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facsimile or electronic means, except to 

the extent permitted by § 201.8 of the 

rules (see Handbook for Electronic 

Filing Procedures, ftp://ftp.usitc.gov/ 

pub/reports/electronic—filing— 

handbook.pdf. Persons with questions 

regarding electronic filing should 

contact the Secretary (202–205–2000 or 

edis@usitc.gov. 

Any submissions that contain 

confidential business information must 

also conform with the requirements of §

201.6 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (19 CFR 201.6). 

Section 201.6 of the rules requires that 

the cover of the document and the 

individual pages be clearly marked as to 

whether they are the ‘‘confidential’’ or 

‘‘nonconfidential’’ version, and that the 

confidential business information be 

clearly identified by means of brackets. 

All written submissions, except for 

confidential business information, will 

be made available in the Office of the 

Secretary to the Commission for 

inspection by interested parties. 

The Commission intends to prepare 

only a public report in this 

investigation. The report that the 

Commission sends to the President and 

the Congress and makes available to the 

public will not contain confidential 

business information. Any confidential 

business information received by the 

Commission in this investigation and 

used in preparing the report will not be 

published in a manner that would 

reveal the operations of the firm 

supplying the information. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: April 26, 2007. 

Marilyn R. Abbott, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. E7–8256 Filed 5–1–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Workforce Investment Act (WIA) 

Section 167—The National Farmworker 

Jobs Program (NFJP) 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA), Department of 

Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of formula allocations for 

the Program Year (PY) 2007 NFJP, 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: Under Section 182(d) of the 

WIA of 1998, ETA is publishing the PY 

2007 allocations for the NFJP, 

authorized under Section 167 of the 

WIA. The allocations are distributed to 

the states by a formula that estimates, by 

state, the relative demand for NFJP 

services. The allocations in this notice 

apply to the PY beginning July 1, 2007. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before May 29, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to 

Alina M. Walker, Program Manager, 

Division of Adult Services, Room S– 

4209, Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20210, e-mail address: 

walker.alina@dol.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alina M. Walker, Program Manager, 

Division of Adult Services, Room S– 

4209, Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20210, telephone: (202) 

693–2706 (this is not a toll-free 

number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background. 

On May 19, 1999, ETA published a 

notice establishing new factors for the 

formula that allocates funds available 

for the NFJP in the Federal Register at 

64 FR 27390. This Federal Register 

notice is available at the following 

Internet address: http://www.doleta.gov/ 

MSFW/pdf/allocationtable.pdf 

The May 19, 1999, Federal Register 

may also be obtained by submitting a 

mail, e-mail or telephone request to 

Alina M. Walker, Program Manager, 

Division of Adult Services, Room S– 

4209, Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, D.C. 20210, e-mail address: 

walker.alina@dol.gov, telephone 

number (202) 693–2706 (this is not a 

toll-free number). 

The May 19, 1999, notice explained 

the purpose of the formula, i.e., 

distributing funds geographically by 

state service area on the basis of each 

area’s relative share of farmworkers who 

are eligible for enrollment in the NFJP. 

The data used to run the formula is 

comprised of a combination of data sets 

that were selected to yield the relative 

share distribution across states of 

eligible farmworkers. The combineddata set driven formula is substantially 

more relevant to the purpose of aligning 

the allocations with the eligible 

population than the allocations 

determined by the prior formula. 

For PY 2007, the data factors used in 

the formula remain unchanged since 

they were first developed in 1999. The 

data sets used for determining each 

State’s relative share of eligible 

farmworkers for PY 2007 were last 

updated in PY 2005 with more recent 

data available from the 2000 Census, the 

2003 National Agricultural Workers 

Survey (NAWS), and the 2002 Census of 

Agriculture, and also remain 

unchanged. 

II. Limitations on Uses of Section 167 

Funds 

In appropriating the funds for PY 

2007, Congress provided in the Fiscal 

Year 2007 Continuing Appropriations 

Resolution (Pub. L. 110–5) $79,752,000 

for carrying out Section 167 of the 

Workforce Investment Act of 1998, 

including $74,302,000 for state service 

area grants, $4,950,000 for migrant and 

seasonal farmworker housing grants, 

and $500,000 for Section 167 training, 

technical assistance and related 

activities. Additional funding for 

migrant rest center activities is included 

in the $500,000 available for technical 

assistance and training. 

