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Information is collected on the ETA 

9002 and VETS 200 Reports under the 

following authority: 

• Wagner-Peyser Act sec. 3(a), 29 

U.S.C. 49b(a) 

• Wagner-Peyser Act sec. 3(c), 29 

U.S.C. 49b(c) 

• Wagner-Peyser Act sec. 7(b), 29 

U.S.C. 49f(b) 

• Wagner-Peyser Act sec. 10(c), 29 

U.S.C. 49i(c) 

• Wagner-Peyser Act sec. 13(a), 29 

U.S.C. 49l(a) 

• Wagner-Peyser Act sec. 15(e)(2)(I), 

29 U.S.C. 49l–2(e)(2)(I). 

• Provisional Guidance on the 

Implementation of the 1997 Standards 

for Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity, 

Executive Office of the President, Office 

of Management and Budget (66 FR 

3829–3831). 

• Revisions to the Standards for 

Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting 

Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (62 

FR 58781–58790); and 

• Priority of Service for veterans in 

Department of Labor job training 

programs, 38 U.S.C. 4215(a)(2). 

By July 1, 2012, ETA must modify the 

current reporting system to begin the 

collection of several additional 

statutorily required pieces of 

information. The first pertains to the 

priority of service provisions contained 

in the Jobs for Veterans Act, Public Law 

107–288. These provisions provide that 

veterans and certain spouses of veterans 

(together comprising the category of 

covered persons) are entitled to priority 

over non-covered persons for the receipt 

of employment, training, and placement 

services provided under new or existing 

qualified job training programs. 

Qualified job training programs are 

defined at 38 U.S.C. 4215(a)(2) as any 

workforce preparation, development or 

delivery program or service that is 

directly funded, in whole or in part, by 

the Department. 

Additional items are required under 

Public Law 112–56, Title II, Vow to Hire 

Heroes, Sections 238 and 239, and 

pertain to: (1) Performance measures on 

job counseling, training and placement 

programs of the Department, and; (2) 

clarifications of priority of service for 

veterans in Departmental job training 

programs. 

These requirements impact both the 

ETA 9002 and VETS 200 reports. Lastly, 

the expansive focus on veterans 

reemployment initiatives has 

necessitated collection of additional 

information on groups of veterans (such 

as Post 9/11 era veterans), targeted 

services they received, and additional 

aspects of their outcomes in order to 

monitor and oversee their effectiveness. 

II. Review Focus 

The Department is particularly 

interested in comments which: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

continuation of the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information has considerable 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 

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: Extension with 

revisions. 

Title: Labor Exchange Reporting 

System (LERS). 

OMB Number: 1205–0240. 

Affected Public: State, local and tribal 

government entities and private nonprofit organizations. 

Form(s): ETA–9002, VETS–200, The 

Employment and Training (ET) 

Handbook No. 406, Employment Service 

Record Layout, Labor Exchange DRVS 

Software Version 7.2 User’s Guide. 

Total Annual Respondents: 54. 

Annual Frequency: Quarterly. 

Total Annual Responses: 1944. 

Average Time per Response: 375 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 728,889. 

Total Annual Burden Cost for 

Respondents: $0. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this comment request will be 

summarized and/or included in the 

request for OMB approval of the 

information collection request; they will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: January 2, 2012. 

Jane Oates, 

Assistant Secretary for Employment and 

Training. 

[FR Doc. 2012–790 Filed 1–17–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Proposed Collection of Information for 

the Job Corps Process Study; New 

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 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 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, ETA is soliciting comments 

on a new information collection for the 

Job Corps Process Study (Process 

Study). A copy of the proposed 

information collection request can be 

obtained by contacting the office listed 

below in the addresses section of this 

notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

addresses section below on or before 

March 19, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

to Dan Ryan, Employment and Training 

Administration, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Room N–5641, 

Washington, DC 20210. Telephone 

number: (202) 693–3649 (this is not a 

toll-free number). Fax number: (202) 

693–2766. Email: ryan.dan@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Job Corps is a comprehensive program 

designed to assist eligible disadvantaged 

youth aged 16 to 24 through intensive 

education and training services. A total 

of 125 primarily residential Job Corps 

centers operate in 48 states, the District 

of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Job Corps 

provides academic instruction to 

improve students’ reading and math 

abilities and prepare students for 

obtaining General Educational 

Development certificates or high school 

diplomas, career technical training in 

over 100 programs, and development of 


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1This is the average across all types of 

information collection activities. 

social skills. In addition, Job Corps 

provides dormitory-style housing, 

meals, medical care, and counseling. 

