Comment Request for Information Collection for Monitoring of Short Time Compensation (STC) Grants for Program Implementation or Improvement and Promotion and Enrollment in the Program, Extension With Revisions, 36852-36853 [2015-15735]
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STATE, LOCAL, AND TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS—Continued
[Burden broken down by state]
Annual
respondents
Average time
per response
(hours)
Total annual
responses
Total annual
burden hours
Wyoming ..........................................................................................................
1
1
280
280
Subtotals: ..................................................................................................
37
37
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10,360
III. Comments
ACTION:
We invite comments concerning this
information collection on:
• Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
• The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information;
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this IC. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment, including your
personal identifying information, may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
SUMMARY:
Dated: June 23, 2015.
Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
National Park Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
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Employment and Training
Administration
Comment Request for Information
Collection for Monitoring of Short Time
Compensation (STC) Grants for
Program Implementation or
Improvement and Promotion and
Enrollment in the Program, Extension
With Revisions
Employment and Training
Administration (ETA), Labor.
AGENCY:
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Notice.
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)]. This program
helps 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 continuation of the
collection of data, with revisions,
concerning the monitoring of grants for
the STC program beyond the current
expiration date of 1/31/2016. The
burden estimates were revised to
account for the number of states that
were awarded an STC grant(s).
Additionally, previous burden estimates
related to the temporary financing of
STC payments by the Federal
Government, applying for an STC
grant(s), and applying to operate a
temporary Federal STC program (for
states without STC programs in state
law), were removed as such estimates
are not applicable beyond the current
expiration date.
DATES: Submit written comments to the
office listed in the addresses section
below on or before August 25, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to
Lidia Fiore, Office of Unemployment
Insurance, Room S–4524, Employment
and Training Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210.
Telephone number: 202–693–2716 (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). Email:
fiore.lidia@dol.gov. To obtain a copy of
the proposed information collection
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request (ICR), please contact the person
listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The enactment of Public Law 112–96
(The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job
Creation Act of 2012, referred to
hereafter as ‘‘MCTRJC’’ or ‘‘the act’’)
contains Subtitle D, Short-Time
Compensation Program, also known as
the ‘‘Layoff Prevention Act of 2012’’.
The sections of the law under this
subtitle concern states that participate
in a layoff aversion program known as
short time compensation (STC) or work
sharing. Section 2164 covers grants the
Federal Government provided to states
for the purpose of implementation or
improved administration of an STC
program, or for promotion and
enrollment in the program. ETA has
principal oversight responsibility for
monitoring the STC grants awarded to
state workforce agencies (SWA). As part
of the monitoring process, SWAs submit
a quarterly narrative progress report
(QPR). The QPR serves as a monitoring
instrument to track the SWA’s progress
toward completing STC grant activities.
ETA also needs to allow for this
reporting for proper oversight of state
STC programs.
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
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other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
III. Current Actions
Type of Review: Extension with
revision.
Title: Applications, Grants and
Administration of STC Provisions.
OMB Number: 1205–0499.
Affected Public: State Workforce
Agencies.
Estimated Total Annual Respondents:
17.
Annual Frequency: Quarterly.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
68.
Average Time per Response: 1 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 68.
Total Annual Burden Cost for
Respondents: $0.
We will summarize and/or include in
the request for OMB approval of the
ICR, the comments received in response
to this comment request; they will also
become a matter of public record.
Signed:
Portia Wu,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and
Training, Labor.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Comment Request for Information
Collection for the National Agricultural
Workers Survey: Extension With
Revisions (OMB 1205–0453)
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, ETA is soliciting comments
concerning the information collection
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request (ICR) to continue administering
the National Agricultural Workers
Survey (NAWS), with new questions on
education and training, digital literacy,
housing, and health. Proposed changes
also include question deletions and
modifications.
Interested parties are encouraged to
provide comments to the contact shown
in the ADDRESSES section. Comments
must be written to receive
consideration, and they will be
summarized and included in the request
for Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval of the final information
collection request (ICR). In order to help
ensure appropriate consideration,
comments should mention OMB
CONTROL NUMBER 1205–0453.
DATES: Submit written comments to the
office listed in the addresses section
below on or before August 25, 2015.
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 free by contacting Mr.
