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Number of institutions 

Average number 

of articulation 

agreements per 

institution 

Total number of 

articulation 

agreements 

5 ................................................................................................................................................................... 3 15 

3 ................................................................................................................................................................... 8 24 

2 ................................................................................................................................................................... 15 30 

Total number of articulation agreements estimated to be entered by two- and four-year colleges on an annual basis 109 

Number of sponsors 

Average number 

of articulation 

agreements per 

sponsor 

Total number of 

articulation 

agreements 

20 ................................................................................................................................................................. 1 20 

2 ................................................................................................................................................................... 3 6 

2 ................................................................................................................................................................... 8 16 

1 ................................................................................................................................................................... 15 15 

Total number of articulation agreements estimated to be entered by program sponsors on an annual basis 57 

Average Time per Response: 10 

minutes per articulation agreement. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours 

First Year = 235 hours 

Application Burden 

hours 

Two- and Four-Year Post-Secondary Institutions ................. 179 

Registered Apprenticeship 

Sponsor ................................. 53.5 

Associations and Other Organizations ................................... 2 

Annual Burden Hours (after the first 

year) = 30 hours 

Application Burden 

hours 

Two- and Four-Year Post-Secondary Institutions ................. 18 

Registered Apprenticeship 

Sponsor ................................. 9.5 

Associations and Other Organizations ................................... 2 

Total Annual Burden Cost for 

Respondents: $14,232. 

Application Respondent 

cost 

Two- and Four-Year Post-Secondary Institutions ................. $11,280 

Registered Apprenticeship 

Sponsor ................................. $2,760 

Associations and Other Organizations ................................... $192 

Comments submitted in response to 

this comment request will be 

summarized and/or included in the 

request for Office of Management and 

Budget approval of the ICR; they will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: Signed in Washington, DC, on this 

2nd day of January, 2013. 

Jane Oates, 

Assistant Secretary for Employment and 

Training, Labor. 

[FR Doc. 2013–00419 Filed 1–10–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Notice of Intent To Renew the Advisory 

Committee on Apprenticeship (ACA) 

Charter 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Renew 

Charter. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary of Labor has 

determined that the renewal of a 

national advisory committee on 

apprenticeship is necessary and in the 

public interest. The Department of 

Labor intends to renew the ACA Charter 

with revisions. The revisions are not 

intended to change the purpose or the 

Committee’s original intent. The 

revisions are a routine updating of the 

Charter to ensure closer alignment with 

the Department’s strategic goals and 

priorities. The charter for the ACA will 

expire on January 31, 2013. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Registered 

Apprenticeship is a unique public 

private partnership that is highly 

dependent on the engagement and 

involvement of its stakeholders and 

partners for its ongoing operational 

effectiveness. Apart from the ACA, there 

is no single organization or group with 

the broad representation of labor, 

employers, and the public available to 

consider the complexities and 

relationship of apprenticeship activities 

to other training efforts or to provide 

advice on such matters to the Secretary 

and DOL officials. It is particularly 

important to have such considerations 

at this time in view of the current 

widespread and national interest in the 

role apprenticeship can play in 

providing career pathways for all 

populations in a range of high growth 

industries, including healthcare and 

manufacturing. For these reasons, the 

Secretary of Labor has determined that 

the renewal of a national advisory 

committee on apprenticeship is 

necessary and in the public interest. The 

ACA is being renewed to provide advice 

and recommendations to the Secretary 

on the following: (1) The development 

and implementation of policies, 

legislation and regulations affecting the 

national Registered Apprenticeship 

system; (2) strategies that can expand 

the use of the Registered Apprenticeship 

model in non-traditional industries such 

as, but not limited to manufacturing, 

energy, and healthcare; (3) ways to more 

effectively partner with the public 

workforce system and educational 

institutions and communities to 

leverage Registered Apprenticeship as a 

valued post secondary credential; (4) the 

development of career pathways that 

can lead to good jobs for everyone and 

sustained employment for new and 

incumbent workers, youth, veterans, 

women, minorities and other underutilized and disadvantaged populations; 

and (5) efforts to improve performance, 

quality and oversight, and utilization of 

the national Registered Apprenticeship 

system. 

The current ACA Charter will expire 

on January 31, 2013. The ACA’s Charter 

is required to be renewed every two 

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years. Since the Charter was last 

renewed in January 2011, it has been 

revised in five sections to ensure 

alignment with departmental priorities. 

