82 FR 27875 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 116 (June 19, 2017)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 116 (June 19, 2017)
| Page Range | 27875-27876 | |
| FR Document | 2017-12602 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 116 (Monday, June 19, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 27875-27876] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-12602] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Bureau of Labor Statistics Proposed Collection; Comment Request ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance 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 can be properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments concerning the proposed reinstatement of the ``Current Population Survey (CPS) Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and Occupational Mobility Supplement'' to be conducted in January 2018 and January 2020. A copy of the proposed information collection request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the individual listed below in the Addresses section of this notice. DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the ADDRESSES section of this notice on or before August 18, 2017. ADDRESSES: Send comments to Erin Good, BLS Clearance Officer, Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE., Washington, DC 20212. Written comments may also be transmitted by fax to 202-691-5111 (this is not a toll free number). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin Good, BLS Clearance Officer, 202- 691-7763 (this is not a toll-free number). (See ADDRESSES section.) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background The CPS Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and Occupational Mobility Supplement is conducted biennially and was last collected in January 2016. This supplement will gather information on workers who have lost or left their jobs because their plant or company closed or moved, there was insufficient work for them to do, or their position or shift was abolished. Data will be collected on the extent to which displaced workers received advance notice of job cutbacks or the closing of their plant or business. For those workers who have been reemployed, the [[Page 27876]] supplement will gather data on the types of jobs they found and will compare current earnings with those from the lost job. The incidence and nature of occupational changes in the preceding year will be queried. The survey also probes for the length of time workers (including those who have not been displaced) have been with their current employer. Additional data to be collected include information on the receipt of unemployment compensation, the loss of health insurance coverage, and the length of time spent without a job. Because this supplement is part of the CPS, the same detailed demographic information collected in the CPS will be available on respondents to the supplement. Comparisons will be possible across characteristics such as sex, race and ethnicity, age, and educational attainment of the respondent. The information collected by this survey will be used to determine the size and nature of the population affected by job displacements and the needs and scope of programs serving adult displaced workers. It also will be used to assess employment stability by determining the length of time workers have been with their current employer and estimating the incidence of occupational change over the course of a year. Combining the questions on displacement, job tenure, and occupational mobility will enable analysts to obtain a more complete picture of employment stability. II. Current Action Office of Management and Budget clearance is being sought for the CPS Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and Occupational Mobility Supplement to the CPS. A reinstatement, without change, of this previously approved collection, for which approval has expired, is needed to provide the Nation with timely information about displaced workers, job tenure, and occupational mobility. III. Desired Focus of Comments The Bureau of Labor Statistics is particularly interested in comments that: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. 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. Type of Review: Reinstatement, without change, of a previously approved collection for which approval has expired. Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Title: CPS Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and Occupational Mobility Supplement. OMB Number: 1220-0104. Affected Public: Households. Total Respondents: 53,000. Frequency: Biennially. Total Responses: 53,000. Average Time per Response: 8 minutes. Estimated Total Burden Hours: 7,067 hours. Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0. Total Burden Cost (operating/maintenance): $0. Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget approval of the information collection request; they also will become a matter of public record. Signed at Washington, DC, this 13th day of June, 2017. Kimberley Hill, Chief, Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics. [FR Doc. 2017-12602 Filed 6-16-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510-24-P
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(Oregon, North Carolina, and South Fax is also a significant collection mode, including the validity of the
Carolina), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin as 8,000 reports are collected via this methodology and assumptions used.
Islands. To our knowledge, the States method. Touchtone Data Entry is used • Enhance the quality, utility, and
that do have mandatory reporting rarely for 7,000 reports. clarity of the information to be
exercise their authority. The collection The balance of the sample is collected collected.
form’s confidentiality statement cites through other methods including • Minimize the burden of the
the Confidential Information Protection submission of transcripts, emails, and collection of information on those who
and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 other special arrangements. are to respond, including through the
and mentions the State mandatory use of appropriate automated,
reporting authority. III. Desired Focus of Comments electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
II. Current Action The Bureau of Labor Statistics is
other forms of information technology,
particularly interested in comments
Office of Management and Budget e.g., permitting electronic submissions
that:
clearance is being sought for the Report of responses.
on Current Employment Statistics. • Evaluate whether the proposed Type of Review: Revision of a
Automated data collection methods collection of information is necessary currently approved collection.
are now used for most of the CES for the proper performance of the Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
sample. Approximately 139,000 reports functions of the agency, including Title: Report on Current Employment
are received through Electronic Data whether the information will have Statistics.
