80_FR_79011 80 FR 78769 - Comment Request for Information Collection for Occupational Code Assignment (OMB 1205-0137), Extension With Revisions

80 FR 78769 - Comment Request for Information Collection for Occupational Code Assignment (OMB 1205-0137), Extension With Revisions

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 242 (December 17, 2015)

Page Range78769-78770
FR Document2015-31710

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 collection of data using the Occupational Code Assignment Form (ETA 741), which expires on May 31, 2016. A copy of the proposed information collection request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the office listed below in the addressee section of this notice or by accessing: http:// www.onetcenter.org/ombclearance.html.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 242 (Thursday, December 17, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 242 (Thursday, December 17, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78769-78770]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-31710]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Comment Request for Information Collection for Occupational Code 
Assignment (OMB 1205-0137), Extension With Revisions

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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 collection of 
data using the Occupational Code Assignment Form (ETA 741), which 
expires on May 31, 2016. A copy of the proposed information collection 
request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the office listed below in 
the addressee section of this notice or by accessing: http://www.onetcenter.org/ombclearance.html.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the 
addresses section below, on or before February 16, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to Alexander Nallin, Office of 
Workforce Investment, Employment and Training Administration, Mail Stop 
C-4526, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of 
Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210. Telephone 
number: 202-693-3938. 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: 
202-693-3015. Email: Nallin.Alexander@dol.gov. A copy of the proposed 
information collection request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the 
office listed above.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The Occupational Code Assignment form (ETA 741) was developed as a

[[Page 78770]]

public service to the users of the Occupational Information Network 
(O*NET), in an effort to help them in obtaining occupational codes and 
titles for jobs that they are unable to locate in O*NET. The O*NET 
system classifies nearly all jobs in the United States economy. 
However, new occupational specialties are continually evolving and 
emerging. The use of the OCA is voluntary and is provided: (1) As a 
uniform format to the public and private sector to submit information 
in order to receive assistance in identifying an occupational code; (2) 
to assist the O*NET system in identifying potential occupations that 
may need to be included in future O*NET data collection efforts; and 
(3) to provide input to a database of alternative (lay) titles to 
facilitate searches for occupational information on the O*NET Web sites 
including O*NET OnLine (http://online.onetcenter.org), My Next Move 
(www.MyNextMove.gov), My Next Move for Veterans (www.MyNextMove.org/vets), O*NET Code Connector (www.onetcodeconnector.org), as well as 
CareerOneStop (www.careeronestop.org). Minor changes were made to the 
previous form to remove two questions that were not needed and minor 
wording changes to clarify existing questions. The OCA process is 
designed to help the occupational information user relate an 
occupational specialty or a job title to an occupational code and title 
within the framework of the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 
based O*NET system. The O*NET-SOC system consists of a database that 
organizes the work done by individuals into approximately 1,000 
occupational categories. Additionally, O*NET occupations have 
associated data on the importance and level of a range of occupational 
characteristics and requirements, including knowledge, skills, 
abilities, tasks and work activities. Since the O*NET-SOC system is 
based on the SOC system, identifying an O*NET-SOC code and title also 
facilitates linkage to national, state, and local occupational 
employment and wage estimates.

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

    Type of Review: extension with changes.
    Title: Occupational Code Assignment.
    OMB Number: 1205-0137.
    Affected Public: Federal government, state, and local government, 
business or other for-profit/non-profit institutions, and individuals.
    Form(s): ETA-741.
    Total Annual Respondents: 14.
    Annual Frequency: On occasion.

                          Summary of Annual Burden for the Occupational Code Assignment
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                    Salary
                                             Requests per    Hours/request     Hours burden    expenditure used
                   Form                        year \1\           \2\              used          \3\  (hours x
                                                                                                hourly income)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OCA--Part A..............................              14               .5              7.0             $384.16
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Estimate based on average for January 2013 through October 2015
\2\ Estimates on OCA form--Part A = 30 minutes
\3\ Salary based on Occupational Employment Statistics data for Human Resource Manager, median wage as of May
  2014 = $54.88/hour

    Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 0.
    Total Burden Cost (operating/maintaining): 0.
    Average Time per Response: 30 minutes for the OCA Part A; 40 
minutes for the OCA Part A and OCA Request for Additional Information 
combined.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 7.0.
    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.

