82 FR 51299 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Job ChalleNGe Evaluation, New Collection
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 212 (November 3, 2017)
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 212 (November 3, 2017)
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| FR Document | 2017-24003 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 212 (Friday, November 3, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 51299-51300] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-24003] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Job ChalleNGe Evaluation, New Collection AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation Office, Department of Labor. ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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). 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 follow-up survey data about the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe and Job ChalleNGe Program. A copy of the proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the office listed in the addressee section of this notice. DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the addressee's section below on or before January 2, 2018. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either one of the following methods: Email: ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov; Mail or Courier: Jessica Lohmann, 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. 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: Jessica Lohmann by email at ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background: The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe program has demonstrated positive, sustained impacts on the educational attainment and labor market outcomes of youth who are not in school or the labor force. To build on this success, in early 2015 the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) issued $12 million in grants for three Youth ChalleNGe programs to (1) expand the program's target population to include youth who have been involved with the courts, and (2) add a five-month residential occupational training component, known as Job ChalleNGe. The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Job ChalleNGe Evaluation includes an outcome and an implementation study. The evaluation requires collection of three primary types of data: (1) Background and contact information, (2) program implementation details, and (3) follow-up youth outcomes. The Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) has already received OMB approval to collect the first two types of data (control number 1291-0008). The planned outcomes data collection included in this ICR will answer three main research questions: (1) How did youth experience the post-residential phase of the program?, (2) What were the employment, education, and criminal justice outcomes of Job ChalleNGe participants?, and (3) What expectations do youth have for the future? This Federal Register Notice provides the opportunity to comment on two proposed data collection instruments for follow-up youth outcomes study: * Text survey. Job ChalleNGe participants who are enrolled in the program between approximately July 2017 and July 2018 and give consent to participate in the evaluation (and whose parents/guardians have done so, when necessary) and permission to contact them via text message will be asked to complete a brief survey administered by text messaging on a monthly basis for 8 months, during months 8 through 15 after the youth began Job ChalleNGe. The brief survey is designed to provide snapshots of the progression over time that the respondents make in their employment, earnings, and education. For each round of monthly text message data collection, each participant will be asked to answer three to five questions. It is expected to take the participants an [[Page 51300]] average of four minutes to complete each of the 8 rounds of the text survey. * Follow-up survey. The sample for the follow-up survey is the same as for the text survey with one exception. The follow-up survey will be administered via web and permission to be contacted by text is not required to participate in the follow-up survey. The follow-up survey, to be conducted 16 months after the start of Job ChalleNGe for each cohort, covers five broad topics: (1) Participants' experiences during Job ChalleNGe, such as the services they received; (2) characteristics of a current job and their recent work search efforts, such as employment and earnings; (3) educational experiences, including attainment and future plans; (4) involvement in the court system, such as whether or not the participant was arrested and convicted of a crime; and (5) views about the value of different aspects of the Job ChalleNGe program. It is expected to take the participants an average of 15 minutes to complete the survey. II. Desired Focus of Comments: Currently, DOL is soliciting comments concerning the above data collection for the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Job ChalleNGe Evaluation. DOL is particularly interested in comments that do the following: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- for example, permitting electronic submission of responses. III. Current Actions: At this time, DOL is requesting clearance for the text message survey and the follow-up survey. Type of Review: New information collection request. OMC Control Number: 1290--0NEW. Affected Public: Youth participating in the Youth ChalleNGe program and the Job ChalleNGe program. Estimated Total Burden Hours -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average Total number Annual number Number of burden hour Annual Total Type of instrument respondents of responses per per response estimated estimated respondents respondent (hours) burden hours burden hours -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texting Data Collection................................. \a\ 351 117 8 0.07 66 197 Follow-up Survey........................................ \b\ 414 138 1 0.25 35 104 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total............................................... \c\ 765 255 .............. .............. 101 301 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \a\ The text message survey will be collected from all Job ChalleNGe participants who consented to participate in the study, who provided a cell phone number to the study team, and who consented to be contacted via text messaging. The number of respondents is based on a 90% study consent rate x an 85% consent to text rate x an 85% response rate. \b\ The follow-up survey will be collected from all Job ChalleNGe participants who consented to participate in the study. The number of respondents is based on a 90% study participation consent rate x an 85% response rate. \c\ Most youth participating in the text data collection will also participate in the follow-up data collection. Therefore, the table provides an upper estimate of the number of separate respondents. Form(s): Total respondents: 765 youth. Most youth participating in the text data collection will also participate in the follow-up data collection. Therefore, this estimate provides an upper estimate of the number of separate respondents. Annual Frequency: Eight times for the text survey and one time for the follow-up survey. 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. Dated: October 27, 2017. Molly Irwin, Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of Labor. [FR Doc. 2017-24003 Filed 11-2-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510-HX-P
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR DEPARTMENT OF LABOR approval of the information collection
request.
