66308 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 246 / Wednesday, December 26, 2018 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request, 

Implementation Evaluation of the 

National Health Emergency (NHE) 

Demonstration Grants To Address the 

Opioid Crisis, New Collection 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation 

Office, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of Information 

Collection; request for comment. 

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 

data about the Implementation 

Evaluation of the National Health 

Emergency Demonstration Grants to 

Address the Opioid Crisis. 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’s section below on or before 

February 25, 2019. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either one of the following methods: 

Email: ChiefEvaluationOffice@

dol.gov; Mail or Courier: Jennifer Daley, 

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: 

Jennifer Daley by email at 

ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov or by 

phone at (202) 693–5913. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: The Chief Evaluation 

Office (CEO) of the U.S. Department of 

Labor (DOL) intends to design and 

conduct information collection 

activities to provide data for the 

implementation evaluation of the 

National Health Emergency (NHE) 

Demonstration Grants to Address the 

Opioid Crisis. DOL awarded $22 million 

in NHE grants to six states in 2018. 

States have proposed a variety of 

strategies including services for 

individuals or family members affected 

by opioid addiction, training for 

workers to address the crisis, and 

system-wide investments to align 

workforce services with services 

provided by other organizations at the 

state and local levels. The 

implementation study of the grants will 

address four research questions: (1) How 

were the grants implemented, what 

services were provided, and what 

factors influenced implementation and 

job placement and retention?; (2) Who 

were the major partners involved and 

what services did they provide?; (3) 

What challenges did grantees encounter 

in implementation and how were those 

addressed?; and (4) What practices 

developed under the grant appear to be 

promising or potentially promising? 

This Federal Register Notice provides 

the opportunity to comment on 

proposed data collection instruments 

that will be used in the implementation 

evaluation: Key informant interview 

protocols, survey of key informants 

(state- and local-level administrators) 

and a program participant interview 

guide. 

1. Key informant interview protocol. 

The protocol will be used during site 

visits to the grantees to collect 

information from administrators and 

staff at the state- and local-level, and 

with partner organizations and 

employers at either the state or local 

level. Issues to be covered include the 

state and local community context, 

strategies and approaches to service 

delivery, target populations and 

recruiting, the role of various partners in 

grant and subgrant activities, successes 

and challenges, preliminary outcomes, 

promising practices, and other topics. 

2. Survey of key informants. This 

short questionnaire for key informants 

(administrators and staff at the stateand local-level) includes basic 

background information, such as their 

highest education level and experience, 

and brief questions about their 

perspectives on the opioid crisis and the 

state’s partnerships to address the crisis. 

3. Program participant interview 

guide. The guide will be used for 

individual or group discussions with 

approximately 10 program participants 

in each state. Topics will include 

participant background, service receipt, 

participants’ views on the quality and 

effectiveness of the workforce services 

received, and their current or 

anticipated labor market experiences as 

a result of the services. 

II. Desired Focus of Comments: 

Currently, the Department of Labor is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

above data collection for the 

Implementation Evaluation of the 

National Health Emergency (NHE) 

Demonstration Grants to Address the 

Opioid Crisis. DOL is particularly 

interested in comments that do the 

following: 

Æ 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; 

Æ evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s burden estimate of the 

proposed information collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions; 

Æ enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

Æ 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, DOL 

is requesting clearance for the key 

informant interview protocol, written 

survey for key informants, and a 

program participant interview guide. 

Type of Review: New information 

collection request. 

OMB Control Number: 1290–0NEW. 

Affected Public: NHE grantee 

administrators, participants, and 

partners. 

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. 


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ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS

Type of instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden time 

per response 

(hours) 

Estimated 

burden hours 

Key informant interview protocol: state and local administrator, staff, and 

partners b ...................................................................................................... 60 1 1 60 

Survey: State and local staff and partners ...................................................... 60 1 0.17 10 

Program participant interview guide ................................................................ 20 1 1 20 

Total .......................................................................................................... 140 ........................ ........................ 90 

aThe study is scheduled to take three years. 

bAssumes each visit will, on average, involve individual or group interviews with approximately 30 respondents. The team assumes the average burden time per response to be about 1 hour, although some meetings will be shorter and some will be longer. 

