Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 189 / Tuesday, September 30, 1997 / Notices 51159

[FR Doc. 97–25863 Filed 9–29–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

Proposed Information Collection

Request Submitted for Public

Comment

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) [44U.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 new collection

of the Lifelong Learning Demonstration

Follow-Up Survey. A copy of the

proposed information collection request

can be obtained by contacting the

individual listed below in the Addresses

section of this notice.

DATES; Written comments must be

submitted on or before December 1,

1997.

The Employment and Training

Administration is particularly interested

in comments which: (1) 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;

(2) 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; (3) Enhance the

quality, utility, and clarity of the

information to be collected; and (4)

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 submission of responses.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Jon

Messenger, Office of Policy and

Research, Employment and Training

Administration, U.S. Department of

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Room N–5631, Washington, D.C.

20210—(202) 219–8680, Extension 113

(this is not a toll-free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Employment and Training

Administration (ETA) of the U.S.

Department of Labor (DOL) is

conducting a pilot project, the Lifelong

Learning Demonstration, to encourage

investment in education and training by

currently employed workers. This pilot

project addresses demands created by

increasingly volatile global labor

markets, in which workers must move

with greater frequency to new jobs and

new careers that require more

knowledge and job-related skills. The

project will make it easier for currently

employed adults with substantial work

experience to explore new career

directions, plan for potential skill needs,

and take action to pursue the education

and training that will help them prosper

in an increasingly competitive global

labor market.

A public information campaign

undertaken by DOL with the assistance

of the U.S. Department of Education

(ED) targeted currently-employed adults

with substantial work experience as a

group likely to benefit from more

information on its education and career

options. The project will examine

whether comprehensive information on

educational opportunities—plus the

availability of affordable financing

through new and expanded Federal

financial aid programs—prompts

incumbent workers to seek additional

education to upgrade their job-related

skills and improve their careers. The

promotion of post-secondary education

and student financial aid is thus a

means of increasing the skills and

improving the labor market outcomes of

these workers.

The Lifelong Learning Demonstration

provided targeted workers with

comprehensive information about postsecondary education and training

opportunities, and streamlined referrals

of interested workers to participating

educational institutions. This

demonstration project is a controlled

experiment, with random assignment of

adult workers to a treatment group that

received brochures promoting education

and training and offering further

information about local schools and

opportunities for student financial aid,

and a control group that does not

receive this information. Public

information campaigns aimed at

targeted workers were conducted in the

Greater Baltimore, Maryland, area in the

summer and fall of 1996.

The Lifelong Learning Demonstration

Follow-Up Survey will be a telephone

survey of 5,000 individuals in the

Greater Baltimore area (2,500 treatment

group members and 2,500 control group

members). With an estimated 80 percent

response rate, 4,000 individuals will

complete the survey. Those individuals

who have recently obtained additional

schooling will be over sampled to allow

more detailed analysis of their

experiences.

The first objective of the proposed

survey is to determine the impact of the

Lifelong Learning Demonstration on

sample group members. Questions in

the survey ask about the respondent’s

education, employment experiences,

and use of student financial aid since

June 1996, the start of the demonstration

in Baltimore. Background questions on

the person’s age, gender, race/ethnicity,

household composition, and predemonstration level of education and

use of student financial aid are also

asked so that the impacts can be

separately determined for various

subgroups.

The second objective of the survey is

to collect information needed for a costbenefit analysis of the demonstration.

Questions ask about the respondent’s

earnings and income including benefits

from government programs. For

respondents who participated in

education or training programs since the

start of the demonstration, the survey

also contains questions on the costs of

schooling, sources of funds for

schooling, and time spent doing course

work outside of class.

The third objective of the survey is to

learn about financial and non-financial

barriers for adult workers in getting

additional education and training to

inform any future public information

campaigns and for other ETA and ED

programs affecting the education and

training of adults in the U.S. work force.

Questions ask about the value of

additional education and training for

the respondent, and the financial and

non-financial barriers people who have

enrolled or applied to school have

encountered, as well as barriers other

adults think they will encounter if they

decided to participate in education or

training programs.

Type of Review: New.

Agency: Employment and Training

Administration.

Title: Lifelong Learning

Demonstration Follow-Up Survey.

Affected Public: Individuals.

Total Respondents: 4,000.

Frequency: One-time.
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Total Responses:

Average Time per Response: 35

minutes.

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,333

hours.

Total Burden Cost to Respondents

(capital/startup): $0.

Total Burden Cost to Respondents

(operating/maintaining): $0.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for Office of

Management and Budget Approval of

the information collection request: they

also will become a matter of public

record.

Dated at Washington, D.C. this 23rd day of

September 1997.

Gerard F. Fiala,

Adminstrator, Office of Policy and Research,

Employment and Training Administration.

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

Job Training Partnership Act; Native

American Employment and Training

Council; Notice of Open Meeting

Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub.

L. 92–463), as amended, and Section

401(h)(1) of the Job Training Partnership

Act, as amended (29 U.S.C. 1671(h)(1)),

notice is hereby given of an open

meeting of the Native American

Employment and Training Council.

