Justification

Justification for Non Substantive Changes 1205-0489

This non-substantive change request is simply to account for reporting requirements for the second round of grants of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program. Currently 1205-0489 accounts for the Round One grantees’ reporting requirements for 49 grants (adjusted downward from the earlier estimate of 50 grants). The TAACCCT enabling legislation calls for three additional rounds of grants, with the final fourth round of grants expected to be awarded in the fall of 2014. This non substantive request addresses the second round of grants, which will differ from Round One because (1) there will be no collection of data on cohorts (thus, Table 2 of ETA 916 0 is eliminated) and (2) fewer questions will be asked of participants. Specifically, the section on the status of progress and implementation measures (formerly Section E), which contained six of the twenty sub-sections of the report, is eliminated from ETA 9159.

Unlike Round One grantees, Round Two grantees will not be required to collect and report information on comparison cohort students or on progress and implementation measures. Thus the added participants are due to the added grants from Round Two, but the comparison cohort information for this second round will not be collected, and fewer questions will be asked of the participants themselves, leading to a higher participant count (the aggregate of Rounds One and Two), but the burden for the added grantees will be relatively smaller.

Exact details on burden hour reduction that this non-substantive request entails for future grantees, including an updated #12, are in the revised Supporting Statement.