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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 43 / Monday, March 8, 2021 / Notices Issued: March 2, 2021.
Lisa Barton, Secretary to the Commission.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Generic Clearance for Formative Data Collections for Research and Evaluation, New Collection Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation Office, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of Labor DOL, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
PRA95. This program helps to ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden time and financial resources is minimized, collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of collection requirements on respondents is properly assessed. Currently, the Department of Labor is soliciting comments concerning the collection of data for formative data collections for
SUMMARY:

research and evaluations. A copy of the proposed Information Collection Request ICR can be obtained by contacting the office listed below in the addressee section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the addressee section below on or before May 7, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either one of the following methods:
Email: ChiefEvaluationOffice@
dol.gov; Mail or Courier: Chayun Yi, Chief Evaluation Office, OASP, U.S.
Department of Labor, Room S2312, 200
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210. Instructions: Please submit one copy of your comments by only one method. All submissions received must include the agency name and OMB
Control Number identified above for this information collection. Comments, including any personal information provided, become a matter of public record. They will also be summarized and/or included in the request for OMB
approval of the information collection request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Chayun Yi by email at ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov or by phone at 202 6935084.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: The Chief Evaluation Office CEO of the U.S. Department of Labor DOL intends to design and conduct evaluations of DOL-funded programs. Under this generic clearance, DOL would engage in a variety of formative data collections with researchers, practitioners, TA providers, service providers and potential
participants throughout the field to fulfill the following goals: 1 Inform the development of CEO research, 2
maintain a research agenda that is rigorous and relevant, 3 ensure that research products are as current as possible and 4 inform the provision of technical assistance. CEO envisions using a variety of techniques including semi-structured discussions, focus groups, surveys, and telephone or inperson interviews, in order to reach these goals. Following standard OMB
requirements, DOL will submit a change request for each individual data collection activity under this generic clearance. Each request will include the individual instruments, a justification specific to the individual information collection, and any supplementary documents. OMB should review requests within 10 days of submission.
Type of Review: New information collection request.
OMB Control Number: 12900NEW.
Affected Public: The populations to be studied include key stakeholder groups involved in DOL projects and programs, state or local government officials, service providers, participants in DOL
programs or similar comparison groups, experts in fields pertaining to DOL
research and programs, or others involved in conducting DOL research or evaluation projects.
Comments submitted in response to this request will be summarized and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget approval of the information collection request; they will also become a matter of public record.

ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS
Type of instrument form/activity
Number of respondents
Average burden time per response hours
Total number of responses
Estimated burden hours
Semi-structured discussions and focus groups
Interviews
Questionnaires/surveys

3,000
1,500
1,000

1
1 1

3,000
1,500
1,000

1
1 1

3,000
1,500
1,000

Total

5,500

5,500

5,500

Christina Yancey, Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of Labor.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Request for Information: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics at the Poles National Science Foundation.
Request for information.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The National Science Foundations NSF Office of Polar Programs OPP and the Education and Human Resources EHR Directorate
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request input from interested parties on the goals, values, and approaches for managing the Antarctic Artist and Writers AAW Program and possibly expanding that program to include the Arctic. In addition, OPP and EHR
request input into whether the NSF
program which selects and sends educators to the Poles should be under a common management structure. This RFI will help inform NSF as it considers potential avenues for managing and
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