80_FR_60600 80 FR 60407 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Demonstration and Evaluation of Community College Interventions for Youth and Young Adults With Disabilities

80 FR 60407 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Demonstration and Evaluation of Community College Interventions for Youth and Young Adults With Disabilities

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 193 (October 6, 2015)

Page Range60407-60408
FR Document2015-25429

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) [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. A copy of the proposed Information Collection Request can be obtained by contacting the office listed below in the addressee section of this notice.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 193 (Tuesday, October 6, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 193 (Tuesday, October 6, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60407-60408]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-25429]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Demonstration and Evaluation of Community 
College Interventions for Youth and Young Adults With Disabilities

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation 
Office, Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: 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) [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.
    A copy of the proposed Information Collection Request can be 
obtained by 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 December 7, 2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either one of the following 
methods: Email: ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov; Mail or Courier: Celeste 
Richie, Chief Evaluation Office, U.S. Department of Labor, Room S-2218, 
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. Because we continue to 
experience delays in receiving mail in the Washington, DC area, 
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: Contact Celeste Richie by email at 
ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    I. Background: In June 2014, ODEP announced the availability of 
funds for two cooperative agreements to conduct pilot projects to 
research, develop, test and, in coordination with DOL, evaluate 
innovative systems models for providing inclusive integrated education 
and career development services to youth and young adults with 
disabilities. In September of 2014, ODEP competitively selected 
Onondaga Community College and Pellissippi State Community College for 
the Pathways to Careers Grant Program. The program models are designed 
to (1) increase credential and job attainment of students with 
disabilities, (2) increase their job placement, and (3) decrease the 
wage earning differential between students with and without 
disabilities, and between students with different types of 
disabilities.
    The grantees are expected to design approaches that work to shift 
practice and policy across the institution. This involves transforming 
the entire college's approach for providing services, as opposed to a 
single division, and enlisting support from and engagement of 
administrators, deans, department chairs, faculty, student services, 
and other divisions that have a role in ensuring students' success. It 
is expected that grantees will leverage their partnerships and 
relationships with national affiliates, association members or business 
organizations, and a variety of other entities including the public 
workforce system. Grantees are also required to capture and use data to 
assess and manage their program performance, and to participate in an 
independent evaluation.
    ODEP has oversight responsibility for the Pathways to Careers Grant 
Program. The Chief Evaluation Office of DOL is conducting the 
evaluation of the Pathways to Careers Grant Program. The evaluation 
consists of an implementation study and a descriptive outcomes study. 
The implementation study will document the institutional change at the 
two colleges; assess the fidelity of the implemented programs to the 
intended program model; assess the models for replicability and 
scalability; and determine the extent to which the grantees used 
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and the Guideposts for 
Success in the development and operation of their programs. The 
outcomes study will document PTC participant outcomes, examine the 
extent to which the

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grantees meet target goals, and conduct predictive analyses to identify 
participant characteristics associated with particular outcomes.
    The evaluation will involve the collection of data through in-depth 
interviews of community college administrators, faculty and staff and 
partner organizations; focus groups of faculty and students with 
disabilities who participate in the Pathways to Careers Grant Program; 
and web-based surveys with telephone follow-up for student 
participants. The interviews with college administrators, faculty and 
staff will provide information on how the program interventions were 
implemented, challenges to implementation, and promising practices. 
Interviews will focus on program design, strengths and weaknesses of 
infrastructure and logistics, clarity of communication, effectiveness 
of enrollment, intake, and orientation, impressions of program 
delivery, and access to support services.
    Focus groups with Pathways to Careers participants will collect 
information about career planning activity engagement, perceptions of 
the availability of career planning supports, satisfaction with and 
perceived importance of career planning, and the extent to which 
personal challenges influence this process and career choices. Focus 
groups with faculty who teach the career tracks of the Pathways to 
Careers program will focus on initial experience and perspectives, and 
availability of and involvement in professional development.
    The survey will collect information from Pathways to Careers 
participants about their college experience, self-advocacy and self-
determination, and employment and earnings during and after college. 
The survey will provide data to assess short-term and longer-term 
outcomes associated with student participation in the Pathways to 
Careers program.
    II. Desired Focus of Comments: Currently, the Department of Labor 
is soliciting comments concerning the above data collection as part of 
the evaluation of the Pathways to Careers Grant Program. Comments are 
requested to:
    * 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: At this time, the Department of Labor is 
requesting clearance for data collection for the evaluation of the 
Pathways to Careers Grant Program via in-depth interviews with 
community college administrators, faculty, staff, and partner 
organizations of the program; focus groups with faculty and students 
with disabilities who participate in the Pathways to Careers Grant 
Program; and an online survey with telephone follow-up for student 
participants.
    Type of review: New information collection request.
    OMB Control Number: XXXX--0NEW
    Affected Public: Community colleges (participating in the Pathways 
to Careers Grant Program); private sector-businesses or other for 
profits and not for profit institutions (partners organizations 
involved with the Pathways to Careers Grant Program); students with 
disabilities (participating in the Pathways to Careers Grant Program at 
the two colleges).

