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Dated: Signed in Washington, DC, on this
2nd day of January, 2013.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and
Training, Labor.
Average Time per Response: 10
minutes per articulation agreement.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours
First Year = 235 hours
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Notice of Intent To Renew the Advisory
Committee on Apprenticeship (ACA)
Charter
Employment and Training
Administration (ETA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice of Intent to Renew
Charter.
Total Annual Burden Cost for
Respondents: $14,232.
Application
Employment and Training
Administration
AGENCY:
Burden
hours
Application
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
The Secretary of Labor has
determined that the renewal of a
national advisory committee on
apprenticeship is necessary and in the
public interest. The Department of
Labor intends to renew the ACA Charter
with revisions. The revisions are not
intended to change the purpose or the
Committee’s original intent. The
revisions are a routine updating of the
Charter to ensure closer alignment with
the Department’s strategic goals and
priorities. The charter for the ACA will
expire on January 31, 2013.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Registered
Apprenticeship is a unique public
private partnership that is highly
dependent on the engagement and
involvement of its stakeholders and
partners for its ongoing operational
effectiveness. Apart from the ACA, there
is no single organization or group with
the broad representation of labor,
employers, and the public available to
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consider the complexities and
relationship of apprenticeship activities
to other training efforts or to provide
advice on such matters to the Secretary
and DOL officials. It is particularly
important to have such considerations
at this time in view of the current
widespread and national interest in the
role apprenticeship can play in
providing career pathways for all
populations in a range of high growth
industries, including healthcare and
manufacturing. For these reasons, the
Secretary of Labor has determined that
the renewal of a national advisory
committee on apprenticeship is
necessary and in the public interest. The
ACA is being renewed to provide advice
and recommendations to the Secretary
on the following: (1) The development
and implementation of policies,
legislation and regulations affecting the
national Registered Apprenticeship
system; (2) strategies that can expand
the use of the Registered Apprenticeship
model in non-traditional industries such
as, but not limited to manufacturing,
energy, and healthcare; (3) ways to more
effectively partner with the public
workforce system and educational
institutions and communities to
leverage Registered Apprenticeship as a
valued post secondary credential; (4) the
development of career pathways that
can lead to good jobs for everyone and
sustained employment for new and
incumbent workers, youth, veterans,
women, minorities and other underutilized and disadvantaged populations;
and (5) efforts to improve performance,
quality and oversight, and utilization of
the national Registered Apprenticeship
system.
The current ACA Charter will expire
on January 31, 2013. The ACA’s Charter
is required to be renewed every two
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years. Since the Charter was last
renewed in January 2011, it has been
revised in five sections to ensure
alignment with departmental priorities.
The following five sections have been
updated: (1) The Objectives and Scope
of Activities section was streamlined to
be more concise and in line with current
priorities; (2) the Description of Duties
section was reviewed and edited to
more closely reflect the needs of the
Department and the advice and
recommendations sought from the ACA
at this time; (3) the Estimated Annual
Operating Costs and Staff Years section
was modified to reflect the ongoing
efforts by the Department to reduce
overall operating costs associated with
the ACA; (4) the Estimated Number and
Frequency of Meetings section has been
updated to reflect the increasing trend
to utilize multiple meeting formats,
including the use of the virtual meeting
format, as well as to reduce the number
of anticipated annual face-to-face
meetings; and (5) the Membership and
Designation section was changed to
include a range rather than a number to
provide the Secretary with additional
flexibility to maintain committee
balance and accommodate changes in
membership due to retirements, member
withdrawals, or resignations.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
John V. Ladd, Administrator, Office of
Apprenticeship, Employment and
Training Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, Room N–5311,
200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone:
(202) 693–2796, (this is not a toll-free
number).
Signed at Washington, DC, this 2nd day of
January, 2013.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary for the Employment and
Training Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Proposed Collection, Comment
Request
ACTION:
Notice.
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
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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. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments
concerning the proposed extension of
the ‘‘Well-being Supplement to the
American Time Use Survey.’’ A copy of
the proposed information collection
request (ICR) can be obtained by
contacting the individual listed below
in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice on or
before March 12, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Amelia
Vogel, BLS Clearance Officer, Division
of Management Systems, Bureau of
Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 2
Massachusetts Avenue NE.,
Washington, DC 20212. Written
comments also may be transmitted by
fax to 202–691–5111 (this is not a toll
free number).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Amelia Vogel, BLS Clearance Officer, at
202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free
number). (See Addresses section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The American Time Use Survey
(ATUS) is the Nation’s first federally
administered, continuous survey on
time use in the United States. It
measures, for example, time spent with
children, working, sleeping, or doing
leisure activities. In the United States,
several existing Federal surveys collect
income and wage data for individuals
and families, and analysts often use
such measures of material prosperity as
proxies for quality of life. Time-use data
substantially augment these quality-oflife measures. The data also can be used
in conjunction with wage data to
evaluate the contribution of non-market
work to national economies. This
enables comparisons of production
between nations that have different
mixes of market and non-market
activities.
The ATUS is used to develop
nationally representative estimates of
how people spend their time. This is
done by collecting a time diary about
the activities survey respondents did
over a 24-hour period ‘‘yesterday,’’ from
4 a.m. on the day before the interview
until 4 a.m. on the day of the interview.