Finally, the program assists its enrollees 

with career transitions through 

placement in jobs, higher education, 

and the military. Over the course of its 

45 years of operation, Job Corps has 

served almost 3 million youth. 

In the fall of 2010, ETA contracted 

with IMPAQ International, LLC (with 

subcontracts to the Battelle Memorial 

Institute and Decision Information 

Resources, Inc.—henceforth, the IMPAQ 

team) to conduct this Process Study to 

address the following broad questions: 

• What center practices appear to be 

associated with center performance or 

particular dimensions of performance 

and what is the nature of such 

associations? 

• How do interactions among center 

practices and characteristics mediate 

these associations? Put differently, do 

some strategies or practices work 

especially well (or especially badly) for 

certain kinds of centers? 

ETA is requesting clearance for the 

IMPAQ team to carry out two principal 

research activities, integral to the 

Process Study: (1) Site visits to 16 Job 

Corps centers with interviews with 

senior center and operator management, 

instructors, staff, and partners and focus 

groups with students and (2) a Webbased survey of all Job Corps center 

directors. 

The centers for visits will be selected 

in a purposive fashion to represent 

diversity of performance, using 

established Job Corps performance 

metrics on student outcomes both 

during and after program enrollment, 

adjusted for participant and local labor 

market characteristics, supplemented by 

additional measures of job placement 

and student satisfaction. Practices 

identified during the visits will also be 

examined through the survey. The 

ultimate use of the information 

collection is to associate practices with 

performance outcomes, an analysis 

which should be useful for 

programmatic improvement. 

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; 

• 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 

Agency: Employment and Training 

Administration. 

Type of Review: New collection. 

Title: Job Corps Process Study. 

OMB Number: 1205–0NEW. 

Affected Public: Job Corps center 

management and staff; Job Corps 

students; Job Corps partner 

organizations’ staff; and Job Corps 

center operators’ staff. 

Total Respondents: 637. 

Frequency: Twice for directors of the 

16 visited centers and once for all other 

respondents. 

Total Responses: 653. 

Average Time per Response: 85 

minutes.1

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 927. 

Total Other Burden Cost for 

Respondents: $0. 

Data collection activity (interview unless noted as survey) 

Total burden 

hours for position 

type across all 

centers Concerned 

Center Directors ............................................................................................................................................................................... 32 

Human Resources Managers .......................................................................................................................................................... 8 

Academic Instruction Managers ...................................................................................................................................................... 24 

Career Technical Training (CTT) Managers ................................................................................................................................... 24 

Work-Based Learning Coordinators ................................................................................................................................................ 16 

Career Preparation Period Managers ............................................................................................................................................. 16 

Counseling Managers ...................................................................................................................................................................... 24 

Peer Leadership Coordinators ......................................................................................................................................................... 8 

Social Development Managers ........................................................................................................................................................ 16 

Center Safety Officers ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16 

Academic Instructors ....................................................................................................................................................................... 48 

CTT Instructors ................................................................................................................................................................................ 48 

Residential Advisors ........................................................................................................................................................................ 48 

Senior Administration Staff, Including from Operators .................................................................................................................... 32 

Business and Community Liaisons ................................................................................................................................................. 16 

Organizational Partners: Outreach and Admissions and Career Technical Services .................................................................... 32 

Community Partners, Other than Employers .................................................................................................................................. 32 

Employer Partners ........................................................................................................................................................................... 32 

Regional Office Project Managers ................................................................................................................................................... 16 

Students ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 64 

Center Director Survey .................................................................................................................................................................... 375 

TOTAL ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 927 

Comments submitted in response to 

this comment request will be 

summarized and/or included in the 

request for the Office of Management 

and Budget approval of the information 


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collection request; they will also 

become a matter of public record. 

Dated: Signed in Washington, DC, on this 

11th day of January, 2012. 

Jane Oates, 

Assistant Secretary for Employment and 

Training. 

[FR Doc. 2012–795 Filed 1–17–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FT–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request for 

Information Collection: Guam Military 

Base Realignment Contractor 

Recruitment Standards, Extension 

Without Revisions 

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 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 (PRA 95) [44 

U.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, ETA is soliciting comments 

concerning the extension of data 

collection on its Guam Military Base 

Realignment Contractors Recruitment 

Standards, which expire April 30, 2012. 