                                             Estimated Burden Hours
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                                                                                   Average time      Estimated
        Form/activity           Estimated total     Frequency          Total       per response    total burden
                                  respondents                        responses        (hours)          hours
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Participant survey...........  150 (enrolled in  Three times....             450             0.5             225
                                2015-2016
                                school year).
                               200 (enrolled in  Two times......             400             0.5             200
                                2016-2017
                                school year).
In-depth interviews..........  28..............  Three times....              84             1.0              84
Faculty focus groups.........  16..............  Two times......              32             1.0              32
Student focus groups.........  32..............  Two times......              64             1.0              64
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    Totals...................  426.............  ...............           1,030  ..............             605
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    Comments submitted in response to this request will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget 
approval; they will also become a matter of public record.

    Signed: at Washington, DC, this 17th day of September 2015.
Mary Beth Maxwell,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of 
Labor.
[FR Doc. 2015-25429 Filed 10-5-15; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 193 / Tuesday, October 6, 2015 / Notices 60407 LSA list, statistical data on the current DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: and some previous year’s LSAs, and the Contact Celeste Richie by email at list of LSAs in Puerto Rico are available Office of the Secretary ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov. at ETA’s LSA Web site http:// SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: www.doleta.gov/programs/lsa.cfm. Agency Information Collection I. Background: In June 2014, ODEP Activities; Submission for OMB Petition for Exceptional Circumstance announced the availability of funds for Review; Comment Request; Consideration two cooperative agreements to conduct Demonstration and Evaluation of pilot projects to research, develop, test The classification procedures also Community College Interventions for and, in coordination with DOL, evaluate provide criteria for the designation of Youth and Young Adults With innovative systems models for LSAs under exceptional circumstances Disabilities providing inclusive integrated criteria. These procedures permit the AGENCY: Office of the Assistant education and career development regular classification criteria to be Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation services to youth and young adults with waived when an area experiences a Office, Labor. disabilities. In September of 2014, ODEP significant increase in unemployment competitively selected Onondaga which is not temporary or seasonal and ACTION: Notice. Community College and Pellissippi which was not reflected in the data for State Community College for the SUMMARY: The Department of Labor the 2-year reference period. Under the Pathways to Careers Grant Program. The (DOL), as part of its continuing effort to program’s exceptional circumstance program models are designed to (1) reduce paperwork and respondent procedures, LSA classifications can be increase credential and job attainment burden, conducts a preclearance made for civil jurisdictions, of students with disabilities, (2) increase consultation program to provide the Metropolitan Statistical Areas or their job placement, and (3) decrease the general public and Federal agencies Combined Statistical Areas, as defined wage earning differential between with an opportunity to comment on by the U.S. Office of Management and students with and without disabilities, proposed and/or continuing collections Budget. In order for an area to be and between students with different of information in accordance with the classified as a LSA under the types of disabilities. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 exceptional circumstance criteria, the The grantees are expected to design (PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This state workforce agency must submit a approaches that work to shift practice program helps to ensure that required petition requesting such classification to and policy across the institution. This data can be provided in the desired the Department of Labor’s ETA. The involves transforming the entire format, reporting burden (time and current criteria for an exceptional college’s approach for providing financial resources) is minimized, circumstance classification are, services, as opposed to a single division, collection instruments are clearly (1) an area’s unemployment rate is at understood, and the impact of collection and enlisting support from and least 8.18 percent for each of the three requirements on respondents can be engagement of administrators, deans, most recent months; properly assessed. department chairs, faculty, student (2) a projected unemployment rate of A copy of the proposed Information services, and other divisions that have at least 8.18 percent for each of the next Collection Request can be obtained by a role in ensuring students’ success. It 12 months; and contacting the office listed below in the is expected that grantees will leverage (3) documentation that the addressee section of this notice. their partnerships and relationships exceptional circumstance event has with national affiliates, association DATES: Written comments must be members or business organizations, and occurred. The state workforce agency submitted to the office listed in the a variety of other entities including the may file petitions on behalf of civil addressee section below on or before public workforce system. Grantees are jurisdictions, Metropolitan Statistical December 7, 2015. also required to capture and use data to Areas, or Micropolitan Statistical Areas. The addresses of state workforce ADDRESSES: You may submit comments assess and manage their program agencies are available on the ETA Web by either one of the following methods: performance, and to participate in an site at: http://www.doleta.gov/programs/ Email: ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov; independent evaluation. lsa.cfm and https:// Mail or Courier: Celeste Richie, Chief ODEP has oversight responsibility for winwin.workforce3one.org/view/Labor_ Evaluation Office, U.S. Department of the Pathways to Careers Grant Program. Surplus_Area_List_Issued/info. State Labor, Room S–2218, 200 Constitution The Chief Evaluation Office of DOL is Workforce Agencies may submit Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210. conducting the evaluation of the petitions in electronic format to Instructions: Please submit one copy of Pathways to Careers Grant Program. The wright.samuel.e@dol.gov, or in hard your comments by only one method. All evaluation consists of an copy to the U.S. Department of Labor, submissions received must include the implementation study and a descriptive Employment