Interchange as of February 2017. Web practical utility. OMB Number: 1220–0011.
data collection accounts for 48,000 • Evaluate the accuracy of the Affected Public: State or local
reports. Computer Assisted Telephone agency’s estimate of the burden of the governments; Businesses or other for
Interviewing is used to collect 73,000. proposed collection of information, profit; Non-profit institutions.
Minutes per Frequency of Annual Annual burden
Form Reports report response responses hours
A—Mining and Logging ....................................................... 1,283 10 12 15,396 2,566
B—Construction ................................................................... 11,503 10 12 138,036 23,006
C—Manufacturing ................................................................ 9,837 10 12 118,044 19,674
E—Service Providing Industries .......................................... 195,448 10 12 2,345,376 390,896
G—Public Administration ..................................................... 60,382 6 12 724,584 72,458
S—Education ....................................................................... 11,025 6 12 132,300 13,230
Fax790 A,B,C,E,G,S ............................................................ 8,205 10 12 98,460 16,410
Total .............................................................................. 297,683 ........................ ........................ 3,572,196 538,240
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): program to provide the general public ADDRESSES: Send comments to Erin
$0 and Federal agencies with an Good, BLS Clearance Officer, Division
Total Burden Cost (operating/ opportunity to comment on proposed of Management Systems, Bureau of
maintenance): $0 and/or continuing collections of Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 2
Comments submitted in response to information in accordance with the Massachusetts Avenue NE.,
this notice will be summarized and/or Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 Washington, DC 20212. Written
included in the request for Office of (PRA95). This program helps to ensure comments may also be transmitted by
Management and Budget approval of the that requested data can be provided in fax to 202–691–5111 (this is not a toll
information collection request; they also the desired format, reporting burden free number).
will become a matter of public record. (time and financial resources) is FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin
Signed at Washington, DC, this 12th day of minimized, collection instruments are Good, BLS Clearance Officer, 202–691–
June 2017. clearly understood, and the impact of 7763 (this is not a toll-free number).
Eric P. Molina, collection requirements on respondents (See ADDRESSES section.)
Acting Chief, Division of Management can be properly assessed. The Bureau of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting
I. Background
[FR Doc. 2017–12598 Filed 6–16–17; 8:45 am] comments concerning the proposed
BILLING CODE 4510–24–P reinstatement of the ‘‘Current The CPS Displaced Worker, Job
Population Survey (CPS) Displaced Tenure, and Occupational Mobility
Worker, Job Tenure, and Occupational Supplement is conducted biennially
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Mobility Supplement’’ to be conducted and was last collected in January 2016.
in January 2018 and January 2020. A This supplement will gather
Bureau of Labor Statistics information on workers who have lost
copy of the proposed information
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collection request (ICR) can be obtained or left their jobs because their plant or
Proposed Collection; Comment
by contacting the individual listed company closed or moved, there was
Request
below in the Addresses section of this insufficient work for them to do, or their
ACTION: Notice. notice. position or shift was abolished. Data
will be collected on the extent to which
SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as DATES: Written comments must be displaced workers received advance
part of its continuing effort to reduce submitted to the office listed in the notice of job cutbacks or the closing of
paperwork and respondent burden, ADDRESSES section of this notice on or their plant or business. For those
conducts a pre-clearance consultation before August 18, 2017. workers who have been reemployed, the
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supplement will gather data on the • Enhance the quality, utility, and instructions on what happens to records
types of jobs they found and will clarity of the information to be when agencies no longer need them for
compare current earnings with those collected. current Government business. The
from the lost job. The incidence and • Minimize the burden of the records schedules authorize agencies to
nature of occupational changes in the collection of information on those who preserve records of continuing value in
preceding year will be queried. The are to respond, including through the the National Archives of the United
survey also probes for the length of time use of appropriate automated, States and to destroy, after a specified
workers (including those who have not electronic, mechanical, or other period, records lacking administrative,
been displaced) have been with their technological collection techniques or legal, research, or other value. NARA
current employer. Additional data to be other forms of information technology, publishes notice in the Federal Register
collected include information on the e.g., permitting electronic submissions for records schedules in which agencies
receipt of unemployment compensation, of responses. propose to destroy records they no
the loss of health insurance coverage, Type of Review: Reinstatement, longer need to conduct agency business.
and the length of time spent without a without change, of a previously NARA invites public comments on such
job. approved collection for which approval records schedules.
