National Survey of Unemployment Insurance

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary

National Survey of Unemployment Insurance

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Labor.

SUMMARY: The Director, Office of Information Resources Management

Policy, invites comments on the following proposed expedited review

information collection request as required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1980, as amended.

DATES: This expedited review is being requested in accordance with the

Act, since allowing for the normal review period would adversely affect

the public interest. Approval by the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) has been requested by June 1, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Attention: Dan Chenok, Desk Officer, 725 17th St., NW., Room

10235, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503. Requests

for copies of the proposed information collection request should be

addressed to Kenneth A. Mills, Department of Labor, 200 Constitution

Ave., NW Room N-1301, Washington, DC 20210.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kenneth A. Mills, (202) 219-5095. Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf (TTY/TDY) may call (202) 219-

4720 between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through

Friday.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 3517 of the Paperwork Reduction Act

of 1980 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 3517) requires that the Director of OMB

provide interested persons an early opportunity to comment on

information collection requests. OMB may amend or waive the requirement

for public consultation to the extent that public participation in the

approval process would defeat the purpose of the information

collection, violate State or Federal law, or substantially interfere

with the agency's ability to perform its statutory obligations.

The Director, Office of Information Resources Management Policy,

publishes this notice simultaneously with the submission of this

request to OMB. This notice contains the following information:

Type of Review: Expedited.

Title: National Survey of Unemployment Insurance.

Frequency of Response: One-time.

Affected Public: Individuals or households.

Number of Respondents: 1,200.

Estimated Time Per Response: 12 minutes.

Total Annual Burden Hours: 240.

Respondents Obligation to Reply: Voluntary.

Description: In November 1991, the Congress of the United States

passed the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act. In accordance with

the Act, Congress created the Advisory Council on Unemployment

Compensation (ACUC). The ACUC's primary responsibility is to evaluate

the unemployment compensation program, including the purpose, goals,

countercyclical effectiveness, coverage, benefit adequacy, trust fund

solvency, funding of State administrative costs, administrative

efficiency, and any other aspects of the program, and to make

recommendations for improvement.

In carrying out its mandate to evaluate and analyze the

unemployment insurance system the ACUC has determined that it is very

important to assess public opinion and public knowledge regarding the

performance, fairness, coverage, adequacy, and satisfaction of the

unemployment system currently in place. A telephone survey of a random

sample of adults 18 years and older will be conducted.

Signed at Washington, D.C. this 1st day of May 1995.

Theresa M. O'Malley,

Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 95-11150 Filed 5-4-95; 8:45 am]

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