Portia Wu,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, U.S. Department of 
Labor.
[FR Doc. 2015-31710 Filed 12-16-15; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4510-FN-P

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 242 / Thursday, December 17, 2015 / Notices 78769 number: 202–963–3560 (this is not a whether the information will have DEPARTMENT OF LABOR toll-free number). Individuals with practical utility; hearing or speech impairments may • evaluate the accuracy of the Employment and Training access the telephone number above via agency’s estimate of the burden of the Administration TTY by calling the toll-free Federal proposed collection of information, Information Relay Service at 1–877– Comment Request for Information including the validity of the Collection for Occupational Code 889–5627 (TTY/TDD). Fax: 202–693– methodology and assumptions used; 3584. Email: worden.susan@dol.gov. A Assignment (OMB 1205–0137), copy of the proposed information • enhance the quality, utility, and Extension With Revisions collection request (ICR) can be obtained clarity of the information to be collected; and AGENCY: Employment and Training by contacting the office listed above. Administration (ETA), Labor. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: • minimize the burden of the ACTION: Notice. collection of information on those who I. Background are to respond, including through the SUMMARY: The Department of Labor Section 221(a) of Title II, Chapter 2 of use of appropriate automated, (Department), as part of its continuing the Trade Act of 1974, as amended by electronic, mechanical, or other effort to reduce paperwork and the Trade Act of 2002, authorizes the technological collection techniques or respondent burden, conducts a Secretary of Labor and the Governor of other forms of information technology, preclearance consultation program to each state to accept petitions for e.g., permitting electronic submissions provide the public and Federal agencies certification of eligibility to apply for of responses. with an opportunity to comment on adjustment assistance. The petitions III. Current Actions proposed and/or continuing collections may be filed by a group of workers, their of information in accordance with the certified or recognized union or duly Type of Review: Extension with no Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 [44 authorized representative, employers of revisions. U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This program such workers, one-stop operators or one- Title: Investigative Data Collections helps ensure that requested data can be stop partners. ETA Form 9042A, for the Trade Act of 1974, as amended. provided in the desired format, Petition for Trade Adjustment reporting burden (time and financial Assistance and Alternative Trade OMB Number: 1205–0342. resources) is minimized, collection Adjustment Assistance, its Spanish Affected Public: Individuals or instruments are clearly understood, and translation, ETA Form 9042A, Solicitud Households, Businesses, State, Local or the impact of collection requirements on De Asistencia Para Ajuste, and the On- Tribal Governments. respondents can be properly assessed. Line Petiton for Trade Adjustment Form(s): ETA 9042A, Petition for Currently, ETA is soliciting comments Assistance, ETA Form 9042A–1, Trade Adjustment Assistance (1205– concerning the collection of data using establish a format that may be used for 0342), its Spanish translation ETA the Occupational Code Assignment filing such petitions. 9042a (1205–0342), and its On-Line Form (ETA 741), which expires on May Sections 222, 223 and 249 of the version ETA 9042A–1 (1205–0342); ETA 31, 2016. A copy of the proposed Trade Act of 1974, as amended, require 9043a, Business Data Request—Article information collection request (ICR) can the Secretary of Labor to issue a (1205–0342); ETA 9043b, Business Data be obtained by contacting the office determination for groups of workers as Request—Service (1205–0342); ETA listed below in the addressee section of to their eligibility to apply for Trade 8562a, Business Customer Survey this notice or by accessing: http:// Adjustment Assistance (TAA). After (1205–0342); ETA 85622a–1, Business www.onetcenter.org/ombclearance.html. reviewing all of the information Second Tier Customer Survey (1205– DATES: Written comments must be obtained for each petition for Trade 0342); ETA–8562b, Business Bid Survey submitted to the office listed in the Adjustment Assistance filed with the (1205–0342); and ETA 9118, Business addresses section below, on or before Department, a determination is issued Information Request (1205–0342). February 16, 2016. as to whether the statutory criteria for ADDRESSES: Submit written comments Total Annual Respondents: 6,916. certification are met. The information to Alexander Nallin, Office of Workforce collected in ETA Form 9043a, Business Annual Frequency: Once. Investment, Employment and Training Data Request—Article, ETA Form Total Annual Responses: 85,675. Administration, Mail Stop C–4526, 9043b, Business Data Request—Service, Average Time per Response: 2.22 Employment and Training ETA Form 9118, Business Information Hours. Administration, U.S. Department of Request, ETA Form 8562a, Business Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Customer Survey, ETA form 85622a-1, Estimated Total Annual Burden Washington, DC 20210. Telephone Business Second Tier Customer Survey, Hours: 18,642. number: 202–693–3938. Individuals ETA form 8562b, Business Bid Survey, Total Annual Burden Cost for with hearing or speech impairments will be used by the Secretary to Respondents: $0. may access the telephone number above determine to what extent, if any, Comments submitted in response to via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal increased imports or shifts in either this comment request will be Information Relay Service at 1–877– service or production have impacted the summarized and/or included in the 889–5627 (TTY/TDD). Fax: 202–693– petitioning worker group. 3015. Email: Nallin.Alexander@dol.gov. asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES request for OMB approval of the ICR; they will also become a matter of public A copy of the proposed information II. Review Focus record. collection request (ICR) can be obtained The Department is particularly by contacting the office listed above. interested in comments which: Portia Wu, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: • Evaluate whether the proposed Assistant Secretary for Employment and collection of information is necessary Training, Labor. I. Background for the proper performance of the [FR Doc. 2015–31656 Filed 12–16–15; 8:45 am] The Occupational Code Assignment functions of the agency, including BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P form (ETA 741) was developed as a VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:53 Dec 16, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00062 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\17DEN1.SGM 17DEN1

