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Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they also 

will become a matter of public record. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 28th day of 

September 2010. 

Kimberley Hill, 

Chief, Division of Management Systems, 

Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

[FR Doc. 2010–24775 Filed 10–1–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Notice of Availability of Funds and 

Solicitation for Grant Applications 

(SGA) for YouthBuild Grants 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor. 

Announcement Type: Notice of 

Solicitation for Grant Applications. 

Funding Opportunity Number: SGA/ 

DFA PY 10–02. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 17.274. 

Key Dates: The closing date for receipt 

of applications under this 

announcement is December 3, 2010. 

Applications must be received no later 

than 4 p.m. Eastern Time. A Virtual 

Prospective Applicant Conference 

(Webinar) will be held for this grant 

competition. The date and access 

information for this Virtual Prospective 

Applicant Conference will be posted on 

ETA’s Web site at http://

www.doleta.gov/youth%5Fservices/

youthbuildgrantee.cfm. While a review 

of this Webinar is encouraged, it is not 

mandatory that applicants view this 

recording. 

SUMMARY: The Employment and 

Training Administration (ETA), U.S. 

Department of Labor (DOL, or the 

Department), announces the availability 

of up to approximately $130 million in 

grant funds for YouthBuild Grants (the 

final amount available depends upon 

the amount of funds appropriated for 

YouthBuild in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 

Department of Labor Appropriations 

Act). These funds are from separate 

appropriations and will be awarded 

separately. Thirty million dollars in FY 

2010 funds are available for immediate 

award and will be reserved for awards 

to organizations that did not receive 

funding in the FY 2009 YouthBuild 

competition [SGA/DFA PY 08–07]. 

Awards from the FY 2011 appropriation 

will be selected after April 1, 2011, 

pending availability of funds. 

YouthBuild Grants will be awarded 

through a competitive process. Grant 

funds will be used to provide 

disadvantaged youth with: The 

education and employment skills 

necessary to achieve economic selfsufficiency in occupations in high 

demand and postsecondary education 

and training opportunities; 

opportunities for meaningful work and 

service to their communities; and 

opportunities to develop employment 

and leadership skills and a commitment 

to community development among 

youth in low-income communities. As 

part of their program, YouthBuild 

grantees will tap the energies and 

talents of disadvantaged youth to 

increase the supply of permanent 

affordable housing for homeless 

individuals and low-income families 

and to help youth develop the 

leadership, learning, and high-demand 

occupational skills needed to succeed in 

today’s global economy. 

Based on the amount of FY 2010 

funds available and our projections for 

FY 2011 funding, DOL hopes to serve 

approximately 8,500 youth participants 

during the grant period of performance, 

with projects operating in 

approximately 128 communities across 

the country. Under this solicitation, 

DOL will be awarding grants to 

organizations to oversee the provision of 

education and employment services to 

disadvantaged youth in their 

communities. Each applicant should 

indicate the proposed number of 

participants to be served based on an 

average cost per participant of between 

$15,000 and $18,000. 

This solicitation provides background 

information and describes the 

application submission requirements, 

outlines the process that eligible entities 

must use to apply for funds covered by 

this solicitation, and details the 

evaluation criteria used as a basis for 

selecting grantees. Applicants should 

read the entire SGA and note specific 

sections that contain required 

information, such as in Section III.D, 

Section IV.B, and Section V.A, where 

failure to comply will be considered 

non-responsive and those applicants 

will then not be considered for funding. 

The Department is committed to 

providing the public with an open and 

transparent grant selection process and 

to providing useful information to assist 

prospective applicants with developing 

quality proposals. One way to achieve 

these goals is through public access to 

selected and non-selected grant 

applications. Applicants are advised 

that the information they submit in 

response to this solicitation may be 

posted on a publicly accessible Web site 

or may otherwise be made available to 

the public. 

ADDRESSES: Mailed applications must be 

addressed to the U.S. Department of 

Labor, Employment and Training 

Administration, Division of Federal 

Assistance, Attention: Donna Kelly, 

Grant Officer, Reference SGA/DFA PY 

10–02, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Room N4716, Washington, DC 20210. 

