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also intends to award a cooperative 

agreement to an organization(s) to 

conduct research on exploitive child 

labor and forced labor in the carpet 

sectors of Nepal, Pakistan, and India. 

ILAB intends to solicit cooperative 

agreement applications from qualified 

organizations (i.e., any commercial, 

international, educational, or non-profit 

organization capable of successfully 

developing and implementing child 

labor and/or research projects) to 

implement these projects. Please refer to 

http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/grants/ 

main.htm for examples of previous 

notices of availability of funds and 

solicitations for cooperative agreement 

applications. 

Information on the specific sectors, 

geographical regions, and funding levels 

for the potential projects in the 

countries listed above will be addressed 

in a solicitation(s) for cooperative 

agreement applications to be published 

prior to September 30, 2007. Potential 

applicants should not submit inquiries 

to USDOL for further information on 

these award opportunities until after 

USDOL’s publication of the 

solicitations. For a list of frequently 

asked questions on Solicitations for 

Cooperative Agreement Applications, 

please visit http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/ 

faq/faq36.htm. 

USDOL intends to hold a bidders’

meeting on June 14, 2007, to answer 

questions potential applicants may have 

on this Solicitation for Cooperative 

Agreement process. Please see below for 

more information on the bidders’

meeting. 

DATES: Key Dates: Specific solicitations 

for cooperative agreement applications 

will be published in the Federal 

Register and remain open for at least 30 

days from the date of publication. All 

cooperative agreement awards will be 

made on or before September 30, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Submission Address: 

Applications, in response to 

solicitations published in the Federal 

Register, must be delivered to: U.S. 

Department of Labor, Procurement 

Services Center, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Room S–4306, Attention: 

Lisa Harvey, Washington, DC, 20210. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Lisa Harvey. E-mail address: 

harvey.lisa@dol.gov. All inquiries 

should make reference to the USDOL 

Combating Child Labor Through 

Education—Solicitations for 

Cooperative Agreement Applications. 

Bidders’ Meeting: A bidders’ meeting 

is scheduled to be held in Washington, 

DC, at the Department of Labor on 

Thursday, June 14, 2007, from 9:30 a.m. 

to 11:30 a.m. The purpose of this 

meeting is to provide potential 

applicants with the opportunity to ask 

questions concerning this Solicitation 

for Cooperative Agreement process. To 

register for the meeting, please call or email Ms. Doris Senko (Phone: 202–693–

4843; E-mail: senko.doris@dol.gov) by 

June 1, 2007. Please provide Ms. Senko 

with contact information including 

name, organization, address, phone 

number, and e-mail address of the 

attendees. 

Background Information: Since 1995, 

USDOL has supported technical 

cooperation programming to combat 

exploitive child labor internationally 

through the promotion of educational 

opportunities for children-in-need. In 

total, the U.S. Congress has 

appropriated to USDOL over U.S. $595 

million to support activities to combat 

exploitive child labor internationally. In 

turn, ILAB has signed cooperative 

agreements with various organizations 

to support international technical 

assistance projects to combat abusive 

child labor in over 75 countries around 

the world. 

USDOL international programming to 

combat exploitive child labor through 

education seeks to nurture the 

development, health, safety, and 

enhanced future employability of 

children around the world by 

withdrawing or preventing children 

from involvement in exploitive labor 

and providing them with access to basic 

education, vocational training and other 

services. Eliminating exploitive child 

labor depends, in part, on improving 

access to, quality of, and relevance of 

educational and training opportunities 

for children under 18 years of age. 

Without improving such opportunities, 

children withdrawn from exploitive 

forms of labor may not have viable 

alternatives to child labor and may be 

more likely to return to such work or 

resort to other hazardous means of 

subsistence. 

International projects funded by 

USDOL to combat exploitive child labor 

seek to: 

1. Withdraw or prevent children from 

involvement in exploitive child labor 

through the provision of direct 

educational and training services; 

2. Strengthen policies on child labor 

and education, the capacity of national 

institutions to combat child labor, and 

formal and transitional education 

systems that encourage working 

children and those at risk of working to 

attend school; 

3. Raise awareness of the importance 

of education for all children and 

mobilize a wide array of actors to 

improve and expand education 

infrastructures 

4. Support research and the collection 

of reliable data on child labor; and 

5. Ensure the long-term sustainability 

of these efforts. 

When working to eradicate exploitive 

child labor, USDOL strives to 

complement existing efforts, to build on 

the achievements of and lessons learned 

from these efforts, to expand impact and 

build synergies among actors, and to 

avoid duplication of resources and 

efforts. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 20th day of 

April, 2007. 

Lisa Harvey, 

Grant Officer. 

[FR Doc. E7–7962 Filed 4–25–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–28–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

137th 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 137th open meeting of 

the full Advisory Council on Employee 

Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans will 

be held on May 11, 2007. 

The session will take place in Room 

S–2508, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20210. The purpose of the open 

meeting, which will run from 1:45 p.m. 

to approximately 4:30 p.m., is to swear 

in the new members, introduce the 

Council Chair and Vice Chair, receive 

an update from the Acting Assistant 

Secretary of Labor for the Employee 

Benefits Security Administration, and 

determine the topics to be addressed by 

the Council in 2007. 

Organizations or members of the 

public wishing to submit a written 

statement may do so by submitting 25 

copies on or before May 4, 2007 to Larry 

Good, Executive Secretary, ERISA 

Advisory Council, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Suite N–5623, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. 

Statements received on or before May 4, 

2007 will be included in the record of 

the meeting. Individuals or 

representatives of organizations wishing 

to address the 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 


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accommodations should contact Larry 

Good by May 4 at the address indicated. 

