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Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Title: Hours at Work Survey.

OMB Number: 1220–0076.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.

Form No. Affected industries Respondents Average time per response Total burden

BLS 2000N ..................................... Service-Producing .......................... 2,125 1 hour ............................................. 2,125

BLS 2000N1 ................................... Service-Producing .......................... 2,215 1 hour ............................................. 2,125

BLS 2000P ..................................... Goods-Producing ........................... 2,875 1 hour ............................................. 2,875

BLS 2000P1 ................................... Goods-Producing ........................... 2,875 1 hour ............................................. 2,875

RAS ................................................ ......................................................... 1,000 15 minutes ...................................... 250

Total Burden Hours ................. ......................................................... ........................ ......................................................... 10,250

Total Annualized capital/startup

costs: 0.

Total annual costs (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): 0.

Description: Ratios of hours at work to

hours paid are needed to measure labor

input for productivity statistics. The

ratios of hours at work to hours paid

provided by this survey are used to

convert hours paid by employees, which

are based on data from the Current

Employment Statistic Program, to hours

at work. The resulting hours at work

measures are then incorporated into the

Bureau’s labor and multifactor

productivity statistics published

annually and quarterly. The collection

of information on hours at work began

in 1982 and must be done annually

because of the cyclical sensitivity of

productivity measures.

Agency: Employment Standards

Administration.

Title: Application for Certificate to

Employ Learners at Subminimum

Wages.

OMB Number: 1215–0012.

Agency Number: WH–209.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households; Business or other for-profit;

Not-for-profit institutions; Farms; State,

Local or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 2.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 30

minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 1.

Total Annualized capital/startup

costs: 0.

Total annual costs (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): 0007.

Description: Employers are required

by the Department of Labor to submit an

application for authorization to pay

learners subminimum wages under the

provisions of section 14(a) of the Fair

Labor Standards Act. The Department

reviews this information to determine

whether the statutory and regulatory

requirements for such authorization

have been met.

Theresa M. O’Malley,

Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 96–15533 Filed 6–18–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–24–M

Submission for OMB Emergency

Review; Comment Request

June 13, 1996.

The Department of Labor has

submitted the following (see below)

information collection request (ICR),

utilizing emergency review procedures,

to the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for review and clearance in

accordance with the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13,

44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). OMB approval

has been requested by June 20, 1996. A

copy of this ICR, with applicable

supporting documentation, may be

obtained by calling the Department of

Labor Acting Departmental Clearance

Officer, Theresa M. O’Malley ((202)

219–5095).

Comments and questions about the

ICR listed below should be forwarded to

the Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for the

Employment and Training

Administration, Office of Management

and Budget, Room 10235, Washington,

DC 20503 ((202) 395–7316).

The Office of Management and Budget

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.

Agency: Employment and Training

Administration.

Title: Summer Youth Employment

and Training Program.

OMB Number: 1205–0new.

Frequency: Other (mid/end of

summer).

Affected Public: State, local, or tribal

government.

Number of Respondents: 640.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1

hour.

Total Burden Hours: 1,280.

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 0.

Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintaining): 0.

Description: The Employment and

Training Administration (ETA) has

oversight responsibilities for the

Summer Youth Employment Training

Program (SYETP) under the Job Training

Partnership Act (JTPA) (Pub. L. 102–

376). As part of this oversight effort, the

summer enrollment levels will be

monitored. The State and service

delivery area enrollment data, collected

on July 22 and September 20, will

include planned enrollment, a ‘‘best

estimate’’ total cumulative enrollment,

and a ‘‘best estimate’’ of the number

enrolled in educational services. The

latter enrollment estimate is for

informational purposes only, as there is

no goal for educational service

participation this year. This enrollment

data will reflect only those participants

who have been enrolled in an

educational and/or work experiencetype activity. Those youth who receive

only objective assessment and

individual service strategy services will

not be included in the enrollment

reports.

Theresa M. O’Malley,

Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 96–15552 Filed 6–18–96; 8:45 am]

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Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA),

Title IV–D, Demonstration Program:

Women in Apprenticeship and

Nontraditional Occupations

AGENCY: Women’s Bureau, U.S.

Department of Labor.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Funds

and Solicitation for Grant Applications

(SGA 96–05).

SUMMARY: All information required to

submit a proposal is contained in this

announcement. All applicants for grant

funds should read this notice in its

entirety and respond to its specificity.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL),

Women’s Bureau (WB) announces its

Solicitation for Grant Applications

(SGA) first authorized under the Women

in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional

Occupations (WANTO) Act by its

competitive technical assistance grant

program for community-based

organizations (CBOs). The WANTO

competitive grant program is funded

through Job Training Partnership Act

(JTPA), Title IV-D demonstration

program. WANTO is co-administered by

the Women’s Bureau (WB) and the

Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training

(BAT), Employment and Training

Administration (ETA), with the WB

having responsibility for implementing

the competitive technical assistance

program grants. The Department expects

to award up to five (5) grants to

Community-Based Organizations (CBOs)

to provide technical assistance to

private sector employers and labor

organizations to encourage the

employment of women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations in private sector

employment.

