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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Notice of a Change in Status of an 

Extended Benefit (EB) Period for 

Alaska 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

This notice announces a change in 

benefit period eligibility under the EB 

Program for Alaska. 

The following change has occurred 

since the publication of the last notice 

regarding the State’s EB status: 

• Based on data released by the 

Bureau of Labor Statistics on October 

20, 2017, Alaska’s 3-month average 

seasonally adjusted total unemployment 

rate was 7.1 percent which exceeds 110 

percent of the corresponding rate in the 

second preceding year. This causes 

Alaska to be triggered ‘‘on’’ to an EB 

period beginning November 5, 2017. 

The State will remain in an EB period 

for a minimum of 13 weeks. 

Information for Claimants 

The duration of benefits payable in 

the EB Program, and the terms and 

conditions on which they are payable, 

are governed by the Federal-State 

Extended Unemployment Compensation 

Act of 1970, as amended, and the 

operating instructions issued to the 

states by the U.S. Department of Labor. 

In the case of a state beginning an EB 

period, the State Workforce Agency will 

furnish a written notice of potential 

entitlement to each individual who has 

exhausted all rights to regular benefits 

and is potentially eligible for EB (20 

CFR 615.13 (c) (1)). 

Persons who believe they may be 

entitled to EB, or who wish to inquire 

about their rights under the program, 

should contact their State Workforce 

Agency. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S. 

Department of Labor, Employment and 

Training Administration, Office of 

Unemployment Insurance Room 

S–4524, Attn: Anatoli Sznoluch, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20210, telephone number (202) 693– 

3176 (this is not a toll-free number) or 

by email: Sznoluch.Anatoli@dol.gov. 

Nancy M. Rooney, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment 

and Training, Labor. 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request, National 

Guard Youth ChalleNGe Job 

ChalleNGe Evaluation, New Collection 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation 

Office, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(DOL), 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). 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 

is properly assessed. 

Currently, DOL is soliciting comments 

concerning the collection of follow-up 

survey data about the National Guard 

Youth ChalleNGe and Job ChalleNGe 

Program. A copy of the proposed 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

can be obtained by contacting the office 

listed in the addressee section of this 

notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

addressee’s section below on or before 

January 2, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either one of the following methods: 

Email: ChiefEvaluationOffice@

dol.gov; Mail or Courier: Jessica 

Lohmann, Chief Evaluation Office, 

OASP, U.S. Department of Labor, Room 

S–2312, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20210. Instructions: 

Please submit one copy of your 

comments by only one method. All 

submissions received must include the 

agency name and OMB Control Number 

identified above for this information 

collection. Because we continue to 

experience delays in receiving mail in 

the Washington, DC area, commenters 

are strongly encouraged to transmit their 

comments electronically via email or to 

submit them by mail early. Comments, 

including any personal information 

provided, become a matter of public 

record. They will also be summarized 

and/or included in the request for OMB 

approval of the information collection 

request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jessica Lohmann by email at 

ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: The National Guard 

Youth ChalleNGe program has 

demonstrated positive, sustained 

impacts on the educational attainment 

and labor market outcomes of youth 

who are not in school or the labor force. 

To build on this success, in early 2015 

the Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA) issued $12 

million in grants for three Youth 

ChalleNGe programs to (1) expand the 

program’s target population to include 

youth who have been involved with the 

courts, and (2) add a five-month 

residential occupational training 

component, known as Job ChalleNGe. 

The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe 

Job ChalleNGe Evaluation includes an 

outcome and an implementation study. 

The evaluation requires collection of 

three primary types of data: (1) 

Background and contact information, (2) 

program implementation details, and (3) 

follow-up youth outcomes. The Chief 

Evaluation Office (CEO) has already 

received OMB approval to collect the 

first two types of data (control number 

1291–0008). The planned outcomes data 

collection included in this ICR will 

answer three main research questions: 

(1) How did youth experience the postresidential phase of the program?, (2) 

What were the employment, education, 

and criminal justice outcomes of Job 

ChalleNGe participants?, and (3) What 

expectations do youth have for the 

future? 

This Federal Register Notice provides 

the opportunity to comment on two 

proposed data collection instruments for 

follow-up youth outcomes study: 

* Text survey. Job ChalleNGe 

participants who are enrolled in the 

program between approximately July 

2017 and July 2018 and give consent to 

participate in the evaluation (and whose 

parents/guardians have done so, when 

necessary) and permission to contact 

them via text message will be asked to 

complete a brief survey administered by 

text messaging on a monthly basis for 8 

months, during months 8 through 15 

after the youth began Job ChalleNGe. 

