60800 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 199 / Monday, October 16, 2006 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

[Secretary’s Order 10–2006] 

The Role of the Regional 

Representatives 

1. Purpose and Background. This 

Order supersedes Secretary’s Order 5– 

87 and updates the responsibilities 

assigned to the Regional 

Representatives. The Regional 

Representatives were formally known 

as, and referred to in that Order as 

Secretary’s Representatives. 

2. Definition of Roles and Assignment 

of Responsibilities. 

A. The Assistant Secretary for 

Congressional and Intergovernmental 

Affairs has been delegated authority and 

assigned responsibility for the 

supervision and direction of the 

activities of the Regional 

Representatives. 

B. Duties of the Regional 

Representatives. 

(1) Establishing liaison with 

stakeholders, including business, labor, 

non-profits, and other community 

organizations. 

(2) Establishing liaison with 

Governors and State and local officials. 

(3) Providing the point of contact in 

departmental regional offices for 

members of Congress or their 

representatives, Governors and other 

state and local officials regarding nonagency specific and department-wide 

initiatives. 

(4) Referring people seeking 

assistance or information to the 

appropriate regional or national DOL 

agency officials. 

(5) Carrying out special, non-recurring 

projects and assignments on behalf of 

the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for 

Congressional and Intergovernmental 

Affairs, and other national office 

officials as assigned. 

(6) Participating as a member of the 

DOL Regional Executive Committee. 

(7) Meeting as needed with regional 

representatives of other Federal 

agencies. 

(8) Participating in the planning and 

implementation of activities of DOL 

agencies regarding region-wide or major 

meetings, conferences, forums, and 

other gatherings, particularly those 

involving Federal government officials, 

State, local and labor organizations. 

(9) Monitoring non-routine 

correspondence with Congressional 

offices, Governors’ offices, and other 

elected State and local officials to 

identify trends and problem areas and 

initiating action as appropriate. 

Referring agency correspondence as 

appropriate. 

(10) Monitoring local and regional 

media for items of special interest to the 

Department. 

(11) Performing other duties as 

assigned. 

C. The DOL Agency Heads are 

responsible for: 

(1) Ensuring that their regional agency 

heads regularly advise, coordinate and 

consult with the Regional 

Representatives on all major problems, 

issues and initiatives in the region, 

including supplying relevant program 

and policy information. 

(2) Ensuring that regional agency 

heads coordinate planning and 

scheduling of region-wide or major 

meetings, conferences, forums and other 

related events with the Regional 

Representatives. Ensuring that senior 

regional officials provide the Regional 

Representatives advance notice of major 

constituent visits and meetings with 

elected officials. 

D. The DOL Regional Agency Heads 

are responsible for: 

(1) Informing the Regional 

Representatives in their region of 

pertinent matters as they occur, 

including supplying important program 

and policy information. 

(2) Providing the Regional 

Representatives in their region with 

copies of non-routine correspondence to 

and from Congressional offices, 

Governors, and State and local elected 

officials. 

(3) Coordinating planning and 

scheduling of region-wide or major 

meetings, conferences, forums and other 

related events with the Regional 

Representatives in their region, as well 

as advance notice of major constituent 

visits and meetings with elected 

officials. 

(4) Advising the Regional 

Representative in their region of the 

approval of funding of projects under 

their program areas in advance of public 

announcement when possible. 

(5) Informing the Regional 

Representatives in their region of any 

other pertinent matters as they occur. 

3. Directives Affected. 

A. Secretary’s Order No. 5–87 is 

cancelled. 

B. Section 4(b) of Secretary’s Order 7– 

89 (‘‘Delegation of Authority and 

Assignment of Responsibility to the 

Assistant Secretary for Congressional 

and Intergovernmental Affairs and to 

the Assistant Secretary for Public 

Affairs’’) is modified by deleting 

‘‘Secretary’s Representative-at-Large and 

the Secretary’s Representatives in the 

Regions’’ and substituting ‘‘Regional 

Representatives.’’ 

C. The use of the term ‘‘Secretary’s 

Representative’’ in any other Secretary’s 

Order shall be replaced by ‘‘Regional 

Representative.’’ 

4. Reservations of Authority. 

A. This Secretary’s Order does not 

affect the authorities and 

responsibilities of the Office of the 

Inspector General under the Inspector 

General Act of 1978, as amended, or 

Secretary’s Order 04–2006 (February 21, 

2006). 

B. No delegation of authority or 

assignment of responsibility under this 

Order will be deemed to affect the 

Secretary’s authority to continue to 

exercise or further delegate such 

authority or responsibility. 

5. Effective Date. This order is 

effective immediately. 

Dated: October 2, 2006. 

Elaine L. Chao, 

Secretary of Labor. 

[FR Doc. 06–8663 Filed 10–13–06; 8:45 am] 

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