With this year’s competition, the

Department will give priority

consideration to applications where

proposals are:

(1) LARGE PROJECT SPECIFIC: The

proposed technical assistance program

(submitted by a CBO with documented

activity-specific experience) is designed

to assist private sector employers and

labor organizations (with large project

contracts) to increase women’s

employment on large employment

projects (multi-year and $multi-million)

in private and/or public economic

development (including building)

projects in construction, transportation,

utilities and telecommunications

industries. Such technical assistance

activities include strategies for

developing and implementing changes

in workplace policy and work practices

to support the employment of women,

particularly in entering and completing

registered apprenticeship employment

programs.

(2) COMPUTER-BASED

TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK:

The proposed program (submitted by a

CBO with documented activity-specific

experience) is designed to provide for

the maintenance and development of

regional and national computer-based

telecommunications networks to

provide customized off-site technical

assistance to small and medium size

private sector employers and labor

organizations in their development and

implementation of strategies to make

workplace policy and work practice

changes to support the recruitment,

training, and retention of women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations in individual private sector

workplaces. Such technical assistance

activities should promote the

employment of women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations.

(3) GEOGRAPHIC SPECIFIC: The

proposed technical assistance program

(submitted by a CBO with documented

activity-specific experience) is designed

to implement activities to strengthen

technical assistance to private-sector

employers and labor organizations in

the Southeast and Southwest regions of

the United States who want assistance

in the development and implementation

of strategies that provide for workplace

changes in policies and work practices

to support women in apprenticeship

and nontraditional occupations,

particularly as cited in (1) and (2) above.

Such technical assistance activities

should promote the employment of

minority women in apprenticeship and

nontraditional occupations.

MOREOVER, the Department will

give up to twenty-five (25) bonus rating

points to proposals reflecting the above

criteria when the proposal includes (1)

established partnership with the

employers and labor organizations that

expands the dollar amount, size and

scope of the proposal; and (2) specific

and written commitment with timeline

for the employment of women in

registered apprenticeship and/or

nontraditional employment.

This notice describes the background,

the application process, statement of

work, evaluation criteria, and reporting

requirements for Solicitation for Grant

Applications (SGA 96–05). WB

anticipates that a total amount of

$610,000 will be available for the

support of all grants using

demonstration funding. The WB will

provide the technical and policy

leadership with this project.

DATES: One (1) ink-signed original,

complete grant application (plus five (5)

copies of the Technical Proposal and

two (2) copies of the Cost Proposal)

shall be submitted to the U.S.

Department of Labor, Office of

Procurement Services, Room N–5416,

Reference SGA 96–05, 200 Constitution

Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210,

not later than 4:45 p.m. EST, July 31,

1996. All applications must be received

by the Office of Procurement Services

by that time.

ADDRESSES: Applications shall be

mailed to the U.S. Department of Labor,

Office of Procurement Services,

Attention: Lisa Harvey, Reference SGA

96–05, Room N–5416, 200 Constitution

Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

announcement consists of five parts:

Part I describes the background of this

WANTO grant program and identifies

its policy and topics. Part II describes

the application process, providing

detailed guidelines for use in applying

for demonstration grants. Part III

includes the Statement of Work and Key

Features of the demonstration program.

Part IV identifies and defines the

evaluation criteria to be used in

reviewing and evaluating applications.

Part V describes the deliverables and

reporting requirements.

Part I. Background

Improving women’s employment

opportunities and other employment

related equity and social issues to

promote women in the work force has

been the driving force of the Women’s

Bureau since its inception in 1920.

Within the Department of Labor, the

Director serves as the policy advisor on

women’s issues to the Secretary and

other DOL agencies charged with

improving the economic and workplace

life of American workers.

The Women’s Bureau has a history of

encouraging women to consider the

wide array of apprenticeable and other

occupations nontraditional to women.

These jobs include the traditional

skilled trades such as carpenter,

plumber, electrician, sheetmetal worker,

or welder in the construction industry,

as well as jobs in the electronics

industries, other technical jobs that

require computer-based skills to

customize, service, build and repair

precision machinery in manufacturing,

and other technical computer-based jobs

in the service sector industries such as

health care, finance, utilities,

telecommunications and transportation.

In fulfilling their responsibilities to

promote profitable employment

opportunities for women, the Bureau of

Apprenticeship and Training and the

Women’s Bureau have come together to
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jointly administer the Women in

Apprenticeship and Nontraditional

Occupations (WANTO) Act and its

technical assistance demonstration

program grants.

