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the Chief Information Officer, Attn:
Departmental Information Compliance
Management Program, Room N1301,
200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20210; or by email:
DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contact Michel Smyth by telephone at
202–693–4129, TTY 202–693–8064,
(these are not toll-free numbers) or
sending an email to DOL_PRA_
PUBLIC@dol.gov.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).
This ICR
seeks to maintain PRA authorization for
the information collection requirements
contained in the Rigging Equipment for
Material Handling Standard regulations
at 29 CFR 1926.251(b)(1), (b)(6)(i),
(b)(6)(ii), (c)(15)(ii), (e)(1)(i), (ii), and (iii)
and (f)(2) that require affixing
identification tags or markings on
rigging equipment, developing and
maintaining inspection records, and
retaining proof-testing certificates.
These information collection
requirements are 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 that does not
display a valid Control Number. See 5
CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. The DOL
obtains OMB approval for this
information collection under Control
Number 1218–0233.
OMB authorization for an ICR cannot
be for more than three (3) years without
renewal, and the current approval for
this collection is scheduled to expire on
January 31, 2014. The DOL seeks to
extend PRA authorization for this
information collection for three (3) more
years, without any change to existing
requirements. The DOL notes that
existing information collection
requirements submitted to the OMB
receive a month-to-month extension
while they undergo review. For
additional substantive information
about this ICR, see the related notice
published in the Federal Register on
November 25, 2013 (78 FR 70326).
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 3, 2014. In order to
help ensure appropriate consideration,
comments should mention OMB Control
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Number 1218–0233. 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: DOL–OSHA.
Title of Collection: Rigging Equipment
for Material Handling Standard.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0233.
Affected Public: Private Sector—
businesses or other for-profits.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 900.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 181,625.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 130,764.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $0.
Dated: January 27, 2014.
Michel Smyth,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Comment Request for Information
Collection for the Workforce
Innovation Fund (WIF) Grant Program,
New Collection.
Employment and Training
Administration (ETA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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
SUMMARY:
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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, the
Employment and Training
Administration is soliciting comments
concerning the collection of data about
Workforce Innovation Fund (WIF)
[SGA/DFA PY–11–05] grant program.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addressee’s section below on or before
April 1, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
to Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Workforce
Investment, Division of WIA Adult
Services and Workforce System, 200
Constitution Avenue NW., Room S–
4209, Washington, DC 20210, Attention:
Wendy Slee. Telephone number: 202–
693–3046 (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: 202–693–3817. Email:
workforce.innovation@dol.gov. A copy
of the proposed information collection
request (ICR) can be obtained by
contacting the person listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The WIF was created as a grant
program by the Full-Year Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2011 (in Sec. 1801,
Title VIII, Div. B of Pub. L. 112–10), and
the first round of grants was awarded in
June 2012, with service delivery
beginning in 2013. According to this
Act, the WIF was established to ‘‘carry
out projects that demonstrate innovative
strategies or replicate effective evidencebased strategies that align and
strengthen the workforce investment
system in order to improve program
delivery and education and employment
outcomes for program beneficiaries.’’
One of the purposes of the WIF grants
is to contribute to the documentation of
evidence-based practice within the field
of workforce development.
This document requests approval to
collect information to meet the reporting
and recordkeeping requirements of the
WIF grant program. In applying for the
WIF grant program, grantees agreed to
submit quarterly reports—both narrative
and performance reports—that describe
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project activities and outcomes that
relate to the project and document the
training or labor market information
approaches used by the grantee. The
quarterly performance narrative report
will provide a format for a detailed
account of program activities,
accomplishments, and progress toward
performance outcomes during the
quarter. These reports will collect
aggregate information on participants’
grant progress and accomplishments,
grant challenges, grant technical
assistance needs and success stories and
lessons learned through five questions—
four programmatic questions and one
performance question. Because WIF
grants tackle a range of employment and
training services and strategies, each
grant will have a unique set of
performance goals and outcome
measures designed by the grantee for the
specific innovation and project being
pursued in the grant. The fifth of the
five questions in the quarterly
performance narrative report will ask for
performance data based on the unique
grant performance measures and key
project milestones identified by each
grantee.
The information from these reports
will be used to evaluate the performance
of the WIF projects; manage
performance risk; and collect lessons
that are learned in terms of processes,
strategies, and performance from the
projects. The Employment and Training
Administration (ETA) will use the data
to help inform policy about the
workforce and possible changes in
structures and policies that enable a
closer alignment and integration of
workforce development, education,
human services, social insurance, and
economic development programs. The
data will also be used to determine what
technical assistance needs the WIF
grantees have so that ETA can provide
such assistance to support improvement
of grantee outcomes.
The information provided in the
quarterly performance narrative reports,
including the lessons learned through
innovative projects, is necessary for
increasing the body of knowledge about
what works in workforce development.
This information collection maintains a
reporting and record-keeping system for
a minimum level of information
collection that is necessary to hold WIF
grantees appropriately accountable for
the Federal funds they receive and to
allow the Department to fulfill its
oversight and management
responsibilities.
To reduce grantee burden, grantees
will only report on performance
measures they identify in their project
that are specifically applicable to their
grant. This approach minimizes the
reporting burden on grantees and
encourages grantees to identify and
document a new set of achievements
and performance measures that apply
directly to the grant projects.
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
• 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: New collection.
Title: Workforce Innovation Fund
grant program.
