This information collection request is
to implement new reporting requirements for ETA's High Growth Job
Training Initiative (HGJTI) and the Community-Based Job Training
Grants (CBJTG). ETA will require grantees to submit standardized
quarterly reports summarizing the number and types of participants
served by grantees, the number of exiters, the number of
participants engaged in training activities, and some participant
outcomes. To calculate the common measures for each grantee and for
the program as a whole, ETA will also require grantees to submit
quarterly participant records for exiters that contain the minimum
number of elements needed to obtain the information to calculate
the common measures. ETA plans to use these records to obtain wage
record information from the Wage Record Interchange System (WRIS),
which in turn ETA will use to compute common measures. These
reports and records will help ETA gauge the effects of the HGJTI
and CBJTG grants, identify grantees that could serve as useful
models, and target technical assistance appropriately. ETAs
statutory and regulatory authority to administer these programs
includes provisions for the requirement of performance reporting
from grantees. The legislative authority for these programs comes
from the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) (29 U.S.C. 2801 et seq.)
and the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of
2000 as amended, both of which authorize and/or require that ETA
collect information from grantees regarding program performance and
participant outcomes.
PL:
Pub.L. 106 - 303 414(c) Name of Law: American Competitveness in
the Twent-first Century Act of 2000
US Code: 29
USC 2801 Name of Law: Workforce Investment Act
The burden increase is due to
new reporting requirements, both quarterly performance reports and
participant data records, associated with a program for grantees:
the High Growth Job Training Initiative (HGJTI) and the
Community-Based Job Training Grants (CBJTG).
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.