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1According to the DOJ, almost three out of five 

returning inmates will be rearrested and charged 

with new crimes within three years of their release 

from prison. 

2 Joan Petersilia, When Prisoners Come Home: 

Parole and Prisoner Reentry (Oxford : Oxford 

University Press, 2003), 119 (citing Peter Finn, 

Successful Job Placement for Ex-Offenders: The 

Center for Employment Opportunities. Washington, 

DC: National Institute of Justice). 

3 Joan Petersilia, When Prisoners Come Home: 

Parole and Prisoner Reentry (Oxford: Oxford 

University Press, 2003), 32 (citing Gwen Rubinstein, 

Getting to Work: How TANF Can Support ExOffender Parents in the Transition to SelfSufficiency (Washington, DC: Legal Action Center, 

2001). 

4 Defined most liberally as re-arrest (not 

necessarily re-incarceration) for parole violation or 

for new offense within 36 months after release. 

5 Defined as adult or juvenile, male or female 

incarcerated offender. 

approximately 2.3 miles from the 

proposed project site. Local fire stations 

are provided by the Fulton County Fire 

Department. The fire department has 

two stations which operate 24 hours a 

day near the proposed site. Both stations 

are less than 10 minutes away and will 

provide all of the necessary fire 

protection for the center in the near 

future. 

The proposed project will not have a 

significant adverse sociological effect on 

the surrounding community. Similarly, 

the proposed project will not have a 

significant adverse effect on 

demographic and socioeconomic 

characteristics of the area. 

The alternatives considered in the 

preparation of this FONSI were as 

follows: (1) No Action; and (2) Continue 

Project as Proposed. The No Action 

alternative was not selected. The U.S. 

Department of Labor’s goal of improving 

the Job Corps Program by improving the 

learning environment at Job Corps 

Centers would not be met under this 

alternative. Due to the suitability of the 

proposed site for establishment of a new 

Job Corps Center, and the absence of any 

identified significant adverse 

environmental impacts from locating a 

Job Corps Center on the subject 

property, the ‘‘Continue Project as 

Proposed’’ alternative was selected. 

Based on the information gathered 

during the preparation of the EA, no 

environmental liabilities, current or 

historical, were found to exist on the 

proposed Job Corps Center site. The 

construction of the Job Corps Center at 

the Roosevelt Highway between 

Washington Road and Interstate 285 in 

College Park, Georgia will not create any 

significant adverse impacts on the 

environment. 

Dated: June 6, 2007. 

Esther R. Johnson, 

National Director of Job Corps. 

[FR Doc. E7–11714 Filed 6–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–23–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Center for Faith-Based & Community 

Initiatives; Call for Papers; White 

House National Summit on Prisoner 

Reentry 

November 27–28, 2007. 

Summary: The White House and the 

U.S. Departments of Labor and Justice 

issue this call for papers to evaluate 

whether an offender’s sustained 

participation in and completion of any 

pre-release program in a correctional 

system or post-release service or 

program through faith-based and 

community organizations impacts exoffender recidivism. We are seeking 

paper concepts for recently completed 

papers or papers that will be completed 

prior to the conference. We encourage 

contributions by researchers from 

academia, state or local agencies, 

business organizations, labor 

associations, research consulting firms 

and other relevant organizations. 

Context: Each year more than 650,000 

inmates are released from Federal and 

State prisons and return to their 

communities and families. Released 

prisoners face many challenges that 

contribute to a return to criminal 

activity, re-arrest, and re-incarceration. 

Joblessness among ex-prisoners has 

been linked to recidivism rates.1

Unemployment among ex-prisoners 

has been estimated at between 25 and 

40 percent.2 Prisoners also demonstrate 

low levels of educational attainment. 

Forty percent of adult state prisoners are 

functionally illiterate and over half of 

state parole entrants are not high school 

graduates.3

The White House National Summit on 

Prisoner Reentry will focus on issues 

related to impacts, trends, and 

challenges of prisoner reentry into 

society, both pre-release and postrelease. In addition, this conference will 

focus on the positive outcomes that 

faith-based and community 

organizations and the correctional 

system can have on lowering recidivism 

and raising employment for exoffenders. 

Possible topics may include, but are 

not limited to: 

1. The impact on recidivism,4 if any, 

of an offender’s 5 sustained participation 

in and completion of: 

• Any mentoring program involving a 

volunteer meeting (in person or by 

video-conference) at least monthly with 

an offender for at least the last 90 days 

before and/or the first 90 days after 

release; 

• Any post-release program 

administered by a faith-based or 

community organization that 

emphasizes job training, job placement, 

mentoring, or other transitional services; 

• Regular, sustained pre-release 

participation by inmates in vocational 

training or compensated, skilled prison 

industry; 

• Any pre-release program in which 

inmates have parenting-enrichment 

training and regular (at least semimonthly) contact (in person or by videoconference) with one or more of their 

minor children; 

• Any pre-release program in which 

female inmates have daily contact with 

their infant children on-site; 

• Regular (at least weekly), sustained 

pre-release participation by inmates in 

faith-based or philosophical meetings; 

• Any post-release program that 

includes a housing component; 

• Any pre-release program 

(residential or non-residential) in a 

correctional system in which inmates 

pursue a curriculum on reintegration 

into their community from a faith-, 

character-, or philosophically-based 

perspective; 

• Any post-release program of reentry services (e.g., job placement, 

substance abuse therapy, transitional 

housing) in which ex-offenders have a 

genuine choice of service providers, 

faith-based and secular; 

• Any pre-release program in which 

most or all inmates apply and are 

selected to be housed in the same 

correctional facility wherein religious or 

cognitive behavior curriculum and 

intensive religious programming are 

provided or required (including ‘‘faithbased prisons’’); 

2. A survey of the domestic and/or 

international academic literature on any 

of the offender reentry programs listed 

as a topic under part 1. 