For complete ‘‘Application and 

Submission Information,’’ please refer to 

section IV. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

solicitation consists of nine sections: 

• Section I provides background 

information on YouthBuild, YouthBuild 

program objectives, and additional 

information on the key components of 

YouthBuild to consider when preparing 

an application. 

• Section II describes the size and 

nature of the anticipated awards. 

• Section III describes eligibility 

information. 

• Section IV provides information on 

the application and submission process. 

• Section V describes the criteria 

against which applications will be 

reviewed and explains the proposal 

review process. 

• Section VI provides award 

administration information. 

• Section VII contains ETA agency 

contact information. 

• Section VIII lists additional 

resources of interest to applicants. 

• Section IX lists other pertinent 

information. 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

YouthBuild is a youth and 

community development program that 

simultaneously addresses several core 

issues facing low-income communities: 

housing, education, employment, crime 

prevention, and leadership 

development. Part A of this section 

provides a background of the 

YouthBuild program. Part B describes 

the core objectives of the YouthBuild 

program, with Part C providing 

additional information on key 

components of YouthBuild to consider 

when preparing a grant application. 

A. Background 

The YouthBuild model balances inschool learning that leads to the 

achievement of a high school diploma 

or passing the General Education 

Development (GED) test, and 

construction skills training that prepares 

youth for career placement. The inschool component is an alternative 

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who are often significantly behind in 

basic skills to obtain a high school 

diploma or GED credential. The primary 

target populations for YouthBuild are 

high school dropouts who may also be 

adjudicated youth, youth aging out of 

foster care, youth with disabilities, and 

other at-risk youth populations. The 

YouthBuild model enables these youth 

to access the education they need to 

move on to post-secondary education 

and/or high-growth, high-demand jobs 

which will enable them to prosper in 

the 21st century economy. There are 

currently over 200 YouthBuild programs 

operating in the United States, funded 

through various sources. 

YouthBuild was started in East 

Harlem, New York in 1978 to provide 

education services for youth and teach 

construction skills while renovating and 

building homes for low-income families. 

It was replicated in five locations in 

New York City during the 1980s. In 

1993, the YouthBuild program was 

established by Federal statute and the 

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD) was designated as 

the agency responsible for administering 

the program. 

The YouthBuild Transfer Act (Pub. L. 

109–281), enacted in September 2006, 

transferred the statutory authority for 

the program, with needed modifications 

and improvements, to subtitle D of Title 

I of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) 

(29 U.S.C. 2918a). 

Since its inception, the primary 

purpose of the YouthBuild program has 

been to provide job training and 

employment opportunities for 

disadvantaged youth. ETA will leverage 

its significant expertise and resources in 

the area of workforce investment under 

WIA to strengthen YouthBuild grantees’ 

connections to One-Stop Career Centers 

and the Department’s registered 

apprenticeship programs; leverage 

investments such as the CommunityBased Job Training grants (http://

www.doleta.gov/business/CommunityBasedJobTrainingGrants.cfm); improve 

access to the post-secondary and 

community college system; and broker 

connections to the workforce system’s 

business partners. 

B. YouthBuild Program Objectives 

Funds made available through the 

YouthBuild grants will be used to carry 

out a YouthBuild program with the 

following core objectives: 

• To enable disadvantaged youth to 

obtain the education and employment 

skills necessary to achieve economic 

self-sufficiency in occupations in 

demand and post-secondary education 

and training opportunities; 

• To provide disadvantaged youth 

with opportunities for meaningful work 

and service to their communities; 

• To foster the development of 

employment and leadership skills and 

commitment to community 

development among youth in lowincome communities; and 

• To expand the supply of permanent 

affordable housing for homeless 

individuals and low-income families by 

utilizing the energies and talents of 

disadvantaged youth. 

C. Key Components and Additional 

Information About the YouthBuild 

Grant Application Process 

Although there is no way to address 

every question in this solicitation, the 

following questions are frequently asked 

and are included for your information. 

What type of information should be 

addressed in the design of the program? 

