16428 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 68 / Friday, April 10, 2009 / Notices 

Commission’s investigation and of a 

public hearing to be held in connection 

therewith was given by posting copies 

of the notice in the Office of the 

Secretary, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, Washington, DC, and by 

publishing the notice in the Federal 

Register of November 21, 2008 (73 FR 

70671). The hearing was held in 

Washington, DC, on February 25, 2009, 

and all persons who requested the 

opportunity were permitted to appear in 

person or by counsel. 

The Commission transmitted its 

determination in this investigation to 

the Secretary of Commerce on April 6, 

2009. The views of the Commission are 

contained in USITC Publication 4070 

(April 2009), entitled Certain Steel 

Threaded Rod From China: 

Investigation No. 731–TA–1145 (Final). 

Issued: April 6, 2009. 

By order of the Commission. 

Marilyn R. Abbott, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. E9–8155 Filed 4–9–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Submission for OMB Review: 

Comment Request 

April 2, 2009. 

The Department of Labor (DOL) 

hereby announces the submission of 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; including 

among other things a description of the 

likely respondents, proposed frequency 

of response, and estimated total burden 

may be obtained from the RegInfo.gov 

Web site at http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain or by contacting 

Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on 202–693– 

4223 (this is not a toll-free number)/ 

e-mail: DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. 

Interested parties are encouraged to 

send comments to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attn: OMB Desk Officer for the 

Department of Labor—ETA, Office of 

Management and Budget, Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503, Telephone: 

202–395–7316/Fax: 202–395–6974 

(these are not toll-free numbers), E-mail: 

OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov within 

30 days from the date of this publication 

in the Federal Register. In order to 

ensure the appropriate consideration, 

comments should reference the OMB 

Control Number (see below). 

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: Employment and Training 

Administration. 

Type of Review: New collection 

(Request for a new OMB Control 

Number). 

Title of Collection: Workforce 

Innovation in Regional Economic 

Development (WIRED) Initiative 

Evaluation. 

OMB Control Number: 1205–0NEW. 

Agency Form Numbers: N/A. 

Affected Public: State, Local and 

Tribal Governments and Private Sector 

(Businesses or other For-Profits, Not for 

Profit Institutions). 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1,993. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,416. 

Estimated Annual Costs Burden 

(excludes burden hour costs): $0. 

Description: This inquiry covers 

qualitative information to be obtained 

through a survey of key partners and 

stakeholders in Workforce Innovation in 

Regional Economic Development’s 

(WIRED) regional transformation efforts. 

The data collection will gather 

information about the nature of regional 

leaders and their organizations’ roles 

and relationships in the evolving 

collaborative partnerships. It will also 

provide information about their efforts 

to achieve regional transformation of 

workforce development, economic 

development and related education 

systems during the period of the 

Initiative. 

The second administration of the data 

collection, approximately six months 

after Federal funding ends for WIRED, 

will be to assess sustainability efforts to 

work collaboratively to achieve regional 

transformation, and to reveal whether 

these substantial investments 

successfully inspired continued efforts 

to promote integration of regional 

systems to further talent development. 

For additional information, see related 

notice published at Volume 73 FR 

59672 on October 9, 2008. 

Darrin A. King, 

Departmental Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–8190 Filed 4–9–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Combating Exploitive Child Labor 

Through Education 

AGENCY: Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to solicit 

cooperative agreement applications. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor 

(USDOL), Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs (ILAB), intends to obligate 

approximately USD 20 million to 

support cooperative agreement awards 

to organizations to address exploitive 

child labor internationally. ILAB 

intends to award, through a competitive 

and merit-based process, cooperative 

agreements to organizations to develop 

projects to combat exploitive child labor 

through education in the following four 

countries: Guatemala, Indonesia, Nepal, 

and Rwanda. ILAB intends to fund 

projects that focus on withdrawing and 

preventing children who are engaged in, 

or at risk of engaging in, exploitive child 

labor through the provision of direct 

educational services, such as formal and 

non-formal education and vocational 

training programs. The projects should 

propose innovative ways to provide 

these educational services to target 

populations and address the gaps and 

challenges to basic education found in 

the countries mentioned above, 

including by working with governments 

of host countries to eliminate school 

fees that create a barrier to education. 

ILAB intends to solicit cooperative 

agreement applications from qualified 

organizations (i.e., any commercial, 

international, educational, or non-profit 

organization, including any faith-based, 

community-based, or public 

international organizations(s), capable 

of successfully developing and 

implementing child labor projects) to 

implement these projects. Please refer to 

http://www.dol.gov/ilab/grants/grantspast.htm for examples of previous 

Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 68 / Friday, April 10, 2009 / Notices 16429 

notices of availability of funds and 

solicitations for cooperative agreement 

applications (SGAs). 

