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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

National Institute of Corrections 

Solicitation for a Cooperative 

Agreement: Gender Responsive 

Management and Practice Assessment 

(Facility Version) 

AGENCY: National Institute of 

Corrections, Department of Justice. 

ACTION: Solicitation for a Cooperative 

Agreement. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals 

from organizations, groups or 

individuals who would like to enter into 

a cooperative agreement with NIC to 

work with an advisory team of experts 

on gender-informed policy and practice 

to complete the design and initial 

testing of a women offender policy and 

practice assessment protocol. 

DATES: Applications must be received 

by 4 p.m. EDT on Friday, August 22, 

2008. 

ADDRESSES: Mailed applications must be 

sent to: Director, National Institute of 

Corrections, 320 First St., NW., Room 

5007, Washington, DC 20534. 

Applicants are encouraged to use 

Federal Express, UPS, or similar service 

to ensure delivery by the due date. 

Hand delivered applications should 

be brought to 500 First Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20534. At the front 

desk, dial 7–3106, extension 0 for 

pickup. 

Faxed applications will not be 

accepted. Only e-mailed applications 

which are submitted via http:// 

www.grants.gov will be accepted. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A 

copy of this announcement and the 

required application forms can be 

downloaded from the NIC Web page at 

http://www.nicic.gov. Click on ‘‘About 

Us’’ then ‘‘Cooperative Agreements’’ for 

announcements. Hard copies of the 

announcement can be obtained by 

calling Pam Davison at 1–800–995–6423 

ext. 3–0484 or e-mail 

pdavison@bop.gov. 

All technical or programmatic 

questions regarding this solicitation 

should be directed to Maureen Buell, 

Correctional Program Specialist, 

National Institute of Corrections. She 

can be reached by calling 202–514–0121 

or by e-mail at mbuell@bop.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: Over 18 months, a team 

of researchers and practitioners outlined 

the essential domains of an assessment 

protocol for gender-responsive policy, 

programs and operations for women 

offenders. To date the domains address: 

Agency/Organizational Philosophy; 

External/System/Stakeholder Support; 

Leadership and Management; 

Supervision and Staffing; Assessment/ 

Classification; Case Planning and 

Transitional Planning; Core Treatment 

Programs; Services; Facility/Site; 

Behavior Motivation/Discipline; 

Culture; and QA/Assessment. Goals of 

the Project in the Development Phase: 

__The intention of the protocol is to 

provide specific guidance to agencies 

seeking to improve their management 

and treatment of women offenders to 

improve outcomes. These outcomes may 

include: Improved risk and needs 

assessment; targeting of critical factors 

through case management that will 

reduce institutional misconduct; 

revocation and re-offending; and 

improved interaction between staff and 

women in custody settings. 

The team that developed the draft 

protocol package will serve as the core 

advisory team working with the 

successful applicant to complete the 

assessment protocol package. 

Scope of Work and Deliverables: NIC 

will award one cooperative agreement 

for a 12 month period to work closely 

with the advisory team to complete the 

design of the assessment protocol 

package. 

The Advisory Group will provide a 

completed tool with methodology and 

scoring parameters. The Recipient will: 

Develop a user manual for the protocol 

(e.g., expanded definitions and 

citations); 

Pilot the instrument in up to three 

agencies in jail and prison settings. (It 

is anticipated that site visits will be 2–

3 days in length and teams will 

generally be 2-person teams.); 

Participate in a series of conference 

calls (or on-line platforms such as a 

Web-Ex system event) with sites 

applying as pilot locations; 

Develop a resource guide to assist 

with development of recommendations 

and post-assessment implementation of 

gender-responsive practices. (Examples 

to include model programs and 

emerging practices.); 

Work with an advisory group (5–8 

members) to conduct focus groups with 

experts on women offender policy and 

programs to get feedback on the 

instrument, its key domains and 

definitions, and readiness of the field to 

use such an instrument; 

Develop recommendations for 

evaluator training and certification; and 

Meet face-to-face with the advisory 

group on 1–2 occasions. (Additional 

meetings can be conducted via 

conference call and/or on-line 

platforms). 

