Intermediary Organizations Serving Juvenile Offenders in High-Poverty, High-Crime Communities Justification

Generic Solicitation for Grant Applications

Control Number 1225-0086

Intermediary Organizations Serving Juvenile Offenders in High-Poverty, High-Crime Communities

Abstract:

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Employment and Training Administration (ETA) seeks to clear a Solicitation of Grant Applications (SGA) under the Paperwork Reduction Act to announce the availability of $20,000,000 in Program Year 2012 grant funds authorized by the Workforce Investment Act for intermediary grants to operate multi-site projects to serve juvenile offenders and in-school youth at-risk of offending, ages 14 and above, in high-poverty, high-crime communities.

Electronic availability:

This grant solicitation is available on the grants.gov Web site. Based on past DOL experience, the Department anticipates 50 percent of responses will be submitted electronically.

Small Entities:

This information collection will not have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities.

Assurances of confidentiality:

These grant solicitations do not offer applicants assurances of confidentiality.

Special circumstances:

This information collection complies with 5 CFR 1320.5.

Burden:

Based on past experience, the DOL expects to receive approximately 20 applications. Public reporting burden for the information collection is estimated to average 20 hours per response for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information.

20 applications x 20 hours = 400 hours.

In addition to the application, each grantee will be required to submit quarterly financial, performance, and narrative reports to ETA. Those information collection requirements will be cleared under a separate Control Number.

The DOL has increased the November 2012 average hourly earnings in the professional and business services industry of $28.22 by 40 percent (total $39.51) to monetize this burden. See The Employment Situation—January 2013, DOL, Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_02012013.pdf at 35.

400 hours x $39.51 = $15,804.

The DOL associates no other burden costs with this information collection.

Total burden: 20 respondents, 20 responses, 400 hours, $0 other cost burden.

Supporting Statement B; Statistical Methods

This information collection does not employ statistical methods.

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