The Women’s Bureau co-administers

WANTO with the Bureau of

Apprenticeship and Training (BAT),

formerly the Apprentice-Training

Service. BAT was established in 1937 as

the national administrative agency in

the Department of Labor to carry out the

objectives of the National

Apprenticeship Law, guided by the

recommendations of the Federal

Committee on Apprenticeship. BAT has

the objective to stimulate and assist

industry in the development, expansion,

and improvement of apprenticeship and

training programs designed to provide

the skilled workers required by the

American economy.

Definitions. Nontraditional

Occupations are those where women

account for less than 25 percent of the

persons employed in a single

occupational group. Generally speaking,

Apprenticeship includes a formal paid

training-work agreement where labor

and management work together to

promote learning on the job; to support

the ‘‘hands on’’ learning, there must be

related theoretical instruction (often

classroom). After completing the

program standards successfully—

usually 3 to 5 years—the apprentice is

awarded a certificate of completion by

either the Bureau of Apprenticeship and

Training or the State Apprenticeship

Committee Agency.

A. Authorities

The technical assistance grants were

first authorized under the Women in

Apprenticeship and Nontraditional

Occupations (WANTO) Act, Public Law

102–530, approved October 27, 1992.

Funded through the Job Training

Partnership Act (JTPA), Title IV–D, the

Bureau of Apprenticeship (BAT/ETA)

and the Women’s Bureau have a Intraagency Agreement to co-administer

WANTO. The WB has responsibility for

implementing the Solicitation for Grant

Applications (SGA) process for the

Technical Assistance (TA) grants to

Community-Based Organizations

(CBOs).

B. Purpose of the Demonstration

The purpose of the WANTO

demonstration program is to provide

technical assistance to employers and

labor organizations to encourage the

increased employment of women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations.

Further, in accordance with the

directives of the Women in

Apprenticeship and Nontraditional

Occupations (WANTO) Act, the

Women’s Bureau is continuing to

develop a data bank of (1) employers

and labor organizations seeking

technical assistance and (2)

organizations with experience working

to promote the employment of women

in apprenticeship and nontraditional

employment. The Bureau will update

and expand its directory of

apprenticeship and nontraditional

training and employment programs

serving women to function as a catalyst

in developing a listing of employers and

labor organizations and experienced

NTO community-based organizations

(CBOs) into a data base referred to as the

‘‘WANTO Referral Network.’’ To list

your preapprenticeship, apprenticeship,

or nontraditional occupational training

or placement program with the Bureau’s

‘‘WANTO Referral Network,’’ please

provide the following information:

(1) Program Name:

(2) Administrative Agency:

(3) Address:

(4) Executive Director:

(5) Contact Person:

(6) Contact Telephone Number:

(7) Brief Description of Services:

Please send your response to:

Women’s Bureau, Office of the

Secretary, WANTO Network, Room S–

3317, U.S. Department of Labor, 200

Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20210. (Telephone

(202) 219–8913 x114)

Part II. Application Process

A. Eligible Applicants

1. Community-Based Organizations

(CBOs) are eligible applicants to receive

technical assistance grants. The term

‘‘community-based organization’’ as

defined in section 4(5) of the Job

Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C

1501(5)), means private nonprofit

organizations which are representative

of communities or significant segments

of communities and which provide job

training services. For this solicitation

communities or significant segments of

communities are the private nonprofit

organizations that have demonstrated

experience administering programs that

recruit, select, train, place, retain, and

otherwise prepare women for

employment in apprenticeship and

other nontraditional occupations (NTO).

2. Employers and Labor Organizations

are eligible to receive technical

assistance provided by communitybased organizations receiving WANTO

grants. To be selected to receive

technical assistance, employers, and

labor organizations must submit a

technical assistance request either (1)

directly to the Department of Labor,

OASAM, Office of Procurement

Services, Attention: Lisa Harvey,

Washington, D.C. 20210 or (2) the

request may be included with the CBOs

with whom there is an agreement to

partnership in preparing the response to

SGA 96–05.

B. Contents

To be considered responsive to the

Solicitation for Grant Applications

(SGA), each application must consist of

and follow the order of the sections

listed in Part III of this solicitation. The

applicant must also include information

which the applicant believes will

address the selection criteria identified

in Part IV. Technical proposals shall not

exceed 20 single sided, double spaced,

10 to 12 pitch typed pages (not

including attachments). ANY

PROPOSALS THAT DO NOT

CONFORM TO THESE STANDARDS

SHALL BE DEEMED NON-RESPONSIVE

TO THIS SGA AND WILL NOT BE

EVALUATED.

1. Technical Proposal

Each proposal shall include (a) a two

(2) page abstract which summarizes the

proposal and (b) a full description of the

CBO’s program for technical assistance,

including information required in Part

III and IV. No cost data or reference to

price shall be included in the technical

proposal.

2. Cost Proposal

The cost (business) proposal must be

separate from the technical proposal.

