97-15142. Agency Recordkeeping/Reporting Requirements Under Emergency Review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 111 (Tuesday, June 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31625-31626]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15142]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary


Agency Recordkeeping/Reporting Requirements Under Emergency 
Review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

June 4, 1997.
    The Department of Labor has submitted the following (see below) 
emergency processing public information collection request (ICR) to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 
35). OMB approval has been requested by June 30, 1997. A copy of this 
ICR, with applicable supporting documentation, may be obtained by 
calling the Department of Labor Departmental Clearance Officer, Theresa 
M. O'Malley ( [phone] ext. 143).
    Comments and questions about the ICR listed below should be 
forwarded to Office Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desl 
Officer for the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Management and 
Budget, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503 ( [phone]).
    The Office of Management and Budget 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 through the use of appropriate 
automated, electronic mechanical, or other technological collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting 
electronic submissions of response.
    Agency: Employment and Training Administration, Office of Job 
Training Programs.
    Title: Mid-Summer Report.
    OMB Number: 1205-XXXX.
    Frequency: One-time Report.
    Affected Public: State and Local Job Training Partnership Act 
Agencies.
    Number of Respondents: 56.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: Two hours.
    Total Burden Hours: 112.
    Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): N/A.
    Total Burden Cost (operating/maintaining): $750.
    Description: The information collected would consist of 
information on both funding and enrollment levels. The information 
collected by the State would be rolled up into a summary report for 
each State. The information would be an update of the planned 
funding and enrollment data, except the planned figures would be 
reflected with preliminary actual data. There are only eleven data 
elements requested from each State. The report would be prepared as 
of July 15, 1997. The report would be forwarded to the Department of 
Labor.
    This data is needed in order to provide information on the 
summer youth employment program in response to concerns likely to be 
raised by the U.S. Congress, the media and the Administration. It 
has been the Department's experience that there is a consistent and 
continuing need for this limited information. Traditionally, 
Congress wants to know the numbers of youth being served as they 
make final adjustments to the budgets which are under development. 
The media wants to provide the public with data to go along with 
personal interest stories. The Administration wants to know whether 
the programmatic objectives are being realized. If the data were not 
collected by the Department in a uniform manner, it is likely that 
attempts would be made by various parties on an ad hoc basis without 
any concern for standard points of reference.

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Such collections could be misleading.
    In addition to the above, such data can be invaluable in 
identifying problems which will permit making mid-course corrections 
if a pattern of under expenditure or under enrollment exists. Since 
the program only operates for six-eight weeks for most youth, it is 
critical that information be collected in an orderly manner which 
allows corrections and provides a picture of what is happening in 
each State.
Theresa M. O'Malley,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-15142 Filed 6-9-97; 8:45 am]
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