Time and Date: The meeting will begin at

9:00 a.m. on October 23, 1997, and continue

until approximately 5:00 p.m.; and will

reconvene at 9:00 a.m. on October 24, 1997,

and adjourn at approximately 5:00 p.m. From

3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on October 23 will be

reserved for participation and presentations

by members of the public. Interested persons

may send comments, views, statements or

data for consideration by the Council,

preferably with twenty copies to: Mr. Thomas

M. Dowd, at the address presented below.

Place: U.S. Department of Labor,

Washington, D.C., Frances Perkins Building,

200 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Room N–

3437 A–D.

Status: The meeting will be open to the

public.

Matters To Be Considered: The agenda will

focus on the following topics: (1) Welfare-toWork; (2) New Performance Measures; (3)

Evaluation progress of the Section 401

program; (4) Partnership update; and (5) One

Stop Shops.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT: Mr. Thomas M. Dowd, Chief,

Division of Indian and Native American

Programs. Employment and Training

Administration, U.S. Department of Labor,

200 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Room N–

4641, Washington, D.C. 20210. Telephone:

(202) 219–8502 (this is not a toll-free

number).

Persons with disabilities, who need special

accommodations, should call Mr. Dowd

before October 16, 1997.

Signed at Washington, D.C., this 23rd day

of Sept., 1997.

Raymond J. Uhalde,

Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor.

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[NAFTA–01881]

Fruit of the Loom; Amended

Certification Regarding Eligibility To

Apply for NAFTA Transitional

Adjustment Assistance

Martin Mills, Inc., D/B/A St. Martinville

Mills, Including Former Employees of

Jeanerette Mills, St. Martinville, Louisiana

NAFTA–01881A, Abbeville Mills, Division of

Martin Mills, Inc., Including Former

Employees of Jeanerette Mills, Abbeville,

Louisiana

and

NAFTA–01881B, Port Barre Mills, Division

of Martin Mills, Inc., Including Former

Employees of Jeanerette Mills, Port Barre,

Louisiana

In accordance with Section 250(a),

Subchapter D, Chapter 2, Title II, of the

Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19

U.S.C. 2273), the Department of Labor

issued a Certification of Eligibility to

Apply for NAFTA Transitional

Adjustment Assistance on August 29,

1997, applicable to workers of Fruit of

the Loom, Martin Mills, Inc., located in

St. Martinville, Abbeville, and Port

Barre, Louisiana. The notice will soon

be published in the Federal Register.

At the request of the State agency, the

Department reviewed the certification

for workers of the subject firm. The

workers are engaged in employment

related to the production of T-shirts,

briefs, boxers and layette. Findings on

review show that some of the workers

at the subject firm locations in

Louisiana have had their wages reported

to the separate Unemployment

Insurance tax account for Jeanerette

Mills, a subsidiary of Fruit of the Loom.

Other new findings show that Martin

Mills, Inc., in St. Martinville, Louisiana

is doing business as St. Martinville

Mills. Based on this new information,

the Department is amending the

certification to reflect these matters.

The amended notice applicable to

NAFTA–01881 is hereby issued as

follows:

‘‘All workers of Fruit of the Loom, Martin

Mills, Inc., doing business as St. Martinville

Mills, including former employees of

Jeanerette Mills, St. Martinville, Louisiana

(NAFTA–01881), Abbeville Mills, Division of

Martin Mills, Inc., including former

employees of Jeanerette Mills, Abbeville,

Louisiana (NAFTA–01881A), and Port Barre

Mills, Division of Martin Mills Inc.,

including former employees of Jeanerette

Mills, Port Barre, Louisiana (NAFTA–

01881B), who became totally or partially

separated from employment on or after

August 14, 1996, are eligible to apply for

adjustment assistance under Section 250 of

the Trade Act of 1974.’’

Signed in Washington, D.C. this 14th day

of September 1997.

Grant D. Beale,

Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment

Assistance.

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

Amended Certification Regarding

Eligibility To Apply for NAFTA

Transitional Adjustment Assistance

NAFTA–01068; Hickory Hills Industries,

Incorporated; Savannah Manufacturing

Company, Savannah, Tennessee;

NAFTA–01068C; Hickory Hills Industries,

Incorporated, New York, New York

In accordance with Section 250(a),

Subchapter 2, Title II, of the Trade Act

of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2273),

the Department of Labor issued a

Certification of Eligibility to Apply for

NAFTA Transitional Adjustment

Assistance on July 22, 1996, applicable

to all workers of Hickory Hills

Industries, Incorporated, Savannah

Manufacturing Company, Savannah,

Tennessee. The notice was published in

the Federal Register on August 6, 1996

(61 FR 40853).

At the request of a petitioner, the

Department reviewed the certification

for workers of the subject firm. New

findings show that worker separations

occurred at Hickory Hills Industries,

Incorporated, New York, New York

when it closed in October, 1996. The

workers at New York, New York

location provided sales office functions

and designing to support production of

children’s sportswear at Savannah

Manufacturing. Accordingly, the

Department is amending the

certification to cover workers at the

Hickory Hills Industries, Incorporated,

New York, New York.

The intent of the Department’s

certification is to include all workers of

Hickory Industries, Incorporated