In the one-time interview, respondents
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also report who was with them during
the activities, where they were, how
long each activity lasted, and if they
were paid. All of this information has
numerous practical applications for
sociologists, economists, educators,
government policymakers,
businesspersons, health researchers, and
others.
The Well-being Module, a supplement
to the ATUS, provides an additional
dimension to data on time use by
providing information about how
Americans experience their time.
Specifically, the Module collects
information about how happy, tired,
sad, and stressed individuals were
yesterday, and the degree to which they
felt pain, for three activities randomly
selected from the time diary. The Wellbeing Module also collects data on
whether people were interacting with
anyone while doing the selected
activities and how meaningful the
activities were to them. Some general
health questions, a question about
overall life satisfaction, and a question
about respondents’ overall affective
experience yesterday also are asked.
Information collected in the Wellbeing Module will be published as a
public data set to facilitate research on
numerous topics, such as: How people
experience time spent in different
activities, times of social interaction,
and pain; the relationship between
health and time use; and the
relationship between evaluative and
experienced well-being. The Well-being
Module supports the mission of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics to provide
relevant information on economic and
social issues by providing a richer
understanding of Americans’ use of time
and workers’ affective experiences. For
example, the data facilitate research on
how workers experience pain on and off
the job and whether this experience
varies by occupation.
The data also closely support the
mission of the Module’s sponsor, the
National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the
National Institutes of Health, to improve
the health and well-being of older
Americans. For example, data from the
Well-being Module facilitate research on
the relationship between well-being and
health for persons at different stages in
life and with varying individual
characteristics. The data also can be
used to examine the experience of pain
and aging.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget
clearance is being sought to extend the
collection of the ATUS Well-being
Module—a supplement to the ATUS—
for an additional six months, through
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[FR Doc No: 2013-00372]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Notice of Intent To Renew the Advisory Committee on
Apprenticeship (ACA) Charter
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice of Intent to Renew Charter.
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SUMMARY: The Secretary of Labor has determined that the renewal of a
national advisory committee on apprenticeship is necessary and in the
public interest. The Department of Labor intends to renew the ACA
Charter with revisions. The revisions are not intended to change the
purpose or the Committee's original intent. The revisions are a routine
updating of the Charter to ensure closer alignment with the
Department's strategic goals and priorities. The charter for the ACA
will expire on January 31, 2013.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Registered Apprenticeship is a unique public
private partnership that is highly dependent on the engagement and
involvement of its stakeholders and partners for its ongoing
operational effectiveness. Apart from the ACA, there is no single
organization or group with the broad representation of labor,
employers, and the public available to consider the complexities and
relationship of apprenticeship activities to other training efforts or
to provide advice on such matters to the Secretary and DOL officials.
It is particularly important to have such considerations at this time
in view of the current widespread and national interest in the role
apprenticeship can play in providing career pathways for all
populations in a range of high growth industries, including healthcare
and manufacturing. For these reasons, the Secretary of Labor has
determined that the renewal of a national advisory committee on
apprenticeship is necessary and in the public interest. The ACA is
being renewed to provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary on
the following: (1) The development and implementation of policies,
legislation and regulations affecting the national Registered
Apprenticeship system; (2) strategies that can expand the use of the
Registered Apprenticeship model in non-traditional industries such as,
but not limited to manufacturing, energy, and healthcare; (3) ways to
more effectively partner with the public workforce system and
educational institutions and communities to leverage Registered
Apprenticeship as a valued post secondary credential; (4) the
development of career pathways that can lead to good jobs for everyone
and sustained employment for new and incumbent workers, youth,
veterans, women, minorities and other under-utilized and disadvantaged
populations; and (5) efforts to improve performance, quality and
oversight, and utilization of the national Registered Apprenticeship
system.
The current ACA Charter will expire on January 31, 2013. The ACA's
Charter is required to be renewed every two
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years. Since the Charter was last renewed in January 2011, it has been
revised in five sections to ensure alignment with departmental
priorities. The following five sections have been updated: (1) The
Objectives and Scope of Activities section was streamlined to be more
concise and in line with current priorities; (2) the Description of
Duties section was reviewed and edited to more closely reflect the
needs of the Department and the advice and recommendations sought from
the ACA at this time; (3) the Estimated Annual Operating Costs and
Staff Years section was modified to reflect the ongoing efforts by the
Department to reduce overall operating costs associated with the ACA;
(4) the Estimated Number and Frequency of Meetings section has been
updated to reflect the increasing trend to utilize multiple meeting
formats, including the use of the virtual meeting format, as well as to
reduce the number of anticipated annual face-to-face meetings; and (5)
the Membership and Designation section was changed to include a range
rather than a number to provide the Secretary with additional
flexibility to maintain committee balance and accommodate changes in
membership due to retirements, member withdrawals, or resignations.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John V. Ladd, Administrator,
Office of Apprenticeship, Employment and Training Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, Room N-5311, 200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: (202) 693-2796, (this is not a toll-
free number).
Signed at Washington, DC, this 2nd day of January, 2013.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary for the Employment and Training Administration.
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