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reference line in the cover letter, where 

indicated on Standard Form 424, and 

outside of the envelope in which the 

application is sent. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Number: 16.602. 

Executive Order 12372: This program 

is not subject to the provisions of 

Executive Order 12372. 

Morris L. Thigpen, 

Director, National Institute of Corrections. 

[FR Doc. 2010–11661 Filed 5–14–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Comment Request for Information 

Collection for OMB Control No. 1205– 

0478: American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act (ARRA) High Growth 

and Emerging Industries (HGEI) 

Grants, Extension With Revisions 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as 

part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden 

conducts a preclearance consultation 

program to provide the general public 

and federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing collections of 

information in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This 

program helps to ensure that requested 

data can be provided in the desired 

format, reporting burden (time and 

financial resources) is minimized, 

collection instruments are clearly 

understood, and the impact of collection 

requirements on respondents can be 

properly assessed. Currently, the 

Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA) is soliciting 

comments concerning the collection of 

data for American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act (ARRA) High Growth 

and Emerging Industries (HGEI) Grants, 

expiring on October 31, 2010. This 

notice utilizes standard clearance 

procedures in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 

CFR 1320.12. This information 

collection follows an emergency review 

that was conducted in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

and 5 CFR 1320.13. The submission for 

OMB emergency review was approved 

on April 1, 2010. A copy of this ICR can 

be obtained from the RegInfo.gov Web 

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

do/PRAMain. 

A copy of the current proposed 

information collection request (ICR) can 

be obtained by contacting the office 

listed below in the ADDRESSES section of 

this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section below on or before 

July 16, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

to Dani Abdullah, Room N4643, 

Employment and Training 

Administration, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. 

Telephone number: 202–693–3949 (this 

is not a toll-free number). Fax: 202–693– 

3890. E-mail: green.jobs@dol.gov. Please 

reference OMB Control Number 1205– 

0478 in the subject line of the e-mail. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: The American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 

(The Recovery Act) was signed into law 

by President Obama on February 17, 

2009. Among other funding directed to 

the Department of Labor, the Recovery 

Act provides $750 million for a program 

of competitive grants for worker training 

and placement in high growth and 

emerging industries, the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) 

High Growth and Emerging Industries 

(HGEI) grants. It is critical to record the 

impact of these Recovery Act resources, 

current information on participants in 

these grants, and the services provided 

to them. Therefore, to obtain 

comprehensive information on 

participants served by and services 

provided with Recovery Act resources, 

ETA proposes an extension with 

revisions of an information collection 

set for ARRA HGEI grantees. 

II. Review Focus: 

The Department of Labor 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 submissions 

of responses. 

III. Current Actions: 

Type of Review: Extension with 

revisions. 

Title: American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act (ARRA) High Growth 

and Emerging Industries (HGEI) Grants. 

OMB Number: 1205–0478. 

Affected Public: ARRA HGEI Grantees 

(includes grantees that provide training 

and non-training grant-funded services). 

Form(s): ETA–9153. 

Total Annual Respondents: 244. 

Annual Frequency: Quarterly. 

Total Annual Responses: 976. 

Average Time per Response (Training 

Grantees): 262 Hours. 

Average Time per Response (Nontraining Grantees): 16 Hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours (Training Grantees): 159,296 

Hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours (Non-Training Grantees): 5,888 

Hours. 

Total Annual Burden Cost for 

Respondents: $0. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this comment request will be 

summarized and/or included in the 

request for Office of Management and 

Budget approval of the information 

collection request; they will also 

become a matter of public record. 

Signed: At Washington, DC this 7th day of 

May, 2010. 

Jane Oates, 

Assistant Secretary, Employment and 

Training Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Job Corps: Final Finding of No 

Significant Impact (FONSI) for Small 

Vertical Wind Turbine and Solar 

Installation at the Paul Simon Job 

Corps Center Located at 3348 South 

Kedzie Avenue, Chicago, IL 60623 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OSEC), 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of final finding of no 

significant impact. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Council on 

Environmental Quality Regulations (40 

CFR part 1500–08) implementing 

procedural provisions of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the 

Department of Labor, Office of the 

Secretary (OSEC), in accordance with 29 

CFR 11.11(d), gives final notice of the 

proposed construction of a small 

vertical axis wind turbine and solar 

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Center, and that this project will not 

have a significant adverse impact on the 

environment. In accordance with 29 

CFR 11.11(d) and 40 CFR 1501.4(e)(2), 

a preliminary Environmental 

Assessment was presented through a 

public meeting held on 5/4/2010 at the 

Paul Simon Job Corps Center. No 

comments were received regarding the 

Environmental Assessment (EA). OSEC 

has reviewed the conclusion of the EA, 

and agrees with the finding of no 

significant impact. This notice serves as 

the Final Finding of No Significant 

Impact (FONSI) for Small Vertical Wind 

Turbine and Solar Installation at the 

Paul Simon Job Corps Center located at 

3348 South Kedzie Avenue, Chicago, IL 

60623. The preliminary EA are adopted 

in final with no change. 

Dated: May 10, 2010. 

Edna Primrose, 

National Director of Job Corps. 

