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Confirmation of receipt of your 

application can be made by contacting 

Katie Cook, by e-mail 

cook.katherine@dol.gov, telephone (202) 

693–4838, or OCFT telephone (202) 

693–4843, prior to the closing deadline. 

4. The U.S. Department of Labor will 

also consider nomination packages from 

previous years that were deemed 

responsive but not yet selected for 

award. 

7. The Administrative Review Process: 

A. ILAB/OCFT will perform a 

preliminary administrative review to 

determine the sufficiency of all 

submitted application packages relative 

to the selection criteria listed in Section 

5(B). 

B. ILAB/OCFT will conduct an initial 

substantive review of the nominations 

received and will identify a short list of 

candidates to be considered. 

C. A panel of Department of Labor 

representatives will perform a 

secondary review to make a 

determination of the semi-finalists. 

D. The Secretary of Labor will 

conduct the final review and selection. 

8. Other Factors to be Considered 

During the Administrative Review 

Process: Receipt of this award will not 

preclude a nominee from being 

considered for the United States 

Department of Labor’s Iqbal Masih 

Award for the Elimination of Child 

Labor in subsequent years. Specific 

accomplishments that served as the 

basis of a prior award, however, may not 

be considered as the basis for a 

subsequent award application. 

9. Procedures Following Selection: 

The awardee will be notified of 

selection via the contact person 

identified in the application package at 

least four weeks prior to the awards 

ceremony. 

10. Location: The Department of 

Labor anticipates that the awards 

ceremony will be held in late 2011 or 

early 2012 at a location to be 

determined by the Secretary of Labor. 

Paperwork Reduction Act Notice 

(Pub. L. 104–13): Persons are not 

required to respond to a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) control number. This 

collection of information is approved 

under OMB Number 1290–0007 

(Expiration Date: 12/31/2012). The 

obligation to respond to this information 

collection is voluntary; however, only 

nominations that follow the nomination 

procedures outlined in this notice will 

receive consideration. The average time 

to respond to this information of 

collection is estimated to be 10 hours 

per response; including the time for 

reviewing instructions, researching 

existing data sources, gathering and 

maintaining the data needed, and 

completing and reviewing the collection 

of information. Submit comments 

regarding this estimate; including 

suggestions for reducing response time 

or for improving any aspect of this 

collection of information to the 

Departmental Clearance Officer, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer, Room N–1301, 200 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington 

DC 20210 or e-mail to 

DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. Please do 

not send completed nominations to this 

address. 

We are very interested in your 

thoughts and suggestions about your 

experience in preparing and filing this 

nomination packet for the United States 

Department of Labor’s Iqbal Masih 

Award for the Elimination of Child 

Labor. Your comments will be very 

useful to the ILAB/OCFT in making 

improvements in our solicitation for 

nominations for this award in 

subsequent years. All comments are 

strictly voluntary and strictly private. 

We would appreciate your taking a few 

minutes to tell us—for example, 

whether you thought the instructions 

were sufficiently clear; what you liked 

or disliked; what worked or didn’t work; 

whether it satisfied your need for 

information or if it didn’t, or anything 

else that you think is important for us 

to know. Your comments will be most 

helpful if you can be very specific in 

relating your experience. 

Please send any comments you have 

to Katie Cook at cook.katherine@dol.gov 

or via mail to the U.S. Department of 

Labor, Office of Child Labor, Forced 

Labor, and Human Trafficking, Room 

S–5317, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20210. 

Sandra Polaski, 

Deputy Undersecretary for International 

Affairs. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–28–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

157th Meeting of the Advisory Council 

on Employee Welfare and Pension 

Benefit Plans; Notice of Meeting 

Pursuant to the authority contained in 

Section 512 of the Employee Retirement 

Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 

U.S.C. 1142, the 157th open meeting of 

the Advisory Council on Employee 

Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans (also 

known as the ERISA Advisory Council) 

will be held on August 30–September 1, 

2011. 