This information collection follows an 

emergency review that was conducted 

in accordance with the PRA 95 and 5 

CFR 1320.13. The submission for Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

emergency review was approved on 

October 19, 2011. A copy of the 

proposed information collection request 

can be obtained either by: (1) Accessing 

the RegInfo.gov Web site at http:// 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAViewDocument?ref_nbr= 

201108-1205-007, or (2) by contacting 

the office listed below in the ADDRESSES

section of this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section below on or before 

March 19, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

to Anthony D. Dais, Office of Workforce 

Investment, Room C–4512, Employment 

and Training Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Room S–4231, 

Washington, DC 20210. Telephone (202) 

693–2784 (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: 

dais.anthony@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 2834(a) of the National 

Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 

Fiscal Year 2010 (Pub. L. 111–84, 

enacted October 28, 2009) amended 

Section 2824(c) of the Military 

Construction Authorization Act (Pub. L. 

110–417, Division B) by adding a new 

subsection (6). This provision prohibits 

contractors engaged in construction 

projects related to the realignment of 

U.S. military forces from Okinawa to 

Guam from hiring non-U.S. workers 

unless the Governor of Guam 

(Governor), in consultation with the 

U.S. Secretary of Labor (Secretary), 

certifies that (1) there is an insufficient 

number of U.S. workers that are able, 

willing, and qualified to perform the 

work; and (2) that the employment of 

non-U.S. workers will not have an 

adverse effect on either the wages or the 

working conditions of U.S. construction 

workers in Guam. 

In order to allow the Governor to 

make this certification, the NDAA 

requires contractors to recruit workers 

in the United States, including in Guam, 

the Northern Mariana Islands, American 

Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and 

Puerto Rico, according to the terms of 

recruitment standards developed and 

approved by the Secretary. The 

recruitment standards have been 

reproduced in full below. 

Although the Department has 

developed the recruitment standards, it 

has assigned oversight of the contractor 

recruitment standards and the NDAArequired consultation with the Governor 

to the Guam Department of Labor 

(GDOL) through a Memorandum of 

Understanding between the U.S. 

Department of Labor and GDOL, 

effective November 22, 2011. 

I. Guam Military Base Realignment 

Contractors Recruitment Standards 

Guam military base realignment 

contractors must take the following 

actions to recruit U.S. workers. 

1. At least 60 days before the start 

date of workers under a base 

realignment contract, contractors must: 

(a) Submit a job posting with GDOL 

at http://dol.guam.gov/index.php?

option=com_jobline&Itemid=0&task

=add, or by submitting a completed Job 

Order (Form GES 514) in person at the 

Guam Employment Service office. The 

job posting must be posted on the GDOL 

Job Bank for at least 21 consecutive 

days; 

(b) Submit a job posting with the state 

workforce agency’s Internet job bank in 

American Samoa at www.usworks.com/ 

americansamoa/, the Commonwealth of 

the Northern Mariana Islands at 

https://marianaslabor.net/employer.asp, 

and in the following states: 

i. Alaska (www.jobs.state.ak.us); 

ii. California (www.caljobs.ca.gov); 

iii. Hawaii (www.hirenethawaii.com); 

iv. Oregon (www.emp.state.or.us/ 

jobs); and 

v. Washington (https:// 

fortress.wa.gov/esd/worksource/ 

Employment.aspx). 

The job posting must be posted for at 

least 21 consecutive days. If for any 

reason the Internet job bank in 

American Samoa is not available, the 

contractor must place an advertisement 

on two Sundays in a newspaper that: (1) 

Is of general circulation in the territory; 

(2) has a reasonable distribution and is 

appropriate to the occupation; and (3) is 

likely to be seen by workers interested 

in applying for construction 

employment. 

(c) Submit a job posting with an 

Internet-based job bank that is: 

i. National in scope, including the 

entire United States, Guam, the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands, American Samoa, the Virgin 

Islands, and the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico; 

ii. Allows job postings for all 

occupations; and 

iii. Is free of charge for job seekers and 

their intermediaries in One-Stop Career 

Centers and the employment service 

delivery system nationwide. 

(d) Where the occupation or industry 

is customarily unionized, contact the 

local union in Guam in writing to seek 

U.S. workers who are qualified and who 

will be available for the job opportunity. 

The postings are separate and distinct 

requirements—i.e., a posting under 

Section 1(b) cannot be used to satisfy 

the posting requirement under Section 

1(c). 


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