The transmittal letter and the grant

assurances and certifications form

(Appendix A) shall be attached to the

business proposal, which shall consist

of the following:

a. Standard Form 424 ‘‘Application

for Federal Assistance,’’ (Appendix B)

signed by an official from the applicant

organization who is authorized to enter

the organization into a grant agreement

with the Department of Labor. The

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Number (CFDA) is 17.700;

b. Standard Budget Form 424A

‘‘Budget Information Form,’’ (Appendix

C); and

c. Budget Narrative: Provide a

narrative explanation of the budget

which describes all proposed costs and

indicates how they are related to the

operation of the project. Provide this

information separately for the amount of

requested Federal funding and the

amount of proposed Non-Federal

contribution. In those applications

which propose to fund staff positions,

the budget narrative must provide

information which describes the
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number of proposed positions by title

and by the amount of staff time and

salary charged to Federal and NonFederal funding resources. The Budget

Narrative provides the detailed

description of the costs reflected on the

SF 424A.

C. Funding Levels

The Department expects to have

$610,000 to be disbursed through

WANTO grants. The Department

expects to make up to five (5) awards to

Community-Based Organizations

(CBOs). The Women’s Bureau expects

awards to range from approximately

$75,000 to $150,000.

D. Length of Grant and Grant Awards

The initial performance period for the

grants awarded under this SGA shall be

for eighteen (18) months of program

performance, with the option to extend

for up to three months as a no cost

extension to complete final reports.

Each applicant shall reflect in their

application the intention to begin

operation no later than September 30,

1996.

E. Submission

One (1) ink-signed original, complete

grant application (plus five (5) copies of

the Technical Proposal and two (2)

copies of the Cost Proposal must be

submitted to the U.S. Department of

Labor, Office of Procurement Services,

Room N–5416, 200 Constitution

Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210,

not later than 4:45 pm EST, July 31,

1996. All applications must be received

by the Office of Procurement Services

by that time. Applications sent by

telegram or facsimile (FAX) will not be

accepted.

Any application received at the Office

of Procurement Services after 4:45 pm

EST will not be considered unless it is

received before award is made and:

1. It was sent by registered or certified

mail not later than the fifth calendar day

before July 31, 1996 (i.e., not later than

July 26, 1996);

2. It is determined by the Government

that the late receipt was due solely to

mishandling by the Government after

receipt at the U.S. Department of Labor

at the above address; or

3. It was sent by U.S. Postal Service

Express Mail Next Day Service-Post

Office to Addressee, not later than 5:00

pm at the place of mailing two working

days, excluding weekends and Federal

holidays, prior to July 31, 1996 (i.e., not

later than 5:00 pm July 29, 1996).

The only acceptable evidence to

establish the date of mailing of a late

application sent by registered or

certified mail is the U.S. Postal Service

postmark on the envelope or wrapper

and on the original receipt from the U.S.

Postal Service. If the postmark is not

legible, an application received after the

above closing time and date shall be

processed as if mailed late. ‘‘Postmark’’

means a printed, stamped or otherwise

placed impression (not a postage meter

machine impression) that is readily

identifiable without further action as

having been applied and affixed by an

employee of the U.S. Postal Service on

the date of mailing. Therefore,

applicants shall request that the postal

clerk place a legible hand cancellation

bull’s-eye postmark on both the receipt

and the wrapper or envelope. The only

acceptable evidence to establish the date

of mailing of a late application sent by

U.S. Postal Service Mail Next Day

Service-Post Office to Addressee is the

date entered by the post office receiving

clerk on the ‘‘Express Mail Next Day

Service-Post Office to Addressee’’ label

and the postmark on the envelope or

wrapper and on the original receipt

from the U.S. Postal Service.

‘‘Postmark’’ has the same meaning as

defined above. Therefore, applicants

shall request that the postal clerk place

a legible hand cancellation bull’s-eye

postmark on both the receipt and the

envelope or wrapper.

The only acceptable evidence to

establish the time of receipt at the U.S.

Department of Labor is the date/time

stamp of the Office of Procurement

Services on the application wrapper or

other documentary evidence of receipt

maintained by that office.

Part III. Statement of Work—Key

Features

A. Introduction

The Women’s Bureau (Washington,

D.C.) announces the Solicitation for

Grant Applications (SGA) for

competitive grant awards first funded

under the technical assistance program

authorized by the Women in

Apprenticeship and Nontraditional

Occupations (WANTO) Act and funded

through JTPA Title IV–D. Since then,

the Employment and Training

Administration, Bureau of

Apprenticeship and Training (ETA/

BAT) has continued to fund the program

through JTPA Title IV–D and transfer

funds to the WB to continue the

technical assistance program authorized

under the WANTO Act. The WB

anticipates a transfer of funds

amounting to $610,000 for Fiscal Year

1996 and expects to make up to five (5)

grants to CBOs that will provide direct

technical assistance to change the

workplaces of private sector job

creators—employers and labor

organizations—to make private sector

workplaces more supportive to

increasing the employment of women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations (NTO).