Section IV Part II of the application 

contains information about the 

Technical Proposal, which should 

address specific grant requirements 

identified in Section A of Part V of this 

SGA. Applicants applying for these 

grants are asked to describe their 

community, the youth to be served, the 

need for this Federal support, and their 

plan for providing education, skills 

training, and leadership development 

services to youth. They must also 

demonstrate that they have established 

partnerships with—or made a good faith 

effort to establish partnerships with— 

Local Workforce Investment Boards, the 

public school system, local community 

colleges, the juvenile justice system, 

registered apprenticeship programs, 

disability and mental health 

organizations, local faith-based and 

community organizations that serve atrisk and disadvantaged youth, and/or 

the local housing authority. Applicants 

are expected to identify their plan to 

leverage other Federal, State, or local 

funding, as well as private funding 

sources, to provide other ‘‘wraparound’’ 

supportive services as well as to support 

the costs associated with their defined 

construction project. Applicants are 

asked to describe their previous 

experience operating YouthBuild or 

youth workforce development programs 

of similar complexity that provide atrisk youth with educational and skill 

training in housing rehabilitation and 

construction activities. They are also 

asked to describe their organization’s 

ability to manage this grant. In addition, 

applicants are asked to describe how 

occupational safety is addressed at their 

worksite. Applicants must provide a 

description of the worksite, using ETA 

Form 9143, that will be used to train 

YouthBuild participants and must 

provide the necessary paperwork that 

indicates access to this property has 

been granted for the program and 

participants. Finally, applicants are 

asked to discuss any training that is 

being provided in ‘‘green’’ construction. 

What size grants are available? 

Applicants can apply for three-year 

grants (two years of program operations 

with a nine- to twelve-month follow-up 

period) that will range from $700,000 to 

$1.1 million. These awards will support 

two years of core program operations 

(education, occupational skills training, 

and youth leadership development 

activities) plus an additional nine to 

twelve months of follow-up support 

services and tracking of participant 

outcomes for each cohort of youth. A 

minimum of five percent of total funds 

should be reserved for the nine- to 

twelve-month follow-up period. 

If an organization was selected to 

receive a new award in FY 2009 

(awarded July 2009), are they eligible to 

apply in this YouthBuild competition? 

Yes; however, grantees who received 

funding from the FY 2009 YouthBuild 

competition [SGA/DFA PY 08–07], 

(including any affiliates or members or 

affiliates of a grantee’s leadership team) 

will not receive funding from the $30 

million remaining in FY 2010 funds. 

Projects funded from the $30 million in 

FY 2010 funds will be limited to 

applications submitted by organizations 

that did not receive funding from the FY 

2009 YouthBuild competition [SGA/ 

DFA PY 08–07]. If grantees who 

received funding from the FY 2009 

YouthBuild [SGA/DFA PY 08–07] 

competition are selected for award in 

this competition, they will be funded 

from the FY 2011 appropriation, 

pending availability of funds. If an 

applicant that did not receive funding in 

the FY 2009 YouthBuild competition 

[SGA/DFA PY 08–07] does not receive 

an award from the approximately $30 

million remaining in FY 2010 funds, 

their application will automatically be 

considered for an award from the FY 

2011 appropriation. 

What roles must partners play in 

partnerships? 

Because disadvantaged youth possess 

a wide range of challenges that must be 

addressed through multiple strategies, 

prospective applicants must identify 

resources and services provided by 

faith-based and community 

organizations, government entities, and 

other youth-serving organizations. 

Collaboration across youth-serving 

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success of any youth initiative or 

program. A single organization does not 

typically have the resources to respond 

to the myriad of issues that impact 

youth most in need. 

Partnerships and their roles will vary 

depending on the applicant’s strategy 

and participant needs. However, DOL 

expects that the applicant will make a 

good-faith effort to attract the following 

partners and that each collaborative 

partner will, at a minimum, contribute 

as described below. 

Education and training providers 

(Kindergarten through 12, adult 

education, community and technical 

colleges, 4-year colleges and 

universities, and other training entities) 

are important foundational partners to 

ensure the project’s activities are tied to 

the broader continuum of education 

providers in the community. 

YouthBuild programs should have 

explicit, well-defined pathways to postsecondary educational opportunities 

such as community and 4-year colleges, 

registered apprenticeship programs, and 

other occupational training programs 

whenever possible to ensure the smooth 

transition of YouthBuild participants. 