Specific Requirements: Required 

Expertise: The successful applicant will 

need the conceptual skills and 

management capacity to complete the 

protocol design and standardization, 

manage the testing of the instrument in 

pilot sites conducting focus groups, and 

incorporate all the feedback into a final 

assessment protocol package. 

Application Instruction: Please 

prepare a cooperative agreement 

proposal that consists of no more than 

10 double spaced pages, excluding 

statements of organizational capacity 

and summaries of the experiences and 

capabilities of key project staff. Please 

submit summaries of experience and 

expertise and not full curricula vitae. 

The proposal must list all persons who 

will be involved in the project, 

including their role within the 

organization related to this project, areas 

of expertise related to this project, and 

complete contact information. 

The proposal must: Define project 

objectives and methodologies for 

achieving project goals in the 12 

months’ period. 

Provide a budget narrative that 

defines the relative use of resources for 

the key objective areas. 

Give at least one example of your 

experience or your team’s experience in 

delivering each of the following: Design 

of tools to assess policies and programs 

in correctional settings; summarize 

research on women offender risk and 

needs assessments, program 

assessments and the like. 

Application Requirements: 

Applications should be concisely 

written, typed double spaced and 

reference the ‘‘NIC Application 

Number’’ and Title provided in this 

announcement. The package must 

include: OMB Standard Form 424, 

Application for Federal Assistance; a 

cover letter that identifies the audit 

agency responsible for the applicant’s 

financial accounts as well as the audit 

period or fiscal year that the applicant 

operates under (e.g., July 1 through June 

30); and an outline of projected costs. 

The following additional forms must 

also be included: OMB Standard Form 

424A, Budget information—NonConstruction Programs; OMB Standard 

Form 424B, Assurances—NonConstruction Programs (available on 

http://www.grants.gov) And DOJ/NIC 

Certification Regarding Lobbying; 

Debarment, Suspension and Other 

Responsibility Matters; and the DrugFree Workplace Requirements (available 

at http://www.nicic.gov/Downloads/ 

PDF/certif-frm.pdf) 

Applications may be submitted in 

hard copy, or electronically via http:// 

www.grants.gov. If submitted in hard 


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1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). 

2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 

3See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 57997 

(June 20, 2008), 73 FR 36939. 

4 In determining the priority of orders and quotes 

to be traded, HOSS gives priority to market orders 

first, then to limit orders and quotes whose price 

is better than the opening price, and then to resting 

orders and quotes at the opening price. See Rule 

6.2B(c)(iv). 

copy, there needs to be an original and 

six copies of the full proposal (program 

and budget narratives, application forms 

and assurances). The original should 

have the applicant’s signature in blue 

ink. 

Telephone Conference: A telephone 

conference will be conducted for 

persons receiving this solicitation and 

having a serious intent to respond on 

Friday, August 15 at 3 p.m. EDT. In the 

conference, the NIC project manager 

will respond to questions regarding the 

solicitation and expectations of work to 

be performed. Please notify Maureen 

Buell electronically by close of business 

(4 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, August 13 

regarding your interest in participating 

in the conference. You will be provided 

with a call-in number and instructions. 

Authority: Public Law 93–415. 

Funds Available: NIC is seeking the 

applicant’s best ideas regarding 

accomplishment of the scope of work 

and the related costs for achieving the 

goals of this solicitation. The final 

budget and award amount will be 

negotiated between NIC and the 

successful applicant. NIC will fund one 

cooperative agreement for an estimated 

12 month period for the development 

phase of this project. Funds may only be 

used for the activities that are linked to 

the desired outcomes of the project. 

Eligibility of Applicants: An eligible 

applicant is any public or private 

agency, educational institution, 

organization, individual or team with 

expertise in the described areas. 

Review Considerations: Applications 

received under this announcement will 

be subject to a 3 to 5 person NIC and 

joint funding agency Review Process. 