1. CBOs may solicit employers and

labor organizations that request

technical assistance in preparing their

workplace to promote women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations (NTOs) and include such

agreements in their proposal in response

to SGA 96–05. Priority will be given to

proposals that include specific

provisions to providing technical

assistance to employers and labor

organizations with (1) contracts for work

on large employment projects; (2)

regional and national computer-based

telecommunications networks; and (3)

emphasis on geographic areas of the

Southeast and Southwest.

2. At the same time, the Department

will continue to build an inventory (as

directed by the WANTO legislation) of

workplace technical assistance requests

from employers and labor organizations

to promote the increase in employment

of women in apprenticeship and

nontraditional occupations sent directly

to the Office of Procurement Services,

Room N–5416, Reference SGA 96–05,

U.S. Department of Labor, 200

Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20210, Attention: Lisa

Harvey.

3. Technical assistance requests from

both CBOs (as a part of the technical

proposal) and requests sent directly to

the Department of Labor by employers

and labor organizations should be in

writing.

4. The Department will award only

one grant per CBO, with or without

multiple service providers or

subcontractors. The total amount of

each grant will depend upon the total

amount of direct technical assistance to

be provided. Applicants should provide

estimated cost (hourly or fixed rates) for

specific technical assistance services

they are prepared to perform in the cost

proposal.

5. Since the thrust of this SGA is

technical assistance to employers and

labor organizations to attain workplace

change responsive to the increase in

women in apprenticeship and

nontraditional occupations, the program

of this SGA is designed to be employerworkplace driven. Allowable grant

activities do not include CBO capacity

building services, or the operation of

CBO ongoing training activities unless

they are directly related to the provision

of technical assistance to make job

creators’ workplaces—employers and

labor organizations—more responsive to

increased employment and support for
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women in apprenticeship and

nontraditional occupations.

B. Program Requirements

The Department, through this

competition, is seeking CommunityBased Organization grantees with a

record of accomplishment, with overall

organizational experience and facilities,

and with staff who can demonstrate the

necessary technical knowledge and

experience that can ensure successful

completion of provision of technical

assistance to employers and labor

organizations.

In the grant application process,

Community-Based Organization grant

applicants should include a specific

program for providing technical

assistance to mega project contractors

and others, including the name and

address of projects that they have

developed working relationships with

for this round of WANTO activities.

CBOs are also required to present

evidence of their experience,

qualifications, technical knowledge of

programs to assist job creators to recruit,

select, train, place and retain women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations.

1. Provide Technical Assistance

Community-Based Organization

(CBO) Eligibility: Definition. The term

‘‘community-based organization’’ as

defined in section 4(5) of the Job

Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C

1501(5)), means private nonprofit

organizations which are representative

of communities or significant segments

of communities that provide job training

services.

a. For this solicitation, the significant

segment of communities are

organizations that have demonstrated

and documented experience in

providing and administering programs

that prepare women for employment in

apprenticeable occupations or other

nontraditional occupations.

b. Community-Based Organizations

(CBOs), for this competition, do not

include for profit or public entities such

as, the Job Training Partnership System,

hospitals, educational institutions—

schools, colleges and universities.

2. Community-Based Organizations:

Scope of Work

The Women’s Bureau, is seeking

Community-Based Organizations (CBOs)

with a record of accomplishment in the

areas related to increasing the

employment of women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations.

a. CBOs will provide Technical

Assistance (TA) to employers and labor

organizations to assist them in preparing

their workplaces to increase the

employment of women in

apprenticeship training and

nontraditional occupations.

Each proposal for funding should

include a direct and specific statement

on how the proposed activities will

increase the employment of women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

employment in private sector

workplaces, increasing self-sufficiency

for them and their families. . . . Each

proposal for funding should include (1)

a specific feasibility study/examination

to produce a proposed ‘‘plan of action’’

for providing technical assistance to

employers and labor organizations

included with the proposal; (2) plan for

assessing and evaluating the technical

assistance activities provided during the

grant period, in addition to the grant’s

final report; (3) plan for a ‘‘how-to-doit’’ technical assistance manual as a

result of the grant activities.

3. Scope of CBO Technical Assistance

Activities—Key Features

CBOs’ technical assistance tasks

include employer or labor organization

requests that will promote the increased

employment of women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations in the requester’s

workplace. These technical assistance

activities include strategies to

implement policy and work practices

changes which may include a wide

variety of technical assistance to

prepare, recruit, promote and retain

women in apprentice and nontraditional

employment.

While WANTO proposals can be

submitted for any employer and/or labor

organization technical assistance

program that is designed to increase the

employment of women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations, the Department will give

priority consideration to applications

where proposals focus on:

(1) LARGE PROJECT SPECIFIC: The

proposed technical assistance program

(submitted by a CBO with documented

activity-specific experience) is designed

to assist private sector employers and

labor organizations (with large project

contracts) to increase women’s

employment on large (multi-year and

$multi-million) in private and/or public

economic development (including

building) projects in construction,

transportation, utilities and

telecommunications industries. Such

technical assistance activities include

strategies for developing and

implementing changes in workplace

policy and work practices to support the

employment of women, particularly in

entering and completing registered

apprenticeship employment programs.

