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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Emergency Review: Comment Request
Veterans’ Retraining Assistance
Program
ACTION:
Notice.
The Department of Labor
(DOL) has submitted the Employment
and Training Administration (ETA)
sponsored information collection
request (ICR) proposal titled, ‘‘Veterans’
Retraining Assistance Program,’’ to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and clearance
utilizing emergency review procedures
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13,
44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) and 5 CFR
1320.13.
SUMMARY:
OMB approval has been
requested by March 20, 2012. Submit
comments on or before March 16, 2012.
ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR, with
applicable supporting documentation;
including a description of the likely
respondents, proposed frequency of
response, and estimated total burden
may be obtained from the RegInfo.gov
Web site, https://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain or by contacting
Michel Smyth by telephone at 202–693–
4129 (this is not a toll-free number) or
sending an email to
DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
Submit comments about this request
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk
Officer for the Department of Labor,
Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Management
and Budget, Room 10235, Washington,
DC 20503, Telephone: 202–395–6929/
Fax: 202–395–6881 (these are not tollfree numbers), email:
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov.
DATES:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michel Smyth by telephone at 202–693–
4129 (this is not a toll-free number) or
by email at DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ETA
seeks approval to collect individual
applicant data for the Veterans
Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP)
as part of the VOW to Hire Heroes Act
of 2011 (Pub. L. 112–56), which was
signed into law on November 21, 2011.
This benefit directs the Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA), in cooperation
with the DOL, to pay for up to 12
months of a training program in a high
demand occupation for unemployed
eligible veterans. The program is to
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serve up to 45,000 veterans in fiscal year
2012, beginning July 1, 2012, and up to
54,000 veterans from October 1, 2012,
through March 31, 2014.
The VRAP provides the benefit to
veterans who fulfill the following
eligibility criteria: As of date of
application, is at least 35 years old and
less than 60; discharged from active
duty under conditions other than
dishonorable; is unemployed as of date
of application; is not eligible to receive
other educational assistance from the
VA; is not in receipt of compensation
for a service-connected disability rated
totally disabling by reason of
unemployability; was not and is not
enrolled in any Federal or State job
training program within the previous
180 days; and, the application must be
submitted not later than October 1,
2013.
The VA is responsible for determining
the following eligibility criteria:
Discharged from active duty under
conditions other than dishonorable; is
not eligible to receive other educational
assistance from the VA; is not in receipt
of compensation for a service-connected
disability rated totally disabling by
reason of unemployability. The VA will
be collecting information required for
their eligibility criteria through the
‘‘Application for VA Educational
Benefits’’ (OMB Control Number 2900–
0154, VA Form 22–1990). The DOL is
required to determine whether each
veteran applying for the program is
between 35 and 60 years old, is
unemployed as of the date of the
application, has not and is not enrolled
in a Federal or state job training
program within 180 days of the
application, and has applied for the
program no later than October 1, 2013.
The DOL does not currently have an
approved OMB information collection
for determining eligibility under the
statute. The DOL is proposing to
determine its eligibility requirements by
collecting individual applicant data.
The data will be linked to the VA’s
Veterans On-line Application
(VONAPP, VA Form 22–1990) to
complete the application. The VA will
transmit a report to the DOL about the
completion status of the veterans, so
that the DOL can make contact with the
veteran to offer employment services.
This information collection is subject
to the PRA. A Federal agency generally
cannot conduct or sponsor a collection
of information, and the public is
generally not required to respond to an
information collection, unless it is
approved by the OMB under the PRA
and displays a currently valid OMB
Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
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law, no person shall generally be subject
to penalty for failing to comply with a
collection of information if the
collection of information does not
display a valid OMB Control Number.
See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
The ETA seeks OMB approval under
the PRA emergency clearance process
for the individual applicant data
collection, because the VRAP program
has a required start date of July 1, 2012.
The application system must be in place
well before the program start date in
order to provide program outreach to
veterans and technical assistance to
DOL grantees. This requires an
expedited process for building a system
for collecting individual data that has
the capacity to serve up to 45,000
veterans between July 1, 2012 and
September 30, 2012. Failure to be able
to collect individual data would
jeopardize the ability for applicants to
complete an application in time to begin
educational services by the statutory
start date of July 1, 2012. The
application collects eligibility
information required by the statute.
Inability to collect individual applicant
information will also jeopardize the
ability of the DOL to offer employment
services the statute requires.
Interested parties are encouraged to
send comments to the OMB, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs at
the address shown in the ADDRESSES
section by March 16, 2012. In order to
help ensure appropriate consideration,
comments should mention OMB ICR
Reference Number 201202–1205–005.
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments that:
• 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.
Agency: Employment and Training
Administration.
Title of Collection: Veterans’
Retraining Assistance Program.
