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OMA software in real-time, as well 

as those that require postprocessing; 

• Underlying statistical approach 

used to produce product (e.g., 

cluster analysis, autocorrelation 

analysis, others) 

f. Ability/need to export output files 

to other applications for further 

analyses 

g. Output file formats produced by the 

analytics software (e.g., .kml, .shp, 

.csv) 

h. Method for maintaining cybersecurity of the data and analysis 

products 

i. Method for protecting 

confidentiality of personallyidentifiable information 

j. Types of available reports and the 

extent to which they are 

customizable 

k. Standard dashboard configurations 

provided by the product 

6. Requirements for Host Agency 

Computing Systems: 

a. Computer operating systems 

capable of running the product 

b. Minimum amount of RAM (GB), 

hard disk space (GB), and speed 

(MHz) required to install and run 

the OMA product on each type of 

operating system 

c. Minimum graphics board (e.g., 

must support OpenGL 1.0) and 

display (e.g., size, resolution, color 

levels) requirements for each type 

of operating system 

d. Approximate amount of time taken 

to provide the principal analysis 

products on computers configured 

to meet these minimum 

requirements 

e. Whether the product must be used 

with a particular vendor’s offender 

monitoring technology or is vendoragnostic 

7. Operator/Analyst Training 

Requirements: 

a. Minimum education level/

experience needed to set-up and 

operate the software (e.g., highschool level knowledge of 

computers; college-level statistics to 

create required input files and 

select appropriate options) 

b. Minimum education/experience 

needed to interpret the output 

results 

c. Number of training hours necessary 

to set-up/operate the product 

d. Types of available documentation 

and training aids (e.g., embedded 

help files, accessible help desk, user 

manuals, on-line instruction videos, 

screen shots; sample data; training 

classes) 

e. Support programs the user must be 

familiar with to use the tool. 

Dated: August 21, 2015. 

Nancy Rodriguez, 

Director, National Institute of Justice. 

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BILLING CODE 4410–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Comment Request for Information 

Collection for the Workforce 

Performance Accountability, 

Information, and Reporting System 

(OMB Control No. 1205–3NEW), New 

Collection 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(Department or DOL), ETA as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, conducts a 

preclearance consultation to provide the 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on the 

proposed collection 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 Department is soliciting 

comments concerning the collection of 

data for the Workforce Innovation and 

Opportunity Act (WIOA) Workforce 

Performance Accountability, 

Information, and Reporting System 

(OMB Control No. 1205–3NEW). The 

following programs will be required to 

report through this system: WIOA 

Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth, 

Wagner Peyser Employment Service, 

National Farmworker Jobs, Trade 

Adjustment Assistance, YouthBuild, 

Indian and Native American, and the 

Jobs for Veterans’ State Grants. 

Requiring all of these programs to use a 

standard set of data elements, 

definitions, and specifications at all 

levels of the workforce system helps 

improve the quality of the performance 

information that is received by DOL. 

While H1–B grants and the 

Reintegration of Ex-Offenders program 

are not authorized under WIOA, these 

programs will be utilizing the data 

element definitions and reporting 

templates proposed in this Information 

Collection Request (ICR). The accuracy, 

reliability, and comparability of 

program reports submitted by states and 

grantees using Federal funds are 

fundamental elements of good public 

administration, and are necessary tools 

for maintaining and demonstrating 

system integrity. 

This new ICR is expected to take the 

place of several currently existing ICRs, 

including: 1205–0420 Workforce 

Investment Act (WIA) Management 

Information and Reporting System, 

1205–0240 Wagner Peyser Labor 

Exchange Reporting System, 1205–0464 

YouthBuild Reporting System, 1205– 

0422 Reporting and Performance 

Standards for WIA Indian and Native 

American Programs, 1205–0425 

Reporting and Performance Standards 

System for Migrant and Seasonal 

Farmworker Programs Under Title I, 

Section 167 of the Workforce 

Investment Act, and the 1205–0392 

Trade Act Participant Report. These 

ICRs will be rescinded once the last 

reporting requirements for WIA 

reporting are satisfied. As such, DOL 

will request to remove those from active 

status once the separate reporting 

requirements are no longer needed. 