The following five sections have been 

updated: (1) The Objectives and Scope 

of Activities section was streamlined to 

be more concise and in line with current 

priorities; (2) the Description of Duties 

section was reviewed and edited to 

more closely reflect the needs of the 

Department and the advice and 

recommendations sought from the ACA 

at this time; (3) the Estimated Annual 

Operating Costs and Staff Years section 

was modified to reflect the ongoing 

efforts by the Department to reduce 

overall operating costs associated with 

the ACA; (4) the Estimated Number and 

Frequency of Meetings section has been 

updated to reflect the increasing trend 

to utilize multiple meeting formats, 

including the use of the virtual meeting 

format, as well as to reduce the number 

of anticipated annual face-to-face 

meetings; and (5) the Membership and 

Designation section was changed to 

include a range rather than a number to 

provide the Secretary with additional 

flexibility to maintain committee 

balance and accommodate changes in 

membership due to retirements, member 

withdrawals, or resignations. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

John V. Ladd, Administrator, Office of 

Apprenticeship, Employment and 

Training Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Room N–5311, 

200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: 

(202) 693–2796, (this is not a toll-free 

number). 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 2nd day of 

January, 2013. 

Jane Oates, 

Assistant Secretary for the Employment and 

Training Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2013–00372 Filed 1–10–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Proposed Collection, Comment 

Request 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as 

part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

conducts a pre-clearance 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. The Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments 

concerning the proposed extension of 

the ‘‘Well-being Supplement to the 

American Time Use Survey.’’ A copy of 

the proposed information collection 

request (ICR) can be obtained by 

contacting the individual listed below 

in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice on or 

before March 12, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Amelia 

Vogel, BLS Clearance Officer, Division 

of Management Systems, Bureau of 

Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 2 

Massachusetts Avenue NE., 

Washington, DC 20212. Written 

comments also may be transmitted by 

fax to 202–691–5111 (this is not a toll 

free number). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amelia Vogel, BLS Clearance Officer, at 

202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free 

number). (See Addresses section.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The American Time Use Survey 

(ATUS) is the Nation’s first federally 

administered, continuous survey on 

time use in the United States. It 

measures, for example, time spent with 

children, working, sleeping, or doing 

leisure activities. In the United States, 

several existing Federal surveys collect 

income and wage data for individuals 

and families, and analysts often use 

such measures of material prosperity as 

proxies for quality of life. Time-use data 

substantially augment these quality-oflife measures. The data also can be used 

in conjunction with wage data to 

evaluate the contribution of non-market 

work to national economies. This 

enables comparisons of production 

between nations that have different 

mixes of market and non-market 

activities. 

The ATUS is used to develop 

nationally representative estimates of 

how people spend their time. This is 

done by collecting a time diary about 

the activities survey respondents did 

over a 24-hour period ‘‘yesterday,’’ from 

4 a.m. on the day before the interview 

until 4 a.m. on the day of the interview. 

In the one-time interview, respondents 

also report who was with them during 

the activities, where they were, how 

long each activity lasted, and if they 

were paid. All of this information has 

numerous practical applications for 

sociologists, economists, educators, 

government policymakers, 

businesspersons, health researchers, and 

others. 

The Well-being Module, a supplement 

to the ATUS, provides an additional 

dimension to data on time use by 

providing information about how 

Americans experience their time. 

Specifically, the Module collects 

information about how happy, tired, 

sad, and stressed individuals were 

yesterday, and the degree to which they 

felt pain, for three activities randomly 

selected from the time diary. The Wellbeing Module also collects data on 

whether people were interacting with 

anyone while doing the selected 

activities and how meaningful the 

activities were to them. Some general 

health questions, a question about 

overall life satisfaction, and a question 

about respondents’ overall affective 

experience yesterday also are asked. 

Information collected in the Wellbeing Module will be published as a 

public data set to facilitate research on 

numerous topics, such as: How people 

experience time spent in different 

activities, times of social interaction, 

and pain; the relationship between 

health and time use; and the 

relationship between evaluative and 

experienced well-being. The Well-being 

Module supports the mission of the 

Bureau of Labor Statistics to provide 

relevant information on economic and 

social issues by providing a richer 

understanding of Americans’ use of time 

and workers’ affective experiences. For 

example, the data facilitate research on 

how workers experience pain on and off 

the job and whether this experience 

varies by occupation. 

The data also closely support the 

mission of the Module’s sponsor, the 

National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the 

National Institutes of Health, to improve 

the health and well-being of older 

Americans. For example, data from the 

Well-being Module facilitate research on 

the relationship between well-being and 

health for persons at different stages in 

life and with varying individual 

characteristics. The data also can be 

used to examine the experience of pain 

and aging. 

II. Current Action 

Office of Management and Budget 

clearance is being sought to extend the 

collection of the ATUS Well-being 

Module—a supplement to the ATUS— 

for an additional six months, through 

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