78770 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 242 / Thursday, December 17, 2015 / Notices public service to the users of the to remove two questions that were not whether the information will have Occupational Information Network needed and minor wording changes to practical utility; (O*NET), in an effort to help them in clarify existing questions. The OCA • evaluate the accuracy of the obtaining occupational codes and titles process is designed to help the agency’s estimate of the burden of the for jobs that they are unable to locate in occupational information user relate an proposed collection of information, O*NET. The O*NET system classifies occupational specialty or a job title to an including the validity of the nearly all jobs in the United States occupational code and title within the methodology and assumptions used; economy. However, new occupational framework of the Standard • enhance the quality, utility, and specialties are continually evolving and Occupational Classification (SOC) based clarity of the information to be emerging. The use of the OCA is O*NET system. The O*NET–SOC collected; and voluntary and is provided: (1) As a system consists of a database that • minimize the burden of the uniform format to the public and private organizes the work done by individuals collection of information on those who sector to submit information in order to into approximately 1,000 occupational are to respond, including through the receive assistance in identifying an categories. Additionally, O*NET use of appropriate automated, occupational code; (2) to assist the occupations have associated data on the electronic, mechanical, or other importance and level of a range of technological collection techniques, or O*NET system in identifying potential occupational characteristics and other forms of information technology, occupations that may need to be requirements, including knowledge, e.g., permitting electronic submissions included in future O*NET data skills, abilities, tasks and work of responses. collection efforts; and (3) to provide activities. Since the O*NET–SOC input to a database of alternative (lay) system is based on the SOC system, III. Current Actions titles to facilitate searches for identifying an O*NET–SOC code and occupational information on the O*NET Type of Review: extension with title also facilitates linkage to national, changes. Web sites including O*NET OnLine state, and local occupational (http://online.onetcenter.org), My Next Title: Occupational Code Assignment. employment and wage estimates. Move (www.MyNextMove.gov), My Next OMB Number: 1205–0137. Move for Veterans II. Review Focus Affected Public: Federal government, (www.MyNextMove.org/vets), O*NET The Department is particularly state, and local government, business or Code Connector interested in comments which: other for-profit/non-profit institutions, (www.onetcodeconnector.org), as well as • Evaluate whether the proposed and individuals. CareerOneStop collection of information is necessary Form(s): ETA–741. (www.careeronestop.org). Minor for the proper performance of the Total Annual Respondents: 14. changes were made to the previous form functions of the agency, including Annual Frequency: On occasion. SUMMARY OF ANNUAL BURDEN FOR THE OCCUPATIONAL CODE ASSIGNMENT Salary Requests per Hours/re- Hours burden expenditure used 3 Form year 1 quest 2 used (hours × hourly income) OCA—Part A ............................................................................................. 14 .5 7.0 $384.16 1 Estimate based on average for January 2013 through October 2015 2 Estimates on OCA form—Part A = 30 minutes 3 Salary based on Occupational Employment Statistics data for Human Resource Manager, median wage as of May 2014 = $54.88/hour Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 0. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR DATES: This notice is effective upon Total Burden Cost (operating/ publication in the Federal Register. Employment and Training FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: maintaining): 0. Administration Donald Haughton, Office of Workforce Average Time per Response: 30 Investment, Employment and Training minutes for the OCA Part A; 40 minutes Guam Military Base Realignment Administration, U.S. Department of for the OCA Part A and OCA Request for Contractor Recruitment Standards— Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Additional Information combined. Revised Room C–4526, Washington, DC 20210. Estimated Total Burden Hours: 7.0. AGENCY: Employment and Training Telephone (202) 693–2784 (this is not a Comments submitted in response to Administration, Labor. toll-free number). Individuals with ACTION: Final notice. hearing or speech impairments may this comment request will be access the telephone number above via summarized and/or included in the SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor TTY by calling the toll-free Federal request for OMB approval of the ICR; Information Relay Service at 1–877– (Department), Employment and they will also become a matter of public 889–5627 (TTY/TDD), fax: (202) 693– Training Administration (ETA), is asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES record. issuing this notice to revise recruitment 3015, email: Haughton.donald.w@ Portia Wu, standards that construction contractors dol.gov . Assistant Secretary for Employment and are required to follow when recruiting SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section Training, U.S. Department of Labor. United States (U.S.) workers for Guam 2834(a) of the NDAA for Fiscal Year [FR Doc. 2015–31710 Filed 12–16–15; 8:45 am] military base realignment projects 2010 (Pub. L. 111–84, enacted October authorized by the National Defense 28, 2009) amended Section 2824(c) of BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal the Military Construction Authorization Year 2010. Act (division B of Public Law 110–417; VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:53 Dec 16, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00063 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\17DEN1.SGM 17DEN1


Document Created: 2018-03-02 09:18:33
Document Modified: 2018-03-02 09:18:33
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesWritten comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
FR Citation80 FR 78769 
2024 Federal Register | Disclaimer | Privacy Policy
USC | CFR | eCFR