Employment and Training Agency Information Collection
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Administration Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request, National Jessica Lohmann by email at
Notice of a Change in Status of an Guard Youth ChalleNGe Job ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov.
Extended Benefit (EB) Period for ChalleNGe Evaluation, New Collection SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Alaska I. Background: The National Guard
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Youth ChalleNGe program has
AGENCY:Employment and Training Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation demonstrated positive, sustained
Administration, Labor. Office, Department of Labor. impacts on the educational attainment
ACTION: Notice. ACTION: Notice of information collection; and labor market outcomes of youth
request for comment. who are not in school or the labor force.
This notice announces a change in To build on this success, in early 2015
SUMMARY: The Department of Labor the Employment and Training
benefit period eligibility under the EB
(DOL), as part of its continuing effort to Administration (ETA) issued $12
Program for Alaska.
reduce paperwork and respondent million in grants for three Youth
The following change has occurred burden, conducts a preclearance
since the publication of the last notice ChalleNGe programs to (1) expand the
consultation program to provide the program’s target population to include
regarding the State’s EB status: general public and federal agencies with youth who have been involved with the
• Based on data released by the an opportunity to comment on proposed courts, and (2) add a five-month
Bureau of Labor Statistics on October and/or continuing collections of residential occupational training
20, 2017, Alaska’s 3-month average information in accordance with the component, known as Job ChalleNGe.
seasonally adjusted total unemployment Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe
rate was 7.1 percent which exceeds 110 (PRA95). This program helps to ensure
Job ChalleNGe Evaluation includes an
percent of the corresponding rate in the that requested data can be provided in
outcome and an implementation study.
second preceding year. This causes the desired format, reporting burden
The evaluation requires collection of
Alaska to be triggered ‘‘on’’ to an EB (time and financial resources) is
three primary types of data: (1)
period beginning November 5, 2017. minimized, collection instruments are
Background and contact information, (2)
The State will remain in an EB period clearly understood, and the impact of
program implementation details, and (3)
for a minimum of 13 weeks. collection requirements on respondents
follow-up youth outcomes. The Chief
is properly assessed.
Information for Claimants Evaluation Office (CEO) has already
Currently, DOL is soliciting comments
received OMB approval to collect the
The duration of benefits payable in concerning the collection of follow-up
first two types of data (control number
the EB Program, and the terms and survey data about the National Guard
1291–0008). The planned outcomes data
conditions on which they are payable, Youth ChalleNGe and Job ChalleNGe
collection included in this ICR will
are governed by the Federal-State Program. A copy of the proposed
answer three main research questions:
Extended Unemployment Compensation Information Collection Request (ICR)
(1) How did youth experience the post-
Act of 1970, as amended, and the can be obtained by contacting the office
residential phase of the program?, (2)
operating instructions issued to the listed in the addressee section of this
What were the employment, education,
states by the U.S. Department of Labor. notice.
and criminal justice outcomes of Job
In the case of a state beginning an EB DATES: Written comments must be ChalleNGe participants?, and (3) What
period, the State Workforce Agency will submitted to the office listed in the expectations do youth have for the
furnish a written notice of potential addressee’s section below on or before future?
entitlement to each individual who has January 2, 2018. This Federal Register Notice provides
exhausted all rights to regular benefits
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments the opportunity to comment on two
and is potentially eligible for EB (20
by either one of the following methods: proposed data collection instruments for
CFR 615.13 (c) (1)).
Email: ChiefEvaluationOffice@ follow-up youth outcomes study:
Persons who believe they may be dol.gov; Mail or Courier: Jessica * Text survey. Job ChalleNGe
entitled to EB, or who wish to inquire Lohmann, Chief Evaluation Office, participants who are enrolled in the
about their rights under the program, OASP, U.S. Department of Labor, Room program between approximately July
should contact their State Workforce S–2312, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., 2017 and July 2018 and give consent to
Agency. Washington, DC 20210. Instructions: participate in the evaluation (and whose
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S. Please submit one copy of your parents/guardians have done so, when
Department of Labor, Employment and comments by only one method. All necessary) and permission to contact
Training Administration, Office of submissions received must include the them via text message will be asked to
Unemployment Insurance Room agency name and OMB Control Number complete a brief survey administered by
S–4524, Attn: Anatoli Sznoluch, 200 identified above for this information text messaging on a monthly basis for 8
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, collection. Because we continue to months, during months 8 through 15
DC 20210, telephone number (202) 693– experience delays in receiving mail in after the youth began Job ChalleNGe.
3176 (this is not a toll-free number) or the Washington, DC area, commenters The brief survey is designed to provide
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by email: Sznoluch.Anatoli@dol.gov. are strongly encouraged to transmit their snapshots of the progression over time
comments electronically via email or to that the respondents make in their
Nancy M. Rooney, submit them by mail early. Comments, employment, earnings, and education.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment including any personal information For each round of monthly text message
and Training, Labor. provided, become a matter of public data collection, each participant will be
[FR Doc. 2017–24002 Filed 11–2–17; 8:45 am] record. They will also be summarized asked to answer three to five questions.