Employers (including professional 

organizations and trade associations) 

should be actively engaged in the 

project and should participate fully in 

grant activities including: Defining the 

program strategy and goals; identifying 

needed skills and competencies; 

designing training approaches and 

curricula; contributing financial 

support; sponsoring apprenticeship and 

pre-apprenticeship placements and 

activities; and, where appropriate, 

hiring qualified YouthBuild graduates. 

The workforce investment system 

(which may include State and Local 

Workforce Investment Boards, State 

Workforce Agencies, and One-Stop 

Career Centers and their partners, as 

such terms are defined under the WIA) 

may play a number of roles, including: 

Identifying and assessing potential 

candidates for YouthBuild; working 

collaboratively to leverage WIA 

investments through co-enrollment with 

the Youth formula program; referring 

qualified candidates to the YouthBuild 

program for enrollment; providing 

access to ‘‘wraparound’’ supportive 

services, when appropriate; providing 

local labor market information to 

YouthBuild staff and participants; and 

connecting qualified YouthBuild 

graduates to employers that have 

existing job openings. Examples of 

YouthBuild programs working with the 

workforce system can be found in 

Training and Employment Notice No. 

44–07, ‘‘Providing Strategies to the OneStop Career Center System on 

Collaborating with YouthBuild 

Programs’’ at http://wdr.doleta.gov/ 

directives/corr_doc.cfm?DOCN=2646. 

The juvenile justice system is an 

important partner in referring potential 

participants to the YouthBuild program, 

providing support and guidance for 

YouthBuild participants with court 

involvement, and assisting in the 

reporting of recidivism rates among 

YouthBuild participants. Some 

YouthBuild participants may be placed 

in the program as a form of alternative 

sentencing or for re-entry services. In 

these instances, police, parole and 

probation officers, detention and 

juvenile correction facilities, judges, and 

social workers will be critically 

important partners for creating a safety 

net to prevent recidivism and ensure 

attachment to the community. 

Faith-based and community 

organizations are valuable partners in 

the YouthBuild program. These 

organizations can serve as avenues of 

outreach to eligible youth and may 

provide a variety of grant services, such 

as case management, mentoring, and 

English as a Second Language (ESL) 

courses, as well as other comprehensive 

supportive services, when appropriate, 

for YouthBuild participants. 

Each collaborative partner must have 

a clearly defined role. These roles must 

be verified through a letter of 

commitment (not just a letter of support) 

submitted by each partner. The letter of 

commitment must detail the role the 

partner will play in the project, 

including specific responsibilities and 

resources committed, if appropriate. 

These letters must clearly indicate the 

partnering organization’s unique 

contribution and commitment to the 

project. 

In situations where the applicant is 

unable to develop a partnership with 

one of the required types of 

organizations because the organization 

refuses to do so, the applicants should, 

at a minimum, demonstrate that the 

potential partner was contacted and 

provided a sufficient opportunity for 

response. It is suggested that applicants 

use registered mail to demonstrate such 

efforts. 

What if two or more organizations 

submit separate applications to serve 

the same urban or rural community? 

If more than one proposal to serve the 

same urban or rural community is rated 

highly, DOL will consider whether the 

urban or rural community is large 

enough to support more than one 

project. 

Can I apply for multiple towns in one 

application? 

If a town is large enough to reasonably 

support a YouthBuild program, the 

grant activities should generally be 

focused on one town. If the applicant 

determines that the town is not large 

enough to support a YouthBuild 

program, it may include additional 

towns and provide justification for one 

larger service area. If multiple towns are 

included together in the application, 

applicants may not request more than 

the maximum grant amount, $1.1 

million. 

What is the definition of ‘‘low-income’’ 

family for the purposes of program 

eligibility? 

The definition of ‘‘low-income family’’ 

is taken directly from the United States 

Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 

1437a(b)(2)) which states: 

‘‘The term ‘low-income families’ 

means those families whose incomes do 

not exceed 80 per centum of the median 

income for the area, as determined by 

the Secretary with adjustments for 

smaller and larger families, except that 

the Secretary may establish income 

ceilings higher or lower than 80 per 

centum of the median for the area on the 

basis of the Secretary’s findings that 

such variations are necessary because of 

prevailing levels of construction costs or 

unusually high or low family incomes.’’ 

