National Apprenticeship System Enhancements

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR <SUBAGY>Employment and Training Administration</SUBAGY> <CFR>29 CFR Parts 29 and 30</CFR> <DEPDOC>[Docket No. ETA-2023-0004]</DEPDOC> <RIN>RIN 1205-AC13</RIN> <SUBJECT>National Apprenticeship System Enhancements</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Employment and Training Administration, Labor. <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Proposed rule. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> The Department of Labor (DOL or the Department) is proposing issuing this notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM or proposed rule) to revise the regulations for registered apprenticeship by enhancing worker protections and equity, improving the quality of registered apprenticeship programs, revising the State governance provisions, and more clearly establishing critical pipelines to registered apprenticeship programs, such as registered career and technical education (CTE) apprenticeships. The proposed rule would improve the capacity of the National Apprenticeship System to respond to evolving employer needs, provide workers equitable pathways to good jobs, and increase the system's long-term resilience. </SUM> <EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Interested persons are invited to submit written comments on the proposed rule on or before March 18, 2024. </EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">ADDRESSES:</HD> You may send comments, identified by Docket No. ETA-2023-0004 and Regulatory Identification Number (RIN) 1205-AC13, by any of the following methods: • <E T="03">Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.</E> Search for the above-referenced RIN, open the proposed rule, and follow the on-screen instructions for submitting comments. • <E T="03">Instructions:</E> All submissions received must include the agency name and docket number for this rulemaking or “RIN 1205-AC13.” Please be advised that the Department will post all comments received that relate to this NPRM without changes to <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov,</E> including any personal information provided. The <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov</E> website is the Federal eRulemaking Portal and all comments posted there are available and accessible to the public. Therefore, the Department recommends that commenters remove personal information (either about themselves or others) such as Social Security numbers, personal addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses included in their comments, as such information may become easily available to the public via the <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov</E> website. It is the responsibility of the commenter to safeguard personal information. <E T="03">Docket:</E> For access to the docket to read background documents or comments received, go to <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov</E> (search using RIN 1205-AC13 or Docket No. ETA-2023-0004). The Department also will make all the comments it receives available for public inspection by appointment during normal business hours at the Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room N-5641, Washington, DC 20210. If you need assistance to review the comments, the Department will provide appropriate aids such as readers or print magnifiers. The Department will make copies of this NPRM available, upon request, in large print and electronic file. To schedule an appointment to review the comments or obtain the NPRM in an alternative format or both, contact the Office of Policy Development and Research at 202-693-3700 (this is not a toll-free number). You may also contact this office at the address listed above. <E T="03">Comments under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA):</E> In addition to filing comments on any aspect of this proposed rule with the Department, interested parties may submit comments that concern the information collection (IC) aspects of this NPRM to: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for DOL-ETA, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503, Fax: 202-395-6881 (this is not a toll-free number), Email: <E T="03">OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov.</E> <E T="03">Docket:</E> Go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal at: <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov/document/ETA-2023-0004-0001</E> for access to the rulemaking docket, including any background documents and the plain-language summary of the proposed rule of not more than 100 words in length required by the Providing Accountability Through Transparency Act of 2023. <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Michelle Paczynski, Administrator, Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room N-5641, Washington, DC 20210, Telephone: 202-693-3700 (voice) (this is not a toll-free number). For persons with a hearing or speech disability who need assistance to use the telephone system, please dial 711 to access telecommunications relay services. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Preamble Table of Contents</HD> <EXTRACT> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">I. Acronyms and Abbreviations</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">II. Executive Summary</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">III. Background</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">A. Introduction to Registered Apprenticeship</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">B. Statutory and Regulatory History of Registered Apprenticeship</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">C. Need for the Proposed Rulemaking</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">D. Stakeholder Outreach</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">E. Vision and Goals of This Rulemaking</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">IV. Section-by-Section Discussion of the Proposed Changes</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">A. Introduction to the Regulations for the National Apprenticeship System Under the National Apprenticeship Act of 1937</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">B. Subpart A—Standards for Registered Apprenticeship Programs</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">C. Subpart B—Career and Technical Education Apprenticeship</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">D. Subpart C—Administration and Coordination of the National Apprenticeship System</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">E. Part 30 Revisions</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">V. Regulatory Analysis and Review</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">A. Executive Orders 12866 (Regulatory Planning and Review), 14094 (Modernizing Regulatory Review), and 13563 (Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review)</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">B. Regulatory Flexibility Act, Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, and Executive Order 13272 (Proper Consideration of Small Entities in Agency Rulemaking)</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">C. Paperwork Reduction Act</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">D. Executive Order 13132 (Federalism)</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">E. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">F. Executive Order 13175 (Indian Tribal Governments)</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">G. Internet Address of NPRM Summary (5 U.S.C. 553(b)(4))</FP> </EXTRACT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">I. Acronyms and Abbreviations</HD> <EXTRACT> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">AAI American Apprenticeship Initiative</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">ACA Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">ARB Administrative Review Board</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">BLS U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">CHIPS Act Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors Act of 2022</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">COVID-19 coronavirus disease of 2019</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">CTE career and technical education</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">DEIA diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1"> DOL <E T="03">or</E> the Department U.S. Department of Labor </FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">E.O. Executive Order</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">ED Department of Education</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">EDP Energy Document Portal</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">EEO equal employment opportunity</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">ERISA Employee Retirement Income Security Act</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">ETA Employment and Training Administration</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">ETP Eligible Training Providers</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1"> FTC Federal Trade Commission </FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">FY fiscal year</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">HR human resources</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">IC information collection</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">ICR information collection request</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">ILO International Labour Organization</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">IRA Inflation Reduction Act of 2022</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">IRFA initial regulatory flexibility analysis</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">IT information technology</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">LEA local educational agency</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">NAA National Apprenticeship Act of 1937</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">NASTAD National Association of State and Territorial Apprenticeship Directors</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">NCES National Center for Education Statistics</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1"> NPRM <E T="03">or</E> proposed rule notice of proposed rulemaking </FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">O*NET Occupational Information Network</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">OA Office of Apprenticeship</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">OALJ Office of Administrative Law Judges</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">OIRA Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">OMB Office of Management and Budget</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">Perkins Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, as amended by the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">PRA Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">RAPIDS Registered Apprenticeship Partners Information Data System</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">RFA Regulatory Flexibility Act</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">RIA regulatory impact analysis</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">ROI return on investment</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">SAA State Apprenticeship Agency</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">TEGL Training and Employment Guidance Letter</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">TEN Training and Employmen ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 1336k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━