Unemployment compensation claims,
financial management and data on disaster unemployment assistance
(DUA) activity are needed for timely program evaluation necessary
for competent administration of Sections 410 and 423 of the Act.
Workload items are also used with fiscal reports to estimate the
cost of administering the Act.
The burden previously reported
for cost expense has been taken out. Program office staff are
unaware of any sort of reporting or burden at the state or Federal
level associated with this item. It may have referred to standard
forms that were used in the past, however there is no current or
proposed reporting in this collection beyond the ETA 902, ETA 9130
and the narrative final report. Finally, the burden previously
claimed for miscellaneous recordkeeping has been removed. With
improved electronic reporting, many of the tasks previously
described (e.g. microfilming, storage of paper documents) are not
longer operational. The burden listed for submittal of the ETA 902
should represent an accurate estimate of all of the work associated
with meeting the reporting requirements in this collection. Prior
burden hours included forms states use for claims-taking and to
process claimants information for determining DUA eligibility.
These are operational forms and not required reports that states
submit to OWS and should not be included in this burden collection.
The ETA 9130 report burden(formerly S.F. 269) is accounted for
under the existing collection number 1205-0461, and should not have
been included in the hour burden for this collection.
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.