[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 220 (Wednesday, November 15, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66555-66556]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-19208]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary


Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request

November 8, 2006.
    The Department of Labor (DOL) has submitted the following public 
information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. chapter 35). A copy of 
this ICR, with applicable supporting documentation, may be obtained 
from RegInfo.gov at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain or by 
contacting Darrin King on 202-693-4129 (this is not a toll-free number) 
/ e-mail: [email protected].
    Comments should be sent to Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Room 
10235, Washington, DC 20503, Telephone: 202-395-7316 / Fax: 202-395-
6974 (these are not toll-free numbers), within 30 days from the date of 
this publication in the Federal Register.
    The OMB 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 submission of responses.
    Agency: Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
    Type of Review: New Collection of Information.
    Title: Survey of PY 2002-2006 ETA Grassroots Grant Recipients.
    OMB Number: 1290-0NEW.
    Type of Response: Reporting.
    Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 128.
    Number of Annual Responses: 128.
    Estimated Time per Response: 30 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 64.
    Total Annualized capital/startup costs: $0.
    Total Annual Costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing 
services): $0.
    Description: 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 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.
    The President's Management Agenda direct the Department of Labor 
Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to evaluate and 
examine the impact and outcomes of departmental programs that include 
faith-based and community non-profit organizations (FBCO). 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.
    Faith-based and community organizations benefit from having equal 
access to Federal funds. DOL CFBCI intends to use this data to examine 
the extent to which faith-based and community organizations are able to 
use the Federal funds (awarded through the ETA Grants for Grassroots 
Organizations from 2002 to 2005) as leverage to

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expand their organizations to qualify for additional Federal, State, 
local or private funding.

Darrin A. King,
Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E6-19208 Filed 11-14-06; 8:45 am]
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