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[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 220 (Wednesday, November 16, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69596-69597]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-22675]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary

DOL Partnerships for Compliance Assistance Program (PCAP) and 
Request for Applications for Partnerships

AGENCY: Office of Assistant Secretary for Policy/Office of Compliance 
Assistance Policy (ASP/OCA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces an opportunity for partnerships and the 
re-opening of the DOL Partnerships for Compliance Assistance Program 
(PCAP).
    The primary goal of these partnerships is to better inform 
businesses and workers, through nonprofit third-party membership 
organizations, of the compliance assistance tools and resources the 
Department has available to help them comply with its laws and 
regulations.
    Letters of interest from nonprofit third-party membership 
organizations should contain information identifying the organization, 
including Web site URL and promotional literature describing their 
mission/purpose statement and constituent information; ideas on how a 
DOL partnership benefits the organization's constituents, members or 
stakeholders; and a contact person's name, title, address and telephone 
number. Letters of interest in PCAP should also identify the documents 
in the submission that should be kept confidential (e.g., due to 
copyright concerns).

DATES: Letters of interest will be considered if received at the 
appropriate address, as provided below, no later than 5 p.m. on January 
3, 2006.

ADDRESSES: To submit letters of interest, or for further information on 
the Partnerships for Compliance Assistance Program (PCAP), you may 
write to the following address: Office of Compliance Assistance Policy, 
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Labor, 
Attention: Barbara

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Bingham, 200 Constitution Ave NW., Rm. S2312, Washington, DC 20210.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Bingham, Director of the 
Office of Compliance Assistance Policy, (202) 693-5080, or visit http://www.dol.gov/compliance.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    In March 2004, the Department of Labor (DOL), through the Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Policy's Office of Compliance Assistance 
Policy (OCA), launched the Partnerships for Compliance Assistance 
Program (PCAP) which is aimed at promoting greater awareness and 
compliance with DOL's employment laws through partnerships and 
activities with nonprofit third-party membership organizations. Through 
DOL's and its partners' efforts, PCAP increases opportunities to 
provide DOL's customers with assistance in complying with federal 
employment laws. Following the March 2004 PCAP announcement, nine 
organizations were recommended and approved for partnership. 
Partnership activities include but are not limited to dissemination of 
compliance assistance educational materials, participation in Web 
casts, e-mail alerts of new compliance assistance tools or resources, 
newsletter articles, Web links, and speaking engagements.
    OCA is again seeking partnership applications from nonprofit third-
party trade, professional or labor membership organizations that share 
DOL's understanding of the importance of providing clear, accurate and 
easy-to-access compliance assistance to employers and other 
stakeholders, in order to protect the wages, health benefits, 
retirement security, safety and health of America's workforce.
    Partnership efforts are designed to provide nonprofit third-party 
organizations and their members with an awareness of the various laws 
and regulations DOL administers and where to get accurate and easy-to-
access information on compliance assistance. These partnerships enable 
DOL to reach a greater number of businesses and workers than it could 
solely through its own outreach efforts.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 9th day of November, 2005.
Barbara Bingham,
Director, Office of Compliance Assistance Policy.
[FR Doc. 05-22675 Filed 11-15-05; 8:45 am]
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