[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 121 (Friday, June 21, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31951-31952]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-15872]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA), Disaster Payment
Activities Under the ``Stafford Disaster Relief Act''
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 State 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 (ETA) is
soliciting comments concerning the proposed one year extension of
previous approval by OMB of the attached ETA Form 90-2, Disaster
Payment Activities Under the ``Stafford Disaster Relief Act.'' 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 August 20, 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 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 responses.
ADDRESSES: Mary Ann Wyrsch, Director, Unemployment Insurance Service,
Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, Room
S4231, 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210, telephone
number (202) 219-7831 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The monthly report on Disaster Payment Activities under the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the ``act'')
provides vital information on the nature and scope of activities
performed in administering provisions of sections 410 and 423 of the
act. Its workload items and final disaster reports are also used with
fiscal reports to estimate the cost of administering the act.
(Previously cleared for use thru OMB by ETA under OMB No. 1205-0234.)
The President is directed by the act to provide Disaster
Unemployment Assistance through agreements with States, which in his
judgement, have an adequate system for administering such assistance
through existing State agencies. Without the data obtained from the
report, the Employment and Training Administration would have no grasp
on the program, as its is administered by the States.
II. Current Actions
The data obtained from the reports are used by at least three
organizational units within the Employment and Training Administration
(ETA). The Unemployment Insurance Service uses the data for evaluation
of State agency performance on making payments and providing claimant
services and for making required reports. The Employment Services uses
the data to project funding needs in the areas of counseling, referrals
to suitable work opportunities and suitable training. The Office of
Financial and Administrative Management (OFAM) uses the data in
accounting for the financial management of the program funds and fund
transfers. In addition, the data are also used by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA), to whom the President has delegated the
responsibility by Executive Order No. 12148, for administering the act.
As previously indicated, without the data obtained from the report, the
Department would have no grasp on the program, as it is administered by
the States.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
Title: ETA Form 90-2, Disaster Payment Activities Under the
``Stafford Disaster Relief Act.''
OMB Number: 1205-0234.
Affected Public: Individuals/State Government.
Cite/Reference/Form/etc: ETA Form 90-2, Disaster Payment Activities
Under the ``Stafford Disaster Relief Act''.
Total Respondents: 50.
Frequency: Six months per annum.
Total Responses: 300.
Average Time per Response: \1/4\ hour.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 75.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0.00.
Total Burden Cost (operating/maintaining): $10,300 annually.
Comments submitted in response to this comment request will be
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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 6, 1996.
Mary Ann Wyrsch,
Director, Unemployment Insurance Service, Employment and Training
Administration.
[FR Doc. 96-15872 Filed 6-20-96; 8:45 am]
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