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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
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 Employment and Training Administration is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed renewal of Job Corps Placement and
Assistance Record, ETA form 678. A copy of the proposed information
collection request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the office
listed below in the addresses section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addresses section below on or before June 5, 2000.
ADDRESSES: June P. Veach, Office of Job Corps, 200 Constitution Avenue
NW, Room N-4507, Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: (202) 219-5556, ext.
129 (This is not a toll-free number); Fax number: (202) 219-5183 (This
is not a toll-free number); E-mail Internet address:
Jvewach@doleta.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Job Corps program is designed to serve low-income young women
and men, 16 through 24, who are in need of additional vocational,
educational and social skills training, and other support services in
order to gain meaningful employment, return to school or enter the
Armed Forces. Authorized by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998,
Job Corps is operated by the Department of Labor through a nationwide
network of 118 Job Corps centers. The program is primarily residential,
operating 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, with non-resident students
limited by legislation to 20 percent of national enrollment. These
centers presently accommodate more than 42,000 students. While students
may stay in Job Corps up to two years to complete their programs, the
average length of stay is eight months. Thus, more than 68,000 young
people receive training in Job Corps in a year; of the number of
students who separate from the program each year, 82 percent are placed
in jobs, further education programs, or the Armed Forces. Seventy
percent of all job placements are in areas for which students trained.
The purpose of this collection is to gather information about each
student's placement outcome after separation from the program. This
form is critical to the placement process and measurement of placement
outcomes and ultimately of program performance.
II. Review Focus
The Department of Labor is particularly interested in comments
which:
<bullet> 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;
<bullet> 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;
<bullet> Enhance the quality, utility, and clarify of the
information to be collected; and
<bullet> 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.
III. Current Actions
The form ETA 678 has expired. This form is used to evaluate program
effectiveness. The introduction of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998
created a delay in the renewal process because of changes in Job Corps
placement requirements mandated by the Act. Job Corps has continued to
collect information because job, school, or military placements are a
major indicator of program performance. The collection provides
placement agencies with basic training information regarding separated
students and provides the Department of Labor with information on the
placement status of students subsequent to separation from the Program.
No harm has been done while the form was used to collect data. No
reports have been submitted and/or developed for Congress during the
period. This action will effect a reduction in paperwork burden hours.
The revisions involve the addition of collecting data on program
graduates as required by the Act, and a change from the use of DOT
codes to O*Net codes to determine the job category and training match.
In addition, with the WIA-mandated follow-up of graduates' placement
status and provision of placement services for a year following
separation from the program, there is no need for the item asking
whether the placement is perceived as permanent or temporary.
Review: Reinstatement (with change).
Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
Title: Job Corps Placement and Assistance Record.
OMB Number: 205-0035.
Agency Number: ETA 678.
Recordkeeping: The student is not required to retain records;
contractor offices and Job Corps centers are required to maintain
records for 3 years.
Affected Public: Individuals who separate from Job Corps; Business
or other for-profit/Not-for-profit institutions/Federal Government/
State, Local or Tribal Government.
Total Respondents: 68,000.
Frequency: one per person.
Total Responses: 68,000.
Average Time per Response: 20 minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 22,666.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): Job Corps initiated electronic
collection of placement data in 1994, with installation of 85 master
placer PC units at the placement contractor headquarters. The cost was
$240,000, including $170,000 for hardware, $50,000 for software and
$20,000 for communications costs.
Total Burden Cost (operating/maintaining): The information on the
form 678 related to the training completed on a Job Corps center is
entered automatically on the form from the database. The remaining
information related to the youth's placement is entered electronically
by the contracted placement specialist who provides placement services.
The estimated annual cost of completing the form for 68,000 separated
Job Corps is estimated at $248,183. This includes $29,183 for youth and
$255,000 to employers who hire them is for completing the ETA 678 for
68,000 youth is to verify the placements.
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: March 31, 2000.
Jackie Roberts,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Job Corps.
[FR Doc. 00-8445 Filed 4-5-00; 8:45 am]
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