Comment Request for Information Collection for OMB 1205-0430, Resource Justification Model (RJM); Extension With Revisions, 11230-11231 [2015-04165]
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Comment Request for Information
Collection for OMB 1205–0430,
Resource Justification Model (RJM);
Extension With Revisions
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
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 required
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 proposed extension,
with change on Resource Justification
Model.
SUMMARY:
Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addressee section below on or before
May 1, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to
Thomas Stengle, Office of
Unemployment Insurance, Employment
and Training Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210,
telephone number (202) 693–2991 (this
is not a toll-free number). Email address
is stengle.thomas@dol.gov and fax
number is (202) 693–2874 (this is not a
toll-free number). To obtain a copy of
the proposed information collection
request (ICR), please contact the person
listed above.
DATES:
Total
respondents
Form/activity
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I. Background
The collection of actual
Unemployment Insurance (UI)
administrative cost data from states’
accounting records and projected
expenditures for upcoming years is
accomplished through the Resource
Justification Model (RJM) data
collection instrument. The data
collected consists of program
expenditures and hours worked by state
staff, broken out by functional activity,
for the most recent two years of
expenditures. This actual cost data in
combination with projected workloads
is used by ETA’s UI administrative
resource allocation model to distribute
to states UI program administration
funds.
The RJM data collection instrument
had not been reviewed since it was
implemented in 2002 and both the
states and DOL felt it would be
beneficial to determine if the process
could be modified to reduce the burden
of assembling and reviewing the
information and if the information
collected is appropriate (because, for
example, the increasing use of
technology to administer the UI program
has significantly changed the UI
business model). The DOL partnered
with the National Association of State
Workforce Agencies (NASWA) to form a
workgroup tasked with determining
improvements to the RJM and three
changes were agreed upon. The
workgroup decided to reduce the
categories of existing Non-Personal
Services (NPS) categories from eight to
three: Information technology (IT)/
Communications, Non IT NPS, and
Personal Service Contracts. The
workgroup also decided to discontinue
the requirement for states to submit
hard copy note books containing the
supporting documentation. Both of
these changes reduce respondent
burden. In addition, the workgroup
decided to add a requirement for states
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Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$15,000.
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Annually
Annually
Annually
Annually
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
information collection on those who are
to respond, including 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: Extension with
revisions.
Title: Resource Justification Model.
OMB Number: 1205–0430.
Affected Public: State Workforce
Agencies.
Estimated Total Annual Respondents:
53 State Workforce Agencies.
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Total Responses: 53
respondents × 4 annual reports
submitted = 212 responses.
Average Estimated Response Time:
109.5 hours (a reduction of 13.5 hours
per response from the previously
approved collection).
Total Estimated Burden Hours: 5,592
hours (a reduction of 715 hours from the
previously approved collection).
Average time
per response
(hours)
Total
estimated
burden
(hours)
............................................
............................................
............................................
............................................
53
53
53
53
94.5
4.0
3.0
8.0
5,009
212
159
424
...........................................................
212
109.5
5,804
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintaining): $0.
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II. Review Focus
Total
responses
Frequency
Crosswalk ..........................................
Account Summary .............................
RJM 1–6 ............................................
IT PS/PB Expenditures .....................
to report separately Personal Services
and Personal Benefits for IT
expenditures, which did not exist
previously.
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We will summarize and/or include in
the request for OMB approval of the
ICR, the comments received in response
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to this comment request; they will also
become a matter of public record.
Portia Wu,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and
Training, Labor.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Carmen Ortiz, WOTC National
Coordinator at ortiz.carmen@dol.gov.
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I. Background
Employment and Training
Administration
Comment Request for Information
Collection for Work Opportunity Tax
Credit (WOTC) Program (OMB No.
1205–0371), Extension Without
Revisions of a Currently Approved
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 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 [44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)] (PRA). The PRA
helps ensure that respondents can
provide requested data in the desired
format with minimal reporting burden
(time and financial resources),
collection instruments are clearly
understood and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed.
Currently, the Office Workforce
Investment in ETA is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed
request for an extension of a collection
of Work Opportunity Tax Credit
(WOTC) program forms without
changes.
SUMMARY:
Submit written comments to the
office listed in the addresses section
below on or before May 1, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to
Ms. Kimberly Vitelli, Chief Division of
National Programs Tools and Technical
Assistance (DNPTTA), Room C–4510,
Employment and Training
Administration, U.S. Department of
Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone
number: 202–693–3045 (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–
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DATES:
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889–5627 (TTY/TDD). Fax: 202–693–
3015. Email: vitelli.kimberly@dol.gov.
To obtain a copy of the proposed
information collection request (ICR),
please contact the person listed above.
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The Work Opportunity Tax Credit
(WOTC) program was created by the
Small Business Job Protection Act of
1996 (Pub. L. 104–188) and allows
private-for-profit businesses, and 501(c)
tax-exempt organizations that hire
veterans, to obtain tax credits from the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for hiring
hard-to-employ members of nine target
groups. State workforce agencies
(SWAs) process these requests and issue
employers the final determination that a
new hire is in one of the nine target
groups, which employers then use to
claim the tax credit to the IRS. Other
legislation that imposes requirements on
the WOTC program include the
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (Pub. L.
105–34), which created the Welfare-toWork Tax Credit for a two-year period.
The WtWTC expired on December 2005
and its Long-term TANF Recipient
group became part of the WOTC in 2006
by Pub. L 109–432. Additional
legislation includes the Tax Relief and
Health Care Act (Pub. L. 109–432)
passed in 2006, the Small Business and
Work Opportunity Tax Act (Pub. L.
