This information collection request is approved. DOL will update OMB periodically on implementation milestones (at least every six months - could be more frequently if appropriate.) Also, when submitting requests for approval for relevant stand-alone workforce development systems, DOL will address in those packages the extent to which they will or will not become a part of the WISPR collection.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
12/31/2015
36 Months From Approved
216
0
0
968,438
0
0
0
0
0
The WISPR System is meant to replace the reporting and recordkeeping requirements of 7 Employment and Training programs: ES, VETS, WIA Title IB Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth, and TAA, and NEG's. For those states choosing to implement this system, it replaces the following three OMB-approved information collections: 1205-0240, 1205-0420, and 1205-0392. THe goal is a system more clearly focused on results, which will help ensure that the system's job seeker and employer customers are effectively served. Common measures are integral to ETA's 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 system has yet to be implemented by all the states due to costs involved and is currently used by three states.
Reinstatement of the information collection accounts for the increase in burden. The difference between the previous approval for 816,017 hours and the current request for 968,438 hours is based on the fact that the number of individual records for each program has increased dramatically from the last approval. In fact, the WIA portion alone has nearly quadrupled. The increase in burden hours would have been much larger over the last approval as a result of the increase in the number of individuals exiting from the respective programs. However, ETA now requires integrated reporting which decreases the time spent working with each record. In addition, ETA is no longer mandating WISPR national-wide but rather is currently encouraging states to opt-in on their own. ETA anticipates that more states to implement WISPR over the 3 years covered by this proposed collection.
In short, changes in the number of exiters and participants used in the calculations, changes in the amount of time spent per record (ETA is now mandating integrated reporting for all WISPR states/territories), along with changing the estimated salaries from $32.50 per hour in FY 2003 to $40.81 per hour in FY 2011 lead to changes in the burden costs. As ETA's new DRVS become operational, ETA will submit an Information Correction Worksheet to reduce burden accordingly for this system, as state burden associated with building the reports goes to 0.
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.
Supporting Statement - 1205-0469 - 1 24 2012.doc
Note to Reviewer Reinstatment Request.docx
1205-0469 wispr 60 day FRN sept 2 2011.pdf
WISPR