(2) COMPUTER-BASED

TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK:

The proposed program (submitted by a

CBO with documented activity-specific

experience) is designed to provide for

the maintenance and development of

regional and national computer-based

telecommunications networks to

provide customized off-site technical

assistance to small and medium size

private-sector employers and labor

organizations in their development and

implementation of strategies to make

workplace policy and work practice

changes to support the recruitment,

training, and retention of women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations in individual private-sector

workplaces. Such technical assistance

activities should promote the

employment of women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations.

(3) GEOGRAPHIC SPECIFIC: The

proposed technical assistance program

(submitted by a CBO with documented

activity-specific experience) is designed

to implement activities to strengthen

technical assistance to private-sector

employers and labor organizations in

the Southeast and Southwest regions of

the United States who want assistance

in the development and implementation

of strategies that provide for workplace

changes in policies and work practices

to support women in apprenticeship

and nontraditional occupations,

particularly as cited in (1) and (2) above.

Such technical assistance activities

should promote the employment of

minority women in apprenticeship and

nontraditional occupations.

MOREOVER, the Department will

award twenty-five (25) bonus rating

points to proposals reflecting the above

criteria when the proposal includes (1)

established partnership with the

employers and labor organizations that

expands the dollar amount, size and

scope of the proposal; and (2) specific

and written commitment with timeline

for the employment of women in

registered apprenticeship and/or

nontraditional employment.

4. Capabilities and Qualifications of

CBO and Staff

Applicant CBOs are asked to provide

information on organizational capacity,

organizational management and staffing

charts, and technical assistance

experience with employers and labor

organization, qualifications of the

principal investigator(s) and staff who

will provide both the ‘‘hands on’’

services and related written products

that describe the project activities in a

professional manner in the management

and staff loading plans. In addition,
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applicant CBOs shall provide responses

to items a–e and their subparts listed

below:

a. Briefly describe and

* * * Provide complete resumes that

describe the qualifications of persons to

provide technical assistance in the area

of increasing employment of women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations. Include both education

and work experience.

* * * Provide work references, to

support principal investigator and

support staff qualifications to provide

technical assistance in the area of

women in apprenticeship and

nontraditional occupations.

* * * Briefly describe physical

resource facilities that support your

organization’s human resources delivery

of the technical assistance—book and

video library, conference rooms,

computer hardware and software, etc.

b. Briefly describe your organization’s

experience in preparing women to gain

employment in apprenticeable

occupations or other nontraditional

occupations;

* * * Briefly describe your

organization’s current services.

* * * State your organization’s

current funding level and sources of

funds.

* * * Describe your organization’s

experience and success in the provision

of services to women in preparing them

for gainful employment in

apprenticeable and other nontraditional

occupations.

* * * Describe what your

organization would consider as its most

outstanding success over the last two

years?

* * * Provide customer references

that specifically support your

organization’s experience and

qualifications to provide technical

assistance in the area of women in

apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations.

c. Briefly describe your organization’s

experience in delivering technical

assistance.

* * * Briefly describe the geographic

location of your organization’s technical

assistance services and any experience

in policy and/or written technical

publications, including ‘‘how-to.’’

* * * Include (in the appendix)

copies of publications, such as, policy

papers/studies, manuals or ‘‘how-tos’’

and feasibility studies related to women

in apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations that your organization has

developed.

* * * Briefly describe target groups of

women to which your organization has

provided recruitment, training,

placement, retention and promotion

services; for what types of occupations

and industries.

* * * Briefly describe your

organization’s relationship with the

Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training

or the State Apprenticeship Committee.

d. Briefly describe your organization’s

experience working with the business

community to prepare business to place

women in apprenticeable occupations

or other nontraditional occupations;

* * * Briefly describe your

organization’s relationship and

experience with employers and labor

unions who offer apprenticeable and

nontraditional occupations.

* * * Briefly describe the type(s) of

technical assistance to employers

provided previously by your

organization. What were the results of

these services.

* * * Provide business references to

support your work with the business

community to prepare business to place

women in apprenticeship and

nontraditional occupations.

* * * Briefly list the employer and

labor unions for which your

organization has provided technical

assistance.

e. List the tradeswomen or women in

nontraditional occupations as active

members of your organization, as either

employed staff or board members.

* * * List name, trade, and

organizational position of tradeswomen

and other women in nontraditional

occupations on staff or on your

organization’s Board of Directors.

* * * Include the dates when

tradeswomen served in active paid or

unpaid positions in your organization.

In addition, all applications must also

include a management and staff loading

plan. The management plan is to

include a project organization chart and

accompanying narrative which

differentiates between elements of the

applicant’s staff and subcontractors or

consultants who will be retained.