3. Other research on the impact of 

Faith-Based and Community 

Organizations on the ability of exoffenders to successfully reintegrate into 

society following incarceration (with a 

particular emphasis on employment and 

recidivism). 

Sponsoring Agencies 

The mission of the Department of 

Labor (DOL) Center for Faith-Based & 

Community Initiatives (CFBCI) is to 

empower faith-based and community 

organizations as they help their 

neighbors prepare for, enter, and thrive 

in the workforce. The CFBCI works to 

cultivate public-nonprofit-private 

partnerships nationwide to make 

services more effective such as new 

grant opportunities and pilot projects, 

cost-free training for faith-based and 


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community organizations to effect 

program practices and grant writing, 

research to better understand the role 

nonprofits can play in social services, 

and other innovative projects. 

The Task Force for Faith-Based and 

Community Initiatives (TFFBCI) of the 

U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) 

provides assistance to faith-based and 

community organizations in identifying 

funding opportunities within the 

Federal government for which they are 

eligible to apply. DOJ administers 

programs to provide assistance to 

victims of crime, prisoners and exoffenders, and women who suffer 

domestic violence. In addition, DOJ has 

initiatives to target gang violence and atrisk youth. 

Time and Place: The meeting will be 

held from on November 27–28, 2007 in 

Los Angeles, CA. 

Submission of Papers: All paper 

concepts submitted will be reviewed by 

a panel of DOL and DOJ experts in the 

prisoner reentry arena and presenters 

will be notified if their papers are 

selected. Papers selected for the 

conference will be published as part of 

our White House National Summit on 

Prison Reentry Paper Series. If 

interested, please submit your paper 

concept in hard copy and diskette/CD 

(Word Perfect or Word) by September 

30, 2007. Paper concepts should be 

doubled-spaced and single sided. You 

will be notified by October 26, 2007 if 

your paper is selected; you will have to 

confirm your attendance by November 

9, 2007. Please send your paper concept 

to: Christopher Stio, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Center for Faith-Based & 

Community Initiatives, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Room S–2235, 

Washington, DC 20210. Christopher Stio 

may be reached at (202) 693–6450. We 

also encourage submitting abstracts for 

papers that have not yet been 

completed, but will be completed before 

the deadline for submission of papers. 

All papers submitted, including 

abstracts, must be the original work of 

the author(s) submitting such materials. 

Each author whose paper is selected for 

publication will be required to verify in 

writing that his/her submission(s) is an 

original work of authorship. In addition, 

the author of each submission grants to 

the U.S. Government a royalty-free, 

irrevocable license to reproduce, 

distribute, create derivative works from, 

and publicly perform and display such 

work in any form or medium, including 

print or electronic, without geographic 

limitation. 

Public Participation: This Conference 

is open to the public; there is no 

registration fee. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 12th day of 

June, 2007. 

Rhett Butler, 

Director, U.S. Department of Labor, Center 

for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. 

[FR Doc. 07–2959 Filed 6–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–23–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

Proposed Extension of Information 

Collection Request Submitted for 

Public Comment; Final Rule on Plan 

Loans to Participants and 

Beneficiaries 

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (the 

Department), in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA 

95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides 

the general public and Federal agencies 

with an opportunity to comment on 

proposed and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. The 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration is soliciting comments 

on the proposed extension of the 

information collection provisions of its 

regulation relating to loans to plan 

participants and beneficiaries who are 

parties in interest with respect to the 

plan (29 CFR 2550.408b-1). A copy of 

the information collection request (ICR) 

may be obtained by contacting the office 

listed in the ADDRESSES section of this 

notice. ICRs also are available at 

reginfo.gov (http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office shown in the 

ADDRESSES section on or before August 

17, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Joseph S. Piacentini, 

Department of Labor, Employee Benefits 

Security Administration, 200 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20210, (202) 693–8410, FAX (202) 

693–4745 (these are not toll-free 

numbers). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Employee Retirement Income 

Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) prohibits 

a plan fiduciary from causing the plan 

to engage in a transaction if he knows 

or should know that such transaction 

constitutes direct or indirect loan or 

extension of credit between the plan 

and a party in interest. ERISA section 

408(b)(1) exempts from this prohibition 

loans from a plan to parties in interest 

who are participants and beneficiaries 

of the plan, provided that certain 

requirements are satisfied. In final 

regulations published in the Federal 

Register on July 20, 1989 (54 FR 30520), 

the Department provided additional 

guidance on section 408(b)(1)(C), which 

requires that loans be made in 

accordance with specific provisions in 

the plan. This ICR therefore relates to 

the provisions plan documents must 

include in order that a plan may make 

loans to participants. 

II. Current Actions 

This notice requests public comment 

on the Department’s request for 

extension of OMB approval of the 

information collection contained in its 

final rule at 29 CFR 2550.408b–1. After 

considering all the responses to this 

notice, the Department intends to 

submit an ICR to OMB for continuing 

approval. The Department is not 

proposing any changes to the existing 

ICR at this time. An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 

required to respond to, an information 

collection unless it displays a valid 

OMB control number. A summary of the 

ICR and the current burden estimates 

follows: 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Regulation Relating to Loans to 

Plan Participants and Beneficiaries who 

are Parties in Interest with Respect to 

the Plan. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0076. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; businesses or other forprofit entities; not-for-profit institutions. 

Total Respondents: 1,700. 

Frequency of Responses: On occasion. 

Responses: 1,700. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 0. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $428,000. 

III. Desired Focus of Comments 

The Department of Labor 

(Department) is particularly interested 

in comments that: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 


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