Notice2024-30205
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, Partners for Reentry Opportunities in Workforce Development (PROWD) Evaluation, New Collection
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December 19, 2024
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Labor Department
Abstract
The Department of Labor (DOL), 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). 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 is properly assessed. Currently, the Department of Labor is soliciting comments concerning the collection of data about the Partners for Reentry Opportunities in Workforce Development (PROWD) Evaluation. 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 244 (Thursday, December 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 103879-103880]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-30205]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request, Partners for Reentry Opportunities in
Workforce Development (PROWD) Evaluation, New Collection
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation
Office, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL), 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). 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 is properly assessed. Currently, the Department of Labor is
soliciting comments concerning the collection of
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data about the Partners for Reentry Opportunities in Workforce
Development (PROWD) Evaluation. 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 February 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either one of the following
methods: Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3172595854577447505d445045585e5f7e575758525471555e5d1f565e47"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3c7f5455595a794a5d50495d48555352735a5a555f597c585350125b534a">[email protected]</span></a>; Mail or Courier: Evan
Murphy, Chief Evaluation Office, OASP, U.S. Department of Labor, Room
S-2312, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210. Instructions:
Please submit one copy of your comments by only one method. All
submissions received must include the agency name and OMB Control
Number identified above for this information collection. Comments,
including any personal information provided, become a matter of public
record. They will also be summarized and/or included in the request for
OMB approval of the information collection request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Evan Murphy by email at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#296a41404c4f6c5f48455c485d404647664f4f404a4c694d4645074e465f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d093b8b9b5b695a6b1bca5b1a4b9bfbe9fb6b6b9b3b590b4bfbcfeb7bfa6">[email protected]</span></a> or by phone at (202) 693-0224.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), in partnership
with the Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Prisons (BOP), awarded
the Partners for Reentry Opportunities in Workforce Development (PROWD)
grants to provide employment-related reentry services to people exiting
the federal prison system. DOL's Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) has
partnered with the Employee and Training Administration's Reentry
Employment Opportunity (REO) Program to conduct an independent
evaluation of the PROWD grants. This study will provide DOL, BOP,
grantees, and other constituents with knowledge about the
implementation and impact of grantees awarded PROWD grants in Fall
2023, including how grantees are preparing people exiting federal
prisons to find and maintain good jobs after release. DOL CEO is
working with an evaluation team led by Mathematica and their partners
RTI International and Abt Global. This Federal Register Notice provides
the opportunity to comment on proposed data collection instruments that
will be used in the impact evaluation:
1. Impact study participant baseline survey. This 15-minute survey
will be administered by PROWD grantee staff to up to 3,000 individuals
enrolling in services at two stages in service delivery: in the BOP
prisons and residential reentry centers (RRCs), for a total of up to
6,000 responses (2,000 responses a year annualized across three years).
The survey will ask about basic demographic information and personal
identifiers needed for record linking, employment history, and criminal
justice history, and if completing the survey at the RRC, what PROWD or
other employment services they received in the BOP correctional
institution.
II. Desired Focus of Comments: Currently, the Department of Labor
is soliciting comments concerning the above data collection for the
Partners for Reentry Opportunities in Workforce Development (PROWD)
Evaluation. DOL is particularly interested in comments that do the
following:
[cir] evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have practical utility;
[cir] evaluate the accuracy of the agency's burden estimate of the
proposed information collection, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions;
[cir] enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and
[cir] 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--for example, permitting
electronic submissions of responses.
III. Current Actions: At this time, the Department of Labor is
requesting clearance for the impact study participant baseline survey.
Type of Review: New information collection request.
OMB Control Number: 1290-0NEW.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Comments submitted in response to this 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.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours
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Average burden
Type of instrument (form/ Number of Number of Total number time per Estimated
activity) respondents responses per of responses response burden hours
respondent (hours)
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Impact study participant \1\ 1,000 2 2,000 .25 500
baseline survey................
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Total....................... 1,000 .............. 2,000 .............. 500
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\1\ Assumes approximately 3,000 program participants will complete the baseline survey up to two times over the
three-year clearance period.
Alix Gould-Werth,
Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of Labor.
[FR Doc. 2024-30205 Filed 12-18-24; 8:45 am]
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