The staff loading plan must identify

all key tasks and the person-days

required to complete each task. Labor

estimates for each task must be broken

down by individuals assigned to the

task, including subcontractors and

consultants. All key tasks must be

charted to show time required to

perform them by months or weeks.

5. Use of Funds

The Technical Proposal of CBO

applicants shall describe both known

and anticipated expenditures that may

arise in the conduct of providing

technical assistance to and on

employers and labor organizations

relevant to workplace change for women

in apprenticeship and nontraditional

occupations. The Department is also

seeking proposals with leverage or other

partnership activities that will enlarge

the dollar amount, size, and scope of the

proposed WANTO financial application.

a. List activities on which grant funds

will be expended but not the dollar cost.

b. List any leverage of funds activities

taken or anticipated with this grant—

any partnerships, linkages or

coordination of activities, cooperative

funding, etc.

c. List specific activities on which

grant funds will be expended by

subgrantees (if applicable) but not the

dollar cost.

6. Continuation of Activities

The Technical Proposal of CBO

applicants shall describe any

anticipated strategies proposed by them

to encourage and promote the

continuation or expansion of grant

activities beyond the grant’s period of

program performance.

a. Briefly describe your organization’s

approach and activities to support and

encourage employers and labor

organizations in your/their efforts to

continue activities that support women

employed in apprenticeship and

nontraditional occupations in their

workplaces after they are in the

workplace and after the completion of

this project.

b. Briefly describe how your

organization will approach employers

and organizations to incorporate

technical assistance into labor/

management agreements and/or

employer policy and work practice

changes as a result of this WANTO

technical assistance funding.

c. To what extend will the changed

policy and work practices be made a

part of supervisory and employee

employment handbooks?

G. Technical Assistance Requests

1. The Department is seeking

technical assistance requests from

private-sector employers and labor

organizations who want to receive

technical assistance provided by the

community-based organizations with

WANTO grant funds to provide such

assistance. Requesting employers and

labor organizations should submit

technical assistance requests to the

Department of Labor, Attention: Lisa

Harvey, Office of Procurement Services,

Room N–5416, Reference SGA 96–05,

200 Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20210.

2. Employers and Labor Organizations

may also choose to submit their

technical assistance requests to

community-based organizations they

have established a partnership with in
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the CBO’s application to the Department

of Labor for grant award. A description

of the technical assistance request, name

and address of the requester shall be

attached to the end of the Technical

Proposal.

Part IV. Evaluation Criteria and

Selection

Applicants are advised that selection

for a grant award is to be made after

careful evaluation of technical

applications by a panel. Each panelist

will evaluate applications against the

various criteria on the basis of 100

points and a maximum additional 25

points for the bonus category.

The scores will then serve as the

primary basis to select applications for

potential award. Clarification may be

requested of grant applicants if the

situation so warrants. Please see Part

III., Section B. for additional

information on the elements against

which proposal will be reviewed.

Points

1. Technical Criteria

a. Capabilities and Qualifications of CBO and Staff ............................................................................................................................... 50

b. Use of Funds ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 25

c. Continuation of Activities ..................................................................................................................................................................... 25

2. Bonus Points

(See Part III, B–3, Scope of CBOs’ Technical Assistance Activities—Key Features)

Total .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 25

a. Proposal Focus on Large Project; Telecommunications Network or Southeast/Southwest Geographic Area combined with .......... 5

b. Established Partnership ....................................................................................................................................................................... 10

c. Written Commitment ............................................................................................................................................................................ 10

3. Cost Criteria

Proposals will be scored, based on

their costs in relation to other proposals

submitted in response to this SGA.

Specifically, the lowest priced proposal

will receive 25 points, based on the

following formula: (lowest priced

proposal/proposal cost) × 25

All other proposals will receive points

using the above formula. For example,

if the lowest priced proposal had a total

Federal budget of $5,000, it would

receive a cost score of 25. If another

proposal had a total Federal budget of

$10,000, it would receive a score of 12.5

(i.e. $5,000/$10,000) × 25).

4. Total Score

Using the above example, if the

proposal requesting $5,000 of Federal

funding received a technical score of 50,

the Total Score would be 75 points

(50 + 25 = 75); if the proposal requesting

$10,000 of Federal funding received a

technical score of 75, the Total Score

would be 87.5.

Proposals received will be evaluated

by a review panel based on the criteria

immediately following. The panel’s

recommendations will be advisory, and

final awards will be made based on the

best interests of the Government,

including but not limited to such factors

as technical quality, geographic balance.

The Department wishes to make it

clear that it is not simply the bestwritten proposals that will be chosen,

but rather those which demonstrate the

greatest experience and commitment to

assisting business to successfully

recruit, train, and retain women in

apprenticeable occupations and

nontraditional occupations and to

expand the employment and selfsufficiency options of women.

During the technical panel evaluation

of all proposals and requests, the

Department will bring together CBO

qualifications and capabilities with

employers/labor unions and other

nonunion labor organizations requests

to develop final grant activities. In

addition, the Department will also

consider geographic coverage and

occupational/industrial impact in the

final TA grant awards, as well as

broadening coverage of different CBO

service providers.