and Training agency name and OMB Control Number outcomes study. The implementation Administration, Office of Workforce identified above for this information study will document the institutional Investment, 200 Constitution Avenue collection. Because we continue to change at the two colleges; assess the NW., Room C–4514, Washington, DC experience delays in receiving mail in fidelity of the implemented programs to 20210, Attention Samuel Wright. Data the Washington, DC area, commenters the intended program model; assess the collection for the petition is approved are strongly encouraged to transmit their models for replicability and scalability; under OMB 1205–0207, expiration date comments electronically via email or to and determine the extent to which the tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES March 31, 2016. submit them by mail early. Comments, grantees used Universal Design for including any personal information Learning (UDL) principles and the Portia Wu, provided, become a matter of public Guideposts for Success in the Assistant Secretary for Employment and record. They will also be summarized development and operation of their Training Administration. and/or included in the request for OMB programs. 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60408 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 193 / Tuesday, October 6, 2015 / Notices grantees meet target goals, and conduct teach the career tracks of the Pathways * minimize the burden of the predictive analyses to identify to Careers program will focus on initial information collection on those who are participant characteristics associated experience and perspectives, and to respond, including the use of with particular outcomes. availability of and involvement in appropriate automated, electronic, The evaluation will involve the professional development. mechanical, or other technological collection of data through in-depth The survey will collect information collection techniques or other forms of interviews of community college from Pathways to Careers participants information technology, e.g., permitting administrators, faculty and staff and about their college experience, self- electronic submissions of responses. partner organizations; focus groups of advocacy and self-determination, and III. Current Actions: At this time, the faculty and students with disabilities employment and earnings during and who participate in the Pathways to Department of Labor is requesting after college. The survey will provide Careers Grant Program; and web-based clearance for data collection for the data to assess short-term and longer- surveys with telephone follow-up for evaluation of the Pathways to Careers term outcomes associated with student student participants. The interviews Grant Program via in-depth interviews participation in the Pathways to Careers with college administrators, faculty and program. with community college administrators, staff will provide information on how II. Desired Focus of Comments: faculty, staff, and partner organizations the program interventions were Currently, the Department of Labor is of the program; focus groups with implemented, challenges to soliciting comments concerning the faculty and students with disabilities implementation, and promising above data collection as part of the who participate in the Pathways to practices. Interviews will focus on evaluation of the Pathways to Careers Careers Grant Program; and an online program design, strengths and Grant Program. Comments are requested survey with telephone follow-up for weaknesses of infrastructure and to: student participants. logistics, clarity of communication, * Evaluate whether the proposed Type of review: New information effectiveness of enrollment, intake, and collection of information is necessary collection request. orientation, impressions of program for the proper performance of the OMB Control Number: XXXX—0NEW delivery, and access to support services. functions of the agency, including Focus groups with Pathways to whether the information will have Affected Public: Community colleges Careers participants will collect practical utility; (participating in the Pathways to Careers information about career planning * evaluate the accuracy of the Grant Program); private sector- activity engagement, perceptions of the agency’s estimate of the burden of the businesses or other for profits and not availability of career planning supports, proposed collection of information, for profit institutions (partners satisfaction with and perceived including the validity of the organizations involved with the importance of career planning, and the methodology and assumptions used; Pathways to Careers Grant Program); extent to which personal challenges * enhance the quality, utility, and students with disabilities (participating influence this process and career clarity of the information to be in the Pathways to Careers Grant choices. Focus groups with faculty who collected; and Program at the two colleges). ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS Average Estimated total Estimated total Total time per Form/activity Frequency burden respondents responses response hours (hours) Participant survey ........................... 150 (enrolled in 2015–2016 school Three times ........ 450 0.5 225 year). 200 (enrolled in 2016–2017 school Two times .......... 400 0.5 200 year). In-depth interviews .......................... 28 ................................................... Three times ........ 84 1.0 84 Faculty focus groups ....................... 16 ................................................... Two times .......... 32 1.0 32 Student focus groups ...................... 32 ................................................... Two times .......... 64 1.0 64 Totals ....................................... 426 ................................................. ............................ 1,030 ........................ 605 Comments submitted in response to DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Standards Association for expansion of this request will be summarized and/or its recognition as a Nationally included in the request for Office of Occupational Safety and Health Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) Management and Budget approval; they Administration and presents the Agency’s preliminary will also become a matter of public [Docket No. OSHA–2006–0042] finding to grant the application. record. DATES: Submit comments, information, Canadian Standards Association: and documents in response to this Signed: at Washington, DC, this 17th day Application for Expansion of notice, or requests for an extension of of September 2015. Recognition time to make a submission, on or before tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Mary Beth Maxwell, AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health October 21, 2015. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration (OSHA), Labor. ADDRESSES: Submit comments by any of Policy, U.S. Department of Labor. ACTION: Notice. the following methods: [FR Doc. 2015–25429 Filed 10–5–15; 8:45 am] 1. Electronically: Submit comments BILLING CODE 4510–HX–P SUMMARY: In this notice, OSHA and attachments electronically at announces the application of Canadian http://www.regulations.gov, which is VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:31 Oct 05, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\06OCN1.SGM 06OCN1


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