DATES: Submit written comments to the 

office listed in the addresses section 

below on or before November 2, 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–2015–0008 or 

via postal mail, commercial delivery, or 

hand delivery. A copy of the proposed 

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 Luke Murren by 

telephone at 202–693–3733 (this is not 

a toll-free number) or by email at 

murren.luke@dol.gov. 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– 

2766. 

Mail and hand delivery/courier: Send 

written comments to Luke Murren, 

Office of Policy Development and 

Research, Room N5641, Employment 

and Training Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210. 

Due to security-related concerns, there 

may be a significant delay in the receipt 

of submissions by United States Mail. 

You must take this into consideration 

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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 

(OMB) approval of the information 

collection request. In addition, 

comments, regardless of the delivery 

method, will be posted without change 

on the http://www.regulations.gov Web 

site; consequently, the Department 

recommends commenters not include 

personal information such as a 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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 116 of WIOA requires States 

that operate core programs of the 

publicly-funded workforce system to 

comply with common performance 

accountability requirements. As such, 

States that operate core programs must 

submit common performance data to 

demonstrate that specified performance 

levels are achieved. 

WIOA Sec. 116(d)(1) mandates that 

the Secretaries of Labor and Education 

develop a template for the annual 

performance reports to be used by 

States, local boards, and eligible 

providers of training services for 

reporting on outcomes achieved by the 

WIOA core programs. Pursuant to WIOA 

sec. 116(d)(2), required annual data for 

the core programs include, among 

others, those related to primary 

performance indicators, participant 

counts and costs, and barriers to 

employment. 

This notice includes several 

documents—the ETA (Program) 

Performance Scorecard, the WIOA Payfor-Performance Scorecard, the 

Participant Individual Record Layout 

(PIRL), the WIOA Data Element 

Specifications, and the Job Openings 

Report. The Department requires states 

to certify and submit the ETA (Program) 

Performance Scorecard to ETA on a 

quarterly basis; the pay-for-performance 

report(s) and Job Openings report will 

also be collected quarterly when 

applicable. ETA will aggregate the 

information the States submit through 

the PIRL to populate the ETA (Program) 

Performance Scorecard, the WIOA Payfor-Performance Report, and the Job 

Openings Report, which ETA will then 

send to the States to confirm their 

accuracy. Each program included in this 

ICR will generate its own quarterly 

Performance Scorecard. 

The ETA (Program) Performance 

Scorecard and WIOA Pay-forPerformance Scorecard have been 

designed to maximize the value of the 

reports for workers, jobseekers, 

employers, local elected officials, State 

officials, Federal policymakers, and 

other key stakeholders. The PIRL has 

been designed to reflect the specific 

requirements of the annual reports as 

described in WIOA section 116(d)(2) 

through (4). 

ETA will use the data to track total 

participants, characteristics, services, 

training strategies and outcomes for 

employed, unemployed and long-term 

unemployed participants. This data 

collection format permits program 

offices to evaluate program 

effectiveness, monitor compliance with 

statutory requirements, and analyze 

participant activity and grantee 

performance while complying with 

OMB efforts to streamline Federal 

performance reporting. 

Under WIOA section 116(d)(6), the 

Secretary of Labor is required to 

annually make available (including by 

electronic means), in an easily 

understandable format, (a) the State 

Annual Performance Reports containing 

the information described in WIOA 

section 116 (d)(2) and (b) a summary of 

the reports, and the reports required 

under WIOA section 116 (d)(6) (the 

State Performance, Local Area, and 

Eligible Training Provider Reports), to 

the Committee on Education and the 

Workforce of the House of 

Representatives and the Committee on 

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

of the Senate. 