The median income for each 

applicant’s proposed area of service can 

be found at HUD’s Web site: http://

www.huduser.org/datasets/il.html. 

What are allowable uses of grant funds? 

Allowable uses of grant funds may 

include: 

(1) Education and Workforce 

Activities, such as: 

• Basic skills instruction and 

remedial education; 

• Language instruction educational 

programs for individuals with limited 

English proficiency; 

• Secondary education services and 

activities, including tutoring, study 

skills training, and dropout prevention 

activities, designed to lead to the 

attainment of a secondary school 

diploma, GED credential, or other Staterecognized equivalent (including 

recognized alternative standards for 

individuals with disabilities); 

• Counseling and assistance in 

obtaining post-secondary education and 

required financial aid; 

• Alternative secondary school 

services; 

• Work experience and skills training 

(coordinated, to the maximum extent 

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1The YouthBuild Trainee Apprenticeship 

Preparation (YB–TAP) program is a set of 

construction standards recognized by the U.S. 

Department of Labor’s Office of Apprenticeship that 

are aligned with curricula from the Home Builders 

Institute’s HPACT program, the National Center for 

Construction Education and Research, and the 

Building Trades Multi-Craft Core Curriculum. 

These standards are included as Appendix A of this 

solicitation. 

Apprenticeship Preparation program 

(YB–TAP),1 pre-apprenticeship and 

registered apprenticeship programs) in 

housing rehabilitation and construction 

activities; 

• Occupational skills training; and 

• Other paid and unpaid work 

experiences, including internships and 

job shadowing. 

(2) Case management, counseling 

services and related activities, such as 

comprehensive guidance and 

counseling on drug and alcohol abuse 

and referral. 

(3) Youth development activities, 

such as: 

• Community service and peercentered activities encouraging 

responsibility and other positive social 

behaviors, and 

• Leadership development activities 

including youth policy committees that 

allow YouthBuild participants to engage 

in local policy and decision-making 

related to the program. 

(4) Supportive services and provision 

of needs-based payments necessary to 

enable individuals to participate in the 

program. 

(5) Supportive services to assist 

individuals, for a period not to exceed 

12 months after the completion of 

training, in obtaining or retaining 

employment, or applying for and 

transitioning to post-secondary 

education. 

(6) Supervision and training for 

participants in the rehabilitation or 

construction of housing, including 

residential housing for homeless 

individuals or low-income families, or 

transitional housing for homeless 

individuals. 

(7) Supervision and training for 

participants in the rehabilitation or 

construction of community and other 

public facilities. 

(8) Payment of a portion of the 

administrative costs of the grantee. 

(9) Mentoring (one-on-one, group or 

team) of participants by adults who 

have been appropriately screened and 

matched to work with youth. 

(10) Provision of wages, stipends, or 

other benefits and incentives to 

participants in the program. 

(11) Ongoing training and technical 

assistance for staff that are related to 

developing and carrying out the 

program. 

(12) Activities related to follow-up 

and tracking of participant performance. 

(13) Equipment and/or supplies 

related to the YouthBuild activities 

funded through this grant. The purchase 

of construction materials to be used as 

part of the direct training for 

YouthBuild participants would be an 

allowable use of grant funds. 

What costs are allowable for orientation/ 

mental toughness? 

For guidance on orientation/mental 

toughness allowable costs, please go to: 

Mental Toughness/Orientation 

Allowable Costs in a YouthBuild 

Program http://wdr.doleta.gov/ 

directives/attach/TEGL/TEGL14- 

09acc.pdf. 

Can training be provided in industries 

other than construction? 

No, DOL YouthBuild funds provided 

under this solicitation cannot be used to 

support occupational skills training 

other than construction. Programs may 

offer training in other industries; 

however, other funding sources must be 

used to support these career pathways. 

Can training be provided in green 

construction and the use of sustainable 

building materials? 