Key Dates: The forthcoming 

solicitation(s) for cooperative agreement 

applications will be published on 

http://www.grants.gov and USDOL/ 

ILAB’s Web site. A brief synopsis of the 

SGA(s), which will include Web site 

links to the full text solicitation(s), will 

be published in the Federal Register. 

The SGA(s) will remain open for at least 

60 days from the date of publication. All 

cooperative agreement awards will be 

made on or before September 30, 2009. 

Submission Information: Applications 

in response to the forthcoming 

solicitation(s) may be submitted 

electronically via http://www.grants.gov 

or hard copy by mail. Hard copy 

applications must be delivered to: U.S. 

Department of Labor, Procurement 

Services Center, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Room S–4307, 

Washington, DC 20210, Attention: Lisa 

Harvey. Any application sent by other 

delivery methods, including e-mail, 

telegram, or facsimile (FAX) will not be 

accepted. 

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.Information on specific 

target groups, sectors, geographic 

regions, and funding levels for the 

potential projects in the countries listed 

above will be addressed in one or more 

solicitations for cooperative agreement 

applications to be published prior to 

September 30, 2009. Potential 

applicants should not submit inquiries 

to USDOL for further information on 

these award opportunities until after 

USDOL’s publication of the 

solicitation(s). For a list of frequently 

asked questions on ILAB’s Solicitations 

for Cooperative Agreement Applications 

(based on last year’s solicitation, SGA 

08–01), please visit http://www.dol.gov/ 

ilab/grants/sg08–01-faq.htm. 

Bidders’ Meeting: USDOL intends to 

hold a bidders’ meeting on May 28, 

2009 in Washington, DC at the 

Department of Labor from 1:30 p.m. to 

3:30 p.m. The purpose of this meeting 

is to provide potential applicants with 

the opportunity to ask questions 

concerning this Solicitation for 

Cooperative Agreement Applications 

process. To register for the meeting, 

please call or e-mail Ms. Doris Senko 

(Phone: 202–693–4843; E-mail: 

senko.doris@dol.gov) by May 21, 2009. 

Please provide Ms. Senko with 

attendees’ contact information, 

including name, organization, address, 

phone number, and e-mail address. 

Background Information: Since 1995, 

the U.S. Congress has appropriated over 

USD 720 million to ILAB for efforts to 

combat exploitive child labor 

internationally. This funding has been 

used to support technical cooperation 

projects to combat exploitive child 

labor, including the worst forms, in 

more than 80 countries around the 

world. Technical cooperation projects 

funded by USDOL range from targeted 

action programs in specific sectors of 

work to more comprehensive programs 

that support national efforts to eliminate 

the worst forms of child labor, as 

defined by International Labor 

Organization (ILO) Convention 182. 

Projects funded by USDOL to combat 

exploitive child labor internationally 

seek to: 

1. Withdraw and 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. 

Since 2001, USDOL-funded projects 

have withdrawn or prevented over 1 

million children from exploitive child 

labor. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 6th day of 

April 2009. 

Lisa Harvey, 

Grant Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–8151 Filed 4–9–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–28–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

[TA–W–65,329] 

General Motors/Toledo Powertrain, 

Toledo, OH; Notice of Termination of 

Investigation 

Pursuant to Section 221 of the Trade 

Act of 1974, as amended, an 

investigation was initiated on February 

23, 2009 in response to a worker 

petition filed by a company official and 

the United Auto Workers Local 14 on 

behalf of workers at General Motors/ 

Toledo Poewertrain, Toledo, Ohio. 

The petitioners have requested that 

the petition be withdrawn. 

Consequently, the investigation has 

been terminated. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 20th day of 

March 2009. 

Richard Church, 

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance. 

[FR Doc. E9–8286 Filed 4–9–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the Arts; Arts 

Advisory Panel 

Pursuant to Section 10(a)(2) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. 

L. 92–463), as amended, notice is hereby 

given that two meetings of the Arts 

Advisory Panel to the National Council 

on the Arts will be held at the Nancy 

Hanks Center, 1100 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, 20506 

as follows (ending times are 

approximate): 

AccessAbility (Application Review): 

May 7, 2009 by teleconference. This 

meeting, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., will be 

closed. 

Literature (Application Review): May 

14–15, 2009, in Room 714. This 

meeting, from 9 p.m. to 6 p.m. on May 

14th and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 

15th, will be closed. 

The closed portions of meetings are 

for the purpose of Panel review, 

discussion, evaluation, and 

recommendations on financial 

assistance under the National 

Foundation on the Arts and the 

Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 

including information given in 

confidence to the agency. In accordance 

with the determination of the Chairman 

of February 28, 2008, these sessions will 

be closed to the public pursuant to 

subsection (c)(6) of section 552b of Title 

5, United States Code. 

Further information with reference to 

these meetings can be obtained from Ms. 

Kathy Plowitz-Worden, Office of 

Guidelines & Panel Operations, National 

Endowment for the Arts, Washington, 

DC 20506, plowitzk@arts.endow.gov, or 

call 202/682–5691.