[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 105 (Thursday, May 31, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25055-25056]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[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: [email protected]; 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
[email protected].
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.
[FR Doc. 2018-11718 Filed 5-30-18; 8:45 am]
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