Department of Labor's Fleet Alternative Fuel Vehicle Acquisition, 8118-8119 [2019-04056]
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Æ evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s burden estimate of the
proposed information collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions;
Æ enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
Æ 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—
for example, permitting electronic
submissions of responses.
III. Current Actions: At this time, the
Department of Labor is requesting
clearance for the semi-structured
interviews with program administrators,
frontline staff, and partner staff, and the
focus groups with employers, program
participants, and program
administrators as part of the
implementation study as well as the
follow-up survey with a subset of
sample members in the impact study.
Type of Review: New information
collection request.
OMB Control Number: 1290–0NEW.
Affected Public: REO program staff,
evaluation participants, local
employers, and partner agency staff.
Comments submitted in response to
this request will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.
ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS
Type of
instrument
Number of
respondents a
Number of
responses
per
respondent
Average
burden time
per
response
(hours)
Total
number of
responses
Annual
estimated
burden
hours a
Semi-structured interview: Grant administrators b ...............
Semi-structured interview: Frontline staff b ..........................
Semi-structured interview: Partner-staff administrators b ....
Semi-structured interview: Intermediary grant administrators b .................................................................................
Participant focus groups c ....................................................
Employer focus groups d ......................................................
Semi-structured telephone calls e ........................................
Virtual focus groups f ............................................................
Follow-up survey g ................................................................
19
196
28
1
1
1
19
196
28
3
1
1
57
196
28
6
75
37
58
45
630
1
1
1
1
1
1
6
75
37
58
45
630
1.5
1
1
2
1
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9
75
37
116
45
208
Total ..............................................................................
1,094
........................
1,094
........................
771
a All
annual totals reflect a three year clearance and study data collection period. Estimates are rounded to the nearest whole number.
each visit will, on average, involve individual or group interviews with approximately 2 grant administrators, approximately 3 partnerstaff administrators, and approximately 21 frontline staff. The team anticipates completing approximately 28 visits in total. The average burden
time per response for the grant administrator interviews will be 3 hours. The average burden time per response for the partner-staff administrator
interviews will be 1 hour. The average burden time per response for the frontline staff interviews will be 1 hour. For all types of staff, some meetings will be shorter and some will be longer than the averages. Additionally, the team anticipates conducting interviews with approximately 3
intermediary grant administrators in approximately 6 of the 28 visits. The intermediary grant administrator interviews will be approximately 1.5
hours, on average.
c Assumes each participant focus group will, on average, involve 8 individuals and will be conducted in approximately 28 sites. The average
burden time per response will be 1 hour.
d Assumes each employer focus group will, on average, involve 4 individuals and will be conducted in approximately 28 sites. The average burden time per response will be 1 hour.
e Assumes each phone interview will be conducted with approximately 3 program administrators from each of approximately 58 sites. The average length of the phone interview will be two hours.
f Assumes approximately 15 virtual focus groups with approximately 9 program administrators participating per group. The average burden time
per response will be 1 hour.
g Assumes a follow-up survey will be conducted with approximately 1,890 study participants. The average burden time per response will be 20
minutes.
b Assumes
Molly Irwin,
Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of
Labor.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Department of Labor’s Fleet
Alternative Fuel Vehicle Acquisition
Office of the Secretary, Labor.
Notice of availability of the
Department of Labor’s annual report on
its alternative fuel vehicle acquisitions
for fiscal year 2018.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
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In compliance with the
Energy Policy Act of 1992, and
subsequent amendments, this notice
announces the availability of fiscal year
2018 report that summarizes the U.S.
Department of Labor’s (DOL)
compliance with the annual alternative
fuel vehicle acquisition requirement for
its vehicle fleet. The website also
contains the Department’s annual
reports for fiscal years 1999–2017.
Additionally, the reports include data
relative to the agency’s effort in
reducing petroleum consumption. The
report issued next year in 2020 shall be
DOL’s final report submitted under the
Energy Policy Act.
ADDRESSES: U.S. Department of Labor,
Office of the Assistant Secretary for
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Administration and Management,
Business Operations Center, 200
Constitution Avenue NW, Room S1520,
Washington, DC 20210.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Susan Gilbert-Miller, Sustainability and
Fleet Manager, at (202) 693–6662 or
email Gilbert.Susan.J@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C.
13211–13219), as amended by the
Energy Conservation and
Reauthorization Act of 1998 (Pub. L.
105–388, section 310(b)(3), and the
Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109–
58, section 705), were intended to
decrease the country’s dependence on
petroleum for transportation purposes.
The Energy Policy Act of 1992 requires
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Federal fleets to acquire 75 percent of
their new covered vehicle acquisitions
as alternative fuel vehicles. Pursuant to
42 U.S.C. 13218 of the Energy Policy
Act, DOL and other covered agencies are
required annually to submit to Congress
reports on their Energy Policy Act
alternative fuel vehicle acquisition
requirements. These reports must also
be placed on an available website and
their availability, including the website
address, must be published in the
Federal Register. The 2019 penultimate
report is required to include an
announcement that the report for the
next year shall be the final report. DOL
annual reports for fiscal years 1999
through 2018 may be accessed at the
DOL Fleet Information and Regulations
website at https://www.dol.gov/oasam/
programs/boc/EPAct.htm.
Dated: February 15, 2019.
Bryan Slater,
Assistant Secretary for Administration and
Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Evaluation
of Strategies Used in TechHire and
Strengthening Working Families
Initiative (SWFI) Grant Programs
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation
Office, Department of Labor.