110–28) passed in 2007, the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(Pub. L. 111–5), the VOW to Hire Heroes
Act of 2011 (Pub. L. 112–56), the
American Taxpayer Relief of 2012 (Pub.
L. 112–240), the Tax Increase
Prevention Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 113–
295), and Section 51 of the Internal
Revenue (IR) Code of 1986, as amended.
Since its enactment, this program has
experienced a series of authorization
lapses and retroactive reauthorizations
by Congress.
On December 19, 2014, President
Obama signed into law the Tax Increase
Prevention Act of 2014 (the Act) (Pub.
L. 113–295). On December 31, 2013 the
legislative authority of the WOTC
program expired, and this Act amended
Sec. 51 of the IR Code by retroactively
reauthorizing WOTC, without any
amendments/changes to the program or
the current target groups, through
December 31, 2014. This retroactive
extension applies to new hires who
began to work for an employer on or
after January 1, 2014 and before January
1, 2015. Currently, the WOTC program’s
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legislative authority expired on
December 31, 2014.
This submission includes five WOTC
program forms as follows: (1) A
reporting form (ETA 9058); (2) two
processing forms (ETA Forms 9061
(English and Spanish versions) and
9062; (3) and two administrative forms
(ETA Forms 9063 and 9065). ETA Form
9058 is used by SWAs to report to ETA
information on processing of WOTC
certification requests. ETA Form 9061 or
9062 is used by employers to request
certification for their new hires together
with the IRS Form 8850. The SWAs use
the information on these two forms to
verify target group eligibility and
process the employer’s requests. SWAs
use ETA Form 9063 to issue the final
certifications to eligible employers or
their representatives and ETA Form
9065 in their administrative quarterly
internal audits. The design and format
of ETA Form 9063 and 9065 is optional
for the states. SWAs are no longer
required to report to ETA the results of
their internal audits (ETA 9065).
The data collected under this
submission is necessary for effective
federal administration of the WOTC
program, including allowing ETA and
IRS to oversee state administration of
the tax credit. Uniform program
administration procedures and forms
assure that businesses, especially
multistate businesses that utilize the
WOTC tax credit, receive consistent
treatment from state to state regarding
eligibility determinations and
processing of their certification requests,
and that the statutory rules for receipt
of this tax credit requests are
administered in a consistent manner by
the SWAs.
Since Public Laws 113–295 and 112–
240 did not make any changes to the
program or its target groups other than
reauthorize the program through a
specific period of time, the program’s
administrative, processing and reporting
forms have not been revised or
amended. These forms expire on June
30, 2015. ETA is requesting a 3-year
expiration date of June 30, 2018.
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;
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Comment Request for Information Collection for OMB 1205-0430,
Resource Justification Model (RJM); Extension With Revisions
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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 required 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 proposed
extension, with change on Resource Justification Model.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addressee section below on or before May 1, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to Thomas Stengle, Office of
Unemployment Insurance, Employment and Training Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210,
telephone number (202) 693-2991 (this is not a toll-free number). Email
address is stengle.thomas@dol.gov and fax number is (202) 693-2874
(this is not a toll-free number). To obtain a copy of the proposed
information collection request (ICR), please contact the person listed
above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The collection of actual Unemployment Insurance (UI) administrative
cost data from states' accounting records and projected expenditures
for upcoming years is accomplished through the Resource Justification
Model (RJM) data collection instrument. The data collected consists of
program expenditures and hours worked by state staff, broken out by
functional activity, for the most recent two years of expenditures.
This actual cost data in combination with projected workloads is used
by ETA's UI administrative resource allocation model to distribute to
states UI program administration funds.
The RJM data collection instrument had not been reviewed since it
was implemented in 2002 and both the states and DOL felt it would be
beneficial to determine if the process could be modified to reduce the
burden of assembling and reviewing the information and if the
information collected is appropriate (because, for example, the
increasing use of technology to administer the UI program has
significantly changed the UI business model). The DOL partnered with
the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) to form a
workgroup tasked with determining improvements to the RJM and three
changes were agreed upon. The workgroup decided to reduce the
categories of existing Non-Personal Services (NPS) categories from
eight to three: Information technology (IT)/Communications, Non IT NPS,
and Personal Service Contracts. The workgroup also decided to
discontinue the requirement for states to submit hard copy note books
containing the supporting documentation. Both of these changes reduce
respondent burden. In addition, the workgroup decided to add a
requirement for states to report separately Personal Services and
Personal Benefits for IT expenditures, which did not exist previously.
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 information collection on those
who are to respond, including 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: Extension with revisions.
Title: Resource Justification Model.
OMB Number: 1205-0430.
Affected Public: State Workforce Agencies.
Estimated Total Annual Respondents: 53 State Workforce Agencies.
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Total Responses: 53 respondents x 4 annual reports
submitted = 212 responses.
Average Estimated Response Time: 109.5 hours (a reduction of 13.5
hours per response from the previously approved collection).
Total Estimated Burden Hours: 5,592 hours (a reduction of 715 hours
from the previously approved collection).
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Average time Total
Form/activity Total Frequency Total per response estimated
respondents responses (hours) burden (hours)
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Crosswalk..................... 53 Annually........ 53 94.5 5,009
Account Summary............... 53 Annually........ 53 4.0 212
RJM 1-6....................... 53 Annually........ 53 3.0 159
IT PS/PB Expenditures......... 53 Annually........ 53 8.0 424
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Totals.................... .............. ................ 212 109.5 5,804
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Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $15,000.
Total Burden Cost (operating/maintaining): $0.
We will summarize and/or include in the request for OMB approval of
the ICR, the comments received in response
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to this comment request; they will also become a matter of public
record.
Portia Wu,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, Labor.
[FR Doc. 2015-04165 Filed 2-27-15; 8:45 am]
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