Molly Irwin, 

Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of 

Labor. 

[FR Doc. 2018–27919 Filed 12–21–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–HX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; National 

Database of Childcare Costs 

Submission for Review: National 

Database of Childcare Costs 

AGENCY: Women’s Bureau, DOL. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Labor, Women’s Bureau (WB) is 

soliciting comments concerning a 

proposed information collection request 

(ICR) titled, ‘‘National Database of 

Childcare Costs’’. This comment request 

is part of continuing Departmental 

efforts to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA). 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted until February 25, 

2019. 

ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR with 

applicable supporting documentation; 

including a description of the likely 

respondents, proposed frequency of 

response, and estimated total burden 

may be obtained without charge by 

contacting the U.S. Department of 

Labor, Women’s Bureau, Room S–3002, 

200 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20210, (202)693–6710, 

Womens.Bureau@dol.gov. Comments in 

response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://

www.regulations.gov by selecting the 

Docket ID number or via postal mail, 

commercial delivery, or hand delivery. 

Please note that comments submitted by 

fax or email and those submitted after 

the comment period will not be 

accepted. Comments submitted by 

postal mail or delivery should be 

addressed to U.S. Department of Labor, 

Women’s Bureau, Room S–3002, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20210. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, contact Sarah Miller by 

telephone at (202)693–6716 (this is not 

a toll-free number) or by email at 

miller.sarah@dol.gov. For technical 

questions, contact: Liana Christin 

Landivar by telephone at (202)693–6713 

(this is not a toll-free number) or by 

email at landivar.liana.c@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DOL, 

as part of continuing efforts to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

conducts a pre-clearance consultation 

program to provide the general public 

and Federal agencies an opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing collections of information 

before submitting them to the OMB for 

final approval. This program helps to 

ensure 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 can be properly 

assessed. This proposed information 

collection seeks to establish the 

National Database of Childcare Costs. 

State-administered Market Rate Surveys 

are conducted by state human services 

or workforce development offices as a 

requirement to receive Child Care and 

Development Block Grants (CCDBG). 

The surveys establish a benchmark of 

the local prices of various types of care 

(e.g., center-based, home-based, familyprovided) by age of children (i.e., 

infants, preschool, and school-age 

children). These surveys are used to 

establish the maximum reimbursement 

rates for childcare subsidies. Market 

Rate Surveys sample all eligible centers 

and care providers and obtain the full 

market price of care. Because the state 

Market Rate Surveys establish the full 

market price of care in local areas, these 

data are ideal to examine local childcare 

prices. However, these data are not 

reported to the federal government and 

they are retained by the states. 

This information collection would 

request Market Rate Survey data from 

all states and reconcile measures for 

uniformity across the states. Metrics 

would be made comparable and 

geography would be standardized to be 

able to combine these data for analysis 

with county characteristics available 

from the American Community Survey. 

The database would be evaluated to 

protect respondent confidentiality, 

implementing proper disclosure 

avoidance techniques in counties with 

small samples. The database would be 

made available to the public as a 

research tool to understand childcare 

prices at the county level and changes 

in childcare prices over time. Section 2 

of Public Law 66–259 that established 

the Women’s Bureau authorizes this 

information collection. See 29 U.S.C. 13. 

This information collection is subject 

to the PRA. A Federal agency generally 

cannot conduct or sponsor a collection 

of information, and the public is 

generally not required to respond to an 

information collection, unless it is 

approved by the OMB under the PRA 

and displays a currently valid OMB 

Control Number. In addition, 

notwithstanding any other provisions of 

law, no person shall generally be subject 

to penalty for failing to comply with a 

collection of information that does not 

display a valid Control Number. See 5 

CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. 

Interested parties are encouraged to 

provide comments to the contact shown 

in the ADDRESSES section. Comments 

must be written to receive 

consideration, and they will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval of the final ICR. In 

order to help ensure appropriate 

consideration, comments should 


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