Daniel Carroll, Office of Policy
Development and Research, Room N–
5641, Employment and Training
Administration, U.S. Department of
Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone
number: 202–693–2795 (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–
2766. Email: carroll.daniel.j@dol.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Wayne Gordon, gordon.wayne@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The NAWS is an employment-based,
annual survey of the demographic,
employment, and health characteristics
of hired crop farm workers, including
workers brought to farms by labor
intermediaries. The survey began in
1988. Each year, between 1,500 and
3,500 workers are randomly chosen for
an interview. Interviews are conducted
three times per year to account for the
seasonality of agricultural employment.
Several Federal agencies utilize the
NAWS to collect information on the
population of hired crop farm workers.
ETA is seeking approval to add new
questions to the NAWS on farm
workers’ participation in education and
training programs, access to and use of
digital information devices, utilization
of acute, preventive, and dental health
care, location of living quarters in
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relation to production agriculture, and
type of housing. Proposed changes also
include: (1) Temporarily discontinuing
questions on occupational injuries,
musculoskeletal problems, and potential
exposure to pesticides, all of which
were administered for two years and
have fulfilled the current information
needs of the sponsoring Federal
agencies; (2) deleting 17 other questions
that either had too few responses to be
useful for analysis, will be redundant
with the addition of proposed questions,
or are no longer valid; and (3) modifying
the stem and/or response options of six
questions to make them more useful.
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
D Agency: DOL–ETA.
D Type of Review: Extension with
Changes.
D Title of Collection: National
Agricultural Workers Survey.
D Form: Primary Questionnaire.
D OMB Control Number: 1205–0453.
D Affected Public: Individuals, Farms.
D Estimated Number of Respondents:
7,216.
D Frequency: Annual.
D Total Estimated Annual Responses:
7,890.
D Estimated Average Time per
Response: 60 minutes.
D Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3,927 hours.
D Total Estimated Annual Other Cost
Burden: $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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[FR Doc No: 2015-15735]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Comment Request for Information Collection for Monitoring of
Short Time Compensation (STC) Grants for Program Implementation or
Improvement and Promotion and Enrollment in the Program, Extension With
Revisions
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 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)]. This program helps 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 continuation
of the collection of data, with revisions, concerning the monitoring of
grants for the STC program beyond the current expiration date of 1/31/
2016. The burden estimates were revised to account for the number of
states that were awarded an STC grant(s). Additionally, previous burden
estimates related to the temporary financing of STC payments by the
Federal Government, applying for an STC grant(s), and applying to
operate a temporary Federal STC program (for states without STC
programs in state law), were removed as such estimates are not
applicable beyond the current expiration date.
DATES: Submit written comments to the office listed in the addresses
section below on or before August 25, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to Lidia Fiore, Office of Unemployment
Insurance, Room S-4524, Employment and Training Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210.
Telephone number: 202-693-2716 (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). Email: fiore.lidia@dol.gov. To
obtain a copy of the proposed information collection request (ICR),
please contact the person listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The enactment of Public Law 112-96 (The Middle Class Tax Relief and
Job Creation Act of 2012, referred to hereafter as ``MCTRJC'' or ``the
act'') contains Subtitle D, Short-Time Compensation Program, also known
as the ``Layoff Prevention Act of 2012''. The sections of the law under
this subtitle concern states that participate in a layoff aversion
program known as short time compensation (STC) or work sharing. Section
2164 covers grants the Federal Government provided to states for the
purpose of implementation or improved administration of an STC program,
or for promotion and enrollment in the program. ETA has principal
oversight responsibility for monitoring the STC grants awarded to state
workforce agencies (SWA). As part of the monitoring process, SWAs
submit a quarterly narrative progress report (QPR). The QPR serves as a
monitoring instrument to track the SWA's progress toward completing STC
grant activities. ETA also needs to allow for this reporting for proper
oversight of state STC programs.
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
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other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submissions of responses.
III. Current Actions
Type of Review: Extension with revision.
Title: Applications, Grants and Administration of STC Provisions.
OMB Number: 1205-0499.
Affected Public: State Workforce Agencies.
Estimated Total Annual Respondents: 17.
Annual Frequency: Quarterly.
Estimated Total Annual Responses: 68.
Average Time per Response: 1 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 68.
Total Annual Burden Cost for Respondents: $0.
We will summarize and/or include in the request for OMB approval of
the ICR, the comments received in response to this comment request;
they will also become a matter of public record.
Signed:
Portia Wu,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, Labor.
[FR Doc. 2015-15735 Filed 6-25-15; 8:45 am]
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