AGENCY:
Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
ACTION:
The Department of Labor
(DOL), 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). 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
is properly assessed. Currently, DOL is
soliciting comments concerning the
collection of data about the Evaluation
of Strategies Used in TechHire and
SWFI Grant Programs. A copy of the
proposed Information Collection
Request (ICR) can be obtained by
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contacting the office listed below in the
addressee section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addressee section below on or before
May 6, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by either one of the following methods:
Email: ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov;
Mail or Courier: Christina Yancey, Chief
Evaluation Office, OASP, U.S.
Department of Labor, Room S–2312, 200
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20210. Instructions: Please submit
one copy of your comments by only one
method. All submissions received must
include the agency name and OMB
Control Number identified above for
this information collection. Commenters
are strongly encouraged to transmit their
comments electronically via email or to
submit them by mail early. Comments,
including any personal information
provided, become a matter of public
record. They will also be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB
approval of the information collection
request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christina Yancey by email at
ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov or by
phone at (202)693–5910.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: The Chief Evaluation
Office (CEO), in collaboration with the
Employment and Training
Administration (ETA), of DOL seeks to
build evidence about effective
approaches to prepare Americans with
skills and connect them to well-paying,
middle- and high-skilled, and high
growth jobs in H-lB industries (such as
IT, healthcare, advanced manufacturing,
financial services, and broadband). The
evaluation will advance the evidence on
innovative approaches being used to
meet these goals in the TechHire
Partnership (TechHire) and
Strengthening Working Families
Initiative (SWFI) grant programs. The
evaluation will include two
components, an implementation study
and an impact study. This Federal
Register Notice provides the
opportunity to comment on the
proposed data collection instrument
that will be used in the last stage of the
impact study. The goal of the impact
study is to provide rigorous evidence on
the effectiveness of strategies used in
the TechHire and SFWI grant programs.
The impact study consists of both a
randomized controlled trial (RCT) and a
quasi-experimental design (QED)
evaluation. Five grantees have been
selected to participate in an RCT. The
QED includes all 53 TechHire and SWFI
grantees and uses the pooled RCT
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control group as the comparison group
using propensity score matching. The
QED will collect data from an existing
wage record data. It will also use data
from the implementation study in an
effort to analyze how variation in
program correlates with implementation
factors.
In January 2018, OMB approved the
baseline data collection for this
evaluation (OMB 1290–0014), which
includes a baseline information form
(BIF), 6-month follow-up participant
survey, a participant tracking form, and
a first round of site visit interviews. A
second data collection for this
evaluation is currently under review by
OMB. This second collection includes a
survey of grantees, semi-structured
telephone interviews with grantees, a
template for partner contact
information, a survey of partners, semistructured telephone interviews with
partners, and a second round of site
visit interviews. This Federal Register
Notice provides the opportunity to
comment on the proposed data
collection instrument that will be used
in the last stage of this evaluation.
• 18-month participant follow-up
survey. The 18 month follow-up survey
is the last piece of data collection
required for this study. It will be
administered 18 months after random
assignment, to both the treatment and
control groups. The purpose of the
survey is to collect information on
outcomes not available in existing data.
These include current and past
employment situation, hours worked,
wages, shift work, employer benefits,
job search activities, job satisfaction,
promotion, education and training
participation, criminal justice
involvement, and childcare. The
information will be delivered via a web
survey, with three reminders sent via
text message, email, and additional
follow-up via telephone and field
locator engagement.
II. Desired Focus of Comments:
Currently, DOL is soliciting comments
concerning the above data collection for
the Evaluation of Strategies Use in the
TechHire and SWFI programs. DOL is
particularly interested in comments that
do the following:
Æ Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance functions of
the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
Æ evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s burden estimate of the
proposed information collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions;
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Department of Labor's Fleet Alternative Fuel Vehicle Acquisition
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Labor.
ACTION: Notice of availability of the Department of Labor's annual
report on its alternative fuel vehicle acquisitions for fiscal year
2018.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and
subsequent amendments, this notice announces the availability of fiscal
year 2018 report that summarizes the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL)
compliance with the annual alternative fuel vehicle acquisition
requirement for its vehicle fleet. The website also contains the
Department's annual reports for fiscal years 1999-2017. Additionally,
the reports include data relative to the agency's effort in reducing
petroleum consumption. The report issued next year in 2020 shall be
DOL's final report submitted under the Energy Policy Act.
ADDRESSES: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Administration and Management, Business Operations Center, 200
Constitution Avenue NW, Room S1520, Washington, DC 20210.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Gilbert-Miller, Sustainability
and Fleet Manager, at (202) 693-6662 or email Gilbert.Susan.J@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C.
13211-13219), as amended by the Energy Conservation and Reauthorization
Act of 1998 (Pub. L. 105-388, section 310(b)(3), and the Energy Policy
Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109-58, section 705), were intended to decrease
the country's dependence on petroleum for transportation purposes. The
Energy Policy Act of 1992 requires
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Federal fleets to acquire 75 percent of their new covered vehicle
acquisitions as alternative fuel vehicles. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 13218
of the Energy Policy Act, DOL and other covered agencies are required
annually to submit to Congress reports on their Energy Policy Act
alternative fuel vehicle acquisition requirements. These reports must
also be placed on an available website and their availability,
including the website address, must be published in the Federal
Register. The 2019 penultimate report is required to include an
announcement that the report for the next year shall be the final
report. DOL annual reports for fiscal years 1999 through 2018 may be
accessed at the DOL Fleet Information and Regulations website at
https://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/boc/EPAct.htm.
Dated: February 15, 2019.
Bryan Slater,
Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management.
[FR Doc. 2019-04056 Filed 3-5-19; 8:45 am]
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