Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 220 / Wednesday, November 15, 2006 / Notices 66555 

Dated: November 9, 2006. 

Rockne Chickinell, 

General Counsel, U.S. Parole Commission. 

[FR Doc. 06–9217 Filed 11–13–06; 10:24 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

United States Parole Commission 

Public Announcement; Sunshine Act 

Meeting Pursuant To The Government 

In the Sunshine Act (Public Law 94–

409) [5 U.S.C. 552b] 

DATE AND TIME: 10 a.m., Thursday, 

November 16, 2006. 

PLACE: U.S. Parole Commission, 5550 

Friendship Boulevard, 4th Floor, Chevy 

Chase, Maryland 20815. 

STATUS: Closed—Meeting. 

MATTERS CONSIDERED: The following 

matters will be considered during the 

closed portion of the Commission’s 

Business Meeting: 

Petitions for reconsideration involving 

five original jurisdiction cases 

pursuant to 28 CFR 2.27. 

AGENCY CONTACT: Thomas W. 

Hutchison, Chief of Staff, United States 

Parole Commission, (301) 492–5990. 

Dated: November 9, 2006. 

Rockne Chickinell, 

General Counsel, U.S. Parole Commission. 

[FR Doc. 06–9218 Filed 11–13–06; 10:24 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Submission for OMB Review: 

Comment Request 

November 8, 2006. 

The Department of Labor (DOL) has 

submitted the following public 

information collection request (ICR) to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 

44 U.S.C. chapter 35). A copy of this 

ICR, with applicable supporting 

documentation, may be obtained from 

RegInfo.gov at http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain or by contacting 

Darrin King on 202–693–4129 (this is 

not a toll-free number) / e-mail: 

king.darrin@dol.gov. 

Comments should be sent to Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attn: OMB Desk Officer, Office of 

Management and Budget, Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503, Telephone: 

202–395–7316 / Fax: 202–395–6974 

(these are not toll-free numbers), within 

30 days from the date of this publication 

in the Federal Register. 

The OMB is particularly interested in 

comments which: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

Agency: Center for Faith-Based and 

Community Initiatives. 

Type of Review: New Collection of 

Information. 

Title: Survey of PY 2002–2006 ETA 

Grassroots Grant Recipients. 

OMB Number: 1290–0NEW. 

Type of Response: Reporting. 

Affected Public: State, Local, and 

Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 128. 

Number of Annual Responses: 128. 

Estimated Time per Response: 30 

minutes. 

Total Burden Hours: 64. 

Total Annualized capital/startup 

costs: $0. 

Total Annual Costs (operating/ 

maintaining systems or purchasing 

services): $0. 

Description: On January 29, 2001, 

President George W. Bush issued 

Executive Order 13198, creating the 

Office for Faith-Based and Community 

Initiatives in the White House and 

centers for faith-based and community 

initiatives (CFBCI) in the Departments 

of Labor (DOL), Health and Human 

Services (HHS), Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD), Education (ED), 

and Justice (DOJ). President Bush 

charged the departmental centers with 

identifying statutory, regulatory, and 

bureaucratic barriers that stand in the 

way of effective faith-based and 

community organizations, and to 

ensure, consistent with the law, that 

these organizations have equal 

opportunity to compete for Federal 

funding and other support. 

In early 2002, the CFBCI and ETA 

developed and issued Solicitations for 

Grant Application (SGA) to engage 

grassroots organizations in our 

workforce system-building. These SGAs 

were designed to assist faith-based and 

community organizations in delivering 

social services and strengthening their 

existing partnerships with the local 

One-Stop Career Center system, while 

providing additional points of entry for 

customers into that system. 

These 2002 grants embodied the 

Department’s principal strategy for 

implementing the Executive Order: 

Creating new avenues through which 

qualified organizations could participate 

more fully under the Workforce 

Investment Act (WIA), while applying 

their particular strengths and assets in 

providing services to our customers. 

These solicitations also were derived 

from an ETA–CFBCI mutual premise 

that the involvement of faith-based and 

community organizations can both 

complement and supplement the efforts 

of local workforce investment systems 

in being accessible to and serving the 

training, job and career-support needs of 

many of our citizens. 

Many faith-based and community 

organizations offer unique services and 

support networks that can contribute to 

our mutual system-building endeavors; 

are trusted institutions within our 

poorest neighborhoods; and are home to 

a large number of volunteers who bring 

not only the transformational power of 

personal relationships to the provision 

of social service, but also a sustained 

allegiance to the well-being and selfsufficiency of the participants they 

serve. Through their daily work and 

specific programs, these organizations 

strive to achieve some common 

purposes shared with government—

reduction of welfare dependency, 

attainment of occupational skills, and 

entry and retention of all our citizens in 

good-paying jobs. 

The President’s Management Agenda 

direct the Department of Labor Center 

for Faith-Based and Community 

Initiatives to evaluate and examine the 

impact and outcomes of departmental 

programs that include faith-based and 

community non-profit organizations 

(FBCO). DOL CFBCI intends to use this 

data to examine the impact that 

receiving and managing Federal grants 

has on grassroots, faith-based and 

community organizations. 

Faith-based and community 

organizations benefit from having equal 

access to Federal funds. DOL CFBCI 

intends to use this data to examine the 

extent to which faith-based and 

community organizations are able to use 

the Federal funds (awarded through the 

ETA Grants for Grassroots Organizations 

from 2002 to 2005) as leverage to 


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