OMB Number: 1205–0NEW.
Affected Public: Workforce Innovation
Fund grant recipients.
Form(s): Quarterly narrative and
performance reports.
Total Annual Burden Cost for
Respondents: $0.
ESTIMATED TOTAL BURDEN HOURS
Data collection activity
Number of
respondents
Frequency
Quarterly Performance Narrative Report ...............................
26
Quarterly .....
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of
December, 2013.
Eric M. Seleznow,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment
and Training Administration, Labor.
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Comments submitted in response to
this comment request will be
summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB approval of the ICR;
they will also become a matter of public
record.
Labor.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Comment Request
AGENCY:
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Notice of solicitation of
comments.
ACTION:
In 2009, the Consumer
Expenditure Surveys Division started
the Gemini Project for the purpose of
researching, developing, and
implementing an improved survey
design for the Consumer Expenditure
Survey (CE). The objective of the
redesign is to improve the quality of the
survey estimates through a verifiable
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responses
104
Average time
per
response
20
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2080
reduction in measurement error, with a
particular focus on underreporting.
While reducing measurement error, the
new survey design would also combat
the decline in response rates seen in
recent years. In June 2013, a
comprehensive redesign proposal was
completed. As development, testing,
and evaluation of the new CE survey
proceeds, BLS would like feedback on
the new survey design and the data that
would be available from the survey from
current data users and other interested
parties.
Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice on or
before April 1, 2014.
DATES:
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Comment Request for Information Collection for the Workforce
Innovation Fund (WIF) Grant Program, New Collection.
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA), 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,
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 is soliciting
comments concerning the collection of data about Workforce Innovation
Fund (WIF) [SGA/DFA PY-11-05] grant program.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addressee's section below on or before April 1, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Workforce Investment, Division of WIA Adult
Services and Workforce System, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Room S-
4209, Washington, DC 20210, Attention: Wendy Slee. Telephone number:
202-693-3046 (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: 202-693-3817. Email: workforce.innovation@dol.gov.
A copy of the proposed information collection request (ICR) can be
obtained by contacting the person listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The WIF was created as a grant program by the Full-Year Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2011 (in Sec. 1801, Title VIII, Div. B of Pub. L.
112-10), and the first round of grants was awarded in June 2012, with
service delivery beginning in 2013. According to this Act, the WIF was
established to ``carry out projects that demonstrate innovative
strategies or replicate effective evidence-based strategies that align
and strengthen the workforce investment system in order to improve
program delivery and education and employment outcomes for program
beneficiaries.'' One of the purposes of the WIF grants is to contribute
to the documentation of evidence-based practice within the field of
workforce development.
This document requests approval to collect information to meet the
reporting and recordkeeping requirements of the WIF grant program. In
applying for the WIF grant program, grantees agreed to submit quarterly
reports--both narrative and performance reports--that describe
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project activities and outcomes that relate to the project and document
the training or labor market information approaches used by the
grantee. The quarterly performance narrative report will provide a
format for a detailed account of program activities, accomplishments,
and progress toward performance outcomes during the quarter. These
reports will collect aggregate information on participants' grant
progress and accomplishments, grant challenges, grant technical
assistance needs and success stories and lessons learned through five
questions--four programmatic questions and one performance question.
Because WIF grants tackle a range of employment and training services
and strategies, each grant will have a unique set of performance goals
and outcome measures designed by the grantee for the specific
innovation and project being pursued in the grant. The fifth of the
five questions in the quarterly performance narrative report will ask
for performance data based on the unique grant performance measures and
key project milestones identified by each grantee.
The information from these reports will be used to evaluate the
performance of the WIF projects; manage performance risk; and collect
lessons that are learned in terms of processes, strategies, and
performance from the projects. The Employment and Training
Administration (ETA) will use the data to help inform policy about the
workforce and possible changes in structures and policies that enable a
closer alignment and integration of workforce development, education,
human services, social insurance, and economic development programs.
The data will also be used to determine what technical assistance needs
the WIF grantees have so that ETA can provide such assistance to
support improvement of grantee outcomes.
The information provided in the quarterly performance narrative
reports, including the lessons learned through innovative projects, is
necessary for increasing the body of knowledge about what works in
workforce development. This information collection maintains a
reporting and record-keeping system for a minimum level of information
collection that is necessary to hold WIF grantees appropriately
accountable for the Federal funds they receive and to allow the
Department to fulfill its oversight and management responsibilities.
To reduce grantee burden, grantees will only report on performance
measures they identify in their project that are specifically
applicable to their grant. This approach minimizes the reporting burden
on grantees and encourages grantees to identify and document a new set
of achievements and performance measures that apply directly to the
grant projects.
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
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: New collection.
Title: Workforce Innovation Fund grant program.
OMB Number: 1205-0NEW.
Affected Public: Workforce Innovation Fund grant recipients.
Form(s): Quarterly narrative and performance reports.
Total Annual Burden Cost for Respondents: $0.
Estimated Total Burden Hours
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Number of Total Average time
Data collection activity respondents Frequency responses per response Burden hours
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Quarterly Performance 26 Quarterly....... 104 20 2080
Narrative Report.
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Comments submitted in response to this comment request will be
summarized and/or included in the request for OMB approval of the ICR;
they will also become a matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of December, 2013.
Eric M. Seleznow,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Administration,
Labor.
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