[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 76 (Wednesday, April 20, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22147-22148]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-9514]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment & Training Administration

[SGA-DFA-PY-10-03]


Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA); Trade Adjustment 
Assistance Community College and Career Training Grants Program; 
Amendment Three

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Labor.

ACTION: Notice: Amendment to SGA/DFA PY 10-03.

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SUMMARY: The Employment and Training Administration published a notice 
in the Federal Register on January 21, 2011, announcing the 
availability of funds and Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) for 
the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training 
grant program (TAACCCT) to be awarded through a competitive process. 
This amendment to the SGA clarifies items related to making portions of 
grant applications publicly available. The document is hereby amended.
    In Section IIIG3, of the solicitation (http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-03.pdf), the following text should be 
replaced:
    Old Text--``The Department is committed to conducting a transparent 
grant award process and publicizing information about program outcomes. 
Applicants are advised their application and information related to its 
review and evaluation (whether or not the application is successful) 
may be made publicly available, either fully or partially. In addition, 
information about grant progress and results may also be made publicly 
available.''
    New Text--``The Department is committed to conducting a transparent 
grant application and award process. Among other things, posting grant 
applications on public Web sites is a means of promoting and sharing 
innovative ideas. For this grant competition, we will publish the 
Technical Proposal required by Section IVB, Part II for all those 
applications that are awarded grants, on the

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Department's Web site or a similar location. Additionally, in 
accordance with Section IVB, Part IIIa, of the SGA, which states that 
the Abstracts will be shared publicly, we will publish the Abstracts 
for all applications on the Department's Web site or similar location. 
No other attachments to the application will be published. The 
Technical Proposals and Abstracts will not be published until after 
grants are awarded.''
    DOL recognizes that grant applications sometimes contain 
information that an applicant may consider proprietary or business 
confidential, or they may contain personally identifiable information. 
Information is considered proprietary or confidential commercial/
business information when it is not usually disclosed outside your 
organization, and when its disclosure is likely to cause you 
substantial competitive harm. Personally identifiable information is 
information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's 
identity, such as a name, social security number, date and place of 
birth, mother's maiden name, or biometric records, or any other 
information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as 
medical, educational, financial, and employment information.
    In order to ensure that such information is properly protected from 
disclosure when DOL posts the winning Technical Proposals, applicants 
whose technical proposals will be posted will be asked to submit a 
second redacted version of their Technical Proposal, with proprietary, 
confidential commercial/business, and personally identifiable 
information redacted. All non-public information about the applicant's 
and consortium members' staff (if applicable) should be removed as 
well. The Department will contact the applicants whose technical 
proposals will be published by letter or email, and provide further 
directions about how and when to submit the redacted version of the 
Technical Proposal. Submission of a redacted version of the Technical 
Proposal will constitute permission by the applicant, and anyone 
identified in the application, for DOL to post that redacted version. 
If an applicant fails to provide a redacted version of the Technical 
Proposal, DOL will publish the original Technical Proposal in full, 
after redacting personally identifiable information. (Note that the 
original, unredacted version of the Technical Proposal will remain part 
of the complete application package, including an applicant's 
proprietary and confidential information and any personally 
identifiable information.)
    Applicants are encouraged to maximize the grant application 
information that will be publicly disclosed, and to exercise restraint 
and redact only information that truly is proprietary, confidential 
commercial/business information, or capable of identifying a person. 
The redaction of entire pages or sections of the Technical Proposal is 
not appropriate, and will not be allowed, unless the entire portion 
merits such protection. Should a dispute arise about whether redactions 
are appropriate, DOL will follow the procedures outlined in the 
Department's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations (29 CFR part 
70).
    Redacted information in grant applications will be protected by DOL 
from public disclosure in accordance with Federal law, including the 
Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C. 1905), FOIA, and the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 
552a). If DOL receives a FOIA request for your application, the 
procedures in DOL's FOIA regulations for responding to requests for 
commercial/business information submitted to the government will be 
followed, as well as all FOIA exemptions and procedures. 29 CFR 70.26. 
Consequently, it is possible that application of FOIA rules may result 
in release of information in response to a FOIA request that an 
applicant redacted in its ``redacted copy.''
    The Department is working with OMB to meet the requirements of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1965 (PRA), and will not require any 
applicants to submit any redactions until the PRA process has been 
completed. The public reporting burden for this collection of 
information is tentatively estimated at six hours per response.''

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melissa Abdullah, Grants Management 
Specialist, Division of Federal Assistance, at (202) 693-3346.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 14th day of April 2011.
Donna Kelly,
Grant Officer, Employment & Training Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-9514 Filed 4-19-11; 8:45 am]
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