Allowable Costs: Determinations of

allowable costs shall be made in

accordance with the following

applicable Federal cost principles:

State and Local Governments—OMB

Circular A–87

Educational Institutions—OMB Circular

A–21

Non-Profit Organizations—OMB

Circular A–122

Profit Making Commercial Firms—FAR

31.2

Profit will not be considered an

allowable cost in any case.

Administrative Provisions: The grant

awarded under this SGA shall be subject

to the following administrative

standards and provisions:

29 CFR Part 97—Uniform

Administrative Requirements for

Grants and Cooperative Agreements to

State and Local Governments; for all

others 29 CFR Part 95.

29 CFR Part 96—Federal Standards for

Audit of Federally Funded Grants,

Contracts and Agreements.

Part V.

A. Deliverables

(This section is provided only so that

grantees may more accurately estimate

the staffing budgetary requirements

when preparing their proposal.

Applicants are to exclude from their

cost proposal the cost of any requested

travel to Washington, D.C.)

1. No later than four (4) weeks after

award, the grantee shall meet with the

Women’s Bureau and the Bureau of

Apprenticeship and Training to discuss

technical assistance activities, timelines,

and technical assistance outcomes

assessment for comment and final

approval. At that time the grantee’s final

technical assistance requests and CBOs

will be matched. The CBO and the

Department will discuss and make

decisions on the following program

activities:

a. The number of employers and labor

organizations to be served.

b. The methodology to be used to

change management and employee

attitudes about women in nontraditional occupations.

c. The types of systemic change

anticipated by technical assistance

strategies anticipated to be incorporated

into employer ongoing recruitment,

hiring, training and promotion of

women in apprenticeship and

apprenticeable nontraditional

occupations.
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d. The occupational, industrial and

geographical impact anticipated.

e. The supportive services to be

provided to employers and women after

successful placement into

apprenticeship or apprenticeable

nontraditional occupations.

f. The plan for the development and

maintenance of a relationship with the

State level of the Federal Bureau of

Apprenticeship and Training.

The Women’s Bureau and the Bureau

of Apprenticeship and Training will

provide input orally and in writing, if

necessary, within ten (10) working days

after the Post-Award Meeting.

2. No later than ten (10) weeks after

award, the grantee and the Women’s

Bureau will confirm the employers and

labor organizations to be served with

WANTO grant funds in a final ‘‘plan of

action’’ that can be added to as requests

increase. Such a plan will reflect the

grantee’s study/examination workplace

via an on-site visit and review of the

feasibility of the TA request by the

employer.

3. No later than twelve (12) weeks

after award, the grantee shall begin the

program of technical assistance to

employers and labor organizations to

recruit, promote and retain women in

apprenticeable occupations and other

nontraditional training for women,

characterized by employment growth

and above average earnings.

4. No later than sixteen (16) weeks

after award, the first quarterly progress

report of work done under this grant

will be due. Thereafter, quarterly reports

will be due ten (10) working days after

the end of each of the three remaining

quarters.

Quarterly progress reports should

include:

a. A description of overall progress on

work performed during the reporting

period, including (1) number, name,

address, size of the workplace,

including proportion of women with

brief profiles of employers and labor

organizations provided technical

assistance during the period; (2)

systemic workplace and policy

changes—actual or in process, including

the hiring and promotion of women

already in the workplace, career ladders

or other training activities; (3) public

presentations; (4) media articles or

appearances; (5) publications

disseminated and (6) publications

developed.

b. An indication of any current

problems which may impede

performance and the proposed

corrective action.

c. A discussion of work to be

performed during the next reporting

period.

Between scheduled reporting dates

the grantee shall also immediately

inform the Grant Officer’s Technical

Representative of significant

developments affecting the grantee’s

ability to accomplish the work.

5. No later than sixty (64) weeks after

award, the grantee shall submit, three

(3) copies of the draft final report, an

integrated draft report of the process

and results of the technical assistance

activities during the year. The Women’s

Bureau and the Bureau of

Apprenticeship and Training will

provide written comments on the draft

report within twenty (20) working days

if substantive problems are identified.

The grantee’s response to these

comments shall be incorporated into the

final report.

6. No later than seventy-four (74)

weeks after award, the grantee shall

submit one (1) DOL customer-ready

camera ready copy and four (4) copies

of the final report; one (1) diskette (IBM

compatible, WordPerfect 5.1) of the

Final Report. The report shall cover

findings, final performance data,

outcome results and assessment, and

employer or labor organization plans for

follow-up of participants. Copies of

technical assistance curricula shall be

included, as well as any plans for

replication and dissemination of

information. An Executive Summary of

the findings and recommendations,

shall either be included in the report or

accompany the report.

Signed at Washington, D.C. June 7, 1996.

Lawrence J. Kuss,

Grant Officer.

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