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OMB ICR Reference Number: 201202–
1205–005.
Type of Review: New collection
(Request for a new OMB Control
Number).
Requested Duration of Authorization:
Six (6) months from date of approval.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 100,000.
Frequency of Collection: Once.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 100,000.
Estimated Time per Response: Five (5)
minutes.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 8,333.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $0.
Dated: March 7, 2012.
Michel Smyth,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
In the request for reconsideration, the
petitioners supplied new information
regarding the subject firm’s operations
overseas and possible import
competition.
The Department of Labor has carefully
reviewed the request for reconsideration
and the existing record, and has
determined that the Department will
conduct further investigation to
determine if the workers meet the
eligibility requirements to apply for
TAA.
Conclusion
After careful review of the
application, I conclude that the claim is
of sufficient weight to justify
reconsideration of the U.S. Department
of Labor’s prior decision. The
application is, therefore, granted.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 1st day of
March, 2012.
Del Min Amy Chen,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment
Assistance.
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RR Donnelley, Inc., Including On-Site
Leased Workers From Manpower and
Kelly Services, Bloomsburg, PA;
Notice of Affirmative Determination
Regarding Application for
Reconsideration
By application dated February 25,
2012, the petitioners requested
administrative reconsideration of the
negative determination regarding
workers’ eligibility to apply for Trade
Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
applicable to workers and former
workers of RR Donnelley, Inc.,
including on-site leased workers from
Manpower and Kelly Services,
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania (subject
firm). The Department’s Notice of
determination was issued on February
3, 2012 and published in the Federal
Register on February 21, 2012 (77 FR
9973).
The workers engage in activities
related to the production of hard and
soft cover books. The initial
determination was based on the findings
that worker separations were not
attributable to increased imports by the
subject firm or its declining customers
of articles like or directly competitive
with hard and soft cover books or a shift
to/acquisition from a foreign country by
the workers’ firm in the production of
articles like or directly competitive with
hard and soft cover books.
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PlumChoice, Inc. to be considered
leased workers.
The intent of the Department’s
certification is to include all workers of
the subject firm who were adversely
affected by increased customer imports
of sales and technical support services.
Based on these findings, the
Department is amending this
certification to include workers leased
from Technisource working on-site at
the Scarborough, Maine location of the
subject firm.
The amended notice applicable to
TA–W–81,114 is hereby issued as
follows:
‘‘All workers from PlumChoice, Inc.,
including on-site leased workers from
Balance Staffing, Insight Global Staffing, and
Technisource, Scarborough, Maine, who
became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after February 13, 2010,
through February 3, 2014, and all workers in
the group threatened with total or partial
separation from employment on date of
certification through two years from the date
of certification, are eligible to apply for
adjustment assistance under Chapter 2 of
Title II of the Trade Act of 1074, as
amended.’’
Signed at Washington, DC this 28th day of
February 2012.
Del Min Amy Chen,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment
Assistance.
Employment and Training
Administration
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Plumchoice, Inc., Including On-Site
Leased Workers From Balance
Staffing, Insight Global Staffing, and
Technisource, Scarborough, ME;
Amended Certification Regarding
Eligibility To Apply for Worker
Adjustment Assistance
In accordance with Section 223 of the
Trade Act of 1974, as amended (‘‘Act’’),
19 U.S.C. 2273, the Department of Labor
issued a Certification of Eligibility to
Apply for Worker Adjustment
Assistance on February 3, 2012,
applicable to workers of PlumChoice,
Inc., including on-site leased workers
from Balance Staffing, Insight Global
Staffing, and Technisource,
Scarborough, Maine. The workers are
engaged in activities related to sales and
technical support services. The notice
was published in the Federal Register
on February 21, 2012 (76 FR 9971).
At the request of the Maine State
agency, the Department reviewed the
certification for workers of the subject
firm. New information from the
company shows that workers leased
from Technisource were employed onsite at the Scarborough, Maine location
of PlumChoice, Inc. The Department has
determined that these workers were
sufficiently under the control of
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Notice of Determinations Regarding
Eligibility To Apply for Worker
Adjustment Assistance
In accordance with Section 223 of the
Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19
U.S.C. 2273) the Department of Labor
herein presents summaries of
determinations regarding eligibility to
apply for trade adjustment assistance for
workers by (TA–W) number issued
during the period of February 20, 2012
through February 24, 2012.
In order for an affirmative
determination to be made for workers of
a primary firm and a certification issued
regarding eligibility to apply for worker
adjustment assistance, each of the group
eligibility requirements of Section
222(a) of the Act must be met.
