
projects related to the realignment of
U.S. military forces from Okinawa to
Guam from hiring non-U.S. workers
unless the Governor of Guam
(Governor), in consultation with the
U.S. Secretary of Labor (Secretary),
certifies that (1) there is an insufficient
number of U.S. workers that are able,
willing, and qualified to perform the
work; and (2) that the employment of
non-U.S. workers will not have an
adverse effect on either the wages or the
working conditions of U.S. construction
workers in Guam.
In order to allow the Governor to
make this certification, the NDAA
requires contractors to recruit workers
in the United States, including in Guam,
the Northern Mariana Islands, American
Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and
Puerto Rico, according to the terms of
recruitment standards developed and
approved by the Secretary. The
recruitment standards have been
reproduced in full below.
Although the Department has
developed the recruitment standards, it
has assigned oversight of the contractor
recruitment standards and the NDAArequired consultation with the Governor
to the Guam Department of Labor
(GDOL) through a Memorandum of
Understanding between the U.S.
Department of Labor and GDOL,
effective November 22, 2011.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Proposed Collection of Information for the Job Corps Process
Study; 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 on a new information
collection for the Job Corps Process Study (Process Study). A copy of
the proposed information collection request can be obtained by
contacting the office listed below in the addresses section of this
notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addresses section below on or before March 19, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to Dan Ryan, Employment and Training
Administration, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Room N-5641, Washington,
DC 20210. Telephone number: (202) 693-3649 (this is not a toll-free
number). Fax number: (202) 693-2766. Email: ryan.dan@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Job Corps is a comprehensive program designed to assist eligible
disadvantaged youth aged 16 to 24 through intensive education and
training services. A total of 125 primarily residential Job Corps
centers operate in 48 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto
Rico. Job Corps provides academic instruction to improve students'
reading and math abilities and prepare students for obtaining General
Educational Development certificates or high school diplomas, career
technical training in over 100 programs, and development of
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social skills. In addition, Job Corps provides dormitory-style housing,
meals, medical care, and counseling. Finally, the program assists its
enrollees with career transitions through placement in jobs, higher
education, and the military. Over the course of its 45 years of
operation, Job Corps has served almost 3 million youth.
In the fall of 2010, ETA contracted with IMPAQ International, LLC
(with subcontracts to the Battelle Memorial Institute and Decision
Information Resources, Inc.--henceforth, the IMPAQ team) to conduct
this Process Study to address the following broad questions:
What center practices appear to be associated with center
performance or particular dimensions of performance and what is the
nature of such associations?
How do interactions among center practices and
characteristics mediate these associations? Put differently, do some
strategies or practices work especially well (or especially badly) for
certain kinds of centers?
ETA is requesting clearance for the IMPAQ team to carry out two
principal research activities, integral to the Process Study: (1) Site
visits to 16 Job Corps centers with interviews with senior center and
operator management, instructors, staff, and partners and focus groups
with students and (2) a Web-based survey of all Job Corps center
directors.
The centers for visits will be selected in a purposive fashion to
represent diversity of performance, using established Job Corps
performance metrics on student outcomes both during and after program
enrollment, adjusted for participant and local labor market
characteristics, supplemented by additional measures of job placement
and student satisfaction. Practices identified during the visits will
also be examined through the survey. The ultimate use of the
information collection is to associate practices with performance
outcomes, an analysis which should be useful for programmatic
improvement.
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
Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
Type of Review: New collection.
Title: Job Corps Process Study.
OMB Number: 1205-0NEW.
Affected Public: Job Corps center management and staff; Job Corps
students; Job Corps partner organizations' staff; and Job Corps center
operators' staff.
Total Respondents: 637.
Frequency: Twice for directors of the 16 visited centers and once
for all other respondents.
Total Responses: 653.
Average Time per Response: 85 minutes.\1\
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collection activities.
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Estimated Total Burden Hours: 927.
Total Other Burden Cost for Respondents: $0.
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Total burden
hours for
Data collection activity (interview unless noted as position type
survey) across all
centers
Concerned
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Center Directors...................................... 32
Human Resources Managers.............................. 8
Academic Instruction Managers......................... 24
Career Technical Training (CTT) Managers.............. 24
Work-Based Learning Coordinators...................... 16
Career Preparation Period Managers.................... 16
Counseling Managers................................... 24
Peer Leadership Coordinators.......................... 8
Social Development Managers........................... 16
Center Safety Officers................................ 16
Academic Instructors.................................. 48
CTT Instructors....................................... 48
Residential Advisors.................................. 48
Senior Administration Staff, Including from Operators. 32
Business and Community Liaisons....................... 16
Organizational Partners: Outreach and Admissions and 32
Career Technical Services............................
Community Partners, Other than Employers.............. 32
Employer Partners..................................... 32
Regional Office Project Managers...................... 16
Students.............................................. 64
Center Director Survey................................ 375
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TOTAL............................................. 927
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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
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collection request; they will also become a matter of public record.
Dated: Signed in Washington, DC, on this 11th day of January,
2012.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training.
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