[FR Doc. 2010–11662 Filed 5–14–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Notice of Availability of Funds and 

Solicitation for Grant Applications 

(SGA) to Fund Demonstration Projects 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor. 

Announcement Type: New, Notice of 

Solicitation for Grant Applications 

(SGA). 

Funding Opportunity Number: SGA/ 

DFA PY 09–10. 

Catalog of Federal Assistance 

Number: 17.261. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor 

(DOL), Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA), announces the 

availability of $12.2 million from funds 

made available through the FY 2010 

DOL budget for Training and 

Employment Services for grants to State 

Workforce Agencies (SWA) to develop 

the Workforce Data Quality Initiative 

(WDQI). Grants awarded will provide 

SWAs the opportunity to develop and 

use State workforce longitudinal 

administrative data systems. These State 

longitudinal data systems will, at a 

minimum, include information on 

programs that provide training, 

employment services, and 

unemployment insurance and will be 

linked longitudinally at the individual 

level to allow for analysis which will 

lead to enhanced opportunity for 

program evaluation and lead to better 

information for customers and 

stakeholders of the workforce system. 

Where such longitudinal systems do not 

exist or are incipient, WDQI grant 

assistance may be used to design and 

develop workforce data systems that are 

longitudinal and which are designed to 

link with relevant education data or 

longitudinal education data systems. 

WDQI grant assistance may also be used 

to improve upon and more effectively 

use existing State longitudinal systems. 

This solicitation provides background 

information on workforce longitudinal 

database systems, describes the 

application submission requirements, 

outlines the process that eligible entities 

must use to apply for funds covered by 

this solicitation, and details how 

grantees will be selected. 

DATES: Key Dates: The closing date for 

receipt of applications under this 

announcement is August 16, 2010. 

Applications must be received at the 

address below no later than 4 p.m. 

(Eastern Time). Application and 

submission information is explained in 

detail in Section IV of this SGA. A prerecorded Webinar for prospective 

applicants will be online at: http:// 

www.workforce3one.org and available 

for viewing on June 21, 2010, by 3 p.m. 

ET, and accessible any time after that 

date. Reviewing this Webinar is not 

mandatory but applicants are 

encouraged to take advantage of this 

resource to get questions answered. 

ADDRESSES: Mailed applications must be 

addressed to the U.S. Department of 

Labor, Employment and Training 

Administration, Division of Federal 

Assistance, Attention: Willie E. Harris, 

Grant Officer, Reference SGA/DFA PY 

09–10, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Room N4716, Washington, DC 20210. 

Applications sent via facsimile (fax), 

telegram or e-mail will not be accepted. 

Information about applying online also 

can be found in Section IV.C of this 

document. Applicants are advised that 

mail delivery in the Washington, DC 

area may be delayed due to mail 

decontamination procedures. Handdelivered proposals will be received at 

the above address. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Grant Purpose 

The WDQI will provide funding to 

selected SWAs to accomplish a 

combination of the following objectives: 

i. Develop or improve State workforce 

longitudinal data systems. Workforce 

data are already reported by localities, 

States, and nationally so grantees will 

not be creating entirely new data 

collection systems. What will be new, 

however, is coordinating, or expanding/ 

strengthening the coordination of these 

workforce data sources so individuallevel records can be matched to one 

another across programs and over time. 

ii. Enable workforce data to be 

matched with education data, to 

ultimately create longitudinal data 

systems with individual-level 

information from pre-kindergarten (preK) through post-secondary and into the 

workforce system to build capacity to 

measure outcomes while protecting 

individual privacy. For many years DOL 

has supported efforts to create 

workforce longitudinal administrative 

databases linked to data from other 

programs, including education data. The 

WDQI will greatly extend and expand 

this effort and complement the 

Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems 

(SLDS) grant program administered by 

the Department of Education (ED). 

iii. Improve the quality and breadth of 

the data in workforce longitudinal data 

systems. It is important that data in the 

longitudinal systems are complete and 

accurate and include an array of 

performance information in order to 

enhance knowledge about the workforce 

system and the impact of State 

workforce development programs. Data 

collection systems might also be 

improved to strengthen data validity 

and to minimize the reporting burden 

on State agencies and training 

providers. 

iv. Use longitudinal data to provide 

useful information about program 

operations and analyze the performance 

of education and training programs. 

Policymakers and practitioners can use 

this data analysis to make programmatic 

adjustments that improve the workforce 

system. 

v. Provide user-friendly information 

to consumers to help them select the 

education and training programs that 

best suit their needs. For example, 

Washington State displays information 

about training program outcomes at 

http://www.careerbridge.wa.gov, 

allowing consumers to compare the 

performance of different training 

providers. 

The relative prominence of each 

objective for a given State will primarily 

be determined by the State’s ‘‘launchpoint’’ for developing a workforce 

longitudinal data system that will 

ultimately be linkable to education data 

and will reflect high data quality 

standards while protecting individual 

privacy (see the Section I.A.5). 

Additional details on the ‘‘launch point’’ 

for States can be found in the section of 

this SGA in Section I.A.1. 

B. Background 

President Obama’s FY 2010 Budget 

requested $15 million and the Congress 


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