[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 52 (Thursday, March 17, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 14695]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-6244]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Notice of Funding Opportunity and Solicitation for Grant 
Applications (SGA) for National Farmworker Jobs Training Program (NFJP) 
Housing Assistance

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice of Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA).

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    Funding Opportunity Number: SGA-DFA-PY-10-08.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor (the Department or DOL), 
Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Office of Workforce 
Investment (OWI), Division of Adult Services (DAS), announces a grant 
competition for operating the Housing Assistance portion of the 
National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP), under section 167 of the 
Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), 29 U.S.C. 2912. Section 167(a) 
of WIA requires the Secretary to conduct a grants competition every two 
years for the purpose of carrying out the activities authorized under 
section 167. Although housing assistance is identified in WIA as one of 
the allowable activities under NFJP, Congressional appropriations 
language directs the Department to make available a specific amount of 
the funds appropriated for the NFJP for migrant and seasonal 
farmworkers housing assistance grants, and requires that no less than 
70 percent of the specified amount must be used for permanent housing 
activities.
    We are conducting this competition before the passage of the 
Department of Labor's Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 appropriation in 
anticipation of the appropriation of funds for Program Year (PY) 2011 
NFJP housing assistance grants, but we will not obligate any funds for 
PY 2011 grants unless and until they are appropriated. The FY 2011 
appropriation request for this program is $5,700,000.
    The complete SGA and any subsequent SGA amendments are described in 
further detail on ETA's Web site at http://www.doleta.gov/grants or on 
http://www.grants.gov. The Web sites provide application information, 
eligibility requirements, review and selection procedures and other 
program requirements governing this solicitation.

DATES: The closing date for receipt of applications is May 3, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eileen Banks, 200 Constitution Avenue, 
NW., Room N4716, Washington, DC 20210; telephone: 202-693-3403.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 11th day of March 2011.
B. Jai Johnson,
Grant Officer, Employment and Training Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-6244 Filed 3-16-11; 8:45 am]
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