Further, in accordance with section 

512(a)(1) of the Employee Retirement 

Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) 

and the provisions of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act and its 

implementing regulations issued by the 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

the charter for the Advisory Council on 

Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit 

Plans has been renewed. 

The Advisory Council will report to 

the Secretary of Labor. It will function 

solely as an advisory body and will 

operate in accordance with its charter 

and with the provisions of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act. For further 

information, contact Larry I. Good, 

Executive Secretary, Advisory Council 

on Employee Welfare and Pension 

Benefit Plans, U.S. Department of Labor, 

200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20210, telephone (202) 

693–8668. 

Signed at Washington, DC this 20th day of 

April, 2007. 

Bradford Campbell, 

Acting Assistant Secretary, Employee Benefits 

Security Administration. 

[FR Doc. E7–7957 Filed 4–25–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–29–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

[TA–W–61,177] 

Bartech Group, Inc., Anderson, IN; 

Notice of Termination of Investigation 

Pursuant to Section 221 of the Trade 

Act of 1974, as amended, an 

investigation was initiated on March 26, 

2007 in response to a petition filed on 

behalf of workers of Bartech Group, Inc., 

Anderson, Indiana. 

The petition regarding the 

investigation has been deemed invalid. 

The petition was signed by one 

dislocated worker of the subject firm. A 

petition filed by workers requires three 

signatures of workers at the subject firm. 

Consequently, the investigation has 

been terminated. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 19th day of 

April, 2007. 

Richard Church, 

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance. 

[FR Doc. E7–7967 Filed 4–25–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

[TA–W–60,753] 

CERF Brothers Bag Co., Inc.; Design 

and Product Development Department; 

Earth City, MO; Determination 

Regarding Eligibility To Apply for 

Worker Adjustment Assistance and 

Alternative Trade Adjustment 

Assistance 

On March 16, 2007, the Department 

issued an Affirmative Determination 

Regarding Application on 

Reconsideration applicable to workers 

and former workers of the subject firm. 

The notice was published in the Federal 

Register on March 22, 2007 (72 FR 

13526–13527). 

The previous investigation initiated 

on January 12, 2007, resulted in a 

negative determination issued on 

February 16, 2007, was based on the 

finding that the worker group was 

engaged in distribution of products 

manufactured abroad and workers did 

not produce an article within the 

meaning of Section 222 of the Trade Act 

of 1974. The denial notice was 

published in the Federal Register on 

February 27, 2007 (72 FR 8795). 

To support the request for 

reconsideration, the petitioner supplied 

additional information regarding a 

specific department within the subject 

firm and production performed by 

workers of this department. The 

petitioner stated that workers of Design 

and Product Development Department 

of the subject firm manufactured 

samples for marketing purposes. 

Upon further contact with the subject 

firm’s company official, it was revealed 

that workers employed at the CERF 

Brothers Bag Co., Inc., Design and 

Product Development Department, Earth 

City, Missouri manufactured prototypes 

and samples (carry bags, daypacks, and 

cargo bags) and these workers were 

separately identifiable from other 

workers at the subject firm. 

Having conducted a further 

investigation on reconsideration, it was 

revealed that the subject firm ceased 

production of prototypes and samples 

(carry bags, daypacks, and cargo bags) 

manufactured by the Design and 

Product Development Department, 

while increasing its reliance on 

imported prototypes and samples from 

2005 to 2006. 

In accordance with Section 246 the 

Trade Act of 1974 (26 U.S.C. 2813), as 

amended, the Department of Labor 

herein presents the results of its 

investigation regarding certification of 

eligibility to apply for alternative trade 

adjustment assistance (ATAA) for older 

workers. 

The group eligibility criteria for the 

ATAA program that the Department 

must consider under Section 246 of the 

Trade Act are: 

1. Whether a significant number of 

workers in the workers’ firm are 50 

years of age or older. 

2. Whether the workers in the 

workers’ firm possess skills that are not 

easily transferable. 

3. The competitive conditions within 

the workers’ industry (i.e., conditions 

within the industry are adverse). 

The ATAA investigation revealed that 

a significant number of workers in the 

workers’ at CERF Brothers Bag Co, Inc., 

Design and Development Department, 

Earth City, Missouri are not 50 years of 

age or older during the relevant time 

period and thus criterion (1) has not 

been met. 

Conclusion 

After careful review of the facts 

obtained in the investigation, I 

determine that increases of imports of 

articles like or directly competitive with 

prototypes and samples (carry bags, 

daypacks, and cargo bags), produced by 

CERF Brothers Bag Co., Inc., Design and 

Product Development Department, Earth 

City, Missouri, contributed importantly 

to the total or partial separation of 

workers and to the decline in sales or 

production at that firm or subdivision. 

In accordance with the provisions of the 

Act, I make the following certification: 

Workers of CERF Brothers Bag Co., Inc., 

Design and Product Development 

Department, Earth City, Missouri, engaged in 

employment related to the production of 

prototypes and samples of carry bags, 

daypacks, and cargo bags, who became 

totally or partially separated from 

employment on or after January 10, 2006, 

through two years from the date of 

certification are eligible to apply for 

adjustment assistance under Section 223 of 

the Trade Act of 1974. 

I also determine that workers of CERF 

Brothers Bag Co., Inc., Earth City, 

Missouri, excluding the Design and 

Product Development Department, are 

denied eligibility to apply for 

adjustment assistance under Section 223 

of the Trade Act of 1974. 

I further determine that workers of 

CERF Brothers Bag Co., Inc., Earth City, 

Missouri are denied eligibility to apply 

for alternative trade adjustment 

assistance under Section 246 of the 

Trade Act of 1974. 


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