Yes, DOL encourages YouthBuild 

funds provided under this solicitation to 

be used to train youth in green 

construction skills that will prepare 

them for employment in green jobs and 

encourages the use of sustainable 

building materials in the construction 

and rehabilitation of affordable housing. 

However, this green construction skills 

training must be part of a construction 

curriculum that leads to an industryrecognized credential. That is, if youth 

complete a green construction module 

that is either a stand-alone module or is 

part of a general construction 

curriculum, it cannot be counted as a 

credential for purposes of the credential 

attainment performance measure. It is 

similar to Occupational Safety and 

Health Administration (OSHA) or 

Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) 

training; both are important parts of an 

overall construction training program 

but do not represent an industryrecognized credential. 

Will Youthbuild projects be required to 

follow OSHA guidelines? 

Yes, YouthBuild projects will be 

required to follow OSHA guidelines in 

the operation of their construction 

projects and to submit incident reports 

to DOL of injuries occurring on 

worksites. DOL will require that 

YouthBuild grantees: 

• Provide comprehensive 

documented training on construction 

safety for youth working on YouthBuild 

projects, including requirements for 

youth to demonstrate knowledge of and 

proficiency in hazard identification, 

abatement, and safe work practices; 

• Demonstrate compliance with 

Federal and State child labor laws and 

occupational safety and health 

regulations; 

• Provide written worksite-specific 

safety plans overseen by an on-site 

supervisor with the knowledge, skills, 

and authority to correct safety and 

health hazards and enforce the sitespecific safety plan; 

• Provide necessary personal 

protective equipment to youth working 

on YouthBuild projects; and 

• Report to DOL all worksite injuries 

and illnesses to youth working on 

YouthBuild projects, along with 

documentation on remedial measures to 

prevent future similar injuries and help 

ensure that YouthBuild is a model 

program that takes active steps for 

participant safety and health. 

Can DOL funds be used for paid work 

experiences, needs-based stipends, 

wages, and other supportive services? 

Payments to participants for 

classroom training, paid work 

experiences, and occupational skills 

training, as well as other needs-based 

supportive services, are allowable 

expenses. If the applicant plans to use 

grant funds for these purposes, 

sufficient information must be provided 

in the budget narrative to clearly justify 

the proposed amounts to be provided. 

Grantees are responsible for consulting 

with an accountant or other experts to 

ascertain if their payment structure 

complies with IRS standards. 

Is the purchase of food an allowable use 

of funds? 

DOL considers food to be an 

allowable cost for YouthBuild when 

used as a supportive service. To qualify, 

the provision of food must be needsbased and must be necessary to enable 

the recipient to participate in the 

program. The purchase of food is an 

unallowable cost for grant funds if 

expended for any reason other than 

needs-based supportive services. To 

provide food as a supportive service, 

grantees must create and consistently 

apply a written policy for determining 

needs-based services for participants. 

Grantees can provide food to enrollees 

as part of an on-site training class or 

work-site experience where access to 

food services and vendors is unavailable 

or unreliable, but must document in the 

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directly is reasonable and necessary in 

order to ensure continuity of training 

services. 

Should prospective applicants include 

travel costs associated with technical 

assistance and training in their budget? 

Prospective applicants should include 

travel funds in their budget to cover 

travel for several key staff to attend at 

least one national meeting per year and 

at least two regional trainings per year. 

How will success be measured under 

these grants? 

The three outcome measures are: 

• Literacy and numeracy gains; 

• High School diploma/GED/degree 

or certificate attainment rate; and 

• Placement in employment/postsecondary education/occupational skills 

training program/military. 

In addition, grantees must report on a 

number of interim indicators that may 

serve as predictors of success. Interim 

indicators include: 

• Enrollment rate; 

• Participation in education/training 

activities; 

• Workforce preparation; 

• Mentoring; 

• Community service/leadership 

activities; 

• Placement retention rate; and 

• Recidivism. 

In applying for these grants, 

applicants agree to submit updated 

Management Information System (MIS) 

data on enrollee characteristics, services 

provided, placements, outcomes, and 

follow-up status. YouthBuild grantees 

are required to use the ETA Web-based 

Case Management and Performance 

System, which is provided to grantees at 

no cost. 

