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Under the title Office of Resource

Management (HAU4) revise item (10) as

follows: (10) monitors financial

programs and provides policy and

direction for the contract, grant, loan,

debt management, and logistics

programs of the PHS to assure a

coordinated effort toward achieving the

goals and objectives established by the

Assistant Secretary for Health;

Under the title Division of Grants and

Contracts (HAU42) delete the statement

and substitute the following:

Division of Grants and Contracts

(HAU42)

In the areas of contracts, grants, loans,

debt management and logistics, the

Director of the Division of Grants and

Contracts: serves as the principal

advisor within PHS for developing

policies, guidelines, and procedures;

provides leadership and direction for

the optimum utilization of contracts,

grants, and loans, as well as the debt

management and logistics programs of

PHS; reviews and evaluates the

effectiveness of established policy and

procedures and recommends

improvements; provides liaison for PHS

with the Office of the Secretary, other

Government agencies, and the private

sector.

Under the title and statement for the

Office of Organization and Management

Systems (HAU2), after the title for the

Division of Systems Management and

Improvement (HAU ), delete ‘‘forms,

and’’ in item #4 and delete ‘‘(a) PHS

forms;’’ in item (6) and restate the

remaining items as (a) through (f) in

item (6).

Under Chapter HA, Section HA–30,

Delegations of Authority, add the

following:

All delegations and redelegations of

authority to officers and employees of

the OASH which were in effect

immediately prior to the effective date

of this changes will be continued in

effect in them or their successors,

pending further redelegations, provided

they are consistent with these changes.

Dated: April 30, 1995.

Anthony L. Itteilag,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health

(Management and Budget).

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Office of Policy Development and

Research

[Docket No. N–95–3919; FR–3913–N–01]

Notice of Submission of Proposed

Information Collection to OMB

AGENCY: Office of Policy Development

and Research, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The proposed information

collection requirement described below

has been submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

expedited review, as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act. The

Department is soliciting public

comments on the subject proposal.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are

invited to submit comments regarding

this proposal. Comments must be

received within seven (7) working days

from the date of this Notice. Comments

should refer to the proposal by name

and should be sent to: Joseph F. Lackey,

Jr., OMB Desk Officer, Office of

Management and Budget, New

Executive Office Building, Washington,

DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kay F. Weaver, Reports Management

Officer, Department of Housing and

Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW,

Washington, D.C. 20410, telephone no.

(202) 708–0050. This is not a toll-free

number. Copies of the proposed forms

and other available documents

submitted to OMB may be obtained

from Ms. Weaver.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

Notice informs the public that the

Department of Housing and Urban

Development has submitted to OMB, for

expedited processing, and information

collection package with respect to the

Youth Apprenticeship Program

Participant Information Form. HUD is

requesting a 7-day OMB review of this

information collection.

The Youth Apprenticeship Program

(YAP) is funded under the Departments

of Veterans Affairs and Housing and

Urban Development, and Independent

Agencies Appropriations Act for 1994.

The program provides funding to eight

public housing authorities (PHAs) that

have previously been awarded grants

under the HOPE VI program. The

purpose of YAP is to provide training,

apprenticeship, and employment for

youth living in qualified public and

assisted housing through the

collaborative efforts of Youth Corps and

joint labor management organizations.

Of the $10 million appropriated to YAP

in fiscal year 1994, $250,000 was set

aside by Congress to be used for an

evaluation of the program.

The planned evaluation for this

program has two principal

components—(1) Site specific process

evaluation; and (2) participant tracking.

The first component will involve

interviews with Housing Authority,

Youth Corps, and apprenticeship

organizations at each of the sites to

collect initial performance and planning

information. The second component,

participant tracking, would use the

Youth Apprenticeship Program

Participation Information Form to

collect information about individuals at

four phases of the program:

1. Beginning of Youth Corps

component.

2. End of Youth Corps/Preemployment training.

3. Beginning of apprenticeship.

4. Annually during apprenticeship.

A final evaluation of YAP is planned

in three to five years using the data

collected from the reporting forms as

well as additional on-site visits.

