[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 37 (Friday, February 23, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8110-8111]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-03761]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
(WIOA) Implementation Study
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.
Currently, DOL is soliciting comments concerning the collection of
survey data for a study of the implementation of the Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). 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.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addressee section below on or before April 24, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either one of the following
methods:
Email: [email protected]; Mail or Courier: Janet Javar,
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: Janet Javar by email at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
WIOA, signed into law on July 22, 2014, authorized and amended a
series of employment and educational programs under five titles. DOL
seeks to understand how the implementation of WIOA is changing the core
workforce programs authorized under Title I (Adult, Dislocated Worker,
and Youth programs) and the Employment Service program authorized under
the Wagner-Peyser Act and amended by Title III, as well as how the
implementation is contributing to more integration with stakeholders in
programs authorized under Titles II (Adult Education and Literacy) and
IV (Vocational Rehabilitation).
DOL is funding a study to document and describe how critical state-
level activities under WIOA are being implemented and identify possible
areas for which further technical assistance, guidance, or policies
might be needed in order to help implement the law. The study's major
research questions are: (1) How are the critical reforms under WIOA
related to the core workforce programs for Title I and III being
implemented? (2) to what extent is WIOA's vision for an integrated
workforce system being achieved through state- and local-level
synergies between Titles I and III and Titles II and IV stakeholders?
and (3) what changes or supplemental technical assistance, guidance, or
policy would be helpful to states administering the core programs and
in providing guidance and oversight to the local level to improve
service quality and management?
This Federal Register Notice provides the opportunity to comment on
the proposed data collection instrument for a national survey on Titles
I and III workforce programs to support the implementation study. The
online, self-administered survey will be conducted in all 50 states
plus the District of Columbia. The state program staff who will be
included in the survey sample are staff responsible for implementation
of Titles I and III. Each state will complete one survey, although
multiple state staff may contribute to a state's response. An earlier
information collection request (82 Federal Register 56845) was posted
on November 30, 2017 to solicit comments on semi-structured interviews
for site visit data collection to support the implementation study.
II. Desired Focus of Comments
Currently, DOL is soliciting comments concerning the above data
collection for the WIOA implementation study. 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 a national survey of
state workforce administrators.
Type of Review: New information collection request.
OMB Control Number: 1290--0NEW
Affected Public: State program staff involved in WIOA
implementation.
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Estimated Burden Hours
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Average burden
Total number Annual number Number of time per Annual
Type of instrument respondents of respondents responses per response estimated
respondent (hours) burden (hours)
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Survey of Title I and Title III workforce programs................. 51 17 1 3.0 51.0
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Total.......................................................... 51 17 ............... ............... 51.0
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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: February 16, 2018.
Molly Irwin,
Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of Labor.
[FR Doc. 2018-03761 Filed 2-22-18; 8:45 am]
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