[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 168 (Wednesday, August 30, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51637-51638]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-14435]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary


Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives; Proposed 
Collection; Comment Request; Agency Information Collection Activities: 
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request: Survey of PY 2002-
2006 ETA Grassroots Grant Recipients

ACTION: Notice of an opportunity for public comment.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to 
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance 
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies 
with an opportunity to comment on proposed collections of information 
in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95) [44 
U.S.C. 3506 C 2)(A)]. This program helps to ensure that requested data 
can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and 
financial resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly 
understood, and the impact of collection requirements on respondents 
can be properly assessed.
    Currently, the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is 
soliciting comments concerning the proposed collection: Survey of PY 
2002-2006 ETA Grassroots Grant Recipients. A copy of the proposed 
information collection request can be obtained by contacting the office 
listed below in the ADDRESSES section of this Notice.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the 
addresses section below on or before October 30, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Office of 
the Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, Room S-2235, 200 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. Phone (202) 693-6450 (this is not a 
toll-free number), fax (202) 693-6146, TTY/TDD (800) 877-8339, or e-
mail [email protected]. Please reference OMB Control Number 1290-
0NEW in the e-mail subject line.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    On January 29, 2001, President George W. Bush issued Executive 
Order 13198, creating the Office for Faith-Based and Community 
Initiatives in the White House and centers for faith-based and 
community initiatives (CFBCI) in the Departments of Labor (DOL), Health 
and Human Services (HHS), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 
Education (ED), and Justice (DOJ). President Bush charged the 
departmental centers with identifying statutory, regulatory, and 
bureaucratic barriers that stand in the way of effective faith-based 
and community organizations, and to ensure, consistent with the law, 
that these organizations have equal opportunity to compete for federal 
funding and other support.
    In early 2002, the CFBCI and ETA developed and issued Solicitations 
for Grant Application (SGA) to engage grassroots organizations in our 
workforce system-building. These SGAs were designed to assist faith-
based and community organizations in delivering social services and 
strengthening their existing partnerships with the local One-Stop 
Career Center system, while providing additional points of entry for 
customers into that system.
    These 2002 grants embodied the Department's principal strategy for 
implementing the Executive Order: Creating new avenues through which 
qualified organizations could participate more fully under the 
Workforce Investment Act (WIA), while applying their particular 
strengths and assets in providing services to our customers. These 
solicitations also were derived from an ETA--CFBCI mutual premise that 
the involvement of faith-based and community organizations can both 
complement and supplement the efforts of local workforce investment 
systems in being accessible to and serving the training, job and 
career-support needs of many of our citizens.
    Many faith-based and community organizations offer unique services 
and support networks that can contribute to our mutual system-building 
endeavors; are trusted institutions within our poorest neighborhoods; 
and are home to a large number of volunteers who bring not only the 
transformational power of personal relationships to the provision of 
social service, but also a sustained allegiance to the well-being and 
self-sufficiency of the participants they serve. Through their daily 
work and specific programs, these organizations

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strive to achieve some common purposes shared with government--
reduction of welfare dependency, attainment of occupational skills, and 
entry and retention of all our citizens in good-paying jobs. Faith-
based and community organizations benefit from having equal access to 
federal funds. DOL CFBCI intends to use this data to examine the impact 
that receiving and managing federal grants has on grassroots, faith-
based and community organizations.

II. Review Focus

    The Department of Labor is particularly interested in comments 
which:
     Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
     Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the 
burden of the proposed collection of information, including the 
validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
     Enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
     Minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate 
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting 
electronic submissions of responses.

III. Current Actions

    Type of Review: New collection of information.
    Agency: Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
    Title: Survey of PY 2002-2006 ETA Grassroots Grant Recipients
    OMB Number: 1290-0NEW.
    Affected Public: Non-profit.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Number of Respondents: 183.
    Number of Responses: 183.
    Average Time Per Response: 5 minutes.
    Estimated Burden Hours: 91.5.
    Total Annualized Capital/startup costs: $0.
    Total Initial Annual Costs: $0.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and included in the agency's request for OMB approval of the 
information collection request. Comments will become a matter of public 
record.

    Dated: August 25, 2006.
Jedd Medefind,
Director, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
 [FR Doc. E6-14435 Filed 8-29-06; 8:45 am]
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