[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 90 (Thursday, May 8, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 26147]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-10270]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary


``Ensuring Benefits in the Formal Sector in El Salvador''

May 8, 2008.
AGENCY: Bureau of International Labor Affairs, Department of Labor.
    Announcement Type: New. Notice of Availability of Funds and 
Solicitation for Cooperative Agreement Applications. The full 
announcement is posted on http://www.Grants.Gov as well as on the DOL 
Web site at http://www.dol.gov/ilab.
    Funding Opportunity Number: SGA 08-05.
    Key Dates: The closing date for receipt of applications is June 6, 
2008, via Grants.gov.
    Funding Opportunity Description: The U.S. Department of Labor, 
Bureau of International Labor Affairs, announces the availability of 
funds to be granted by cooperative agreement to one or more qualifying 
organizations. The Department will award up to U.S. $940,000 through 
one grant to an organization or organizations to increase compliance 
with laws regarding employer payments to the Salvadoran Social Security 
Institute. Specifically, the project will improve current systems to 
enforce compliance with laws regarding payments to the Salvadoran 
Social Security Institute, and it will raise awareness among workers 
and employers about how they can verify that correct payments are being 
made and where to go if they are not being made. The duration of the 
project funded by this solicitation is three to four years. The start 
date of program activities will be negotiated upon award of the 
Cooperative Agreement, but will be no later than September 30, 2008.
    ILAB is authorized to award and administer this program by the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, Public Law No. 110-161, 121 
Stat. 1844 (2007).
    The full Solicitation for Grant Application is posted on http://www.Grants.Gov under U.S. Department of Labor/ILAB. Only Applications 
submitted through http://www.Grants.Gov will be accepted. If you need 
to speak to a person concerning these grants, or if you have issues 
regarding access to the Grants.gov Web site, you may telephone Lisa 
Harvey at 202-693-4592 (not a toll-free number).

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 2nd day of May 2008.
Lisa Harvey,
Grant Officer.
 [FR Doc. E8-10270 Filed 5-7-08; 8:45 am]
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