96-15178. President's Committee on Employment of People With Disabilities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 116 (Friday, June 14, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30258-30259]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-15178]



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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR


President's Committee on Employment of People With Disabilities; 
Proposed Collection; 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 President's Committee on Employment of People with 
Disabilities is soliciting

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comments concerning the proposed extension of the Job Accommodations 
Network Employer Accommodation Input Questionnaire.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the 
addressee section below on or before August 13, 1996. 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 clarify 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 responses.

ADDRESSES: President's Committee on Employment of People with 
Disabilities, Attn: Catherine Brietenbach, 1331 F Street NW, Third 
Floor, Washington, DC 20004, Telephone [phone] (this is not a 
toll-free number) Fax [phone], TDD 202-376-6205, Internet 
[e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The Job Accommodation Network (JAN), established in October of 1983 
as a service of the President's Committee on Employment of People with 
Disabilities, was designed to provide information on possible 
accommodations to employers and others desiring to hire, retain or 
promote people with disabilities within the workforce.

II. Current Actions

A. Necessity of Information Collection

    The original premise when JAN was established was that employers 
would like to provide vocational opportunities to persons without 
regard to their functional limitations, but they frequently lack the 
resources necessary to determine what accommodations might best be 
suited to their particular needs. The Americans with Disabilities Act 
added further impetus to JAN's mission in that most employers are now 
required to make reasonable accommodations for persons with 
disabilities. The need for such accommodation information has been 
clearly corroborated by the fact that during the five year period 
preceding ADA implementation the JAN staff handled 21,522 cases; in the 
five years following ADA implementation 83,076 cases were handled.
    Much of the information provided to employers in both the public 
and private sectors was obtained through the use of this data 
collection questionnaire. This instrument was used to obtain 
information about actual examples of accommodations made by employers 
for workers with disabilities or qualified applicants. The increasing 
quality and complexity of the calls processed by the Network's staff 
indicates an escalating need for a greater number and variety of such 
accommodation examples.
    B. There are no revisions to the existing collection.
    Type of Review: Extension.
    Agency: President's Committee on Employment of People with 
Disabilities.
    Title: Job Accommodation Network Employer's Accommodation Input 
Questionnaire.
    OMB Number: 1225-0022 10/93.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, business or other for-
profit, not-for-profit institutions, farms, federal agencies, state, 
local or tribal government, small businesses and organizations.
    Form: Attached.
    Total Respondents: 500.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Total Responses: 500.
    Average Time per Response: 30 minutes per questionnaire.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 250.
    Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): N/A.
    Total Burden Cost (operating/maintaining): Total cost to the 
government for questionnaire utilization, including mailing, processing 
and analyzing data and having it available to JAN users is estimated to 
be $580.00 per year.
    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: June 10, 1996.
John Lancaster,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 96-15178 Filed 6-13-96; 8:45 am]
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