Number of Awards: One. 

NIC Application Number: 08P06. This 

number should appear as a reference 

line in the cover letter, in box 4a of 

Standard Form 424, and outside of the 

envelope in which the application is 

sent. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Number: 16.601. 

Executive Order 12372: This project is 

not subject to the provisions of 

Executive Order 12372. 

Resources: Link to draft protocol 

located at http://www.nicic.org/ 

WomenOffenders. 

Thomas J. Beauclair, 

Deputy Director, National Institute of 

Corrections. 

[FR Doc. E8–18420 Filed 8–8–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–36–P 

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

[OMB Number: 3206–0193] 

Comment Request for Review of a 

Revised Information Collection: OPM 

Form 1417 

AGENCY: Office of Personnel 

Management. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13, May 22, 1995), this notice 

announces that the Office of Personnel 

Management (OPM) submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) a request for clearance of a 

revised information collection. OPM 

Online Form 1417, the Combined 

Federal Campaign (CFC) Information 

System form, collects information from 

the 247 local CFC campaigns to verify 

campaign results and collect contact 

information. Revisions to the form 

include clarifying edits to items 

numbered 2–6, 9 and 10 of the 

Campaign Results Total Page, the 

elimination of questions numbered 13–

15 of the Campaign Results Total Page 

and the return of one question edited to 

collect pledge amounts designated 

specifically for federal emergency or 

disaster relief, if any, on the Campaign 

Results Total Page. 

We estimate 247 online OPM Forms 

1417 are completed annually. Each form 

takes approximately 20 minutes to 

complete. The annual estimated burden 

is 82.3 hours. 

For copies of this proposal, contact 

Margaret A. Miller at (202) 606–2699 or 

FAX (202) 418–3251 or e-mail 

mamiller@opm.gov. Please be sure to 

include a mailing address with your 

request. 

DATES: Comments on this proposal 

should be received within 30 calendar 

days from the date of this publication. 

ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments 

to—

Cherlynn Stevens, 

Office of the Combined Federal 

Campaign, 

U.S. Office of Personnel Management, 

1900 E Street, NW., Room 5450, 

Washington, DC 20415. 

Brenda Aguilar, 

OPM Desk Officer, 

U.S. Office of Personnel Management, 

OIRA, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

NEOB, NW., 

Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

Howard Weizman, 

Deputy Director. 

[FR Doc. E8–18446 Filed 8–8–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6325–46–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–58296; File No. SR–CBOE–

2008–30] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; 

Chicago Board Options Exchange, 

Incorporated; Order Approving a 

Proposed Rule Change Relating to the 

Hybrid Opening System 

August 4, 2008. 

I. Introduction 

On June 5, 2008, the Chicago Board 

Options Exchange, Incorporated 

(‘‘CBOE’’ or ‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’), pursuant to section 

19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act 

of 1934 (‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 19b–4 

thereunder,2 a proposed rule change to 

revise its Hybrid Opening System 

(‘‘HOSS’’) procedures to allow the 

Hybrid Agency Liaison (‘‘HAL’’) 

functionality to be available on the 

openings in designated classes. The 

proposed rule change was published for 

comment in the Federal Register on 

June 30, 2008.3 The Commission 

received no comments regarding the 

proposal. This order approves the 

proposed rule change. 

II. Description of the Proposal 

CBOE Rule 6.2B, ‘‘Hybrid Opening 

System (‘‘HOSS’’),’’ sets forth 

procedures for opening trading rotations 

for series trading on the CBOE Hybrid 

Trading System (‘‘Hybrid’’). The current 

HOSS method for opening chooses a 

single ‘‘market clearing’’ price that will 

leave unexecuted those bids and offers 

that cannot trade with each other.4

However, one or more series of a class 

may not open if one of the following 

conditions is met: (1) No opening quote 

that complies with the legal width quote 

requirements of Rule 8.7(b)(iv) has been 

entered by at least one Market Maker 

appointed to the class (or by the 

Designated Primary Market-Maker or 


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