III. PY 2007 Allocation Formula 

The calculation of the PY 2007 

formula allocation distribution 

incorporates the state-by-state relative 

shares of eligible farmworkers 

developed for the PY 2005 formula 

allocations, using the updated data sets 

described above, with various 

adjustments applied since then. The PY 

2005 calculation adjusted those state-bystate relative shares of eligible 

farmworkers by ‘‘hold-harmless’’ and 

‘‘stop-loss’’/’’stop-gain’’ limits due to 

the introduction of the updated data. 

The following year, the PY 2006 formula 

allocations were proportionately based 

on the PY 2005 formula allocations and 

further adjusted by an additional $3.8 

million appropriated by Congress for 

states whose PY 2005 allocation had 

been reduced as a result of the updated 

data used for the PY 2005 allocation 

distribution. Detailed descriptions of the 

formula methodology for PY 2005 and 

2006 are provided in the applicable 

announcements. 

The PY 2007 appropriation for the 

WIA Section 167 program is 

$74,302,000, which is $470 less than the 

corresponding PY 2006 appropriation. 

To maintain stability of funding for the 

program and consistency with the PY 

2006 congressional directions to the 

Department, the Department will 

distribute the $74,302,000 of PY 2007 

formula funding among all states in the 

same proportion as the distribution of 

the PY 2006 formula allocations. 

IV. State Combinations 

We anticipate a single plan of service 

for operating the PY 2007 NFJP in the 

jurisdiction comprised of Delaware and 

Maryland and the jurisdiction 

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comprised of Rhode Island and 

Connecticut. 

V. PY 2007 Allocations 

The ‘‘Allocation Table’’ provides the 

allocations for the NFJP in PY 2007. 

NFJP grantees and other interested 

organizations should use these figures 

in preparing proposals in response to 

the PY 2007 Solicitation for Grant 

Applications (SGA) for the National 

Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP). 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 26th day of 

April 2007. 

Emily Stover Derocco, 

Assistant Secretary, Employment and 

Training Administration. 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

[FR Doc. E7–8343 Filed 5–1–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–C 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Notice of Availability of Funds and 

Solicitation for Grant Applications 

(SGA) for Youthful Offender Registered 

Apprenticeship, Alternative Education, 

and Project Expansion Grants 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor. 

Announcement Type: Notice of 

Solicitation for Grant Applications. 

Funding Opportunity Number: SGA/ 

DFA PY 06–10. 

Catalog Federal Assistance Number: 

17.261. 

SUMMARY: The Employment and 

Training Administration announces the 

availability of approximately $20 

million for Youthful Offender Grants. 

These grants will be awarded through a 

competitive process for three categories 

of projects—(1) Registered 

Apprenticeship (to increase the 

placement of young adults being 

released from the criminal justice 

system in registered apprenticeship); (2) 

Alternative Educational Pathways (to 

increase the educational achievement 

and attainment of youth in the juvenile 

justice system); and (3) Project 

Expansion (to replicate effective 

programs for serving juvenile offenders). 

Applicants can apply for grants in more 

than one of these categories, but 

separate applications must be submitted 

for each category. 

This solicitation provides background 

information and describes the 

application submission requirements, 

outlines the process that eligible entities 

must use to apply for funds covered by 

this solicitation, and outlines the 

evaluation criteria used as a basis for 

selecting the grantees. 

DATES: Key Dates: The closing date for 

receipt of applications under this 

announcement is May 31, 2007. 

Application and submission 

information is explained in detail in 

Part IV of this SGA. There will be a 

Prospective Applicant Webinar held for 

this grant competition. The date and 

access information for this Prospective 

Applicant Webinar will be posted on 

ETA’s Web site at www.doleta.gov/ 

youth—services. 

ADDRESSES: Applications that do not 

meet the conditions set forth in this 

notice will not be considered. No 

exceptions to the submission 

requirements set forth in this notice will 

be granted. For detailed guidance, 

please refer to Section IV.C. 


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