The Department has submitted the

proposal for the collection of

information, as described below, to

OMB for review, as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

Chapter 35):

(1) the title of the information

collection proposal;

(2) the office of the agency to collect

the information;

(3) the description of the need for the

information and its proposed use;

(4) the agency form number, if

applicable;

(5) what members of the public will

be affected by the proposal;

(6) how frequently information

submission will be required;

(7) an estimate of the total number of

hours needed to prepare the information

submission including numbers of

respondents, frequency of response, and

hours of response;

(8) whether the proposal is new or an

extension, reinstatement, or revision of

an information collection requirement;

and

(9) the names and telephone numbers

of an agency official familiar with the

proposal and of the OMB Desk Officer

for the Department.

Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork

Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3507; Section 7(d)

of the Department of Housing and Urban

Development Act, 42 U.S.C. 3535(d).
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Dated: April 21, 1995.

Lawrence L. Thompson,

General Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office

of Policy Development and Research.

Notice of Submission of Proposed

Information Collection to OMB

Proposal: Information Collection

Associated with the Youth

Apprenticeship Program.

Office: Office of Policy Development

and Research.

Description of the Need for

Information and its Proposed Use: This

information collection is required in

connection with the Youth

Apprenticeship Program (YAP). The

YAP is providing funding to eight

public housing authorities (PHAs) that

were previously awarded grants under

the HOPE VI program. The purpose of

YAP is to provide training,

apprenticeship, and employment for

youth living in qualified public and

assisted housing through the

collaborative efforts of Youth Corps and

joint labor management organizations.

This information request would be used

for local management and national

evaluation purposes. It would require

grantees to collect information about

individuals at four phases of the

program:

1. Beginning of Youth Corps

component.

2. End of Youth Corps/Preemployment training.

3. Beginning of apprenticeship.

4. Annually during apprenticeship.

A final evaluation of YAP is planned

in three to five years using the data

collected from the reporting forms as

well as additional on-site visits.

Form Number: None.

Respondents: Participants and

managers in the Youth Apprenticeship

Program.

Frequency of Submission: 5 times.

Reporting Burden:

Form Respondents No. of

respondents Time to complete Frequency Burden hours

Survey ........ Participants and managers in YAP.366.7 30 min .......................... 5 times over 3 years ........................ 920 (184 per submit).

Status: New.

Contact: Todd M. Richardson, HUD,

(202) 708–0574, Joseph F. Lackey, Jr.,

OMB, (202) 395–7316.

Part A—Justification

Introduction

The Youth Apprenticeship Program

(YAP) is funded under the Departments

of Veterans Affairs and Housing and

Urban Development, and Independent

Agencies Appropriations Act for 1994.

The Youth Apprenticeship Program is

providing funding to eight public

housing authorities (PHAs) that have

been awarded grants under the HOPE VI

program. The purpose of YAP is to

provide training, apprenticeship, and

employment for youth living in

qualified public and assisted housing

through the collaborative efforts of

Youth Corps and joint labor

management organizations. Of the $10

million appropriated to YAP in fiscal

year 1994, $250,000 was set aside by

Congress to be used for an evaluation of

the program.

The planned evaluation for this

program has two principal

components—(1) site specific process

evaluation; and (2) participant tracking.

The first component will involve

interviews with Housing Authority,

Youth Corps, and apprenticeship

organizations at each of the sites to

collect initial performance and planning

information. The second component,

participant tracking, would require

grantees to collect information about

individuals at four phases of the

program:

1. Beginning of Youth Corps

component.

2. End of Youth Corps/Preemployment training.

3. Beginning of apprenticeship.

4. Annually during apprenticeship.

A final evaluation of YAP is planned

in three to five years using the data

collected from the reporting forms as

well as additional on-site visits. This

request for OMB approval focuses on

the second component, which would

use the Youth Apprenticeship Program

Participant Information Form.

