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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Veterans’ Employment and Training 

Administration 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

Required Elements for Submission of 

the Unified or Combined State Plan 

and Plan Modifications Under the 

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 

Act 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the U.S. 

Departments of Labor, Education, 

Health and Human Services, 

Agriculture, and Housing and Urban 

Development (Departments) are 

proposing a new information collection: 

Required Elements for Submission of 

the Unified or Combined State Plan and 

Plan Modifications under the Workforce 

Innovation and Opportunity Act 

(WIOA) (Pub. L. 113–128). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

5, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in 

response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting 

Docket ID number ETA–2015–0006 or 

via postal mail, commercial delivery, or 

hand delivery. A copy of the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) 

with applicable supporting 

documentation, including a description 

of the likely respondents, proposed 

frequency of response, and estimated 

total burden may be obtained free of 

charge from http://www.regulations.gov 

or by contacting Heather Fleck by 

telephone at 202–693–2956, TTY 1– 

877–889–5627 (these are not toll-free 

numbers), or by email at fleck.heather@

dol.gov. Mail and hand delivery/courier: 

Submit comments to Chief/WIOA State 

Plan, Division of WIOA Adult Services 

and Workforce System, Room S–4203, 

Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20210. Due to securityrelated concerns, there may be a 

significant delay in the receipt of 

submissions by United States Mail. You 

must take this into consideration when 

preparing to meet the deadline for 

submitting comments. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this comment request will become a 

matter of public record and will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for Office of Management and Budget 

approval of the information collection 

request. In addition, regardless of the 

delivery method, comments will be 

posted without change on the http://

www.regulations.gov Web site; 

consequently, the Departments 

recommend commenters not include 

personal information such as Social 

Security Number, personal address, 

telephone number, email address, or 

confidential business information, that 

they do not want made public. It is the 

responsibility of the commenter to 

determine what to include in the public 

record and to safeguard personal 

information. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Departments, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) 

(44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), provide the 

general public and Federal agencies 

with an opportunity to comment on 

proposed, revised, and continuing 

collections of information. The PRA 

helps the Departments assess the impact 

of their information collection 

requirements and minimizes the 

public’s reporting burden. It also helps 

the public understand the Departments’ 

information collection requirements and 

provide the requested data in the 

desired format. The Departments are 

soliciting comments on the proposed 

ICR that is described below. The 

Departments are especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Departments; (2) will this information 

be processed and used in a timely 

manner; (3) is the estimate of burden 

accurate; (4) how might the Departments 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(5) how might the Departments 

minimize the burden of this collection 

on the respondents, including through 

the use of information technology. 

Please note that written comments 

received in response to this notice will 

be considered public records, and 

comments posted are viewable by the 

public. 

Title of Collection: Required Elements 

for Submission of the Unified or 

Combined State Plan and Plan 

Modifications under the Workforce 

Innovation and Opportunity Act. 

OMB Control Number: 1205—0NEW. 

Type of Review: A new information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 57. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 38. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 3,278. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden Cost: 

$141,707.00. 

Abstract: Sections 102 and 103 of the 

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 

Act (WIOA) (29 U.S.C. 3112 and 3113) 

require a State Governor to submit a 

Unified or Combined State Plan for 

approval every four years in order to 

receive funds under six core workforce 

development programs, identified 

below. Modifications to these plans 

must be submitted at least every two 

years. The Unified or Combined State 

Plan requirements are designed to 

improve service integration and ensure 

that the State’s publicly-funded 

workforce system helps all jobseekers 

obtain the skills needed to secure good 

jobs while providing businesses with 

the skilled workers they need to 

compete in the global economy. The 

Unified or Combined State Plan would 

describe how the State will develop and 

implement a unified, integrated service 

delivery system rather than discuss the 

State’s approach to operating each 

program individually. 

Section 102(a) of WIOA requires each 

State, at a minimum, to submit a 

Unified State Plan that fosters strategic 

alignment of the core programs, which 

include the Adult, Dislocated Worker, 

and Youth programs (Title I); the Adult 

Education and Family Literacy Act 

program (Title II); the Wagner-Peyser 

program (Title III); and the Vocational 

Rehabilitation program (Title IV). In the 

alternative, Section 103 of WIOA 

permits a State to submit a Combined 

State Plan that includes the core 

programs plus one or more of the 

optional Federal programs listed in 

Section 103(b). If the State chooses to 

submit a Combined State Plan, the plan 

must incorporate all of the common 

planning elements required in the 

Unified State Plan, additional elements 

describing how the State will coordinate 

the optional programs with the core 

programs (WIOA Sec. 103(b)(3)), and 

elements required by the optional 


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program(s) that are included in the 

Combined State Plan. 

This consolidated ICR for the Unified 

or Combined State Plan will replace 

existing planning information 

collections for the core programs. For 

States that choose to submit a Combined 

State Plan, the existing information 

collections for the program-specific 

State plans for the optional programs 

will continue to exist under their 

current control numbers. If the 

Combined State Plan is approved, the 

State is not required to submit any other 

plan to receive Federal funding for any 

optional program covered under that 

Combined State Plan (WIOA sec. 

