The Senior Community Service
Employment Program (SCSEP), is a community service and work-based
training program for older workers. The program provides
subsidized, work-experience training for low-income persons 55 or
older who are unemployed and have poor employment prospects. SCSEP
national grants are awarded through a competitive process; state
and territorial grants are awarded through a formula outlined in
the OAA-2016 Section 506 (b-c). The dual goals of the program are
to promote useful community service employment activities and to
move SCSEP participants into unsubsidized employment, so that they
can achieve economic self-sufficiency. The Department is required
to collect the information in order to comply with the OAA
statutory and regulatory requirements. The information is also
necessary for grantee performance accountability and program
management.
As referenced in this
information collection, ETA added the Annual Grant Planning and
Allotment Requirements guidance TEGL, ETA 9181 (Discretionary
Transfer Instructions for SCSEP), ETA 9182A (SCSEP Release and
Authorization Photography), and ETA 9182B (SCSEP Consent for Use
and Publication of Information) to this control number as a result
of SCSEP’s financial, programmatic and reporting accountability.
The following are the added burden under control number 1205-0040
(See Table 2 for more detail): • Planning Instructions and
Allotments for SCSEP – number of respondents (76) multiplied by 1
(annually) multiplied by 16 hours equals 1216 annual burden hours;
• SCSEP Negotiation Calendar Template (ETA Form 9180A) – number of
respondents (15) multiplied by 1 (annually) multiplied by 5 minutes
(.08) equals 1.20 annual burden hours; • SCSEP Grantee Sub-State
Data Template (ETA-9180B) – number of respondents (15) multiplied
by 1 (annually) multiplied by 3 hours equals 45 annual burden
hours; • SCSEP Transfer Instructions (ETA-9181) – Total estimated
annual responses (150) per number of respondents multiplied by 1
hour equals 150 annual burden hours; • SCSEP Release and
Authorization to Photograph (ETA-9182A) – Total estimated annual
responses (20) per number of respondents multiplied by 10 minutes
(.17) equals 3.4 annual burden hours; and • SCSEP Consent for Use
& Publication of Info (ETA-9181B) – Total estimated annual
responses (20) per number of respondents multiplied by 10 minutes
(.17) equals 3.4 annual burden hours. The federal cost burden
increased in part due: • federal wage updates; program information
collection for the Planning Instructions and Allotments for SCSEP;
and program information collection for the ETA 9181 (Discretionary
Transfer Instructions for SCSEP), ETA 9182A (SCSEP Release and
Authorization Photography), and ETA 9182B (SCSEP Consent for Use
and Publication of Information).
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.