A1.0 Circumstances That Make the

Collection of Information Necessary

The Youth Apprenticeship program is

a unique program that brings together

housing authorities, the Youth Corps,

and labor management organizations to

provide public housing youth the skills

and experience believed to be necessary

for long-term employment success.

Under this program an agreement must

be executed by the PHA, an established

Youth Corps, a local labor union and a

multiemployer association.

Youth Corps, an organization certified

by the National Association of Service

and Conservation Corps, provides

participants with 6- to 12-month

structured adult-supervised work and

learning experiences and promotes the

development of life and employment

skills. The labor management

organizations, made up of employers

and their employees who are

represented by a collective bargaining

agent, will operate or administer an

apprenticeship and/or job training

program. The youth participants live in

subsidized housing at or near a

distressed HOPE VI public housing site.

This program brings together job skills,

job experience, and job connections into

a single program.

The Youth Apprenticeship Program

Participation Information Form will

provide the tracking information on

participant progress during the youth

corps and apprenticeship that are vital

to identifying the outcomes of this

program.

A2.0 How and By Whom the Data Will

Be Used

A2.1 Purpose of the Data Collection

The purpose of the data collection is

to allow HUD and the grantees to track

participant progress in the Youth

Apprenticeship Program. The Youth

Apprenticeship Program Participation

Information Form will provide the

ongoing information needed to assess

the impacts of the program on the

participants.

A2.2 Consequences If the Information

Was Not Collected

Congress has appropriated $250,000

specifically for the evaluation of this

$10 million demonstration program.

YAP represents a unique opportunity to

bring together the organizations that

house low-income individuals (PHAs),

the organizations that provide job

training (Youth Corps), skilled trade

unions, and employers. If this tracking

information is not collected, this

opportunity to assess the impact of a job

training to job opportunity program for

individuals from extremely distressed

neighborhoods will be lost.

A3.0 Use of Improved Information

Technologies

Improved information technology has

been incorporated wherever feasible to
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reduce the data collection burden. HUD

is currently developing software so that

grantees in the YAP program could

collect this tracking information directly

on computer. The software is also

intended to provide useful participant

progress information for the grantees.

A4.0 Efforts to Identify Duplication

HUD’s Multi-Family Tenant

Characteristics (MTCS) database will be

used to observe household change for

participants in this program. However,

specific data about the participants and

their progress in the program would

only be available through the Youth

Apprenticeship Program Participation

Information Form

A5.0 Why Similar Already-Available

Data Cannot Be Used

There are no similar already-available

data about the participants of this

program.

A6.0 Effort to Minimize the Burden for

Small Entities

HUD is developing software to ease

the data collection burden on the Youth

Corps grantees. HUD will also provide

technical assistance to the grantees to

ease the burden of data collection startup.

A7.0 Consequences of Less Frequent

Data Collection

Data are planned to be collected at

four different phases of the YAP

program:

1. Beginning of Youth Corps

component.

2. End of Youth Corps/Preemployment training.

3. Beginning of apprenticeship.

4. Annually during apprenticeship.

The first phase, the beginning of the

youth corps, is the critical baseline data

needed from which to measure all

interventions. The second phase,

immediately following the youth corps

component, identifies the youth corps

activities and participant progress. The

third phase, the beginning of the

apprenticeship, collects basic data about

the intended apprenticeship. Finally,

the fourth phase will capture participant

progress each year during the

apprenticeship and note the

circumstances a participant leaves the

program. Less frequent data collection

would lose important parts of the story.

Each phase of the data collection is

targeted to the points in time the

program makes a major change.

A8.0 Circumstances Requiring

Deviation from Guidelines in 5 CFR

1320.6

No deviation from the Guidelines in

5 CFR 1320.6 will be required for this

data collection.