The brief survey is designed to provide 

snapshots of the progression over time 

that the respondents make in their 

employment, earnings, and education. 

For each round of monthly text message 

data collection, each participant will be 

asked to answer three to five questions. 

It is expected to take the participants an 


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average of four minutes to complete 

each of the 8 rounds of the text survey. 

* Follow-up survey. The sample for 

the follow-up survey is the same as for 

the text survey with one exception. The 

follow-up survey will be administered 

via web and permission to be contacted 

by text is not required to participate in 

the follow-up survey. The follow-up 

survey, to be conducted 16 months after 

the start of Job ChalleNGe for each 

cohort, covers five broad topics: (1) 

Participants’ experiences during Job 

ChalleNGe, such as the services they 

received; (2) characteristics of a current 

job and their recent work search efforts, 

such as employment and earnings; (3) 

educational experiences, including 

attainment and future plans; (4) 

involvement in the court system, such 

as whether or not the participant was 

arrested and convicted of a crime; and 

(5) views about the value of different 

aspects of the Job ChalleNGe program. It 

is expected to take the participants an 

average of 15 minutes to complete the 

survey. 

II. Desired Focus of Comments: 

Currently, DOL is soliciting comments 

concerning the above data collection for 

the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe 

Job ChalleNGe Evaluation. DOL is 

particularly interested in comments that 

do the following: 

• 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. 

• 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 technologyfor example, permitting electronic 

submission of responses. 

III. Current Actions: At this time, DOL 

is requesting clearance for the text 

message survey and the follow-up 

survey. 

Type of Review: New information 

collection request. 

OMC Control Number: 1290—0NEW. 

Affected Public: Youth participating 

in the Youth ChalleNGe program and 

the Job ChalleNGe program. 

ESTIMATED TOTAL BURDEN HOURS

Type of instrument Total number 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hour 

per response 

(hours) 

Annual 

estimated 

burden hours 

Total 

estimated 

burden hours 

Texting Data Collection ............................ a 351 117 8 0.07 66 197 

Follow-up Survey ..................................... b 414 138 1 0.25 35 104 

Total .................................................. c 765 255 ........................ ........................ 101 301 

aThe text message survey will be collected from all Job ChalleNGe participants who consented to participate in the study, who provided a cell 

phone number to the study team, and who consented to be contacted via text messaging. The number of respondents is based on a 90% study 

consent rate × an 85% consent to text rate × an 85% response rate. bThe follow-up survey will be collected from all Job ChalleNGe participants who consented to participate in the study. The number of respondents is based on a 90% study participation consent rate × an 85% response rate. c Most youth participating in the text data collection will also participate in the follow-up data collection. Therefore, the table provides an upper 

estimate of the number of separate respondents. 

Form(s): Total respondents: 765 

youth. Most youth participating in the 

text data collection will also participate 

in the follow-up data collection. 

Therefore, this estimate provides an 

upper estimate of the number of 

separate respondents. 

Annual Frequency: Eight times for the 

text survey and one time for the followup survey. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this request will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: October 27, 2017. 

Molly Irwin, 

Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of 

Labor. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–HX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; 

Mechanical Power Presses Standard 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: On October 31, 2017, the 

Department of Labor (DOL) will submit 

the Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA) sponsored 

information collection request (ICR) 

titled, ‘‘Mechanical Power Presses 

Standard,’’ to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review and 

approval for continued use, without 

change, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA). Public comments on the ICR are 

invited. 

DATES: The OMB will consider all 

written comments that agency receives 

on or before December 4, 2017. 

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 of charge from the 

RegInfo.gov Web site at http://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=201710-1218-001 

or by contacting Michel Smyth by 

telephone at 202–693–4129, TTY 202– 

693–8064, (these are not toll-free 

numbers) or by email at DOL_PRA_

PUBLIC@dol.gov. 

Submit comments about this request 

by mail to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk 

Officer for DOL–OSHA, Office of 

Management and Budget, Room 10235, 

725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20503; by Fax: 202–395–5806 (this is 

not a toll-free number); or by email: 

OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Commenters are encouraged, but not 

required, to send a courtesy copy of any 

comments by mail or courier to the U.S. 

Department of Labor-OASAM, Office of 


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