11230 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 40 / Monday, March 2, 2015 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Comment Request for Information 

Collection for OMB 1205–0430, 

Resource Justification Model (RJM); 

Extension With Revisions 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 required 

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, ETA is soliciting comments 

concerning the proposed extension, 

with change on Resource Justification 

Model. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

addressee section below on or before 

May 1, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Thomas Stengle, Office of 

Unemployment Insurance, Employment 

and Training Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210, 

telephone number (202) 693–2991 (this 

is not a toll-free number). Email address 

is stengle.thomas@dol.gov and fax 

number is (202) 693–2874 (this is not a 

toll-free number). To obtain a copy of 

the proposed information collection 

request (ICR), please contact the person 

listed above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The collection of actual 

Unemployment Insurance (UI) 

administrative cost data from states’ 

accounting records and projected 

expenditures for upcoming years is 

accomplished through the Resource 

Justification Model (RJM) data 

collection instrument. The data 

collected consists of program 

expenditures and hours worked by state 

staff, broken out by functional activity, 

for the most recent two years of 

expenditures. This actual cost data in 

combination with projected workloads 

is used by ETA’s UI administrative 

resource allocation model to distribute 

to states UI program administration 

funds. 

The RJM data collection instrument 

had not been reviewed since it was 

implemented in 2002 and both the 

states and DOL felt it would be 

beneficial to determine if the process 

could be modified to reduce the burden 

of assembling and reviewing the 

information and if the information 

collected is appropriate (because, for 

example, the increasing use of 

technology to administer the UI program 

has significantly changed the UI 

business model). The DOL partnered 

with the National Association of State 

Workforce Agencies (NASWA) to form a 

workgroup tasked with determining 

improvements to the RJM and three 

changes were agreed upon. The 

workgroup decided to reduce the 

categories of existing Non-Personal 

Services (NPS) categories from eight to 

three: Information technology (IT)/

Communications, Non IT NPS, and 

Personal Service Contracts. The 

workgroup also decided to discontinue 

the requirement for states to submit 

hard copy note books containing the 

supporting documentation. Both of 

these changes reduce respondent 

burden. In addition, the workgroup 

decided to add a requirement for states 

to report separately Personal Services 

and Personal Benefits for IT 

expenditures, which did not exist 

previously. 

II. Review Focus 

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 

information collection on those who are 

to respond, including 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 

Type of Review: Extension with 

revisions. 

Title: Resource Justification Model. 

OMB Number: 1205–0430. 

Affected Public: State Workforce 

Agencies. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondents: 

53 State Workforce Agencies. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Estimated Total Responses: 53 

respondents × 4 annual reports 

submitted = 212 responses. 

Average Estimated Response Time: 

109.5 hours (a reduction of 13.5 hours 

per response from the previously 

approved collection). 

Total Estimated Burden Hours: 5,592 

hours (a reduction of 715 hours from the 

previously approved collection). 

Form/activity Total 

respondents Frequency Total responses 

Average time 

per response 

(hours) 

Total 

estimated 

burden 

(hours) 

Crosswalk .......................................... 53 Annually ............................................ 53 94.5 5,009 

Account Summary ............................. 53 Annually ............................................ 53 4.0 212 

RJM 1–6 ............................................ 53 Annually ............................................ 53 3.0 159 

IT PS/PB Expenditures ..................... 53 Annually ............................................ 53 8.0 424 

Totals ......................................... ........................ ........................................................... 212 109.5 5,804 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

$15,000. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintaining): $0. 

We will summarize and/or include in 

the request for OMB approval of the 

ICR, the comments received in response 


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to this comment request; they will also 

become a matter of public record. 

Portia Wu, 

Assistant Secretary for Employment and 

Training, Labor. 

[FR Doc. 2015–04165 Filed 2–27–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FW–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Comment Request for Information 

Collection for Work Opportunity Tax 

Credit (WOTC) Program (OMB No. 

1205–0371), Extension Without 

Revisions of a Currently Approved 

Collection 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(Department), as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, conducts a 

preclearance consultation program to 

provide the 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 [44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)] (PRA). The PRA 

helps ensure that respondents can 

provide requested data in the desired 

format with minimal reporting burden 

(time and financial resources), 

collection instruments are clearly 

understood and the impact of collection 

requirements on respondents can be 

properly assessed. 

Currently, the Office Workforce 

Investment in ETA is soliciting 

comments concerning the proposed 

request for an extension of a collection 

of Work Opportunity Tax Credit 

(WOTC) program forms without 

changes. 

