SYSTEM NAMES:
DOL Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Evaluation, Research, Pilot or Demonstration Contractors' Project Files.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:
None.
SYSTEM LOCATION:
Individual contractors' and subcontractors' project worksites Department Offices in Washington DC.
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE SYSTEM:
Participants in programs of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Job Corps, Trade Adjustment Assistance, Registered Apprenticeship, and employers or employees covered under a State unemployment compensation law; or other research, pilot or demonstration projects.
CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
Records in the system(s) may include personally identifiable information, characteristics of program participants, description of program activities, services received by participants, program outcomes and participant follow-up information; or Claimant (Employee) records, Employer contribution records, and Employee wage records obtained after the completion of the program for the purposes of the research/evaluation project(s).
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:
Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Secs. 156, 171, and 172; Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Secs. 156 and 169; Social Security Act, Secs. 441 and 908. (29 U.S.C. 1731-1735; 29 U.S.C. 2856, 2916, and 2917; and 42 U.S.C. 841 and 1108; respectively; and Social Security Act, Sections 303(a)(l), 303(a)(6), and 906, (42 U.S.C. 503(a)(l), 503(a)(6), 902, ll06); 5 U.S.C. 8506(b).
PURPOSE(S):
The purpose of this system is to provide necessary information for statutorily-required and other evaluations of ETA programs, evaluations of ETA-sponsored pilot and demonstration programs, and other statistical and research studies of employment and training program and policy issues. These records are used solely for statistical research or evaluation and are not used in any way for making any determination about an identifiable individual.
ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:
Contractors or grantees of particular projects may disclose records without personal identifiable information to other Federal, State and local government agencies in order to facilitate the collection of additional data necessary for statistical and evaluation purposes.
DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING AGENCIES:
None.
POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
STORAGE:
Files are stored electronically.
RETRIEVABILITY:
Files are retrieved by name or social security number, and by a variety of other unique identifiers that have been created for a specific study.
SAFEGUARDS:
Access by authorized personnel only. Computer security safeguards are used for electronically stored data.
RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:
Records are retained by the contractors for one to five years, then the identifiers are destroyed. After the conclusion of the studies the records are retired to the Federal Records Center and are destroyed after being retained by the Records Center for 20 years.
SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS:
Administrator, Office of Policy and Research, Employment and Training Administration, Frances Perkins Building, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20210.
NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE:
Inquiries should be mailed to the System Manager.
RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURE:
A request for access should be mailed to the System Manager.
CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:
A petition for amendment should be mailed to the System Manager.
RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:
Information contained in this system is obtained from individual participants, and Federal, State, and local Government agencies.
SYSTEMS EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE ACT:
None.