83 FR 25055 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy Pilot Evaluation, New Collection

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 105 (May 31, 2018)

Page Range		25055-25056
FR Document		2018-11718

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

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 105 (Thursday, May 31, 2018)

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 105 (Thursday, May 31, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25055-25056]
From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-11718]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request, Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy
Pilot 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.

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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). 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. 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 July 30, 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. 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 Jessica Lohmann by email at
ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: The Chief Evaluation Office (CEO), U.S. Department
of Labor (DOL), is proposing a data collection activity as part of the
Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy Pilot Evaluation. The
goal of the evaluation is to determine the effectiveness of the Pilot
program in improving employment and educational outcomes for youth ages
21 and under. The impact study will randomly assign individuals to
receive program services or to a group that cannot access these
services but can participate in other similar programs. The impact
study will compare the employment and educational outcomes of the
groups to determine the effectiveness of the Pilot program. The
evaluation also includes an implementation study that will describe the
services participants receive through the Pilot program as well as
provide operational lessons.
Data collection efforts previously approved for the Cascades Job
Corps College and Career Academy Pilot Evaluation under OMB Control
Number 1290-0012 include: A baseline survey of sample members in the
evaluation, discussion guides for the implementation study, and
tracking contacts to sample members in the evaluation to request
address updates. These collection activities will continue under the
previously approved request.
This Federal Register Notice provides the opportunity to comment on
a proposed new information collection activity for the Cascades Job
Corps College and Career Academy Pilot Evaluation: A follow-up survey
of sample members in the Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy
Pilot Evaluation conducted approximately eighteen months after random
assignment. The purposes of the study are to understand and document
the impacts of the Pilot on students': (1) Training and related service
receipt; (2) educational attainment, including receipt of credentials;
(3) employment status; (4) socio-emotional skills; (5) public benefits
receipt; and (6) opinions on the education and training services
received.
II. Desired Focus of Comments: DOL is soliciting comments
concerning the above data collection for the Cascades Job Corps College
and Career Academy Pilot 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

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functions of the agency related to employer services, including whether
the information will have practical utility;
Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden of the ICR to survey and fieldwork respondents, including the
validity of the study approach and assumptions used;
Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
Minimize the burden of the information collection on
respondents, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology (e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses).
III. Current Actions: At this time, DOL is requesting clearance for
the follow-up survey of sample members in the Cascades Job Corps
College and Career Academy Pilot Evaluation.
Type of Review: New information collection request.
Title: Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy Pilot
Evaluation.
OMB Number: OMB Control Number 1290-0NEW.
Affected Public: Participants applying for the Cascades Job Corps
College and Career Academy.

Estimated Burden Hours
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Total number Annual number Number of Average
Type of instrument of of responses per burden hours Total burden Annual burden
respondents respondents respondent per response hours hours
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Follow-up survey........................................ \a\ 800 \b\ 267 1 .58 464 155
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Total............................................... .............. 267 .............. .............. .............. 155
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\a\ Assumes a sample of 1,000 with an 80 percent response rate.
\b\ Data collection will take place over 36 months.

Dated: May 24, 2018.
Molly Irwin,
Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of Labor.
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I hereby certify that the clearly understood, and the impact of employment and educational outcomes
aforementioned determinations were collection requirements on respondents of the groups to determine the
issued during the period of February 26, is properly assessed. A copy of the effectiveness of the Pilot program. The
2018 through March 30, 2018. These proposed Information Collection evaluation also includes an
determinations are available on the Request (ICR) can be obtained by implementation study that will describe
Department’s website https:// contacting the office listed in the the services participants receive through
www.doleta.gov/tradeact/taa/taa_ addressee section of this notice. the Pilot program as well as provide
search_form.cfm under the searchable DATES: Written comments must be operational lessons.
listing determinations or by calling the submitted to the office listed in the Data collection efforts previously
Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance addressee’s section below on or before approved for the Cascades Job Corps
toll free at 888–365–6822. July 30, 2018. College and Career Academy Pilot
Evaluation under OMB Control Number
Signed at Washington, DC, this 4th day of ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
April 2018. 1290–0012 include: A baseline survey of
by either one of the following methods:
sample members in the evaluation,
Hope D. Kinglock, Email: ChiefEvaluationOffice@
discussion guides for the
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment dol.gov; Mail or Courier: Jessica
implementation study, and tracking
Assistance. Lohmann, Chief Evaluation Office,
contacts to sample members in the
[FR Doc. 2018–11633 Filed 5–30–18; 8:45 am] OASP, U.S. Department of Labor, Room
evaluation to request address updates.
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These collection activities will continue
Washington, DC 20210. Instructions:
under the previously approved request.
Please submit one copy of your This Federal Register Notice provides
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR comments by only one method. All the opportunity to comment on a
submissions received must include the proposed new information collection
Agency Information Collection agency name and OMB Control Number
Activities; Submission for OMB activity for the Cascades Job Corps
identified above for this information College and Career Academy Pilot
Review; Comment Request, Cascades collection. Comments, including any
Job Corps College and Career Evaluation: A follow-up survey of
personal information provided, become sample members in the Cascades Job
Academy Pilot Evaluation, New a matter of public record. They will also
Collection Corps College and Career Academy Pilot
be summarized and/or included in the Evaluation conducted approximately
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant request for OMB approval of the eighteen months after random
Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation information collection request. assignment. The purposes of the study
Office, Department of Labor. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: are to understand and document the
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
Contact Jessica Lohmann by email at impacts of the Pilot on students’: (1)
request for comment. ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov. Training and related service receipt; (2)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: educational attainment, including
SUMMARY: The Department of Labor I. Background: The Chief Evaluation receipt of credentials; (3) employment
(DOL), as part of its continuing effort to Office (CEO), U.S. Department of Labor status; (4) socio-emotional skills; (5)
reduce paperwork and respondent (DOL), is proposing a data collection public benefits receipt; and (6) opinions
burden, conducts a preclearance activity as part of the Cascades Job on the education and training services
consultation program to provide the Corps College and Career Academy Pilot received.
general public and federal agencies with Evaluation. The goal of the evaluation is II. Desired Focus of Comments: DOL
an opportunity to comment on proposed to determine the effectiveness of the is soliciting comments concerning the
and/or continuing collections of Pilot program in improving employment above data collection for the Cascades
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information in accordance with the and educational outcomes for youth Job Corps College and Career Academy
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 ages 21 and under. The impact study Pilot Evaluation. DOL is particularly
(PRA95). This program helps to ensure will randomly assign individuals to interested in comments that do the
that requested data can be provided in receive program services or to a group following:
the desired format, reporting burden that cannot access these services but can • Evaluate whether the proposed
(time and financial resources) is participate in other similar programs. collection of information is necessary
minimized, collection instruments are The impact study will compare the for the proper performance of the

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Category		Regulatory Information
Collection		Federal Register
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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice of information collection; request for comment.
Dates		Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
Contact		Contact Jessica Lohmann by email at ChiefEvaluation[email protected]
FR Citation		83 FR 25055