DATES: Submit written comments to the 

office listed in the addresses section 

below on or before May 1, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Ms. Kimberly Vitelli, Chief Division of 

National Programs Tools and Technical 

Assistance (DNPTTA), Room C–4510, 

Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20210. Telephone 

number: 202–693–3045 (this is not a 

toll-free number). Individuals with 

hearing or speech impairments may 

access the telephone number above via 

TTY by calling the toll-free Federal 

Information Relay Service at 1–877– 

889–5627 (TTY/TDD). Fax: 202–693– 

3015. Email: vitelli.kimberly@dol.gov. 

To obtain a copy of the proposed 

information collection request (ICR), 

please contact the person listed above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carmen Ortiz, WOTC National 

Coordinator at ortiz.carmen@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit 

(WOTC) program was created by the 

Small Business Job Protection Act of 

1996 (Pub. L. 104–188) and allows 

private-for-profit businesses, and 501(c) 

tax-exempt organizations that hire 

veterans, to obtain tax credits from the 

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for hiring 

hard-to-employ members of nine target 

groups. State workforce agencies 

(SWAs) process these requests and issue 

employers the final determination that a 

new hire is in one of the nine target 

groups, which employers then use to 

claim the tax credit to the IRS. Other 

legislation that imposes requirements on 

the WOTC program include the 

Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (Pub. L. 

105–34), which created the Welfare-toWork Tax Credit for a two-year period. 

The WtWTC expired on December 2005 

and its Long-term TANF Recipient 

group became part of the WOTC in 2006 

by Pub. L 109–432. Additional 

legislation includes the Tax Relief and 

Health Care Act (Pub. L. 109–432) 

passed in 2006, the Small Business and 

Work Opportunity Tax Act (Pub. L. 

110–28) passed in 2007, the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 

(Pub. L. 111–5), the VOW to Hire Heroes 

Act of 2011 (Pub. L. 112–56), the 

American Taxpayer Relief of 2012 (Pub. 

L. 112–240), the Tax Increase 

Prevention Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 113– 

295), and Section 51 of the Internal 

Revenue (IR) Code of 1986, as amended. 

Since its enactment, this program has 

experienced a series of authorization 

lapses and retroactive reauthorizations 

by Congress. 

On December 19, 2014, President 

Obama signed into law the Tax Increase 

Prevention Act of 2014 (the Act) (Pub. 

L. 113–295). On December 31, 2013 the 

legislative authority of the WOTC 

program expired, and this Act amended 

Sec. 51 of the IR Code by retroactively 

reauthorizing WOTC, without any 

amendments/changes to the program or 

the current target groups, through 

December 31, 2014. This retroactive 

extension applies to new hires who 

began to work for an employer on or 

after January 1, 2014 and before January 

1, 2015. Currently, the WOTC program’s 

legislative authority expired on 

December 31, 2014. 

This submission includes five WOTC 

program forms as follows: (1) A 

reporting form (ETA 9058); (2) two 

processing forms (ETA Forms 9061 

(English and Spanish versions) and 

9062; (3) and two administrative forms 

(ETA Forms 9063 and 9065). ETA Form 

9058 is used by SWAs to report to ETA 

information on processing of WOTC 

certification requests. ETA Form 9061 or 

9062 is used by employers to request 

certification for their new hires together 

with the IRS Form 8850. The SWAs use 

the information on these two forms to 

verify target group eligibility and 

process the employer’s requests. SWAs 

use ETA Form 9063 to issue the final 

certifications to eligible employers or 

their representatives and ETA Form 

9065 in their administrative quarterly 

internal audits. The design and format 

of ETA Form 9063 and 9065 is optional 

for the states. SWAs are no longer 

required to report to ETA the results of 

their internal audits (ETA 9065). 

The data collected under this 

submission is necessary for effective 

federal administration of the WOTC 

program, including allowing ETA and 

IRS to oversee state administration of 

the tax credit. Uniform program 

administration procedures and forms 

assure that businesses, especially 

multistate businesses that utilize the 

WOTC tax credit, receive consistent 

treatment from state to state regarding 

eligibility determinations and 

processing of their certification requests, 

and that the statutory rules for receipt 

of this tax credit requests are 

administered in a consistent manner by 

the SWAs. 

Since Public Laws 113–295 and 112– 

240 did not make any changes to the 

program or its target groups other than 

reauthorize the program through a 

specific period of time, the program’s 

administrative, processing and reporting 

forms have not been revised or 

amended. These forms expire on June 

30, 2015. ETA is requesting a 3-year 

expiration date of June 30, 2018. 

II. Review Focus 

The Department 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; 


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