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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 15, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3958-3960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00662]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; 
Nonmonetary Determination Activity Report

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor's (DOL) Employment and Training 
Administration (ETA) is soliciting comments concerning proposed

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revisions and extension for the authority to conduct the information 
collection request (ICR) titled, ``Nonmonetary Determination Activities 
Report.'' 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: Consideration will be given to all written comments received by 
March 17, 2025.

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 free by 
contacting Kristen Santos by telephone at 617-788-0148 (this is not a 
toll-free number). For persons with a hearing or speech disability who 
need assistance to use the telephone system, please dial 711 to access 
telecommunications relay services.
    Submit written comments about, or requests for a copy of, this ICR 
by mail or courier to the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and 
Training Administration, Room S-4524, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20210; by email: [email protected]; or by fax: 202-693-
3975.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric Congious by telephone at 202-693-
0763 (this is not a toll-free number) or by email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 Office of Management and 
Budget (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.
    The Secretary of Labor, under the Social Security Act, title III, 
section 302 (42 U.S.C. 502), funds the necessary cost of proper and 
efficient administration of each state Unemployment Insurance (UI) law. 
The ETA 207, Nonmonetary Determination Activities Report, contains 
State data on the number and types of adjudicated issues concerning UI 
benefits eligibility determined by the states. It also has data on the 
number of disqualifications that are issued for reasons associated with 
a claimant's separation from employment and reasons related to a 
claimant's continuing eligibility for benefits.
    These data are used by ETA's Office of Unemployment Insurance (OUI) 
to determine workload counts for the allocation of administrative 
funds, to analyze the ratio of disqualifications to determinations, and 
to examine and evaluate the program effect of nonmonetary activities.
    DOL is proposing revisions to the ETA 207 Report and considers 
these proposed revisions to be ``provisions . . . necessary to assure 
the correctness and verification'' of the reports submitted by states. 
These proposed changes include creating new definitions (e.g., alien 
benefit year availability, work search), delineating issues previously 
grouped together (e.g., able and available, actively seeking work), 
delineating issues previously reported in the ``Other'' category (e.g., 
reasonable assurance, alien able and available, unemployment status, 
seasonal work, removal of all or part of a disqualification, etc.), and 
expanding terms and definitions to promote accuracy of and visibility 
into state adjudication reporting activities. Requiring states to 
report these issues in separate categories should have minimal 
additional impact as the information is already maintained and reported 
by the states per prior ICRs for the ETA 207 report.
    The revised 207 report also proposes the collection of demographic 
information on each determination issued, which includes the claimant's 
race or ethnicity, sex and/or gender, and level of educational 
attainment, following the definitions established in ETA 203 Report 
titled ``Distributions of Characteristics of the Insured Unemployed'' 
under OMB control number 1205-0009.
    Section 303(a)(6) of the Social Security Act specifies that for 
State UI programs to be certified to receive administrative funding, 
the State's law must include provisions for ``making of such reports . 
. . as the Secretary of Labor may from time to time require, and 
compliance with such provisions as the Secretary may from time to time 
find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such 
reports.'' 42 U.S.C. 503(a)(6) of the Social Security Act authorizes 
this information collection.
    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 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 OMB Control. 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 mention OMB 1205-0150.
    Submitted comments will also be a matter of public record for this 
ICR and posted on the internet, without redaction. DOL encourages 
commenters not to include personally identifiable information, 
confidential business data, or other sensitive statements/information 
in any comments.
    DOL 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;
     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 submission of responses).
    Agency: DOL--ETA.
    Type of Review: Revision.
    Title of Collection: Nonmonetary Determination Activities Report.
    Forms: ETA 207, Regular and Extended Benefits reports.
    OMB Control Number: 1205-0150.
    Affected Public: State Workforce Agencies.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 53.
    Frequency: Quarterly.
    Total Estimated Annual Responses: 424.
    Estimated Average Time per Response: 4 hours per response.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,696.
    Total Estimated Annual Other Cost Burden: $0.

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    Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).

Jos[eacute] Javier Rodr[iacute]guez,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, Labor.
[FR Doc. 2025-00662 Filed 1-14-25; 8:45 am]
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