The three-day meeting will take place 

in C–5515 Room 1–A, U.S. Department 

of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20210. The purpose of 

the open meeting is for Advisory 

Council members to hear testimony 

from invited witnesses and to receive an 

update from the Employee Benefits 

Security Administration (EBSA). The 

meeting will run from 9 a.m. to 

approximately 5 p.m. on August 30 and 

from 8:30 a.m. to approximately 5 p.m. 

on August 31 and September 1, with a 

one hour break for lunch each day. The 

EBSA update is scheduled for the 

afternoon of August 31, subject to 

change. 

The Advisory Council will study the 

following issues: (1) Current Challenges 

and Best Practices for ERISA 

Compliance for 403(b) Plan Sponsors, 

(2) Hedge Funds and Private Equity 

Investments, and (3) Privacy and 

Security Issues Affecting Employee 

Benefit Plans (other than health care 

plans). The schedule for testimony and 

discussion of these issues generally will 

be one issue per day in the order noted 

above. Descriptions of these topics are 

available on the Advisory Council page 

of the EBSA Web site, at http:// 

www.dol.gov/ebsa/aboutebsa/ 

erisa_advisory_council.html. 

Organizations or members of the 

public wishing to submit a written 

statement may do so by submitting 30 

copies on or before August 19, 2011 to 

Larry Good, Executive Secretary, ERISA 

Advisory Council, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Suite N–5623, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. 

Statements also may be submitted as email attachments in text or pdf format 

transmitted to good.larry@dol.gov. It is 

requested that statements not be 

included in the body of the e-mail. 

Statements deemed relevant by the 

Advisory Council and received on or 

before August 19, 2011 will be included 

in the record of the meeting and 

available in the EBSA Public Disclosure 

room, along with witness statements. Do 

not include any personally identifiable 

information (such as name, address, or 

other contact information) or 

confidential business information that 

you do not want publicly disclosed. 

Written statements submitted by invited 

witnesses also will be posted, without 

change, on the Advisory Council page of 

the EBSA Web site—http:// 

www.dol.gov/ebsa/aboutebsa/ 

erisa_advisory_council.html. Statements 

posted on the Internet can be retrieved 

by most Internet search engines. 

Individuals or representatives of 

organizations wishing to address the 


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Advisory Council should forward their 

requests to the Executive Secretary or 

telephone (202) 693–8668. Oral 

presentations will be limited to ten 

minutes, time permitting, but an 

extended statement may be submitted 

for the record. Individuals with 

disabilities who need special 

accommodations should contact the 

Executive Secretary by August 19 at the 

address indicated. 

Signed at Washington, DC this 3rd day of 

August, 2011. 

___________________________ 

Michael L. Davis, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Employee 

Benefits Security Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2011–20107 Filed 8–8–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–29–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment And Training 

Administration 

Announcement Regarding the Virgin 

Islands Triggering ‘‘on’’ Tier Three of 

Emergency Unemployment 

Compensation 2008 (EUC08). 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Announcement regarding the 

Virgin Islands triggering ‘‘on’’ Tier 

Three of Emergency Unemployment 

Compensation 2008 (EUC08). 

Public law 111–312 extended 

provisions in public law 111–92 which 

amended prior laws to create a Third 

and Fourth Tier of benefits within the 

EUC08 program for qualified 

unemployed workers claiming benefits 

in high unemployment states. The 

Department of Labor produces a trigger 

notice indicating which states qualify 

for EUC08 benefits within Tiers Three 

and Four and provides the beginning 

and ending dates of payable periods for 

each qualifying state. The trigger notice 

covering state eligibility for the EUC08 

program can be found at: http:// 

ows.doleta.gov/unemploy/ 

claims_arch.asp. 

Based on data published July 8, 2011, 

by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the 

following trigger change has occurred 

for the Virgin Islands’ EUC08 program: 

• The estimated three month average, 

seasonally adjusted total unemployment 

rate for the Virgin Islands rose to meet 

or exceed the 6.0% threshold to trigger 

‘‘on’’ in Tier Three of the EUC 2008 

program. The payable period in Tier 

Three for the Virgin Islands began July 

24, 2011, and claimants there will be 

eligible for up to an additional 13 weeks 

of benefits. 

