[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 129 (Tuesday, July 7, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38748-38749]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-16560]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Comment Request for Information Collection for ETA 9128,
Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments Workload Report, ETA
9129, Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments Outcomes
Report, Extension With Revision, ETA 9128 X, Reemployment Services and
Eligibility Assessments Workload Report for Unemployment Compensation
for Ex-Servicemembers (UCX), and ETA 9129 X, Reemployment Services and
Eligibility Assessments Outcomes Report for Unemployment Compensation
for Ex-Servicemembers
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, 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
an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing collection of
information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 [44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)] (PRA). The PRA helps to ensure that respondents
can provide requested data in the desired format with minimal reporting
burden (time and financial resources), 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 about the ETA 9128, and the ETA 9129 and the new ETA 9128 X and
ETA 9129 X. The current expiration date for the ETA 9128 and ETA 9129
reports is January 31, 2016. Beginning in 2016, states will be required
to target for the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment
(RESEA) program one-third of those regular claimants most likely to
exhaust their benefits and all claimants receiving UCX. For this reason
the Department is proposing that states send an ETA 9128 report for
one-third of those regular claimants most likely to exhaust their
benefits and a separate
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ETA 9128 X report for UCX recipients. These two reports will reflect
different populations and all data elements will be the same as are
currently collected on the ETA 9128 report. To review the outcomes of
the RESEA program, the Department is proposing to use the ETA 9129
report and the ETA 9129 X report for UCX participants. The data
elements in these reports will parallel those of the treatment group on
the current reports. Data collection for the comparison group in the
ETA 9129 is being discontinued under this revision and will not be
included in the ETA 9129 X. All these reports will reflect the new name
for the Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment (REA) program, which
changed in 2015 to the RESEA program.
DATES: Submit written comments to the office listed in the addressee
section below on or before September 8, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Diane Wood, Office of Unemployment
Insurance, Room S-4524, Employment and Training Administration, U.S
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Frances Perkins
Bldg., Washington, DC 20210. Telephone number: (202) 693-3212 (this is
not a toll-free number). 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). Email at
[email protected]. To obtain a copy of the proposed information
collection request (ICR), please contact the person listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Funds will be awarded to participating states in the RESEA program
year 2015 to continue the REA program. The RESEA guidelines require
that these funds be used to conduct in-person assessments in the
American Job Centers. The RESEA must include an orientation session, an
unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility review, the provision of labor
market information, development of a re-employment plan and referral to
reemployment services and/or training, as appropriate. The guidelines
require that participation exclude those claimants who have a specific
return-to-work date.
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 function of the agency,
including whether the information has 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 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
The continued collection of the information contained on the ETA
9128 and the ETA 9129 reports is necessary to enable the Office of
Unemployment Insurance (OUI) to continue evaluating the effectiveness
of the REA program through workload and outcomes reports.
Type of Review: Extension with revision.
Title: Reemployment and Eligibility Assessments Workload Report and
Reemployment and Eligibility Assessments Outcomes Report (ETA 9128 and
ETA 9129) and Reemployment and Eligibility Assessments Workload Report
for Ex-Servicemembers, and Reemployment and Eligibility Assessments
Outcomes Report for Ex-Servicemembers (ETA 9128 X and ETA 9129 X).
OMB Number: 1205-0456.
Affected Public: State and Local Governments.
Estimated Total Annual Respondents: 48.
Average Frequency: Quarterly (four reports every quarter per
state).
Estimated Annual Responses: 768.
Average Time per Response: 0.5 hours.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 384 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Cost Burden: $0.
We will summarize and/or include in the request for OMB approval of
the ICR, the comments received in response to this comment request;
they will also become a matter of public record.
Portia Wu,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, Labor.
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