A9.0 Consultants Outside of the

Agency

HUD requested comment on a draft of

the reporting form from: the National

Association of Service & Conservation

Corps; Reno, Cavanaugh & Hornig; the

Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training,

U.S. Department of Labor; seven of the

grantees. Comments were received from:

—the Bureau of Apprenticeship and

Training, U.S. Department of Labor;

—Atlanta Youth Corps;

—Housing Authority of the City of Los

Angeles;

—Seattle Housing Authority;

—Housing Authority of the City of

Atlanta; and

—Civic Works—Baltimore’s Youth

Service Corps.

HUD considered the comments of

each of these organizations and

revisions were made reflecting most of

their comments.

A10.0 Arrangements and Assurances

Regarding Confidentiality

As part of the technical assistance

component of this data collection effort,

HUD will train the organizations

collecting the data on maintaining

confidentiality. These data, however,

will be available to the program

managers to assess individual

participant progress. For all other

purposes, data will only be presented in

an aggregate form to assure the

confidentiality of individual

participants.

A11.0 Sensitive Questions

Some of the categories under

‘‘Barriers to employment or higher

paying jobs’’ may be sensitive for some

respondents. The question, however,

provides important baseline information

on factors believed to have an impact on

individuals ability to obtain a job or

improve their job situation. Individuals

can choose not to report an item they

find too personal.

A12.0 Estimated Costs to the Federal

Government

The costs for this data collection are

included in (1) the grants to the Housing

Authorities (approximately $3,000

each), (2) the software development, and

(3) the technical assistance. The

estimated cost to the Federal

Government is approximately $174,000.

A13.0 Respondent Burden

Each of the eight grantees will have

approximately 50 participants in the

program. Different phases of the form

will have to be completed

approximately 6 times for each

participant throughout the program. The

form should take approximately 30

minutes to administer. Each phase is

likely to lose some participants for one

reason or another. For estimation

purposes, we will use a 5 percent loss

at each phase.

Phase 1=400 participants @ 30

minutes=200 hours

Phase 2=400 participants @ 30

minutes=200 hours

Phase 3=380 participants @ 30

minutes=190 hours

Phase 4.1=380 participants @ 30

minutes=190 hours

Phase 4.2=360 participants @ 30

minutes=180 hours

The total respondent burden for this

request is estimated to be 920 hours.

A14.0 Reasons for Change in Burden

Not applicable.

A15.0 Tabulation Plans, Statistical

Analysis, Study Schedule and

Publication

Baseline data from phase 1 will be

aggregated and tabulated as part of the

process and planning assessment

conducted during the Youth Corps

phase of the YAP. A report will be

produced based on this analysis. During

each phase, the grantees will have

modules built into their data collection

software that will allow them to look at

different cross sections of their

participants and over time assess

individual and aggregate performance.

HUD will collect and analyze the

national data at each phase. After 3 to

5 years, HUD plans to use the data along

with site visits to conduct an in depth

evaluation on the preliminary success of

the program.

Part B—Sampling and Response

The purpose of the Youth

Apprenticeship Program Participation

Information Form is to track all program

participants over time to determine the

impact of the Youth Apprenticeship

Program on each participant.

B1.0 Potential Respondent Universe

All participants in the Youth

Apprenticeship Program at the eight

housing authorities.

B2.0 Statistical Methods

B2.1 Stratification and Sampling Plans

No stratification or sampling plan is

necessary, all participants will be

included.
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B3.0 Methods to Maximize Response

Rates

The form will be administered by the

organizations managing the program. In

order to achieve a high response rate,

the form will be filled out in one-on-one

discussion between the grantee and the

participant. Because (1) participants are

required to be in the office for the YAP

program and (2) the information

required is similar to many job

applications, grantees should have little

difficulty gaining cooperation from the

participants.

B4.0 Results of Pre-Testing

No pre-testing was conducted.

However, numerous practitioners

provided comment.

B5.0 Statistical Consultations and

Information Collection Agents

B5.1 Consultation on the Statistical

Aspects of the Design

B5.2 Information Collection Agents

All information for this form will be

collected by the YAP grantees.

Instructions and technical assistance

will be provided by HUD or a contractor

it designates.

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