The reports and other analyses of the 

data will be made available to the public 

through publication and other 

appropriate methods and to the 

appropriate congressional committees 

through copies of such reports. In 

addition, information obtained through 

the Workforce Performance 

Accountability, Information, and 

Reporting System will be used at the 

national level during budget and 

allocation hearings for DOL compliance 

with the Government Performance and 

Results Act and other legislative 

requirements, and during legislative 

authorization proceedings. 

Under this collection, participation 

will be measured based on the count of 

individuals who meet the proposed 

definition of a ‘‘participant’’—e.g., those 

who have received staff-level services 

within the program year. An individual 

will be considered to have exited after 

they have gone 90 days without service, 

and with no future services scheduled. 

Should they return for additional 

services after the 90 days—within the 

same program year and exit in that same 

program year—the individual’s exit date 

will be changed to reflect only the last 

exit date in that program year. If the 

individual exits in a subsequent 

program year, they would be counted as 

a new participant for purposes of that 

subsequent program year. Counting 

unique individuals in this manner will 

allow an unduplicated count of 

participants in the accountability and 

reporting system. The Department 

understands that this may affect 

quarterly reporting results and counts of 

services rendered early in the program 

year, particularly for programs whose 

current reporting practices differ from 

what is described above. As such, we 

greatly encourage your comments on the 

potential impact on individual states 

and local areas of this and all other 

items discussed in this package as we 

continue to finalize the details of this 

information collection process. 

II. Review Focus 

The Department is particularly 

interested in comments that: 

• 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; 

• can further help to create an 

integrated data element layout between 

ETA-funded programs; 

• enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• 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 submissions 

of responses). 

III. Current Actions 

Type of Review: New collection. 

Title: Workforce Performance 

Accountability, Information, and 

Reporting System. 

OMB Number: 1205–3NEW. 

Affected Public: State, Local, and 

Tribal Governments; Individuals or 

Households; and Private Sector— 

businesses or other for-profits and notfor-profit institutions. 

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Estimated Total Annual Respondents: 

815. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

17,261,405. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 2,026,441. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Costs 

Burden: $17,100,000. 

We will summarize and/or include in 

the request for OMB approval of the 

ICR, the comments received in response 

to this comment request; they will also 

become a matter of public record. 

As mentioned above, this ICR covers 

the construction of an integrated ETA 

quarterly performance reporting 

template, drafted according to the data 

collection and reporting requirements in 

section 116 of WIOA. The notice of 

proposed rulemaking (NPRM) 

implementing WIOA was published on 

April 16, 2015, at 80 FR 20573. The 

NPRM comment period closed on June 

15, 2015. Reporting templates were not 

yet available at that time; therefore, the 

DOL is providing the public this 

additional opportunity in order to 

receive comments on the specific 

requirements. 

Sec. 506(b)(1) of WIOA states that 

section 116 of WIOA will go into effect 

at the start of the second full program 

year after the date WIOA was enacted. 

WIOA was enacted on July 22, 2014. 

Therefore, section 116’s performance 

accountability system will be effective 

on July 1, 2016. Approval of this 

information collection request is 

required so that the states, locals, and 

other entities can begin programming 

their management information systems 

in order to enable them to collect the 

necessary data to implement the data 

collection and reporting requirements of 

section 116 in accordance with the 

WIOA statute. 

This ICR may receive OMB approval 

before Final Rules implementing WIOA 

are published. If this occurs, the 

Department 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. The 

Department plans to review and analyze 

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, Department of Labor. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

Request of the U.S. Intellectual 

Property Enforcement Coordinator for 

Public Comments: Development of the 

Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual 

Property Enforcement 

AGENCY: Office of the U.S. Intellectual 

Property Enforcement Coordinator, 

Executive Office of the President, Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB). 