I. Under Section 222(a)(2)(A), the
following must be satisfied:
(1) A significant number or proportion
of the workers in such workers’ firm
have become totally or partially
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Emergency Review: Comment Request Veterans' Retraining Assistance
Program
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL) has submitted the Employment and
Training Administration (ETA) sponsored information collection request
(ICR) proposal titled, ``Veterans' Retraining Assistance Program,'' to
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance
utilizing emergency review procedures in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) and 5 CFR
1320.13.
DATES: OMB approval has been requested by March 20, 2012. Submit
comments on or before March 16, 2012.
ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR, with applicable supporting
documentation; including a description of the likely respondents,
proposed frequency of response, and estimated total burden may be
obtained from the RegInfo.gov Web site, https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain or by contacting Michel Smyth by telephone at 202-693-4129
(this is not a toll-free number) or sending an email to DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
Submit comments about this request to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for the Department of Labor,
Employment and Training Administration, Office of Management and
Budget, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, Telephone: 202-395-6929/Fax:
202-395-6881 (these are not toll-free numbers), email: OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michel Smyth by telephone at 202-693-
4129 (this is not a toll-free number) or by email at DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ETA seeks approval to collect individual
applicant data for the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP) as
part of the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 (Pub. L. 112-56), which was
signed into law on November 21, 2011. This benefit directs the
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in cooperation with the DOL, to
pay for up to 12 months of a training program in a high demand
occupation for unemployed eligible veterans. The program is to serve up
to 45,000 veterans in fiscal year 2012, beginning July 1, 2012, and up
to 54,000 veterans from October 1, 2012, through March 31, 2014.
The VRAP provides the benefit to veterans who fulfill the following
eligibility criteria: As of date of application, is at least 35 years
old and less than 60; discharged from active duty under conditions
other than dishonorable; is unemployed as of date of application; is
not eligible to receive other educational assistance from the VA; is
not in receipt of compensation for a service-connected disability rated
totally disabling by reason of unemployability; was not and is not
enrolled in any Federal or State job training program within the
previous 180 days; and, the application must be submitted not later
than October 1, 2013.
The VA is responsible for determining the following eligibility
criteria: Discharged from active duty under conditions other than
dishonorable; is not eligible to receive other educational assistance
from the VA; is not in receipt of compensation for a service-connected
disability rated totally disabling by reason of unemployability. The VA
will be collecting information required for their eligibility criteria
through the ``Application for VA Educational Benefits'' (OMB Control
Number 2900-0154, VA Form 22-1990). The DOL is required to determine
whether each veteran applying for the program is between 35 and 60
years old, is unemployed as of the date of the application, has not and
is not enrolled in a Federal or state job training program within 180
days of the application, and has applied for the program no later than
October 1, 2013. The DOL does not currently have an approved OMB
information collection for determining eligibility under the statute.
The DOL is proposing to determine its eligibility requirements by
collecting individual applicant data. The data will be linked to the
VA's Veterans On-line Application (VONAPP, VA Form 22-1990) to complete
the application. The VA will transmit a report to the DOL about the
completion status of the veterans, so that the DOL can make contact
with the veteran to offer employment services.
This information collection is subject to the PRA. A Federal agency
generally cannot conduct or sponsor a collection of information, and
the public is generally not required to respond to an information
collection, unless it is approved by the OMB under the PRA and displays
a currently valid OMB Control Number. In addition, notwithstanding any
other provisions of law, no person shall generally be subject to
penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information if the
collection of information does not display a valid OMB Control Number.
See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
The ETA seeks OMB approval under the PRA emergency clearance
process for the individual applicant data collection, because the VRAP
program has a required start date of July 1, 2012. The application
system must be in place well before the program start date in order to
provide program outreach to veterans and technical assistance to DOL
grantees. This requires an expedited process for building a system for
collecting individual data that has the capacity to serve up to 45,000
veterans between July 1, 2012 and September 30, 2012. Failure to be
able to collect individual data would jeopardize the ability for
applicants to complete an application in time to begin educational
services by the statutory start date of July 1, 2012. The application
collects eligibility information required by the statute. Inability to
collect individual applicant information will also jeopardize the
ability of the DOL to offer employment services the statute requires.
Interested parties are encouraged to send comments to the OMB,
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the address shown in
the ADDRESSES section by March 16, 2012. In order to help ensure
appropriate consideration, comments should mention OMB ICR Reference
Number 201202-1205-005. The OMB is particularly interested in comments
that:
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.
Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
Title of Collection: Veterans' Retraining Assistance Program.
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OMB ICR Reference Number: 201202-1205-005.
Type of Review: New collection (Request for a new OMB Control
Number).
Requested Duration of Authorization: Six (6) months from date of
approval.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 100,000.
Frequency of Collection: Once.
Total Estimated Number of Responses: 100,000.
Estimated Time per Response: Five (5) minutes.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 8,333.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $0.
Dated: March 7, 2012.
Michel Smyth,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
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