The WISPR System replaces the
reporting and recordkeeping requirements of 7 Employment and
Training programs: ES, VETS, WIA Title IB Adult, Dislocated Worker,
and Youth, and TAA, and NEGs. It replaces the following three
OMB-approved information collections: 1205-0240, 1205-0420, and
1205-0392, which will be discontinued when the WISPR system is
implemented July 2008. The goal is to ensure that the workforce
system is clearly focused on results, which will help ensure that
the systems jobseeker and employer customers are effectively
served. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and other Federal
agencies developed a set of common performance measures; these
common measures are integral to ETAs performance accountability
system and are the key results that ETA programs strive to achieve
for their customers and to measure with a uniform information
collection system.
This information collection
system, which will replace the WIA collection system entitled
"WISARD," incorporates Common Measures across Workforce Investment
Act programs and other programs.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.