ACTION: Request for written submissions 

from the public. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Government is 

developing its third Joint Strategic Plan 

on Intellectual Property Enforcement 

(‘‘Joint Strategic Plan’’), which will 

cover the 3-year period of 2016–2019. In 

this request for comments, the U.S. 

Government, through the Office of the 

U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement 

Coordinator (‘‘IPEC’’), invites public 

input and participation in shaping the 

Federal Government’s intellectual 

property enforcement strategy for 2016– 

2019. By committing to common goals, 

the U.S. Government will more 

effectively and efficiently be able to 

combat intellectual property 

infringement. 

IPEC was established by title III of the 

Prioritizing Resources and Organization 

for Intellectual Property Act of 2008, 

Public Law 110–403 (the ‘‘PRO IP Act’’; 

see 15 U.S.C. 8111–8116). Pursuant to 

the PRO IP Act, IPEC is charged with 

developing, with certain Federal 

departments and agencies, a Joint 

Strategic Plan for submission to 

Congress every three years (15 U.S.C. 

8113). In carrying out this mandate, 

IPEC chairs two interagency 

committees: (1) The Intellectual 

Property Enforcement Advisory 

Committee and (2) the Senior 

Intellectual Property Enforcement 

Advisory Committee. See 15 U.S.C. 

8111(b)(3); Executive Order 13565 of 

February 8, 2011 (‘‘Establishment of the 

Intellectual Property Enforcement 

Advisory Committees’’). 

The prior 3-year Joint Strategic Plans 

were issued in 2010 and 2013. To assist 

the IPEC and Federal agencies in our 

preparation of the third 3-year plan (for 

2016–2019), IPEC requests input and 

recommendations from the public for 

improving the U.S. Government’s 

intellectual property enforcement 

efforts. 

DATES: Submissions must be received on 

or before October 16, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: All submissions should be 

electronically submitted to http://

www.regulations.gov. If you are unable 

to provide submissions to 

regulations.gov, you may contact the 

Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property 

Enforcement Coordinator at 

intellectualproperty@omb.eop.gov using 

the subject line ‘‘Development of 2016 

Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual 

Property Enforcement’’ or (202) 395– 

1808 to arrange for an alternate method 

of transmission. The regulations.gov 

Web site is a Federal e-Government Web 

site that allows the public to find, 

review and submit comments on 

documents that are published in the 

Federal Register and that are open for 

comment. Submissions filed via the 

regulations.gov Web site will be 

available to the public for review and 

inspection. For this reason, please do 

not include in your comments 

information of a confidential nature, 

such as sensitive personal information 

or proprietary business information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property 

Enforcement Coordinator, at 

intellectualproperty@omb.eop.gov or 

(202) 395–1808. The 2010 and 2013 

Joint Strategic Plans, as well as other 

information about IPEC, can be found at 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/

intellectualproperty. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As set 

forth by the PRO IP Act (15 U.S.C. 

8113), the objectives of the Joint 

Strategic Plan include: 

• Reducing the supply of infringing 

goods, domestically and internationally; 

• Identifying weaknesses, duplication 

of efforts, waste, and other unjustified 

impediments to effective enforcement 

actions; 

• Promoting information sharing 

between participating agencies to the 

extent permissible by law; 

• Disrupting and eliminating 

infringement networks in the U.S. and 

in other countries; 

• Strengthening the capacity of other 

countries to protect and enforce 

intellectual property rights; 

• Reducing the number of countries 

that fail to enforce intellectual property 

rights effectively; 

• Assisting other countries to more 

effectively enforce intellectual property 

rights; 

• Protecting intellectual property 

rights in other countries by: 

Æ Working with other countries to 

reduce intellectual property crimes in 

other countries; 

Æ Improving information sharing 

between U.S. and foreign law 

enforcement agencies; and 

Æ Establishing procedures for 

consulting with interested groups 

within other countries; 

• Establishing effective and efficient 

training programs and other forms of 

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