Because this supplement is part of the has expired. DATES: NARA must receive requests for
CPS, the same detailed demographic Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics. copies in writing by July 19, 2017. Once
information collected in the CPS will be Title: CPS Displaced Worker, Job NARA finishes appraising the records,
available on respondents to the Tenure, and Occupational Mobility we will send you a copy of the schedule
supplement. Comparisons will be Supplement. you requested. We usually prepare
possible across characteristics such as OMB Number: 1220–0104. appraisal memoranda that contain
sex, race and ethnicity, age, and Affected Public: Households. additional information concerning the
educational attainment of the Total Respondents: 53,000. records covered by a proposed schedule.
respondent. Frequency: Biennially. You may also request these. If you do,
The information collected by this Total Responses: 53,000. we will also provide them once we have
survey will be used to determine the Average Time per Response: 8 completed the appraisal. You have 30
size and nature of the population minutes. days after we send to you these
affected by job displacements and the Estimated Total Burden Hours: 7,067 requested documents in which to
needs and scope of programs serving hours. submit comments.
adult displaced workers. It also will be Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): ADDRESSES: You may request a copy of
used to assess employment stability by $0. any records schedule identified in this
determining the length of time workers Total Burden Cost (operating/ notice by contacting Records Appraisal
have been with their current employer maintenance): $0. and Agency Assistance (ACRA) using
and estimating the incidence of Comments submitted in response to one of the following means:
occupational change over the course of this notice will be summarized and/or Mail: NARA (ACRA); 8601 Adelphi
a year. Combining the questions on included in the request for Office of Road; College Park, MD 20740–6001.
displacement, job tenure, and Management and Budget approval of the Email: request.schedule@nara.gov.
occupational mobility will enable information collection request; they also FAX: 301–837–3698.
analysts to obtain a more complete will become a matter of public record. You must cite the control number,
picture of employment stability. Signed at Washington, DC, this 13th day of which appears in parentheses after the
II. Current Action June, 2017. name of the agency that submitted the
Kimberley Hill, schedule, and a mailing address. If you
Office of Management and Budget would like an appraisal report, please
clearance is being sought for the CPS Chief, Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics. include that in your request.
Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and
[FR Doc. 2017–12602 Filed 6–16–17; 8:45 am] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Occupational Mobility Supplement to
the CPS. A reinstatement, without BILLING CODE 4510–24–P Margaret Hawkins, Director, by mail at
change, of this previously approved Records Appraisal and Agency
collection, for which approval has Assistance (ACRA); National Archives
expired, is needed to provide the Nation NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS and Records Administration; 8601
with timely information about displaced ADMINISTRATION Adelphi Road; College Park, MD 20740–
workers, job tenure, and occupational 6001, by phone at 301–837–1799, or by
[NARA–2017–051] email at request.schedule@nara.gov.
mobility.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NARA
III. Desired Focus of Comments Records Schedules; Availability and
Request for Comments publishes notice in the Federal Register
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is for records schedules they no longer
particularly interested in comments AGENCY: National Archives and Records need to conduct agency business. NARA
that: Administration (NARA). invites public comments on such
• Evaluate whether the proposed ACTION: Notice of availability of records schedules, as required by 44
collection of information is necessary proposed records schedules; request for U.S.C. 3303a(a).
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for the proper performance of the comments. Each year, Federal agencies create
functions of the agency, including billions of records on paper, film,
whether the information will have SUMMARY: The National Archives and magnetic tape, and other media. To
practical utility. Records Administration (NARA) control this accumulation, agency
• Evaluate the accuracy of the publishes notice at least once monthly records managers prepare schedules
agency’s estimate of the burden of the of certain Federal agency requests for proposing records retention periods and
proposed collection of information, records disposition authority (records submit these schedules for NARA’s
including the validity of the schedules). Once approved by NARA, approval. These schedules provide for
methodology and assumptions used. records schedules provide mandatory timely transfer into the National
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