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average of four minutes to complete (5) views about the value of different • Enhance the quality, utility, and
each of the 8 rounds of the text survey. aspects of the Job ChalleNGe program. It clarity of the information to be
* Follow-up survey. The sample for is expected to take the participants an collected.
the follow-up survey is the same as for average of 15 minutes to complete the • Minimize the burden of the
the text survey with one exception. The survey. collection of information on those who
II. Desired Focus of Comments: are to respond, including through the
follow-up survey will be administered
Currently, DOL is soliciting comments use of appropriate automated,
via web and permission to be contacted concerning the above data collection for
by text is not required to participate in electronic, mechanical, or other
the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe technological collection techniques or
the follow-up survey. The follow-up Job ChalleNGe Evaluation. DOL is
survey, to be conducted 16 months after other forms of information technology-
particularly interested in comments that for example, permitting electronic
the start of Job ChalleNGe for each do the following:
cohort, covers five broad topics: (1) submission of responses.
• Evaluate whether the proposed
Participants’ experiences during Job III. Current Actions: At this time, DOL
collection of information is necessary
ChalleNGe, such as the services they is requesting clearance for the text
for the proper performance of the
received; (2) characteristics of a current message survey and the follow-up
functions of the agency, including
job and their recent work search efforts, survey.
whether the information will have
such as employment and earnings; (3) practical utility. Type of Review: New information
educational experiences, including • Evaluate the accuracy of the collection request.
attainment and future plans; (4) agency’s estimate of the burden of the OMC Control Number: 1290—0NEW.
involvement in the court system, such proposed collection of information, Affected Public: Youth participating
as whether or not the participant was including the validity of the in the Youth ChalleNGe program and
arrested and convicted of a crime; and methodology and assumptions used. the Job ChalleNGe program.
ESTIMATED TOTAL BURDEN HOURS
Average
Annual Number of Annual Total
Total number burden hour
Type of instrument number of responses per estimated estimated
respondents per response
respondents respondent burden hours burden hours
(hours)
Texting Data Collection ............................ a 351 117 8 0.07 66 197
Follow-up Survey ..................................... b 414 138 1 0.25 35 104
Total .................................................. c 765 255 ........................ ........................ 101 301
a The text message survey will be collected from all Job ChalleNGe participants who consented to participate in the study, who provided a cell
phone number to the study team, and who consented to be contacted via text messaging. The number of respondents is based on a 90% study
consent rate × an 85% consent to text rate × an 85% response rate.
b The follow-up survey will be collected from all Job ChalleNGe participants who consented to participate in the study. The number of respond-
ents is based on a 90% study participation consent rate × an 85% response rate.
c Most youth participating in the text data collection will also participate in the follow-up data collection. Therefore, the table provides an upper
estimate of the number of separate respondents.
Form(s): Total respondents: 765 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR with
youth. Most youth participating in the applicable supporting documentation;
text data collection will also participate Office of the Secretary including a description of the likely
in the follow-up data collection. respondents, proposed frequency of
Agency Information Collection response, and estimated total burden
Therefore, this estimate provides an
Activities; Submission for OMB may be obtained free of charge from the
upper estimate of the number of Review; Comment Request;
separate respondents. RegInfo.gov Web site at http://
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Annual Frequency: Eight times for the PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=201710-1218-001
text survey and one time for the follow- ACTION:Notice of availability; request
for comments. or by contacting Michel Smyth by
up survey. telephone at 202–693–4129, TTY 202–
Comments submitted in response to SUMMARY: On October 31, 2017, the 693–8064, (these are not toll-free
this request will be summarized and/or Department of Labor (DOL) will submit numbers) or by email at DOL_PRA_
included in the request for Office of the Occupational Safety and Health PUBLIC@dol.gov.
Management and Budget approval of the Administration (OSHA) sponsored Submit comments about this request
information collection request; they will information collection request (ICR) by mail to the Office of Information and
also become a matter of public record. titled, ‘‘Mechanical Power Presses Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk
Standard,’’ to the Office of Management Officer for DOL–OSHA, Office of
Dated: October 27, 2017.
and Budget (OMB) for review and Management and Budget, Room 10235,
Molly Irwin, approval for continued use, without 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC
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Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of change, in accordance with the 20503; by Fax: 202–395–5806 (this is
Labor. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 not a toll-free number); or by email:
[FR Doc. 2017–24003 Filed 11–2–17; 8:45 am] (PRA). Public comments on the ICR are OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov.
BILLING CODE 4510–HX–P invited. Commenters are encouraged, but not
DATES: The OMB will consider all required, to send a courtesy copy of any
written comments that agency receives comments by mail or courier to the U.S.
on or before December 4, 2017. Department of Labor-OASAM, Office of
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