103(b)(2)). If a State plan for an optional 

program changes from the one approved 

under the Combined State Plan, the 

State may have to submit additional 

plans to the appropriate Department— 

such additional plans will be counted 

under the optional programs’ existing 

information collection requirements. 

Some of the optional programs that a 

State may include in the Combined 

State Plan currently fulfill their 

program-specific State planning 

requirements through a broader 

information collection administered by 

the program’s appropriate Department. 

For example, section 103(b)(2) of WIOA 

specifically allows the employment and 

training activities carried out under the 

Community Services Block Grant 

(CSBG) Act administered by the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services and employment and training 

activities under the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development to be 

included in a WIOA Combined State 

Plan. However, the existing CSBG 

information collection, for example, 

includes planning elements for the 

employment and training activities 

along with planning elements for other 

activities under CSBG. Therefore, if 

States choose to include programs such 

as these in the Combined Plan, only the 

portion of the existing planning 

requirements that address the 

employment and training activities are 

included in the Combined State Plan 

(WIOA sec. 103), and States are still 

required to separately submit all other 

required elements of a complete CSBG 

State Plan directly to the Federal agency 

that administers the program. 

Departmental program-specific State 

Plan requirements for the optional 

programs that may be included in the 

Combined State Plan will continue 

collecting data under the information 

collections currently approved by OMB. 

This Notice is not soliciting comments 

about these currently approved 

information collections. 

As mentioned above, this ICR is 

intended to cover the State planning 

information collection requirements in 

sections 102 and 103 of WIOA. The 

notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) 

proposing regulations that would 

implement those sections was published 

on April 16, 2015, at 80 FR 20573. The 

comment period closed on June 15, 

2015. The proposed regulations that 

correspond to these information 

collection requirements are: 20 CFR part 

676 (WIOA Adult, Dislocated Worker, 

and Youth programs and Wagner-Peyser 

Act programs); 34 CFR part 361, subpart 

D (State Vocational Rehabilitation 

Services Program); and 34 CFR part 463, 

subpart H (Adult Education and Family 

Literacy Act programs). 

Sec. 102(c)(1)(A) of WIOA requires 

States to submit their first Unified State 

Plan to the Secretary of Labor not later 

than 120 days prior to the 

commencement of the second full 

program year after the date of enactment 

of WIOA, which was July 22, 2014. 

Therefore, the second full program year 

commences on July 1, 2016, and the 

State plans must be submitted no later 

than March 3, 2016. Approval of this 

ICR is required so that the States can 

begin working to develop their plans, a 

process that requires months of 

coordination among State agencies and 

other stakeholders. 

The Departments have all worked 

together to develop this information 

collection; however, this information 

collection will initially be approved 

under a Department of Labor, 

Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA) account using the 

common forms clearance process that 

allows several agencies to use a single 

information collection instrument. 

Burden estimates for all the partner 

agencies have been included in this 

Notice, in order to facilitate an 

understanding of the full impact of the 

collection; however, in accordance with 

OMB guidance for common forms, the 

ICR submitted to OMB will initially 

identify only the ETA burdens. OMB 

approval of the ICR will trigger the 

ability for the other Federal agencies to 

formally submit requests to sign on the 

collection; those actions would not 

require additional notice or public 

comment. This ICR may receive OMB 

approval before Final Rules 

implementing WIOA are published. If 

this occurs, the Departments will submit 

another ICR for this collection to OMB 

to incorporate the Final Rule citations, 

as required by 5 CFR 1320.11(h). Those 

citations currently do not exist and, 

therefore, cannot be included at this 

time. Additionally, the Departments 

will review, analyze, and incorporate 

any comments received on the NPRM 

that are relevant to this ICR together 

with comments we receive in response 

to this Federal Register Notice in order 

to finalize the substantive information 

collection requirements to the extent 

legally possible. 

Portia Wu, 

Assistant Secretary for Employment and 

Training, U.S. Department of Labor. 

Johan E. Uvin, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of 

Career, Technical, and Adult Education, U.S. 

Department of Education. 

Michael K. Yudin, 

Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. 

Department of Education. 

Mark H. Greenberg, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Children and 

Families, U.S. Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

Teresa W. Gerton, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Veterans’ 

Employment and Training, U.S. Department 

of Labor. 

Kevin Concannon, 

Under Secretary, Food, Nutrition, and 

Consumer Services, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture. 

Clifford Taffet, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office 

of Community Planning and Development, 

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban 

Development. 

Jemine A. Bryon, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public 

and Indian Housing, U.S. Department of 

Housing and Urban Development. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–30–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Wage and Hour Division 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; 

Information Collections Pertaining to 

Special Employment Under the Fair 

Labor Standards Act 

AGENCY: Wage and Hour Division, 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(DOL) is soliciting comments 

concerning a proposed revision to the 

information collection request (ICR) 

titled, ‘‘Information Collections 

Pertaining to Special Employment 

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act.’’ 

This comment request is part of 

continuing Departmental efforts to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden in accordance with the 


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