Information for Claimants 

The duration of benefits payable in 

the EUC program, and the terms and 

conditions under which they are 

payable, are governed by public laws 

110–252, 110–449, 111–5, 111–92, 111– 

118, 111–144, 111–157, 111–205 and 

111–312, and the operating instructions 

issued to the states by the U.S. 

Department of Labor. Persons who 

believe they may be entitled to 

additional benefits under the EUC08 

program, or who wish to inquire about 

their rights under the program, should 

contact their State Workforce Agency. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Scott Gibbons, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Employment and Training 

Administration, Office of 

Unemployment Insurance, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW., Frances 

Perkins Bldg. Room S–4524, 

Washington, DC 20210, telephone 

number (202) 693–3008 (this is not a 

toll-free number) or by e-mail: 

gibbons.scott@dol.gov. 

Signed in Washington, DC, this 3rd day of 

August, 2011. 

Jane Oates, 

Assistant Secretary, Employment and 

Training Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2011–20109 Filed 8–8–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FW–P 

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 

Request for Comments—Poverty Data 

and LSC Funding Distribution 

AGENCY: Legal Services Corporation. 

ACTION: Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: Since 1996, the Legal Services 

Corporation’s annual appropriation has 

mandated that the Corporation 

distribute most of its appropriated funds 

to basic field programs for LSC-defined 

geographic areas so as to provide an 

equal figure per individual in poverty 

for each geographic area. The 

appropriation has further mandated that 

the number of individuals in poverty in 

each geographic area be determined by 

the Bureau of the Census ‘‘on the basis 

of the most recent decennial census.’’ 

The 2010 decennial census, however, 

did not collect poverty data for the 50 

states, the District of Columbia or Puerto 

Rico, so ‘‘the most recent decennial 

census’’ will not provide a basis for 

determining how many people in 

poverty are within those jurisdictions. 

The LSC Board of Directors requests 

comments on a proposal by LSC’s 

management to address this issue by 

making recommendations to the 

President and to Congress that: (1) The 

determination of the number of 

individuals in poverty in each 

geographic area be made by the Bureau 

of the Census, without any reference to 

the decennial census as the basis for 

that determination; (2) funding be 

reallocated among geographic areas 

every three years based on updated 

poverty population determinations by 

the Bureau of the Census; and (3) the 

first reallocation be phased in over two 

years, in Fiscal Year 2013 and Fiscal 

Year 2014. 

DATES: Written comments will be 

accepted until September 8, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted by mail, fax or e-mail to Mark 

Freedman, Senior Assistant General 

Counsel, Legal Services Corporation, 

3333 K St., NW., Washington, DC 20007; 

202–295–1623 (phone); 202–337–6519 

(fax); mfreedman@lsc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark Freedman, Senior Assistant 

General Counsel, Legal Services 

Corporation, 3333 K St., NW., 

Washington, DC 20007; 202–295–1623 

(phone); 202–337–6519 (fax); 

mfreedman@lsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Legal 

Services Corporation (‘‘LSC’’ or 

‘‘Corporation’’) was established by the 

United States Congress ‘‘for the purpose 

of providing financial support for legal 

assistance in noncriminal matters or 

proceedings to persons financially 

unable to afford such assistance.’’ 42 

U.S.C. 2996b(a). LSC performs this 

function primarily through providing 

Federal funding to civil legal aid 

programs providing legal services to 

low-income persons throughout the 

United States and its possessions and 

territories in geographic areas 

determined by LSC. Since 1996, the 

Legal Services Corporation’s annual 

appropriation has mandated that the 

Corporation distribute most of its 

appropriated funds to basic field 

programs for LSC-defined geographic 

areas so as to provide an equal figure 

per individual in poverty for each 

geographic area. The appropriation has 

further mandated that the number of 

individuals in poverty in each 

geographic area be determined by the 

Bureau of the Census ‘‘on the basis of 

the most recent decennial census.’’ 

(Certain exceptions apply for areas in 

which other adjusted population counts 

have been historically used.) Public Law 

104–134, Title V, 501(a), 110 Stat. 1321, 

1321–50 (1996) (incorporated by 

reference thereafter). Under that 

mandate, LSC has reallocated funding 

every ten years. The 2010 U.S. census, 


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