[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 227 (Friday, November 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59463-59464]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-29903]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Proposed Collection of the ETA 5159, Claims and Payment
Activities; Comment Request
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
with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing
collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. 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 can be properly assessed.
Currently, the Employment and Training Administration is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed revision and extension of the
collection of the ETA 5159, Claims and Payment Activities. The proposed
change is the addition of data which identifies workload connected with
agent interstate initial claims as well as total agent interstate
initial claims activity. 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 January 21, 1997.
The Department of Labor is particularly interested in comments
which:
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; 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.
ADDRESSEE: Cynthia Ambler, Unemployment Insurance Service, Employment
and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, Room S-4231, 200
Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, DC, 20210; telephone number (202)
219-9204; fax (202) 219-8506 (these are not toll free numbers).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The ETA 5159 report contains information on claims activities
including initial claims, weeks claimed, weeks compensated, and the
amount of benefit payments. These data are used in budgetary and
administrative planning, program evaluation, and reports to Congress
and the public. The change being proposed concerns initial claims filed
by interstate claimants. The current figure being reported represents
all such claims. In the past, all claims were filed with the agent
State and those States were reimbursed for the work associated with
those claims. Several States have begun using the telephone for
interstate claimants to file
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directly with liable States, by-passing the agent State. In order to
reimburse agent States only for work actually done, it is necessary to
separately report the numbers of interstate agent initial claims which
the agent State actually took. The request for a change adds that data
item to the ETA 5159.
II. Current Actions
The ETA 5159 report continues to be needed for administrative,
financing, program evaluation and public information.
Type of Review: Extension with change
Agency: Employment and Training Administration
Title: Claims and Payment Activities
OMB Number: 1205-0010
Agency Number: ETA 5159
Affected Public: State Government
Cite/Reference/Form/etc.: ETA 5159
Total Respondents: 53
Frequency: Monthly
Total Responses: 720
Average Time per Response: 2.6 hours
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1359
Total Burden Cost (capital/start): estimated at $27,180 which is an
allowable cost under the administrative grants awarded to States by the
Federal Government.
Comments submitted in response to this comment 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: November 18, 1996.
Mary Ann Wyrsch,
Director, Unemployment Insurance Service.
[FR Doc. 96-29903 Filed 11-21-96; 8:45 am]
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