What is the expected average cost per 

participant? 

DOL expects the cost to be between 

$15,000 and $18,000 per participant. 

When is the Youthbuild program 

expected to begin enrolling youth under 

this SGA? 

Grantees must begin program 

operations, including the enrollment of 

youth, within six months from the date 

of the award. 

The following questions involve 

allowable construction costs: 

Can funds be used for rehabilitation or 

construction of buildings other than 

low-income housing? 

Yes. In training participants, up to 10 

percent of grant funds may be used in 

the rehabilitation or construction of 

community and other public facilities. 

The term ‘‘community and other public 

facilities’’ means those facilities which 

are publicly owned and publicly used 

for the benefit of the community. 

Examples include public-use buildings 

such as recreation centers, libraries, 

public park shelters, or public schools. 

This term may also encompass facilities 

used by the program but only if the 

facility is publicly owned and available 

for public entry and use. YouthBuild 

participants may not repair or renovate 

buildings used solely by the grantee, 

such as offices or classrooms. The 

remaining 90 percent of funds must be 

used to train participants in the 

rehabilitation or construction of lowincome housing. 

Would construction of a kitchen or 

shower facility be an allowable cost in 

a public facility? 

If it is a public facility that needs to 

have a kitchen or shower facility 

installed and it is done under the 10 

percent limitation and it is used for 

training purposes, then it is allowable. 

Does a federally-qualified health care 

facility qualify as an allowable 

construction site? 

The rehabilitation of a community 

health facility is permissible. The 10 

percent limitation would apply to such 

costs. 

Are architectural fees an allowable use 

of grant funds? 

Yes, architectural fees, or a 

proportionate share thereof, are 

allowable when such fees can be related 

to items such as architectural plans or 

blueprints on which participants will be 

trained. 

Are brokerage fees an allowable use of 

grant funds? 

No, brokerage fees and other fees 

associated with the acquisition of 

property are not directly related to 

participant training and are not an 

allowable use of grant funds. We 

consider these fees to be too attenuated 

from the costs of participant training to 

be allowable. 

Are subcontractor costs and supplies, 

(e.g., roofing, landscaping, etc.), 

allowable uses of grant funds? 

Non-training services and deliverables 

that are not directly related to 

participant training are not an allowable 

use of grant funds unless they are used 

in the provision of training. Property 

enhancements, such as landscaping, are 

not allowable grant costs, if not 

performed by youth as part of their 

training activities. 

Can unallowable costs be used to fulfill 

the 25 percent match requirement? 

If the cost is not allowed to be paid 

with grant funds, it would also not be 

acceptable in fulfilling the 25 percent 

match requirement. 

Can funds be used to purchase land? 

Grant funds may not be used to 

purchase land. 

Can grant funds be used to purchase a 

home to rehabilitate for the project? 

Grantees may only charge a 

proportion of the purchase cost, 

exclusive of land, which is reflective of 

the portion of the property that will be 

used for participant training. 

Should prospective applicants provide 

more than 25 percent match? 

No. Any amounts over 25 percent 

match will not be considered in 

evaluating proposals. Grantees with 

additional resources should allocate 

them as leveraged funds for the 

purposes of planning and budgeting. 

How will ETA evaluate the Youthbuild 

program? 

ETA has contracted with an 

independent organization to conduct a 

rigorous, national evaluation of the 

YouthBuild program. A subset of 

grantees will be selected to participate 

in the evaluation and those that are 

selected will be required to participate. 

The evaluation will use a random 

assignment design, which includes a 

computerized process that will 

randomly select which of the youth that 

grantees deem eligible and appropriate 

for the program will receive YouthBuild 

services. This process, similar to 

drawing names from a hat, is fair and 

ensures that everyone has the same 

chance of getting YouthBuild services. 

Those who are not admitted will form 

a control group and may be referred to 

other non-similar youth services. The 

grantees will be responsible for 

obtaining the consent of applicants to be 

randomly selected to be in the control 

group, and for informing the applicants 

that they have been selected. The 

evaluation contractor will work with 

each grantee to develop study 

procedures that minimize any 

disruption of the grantee’s intake 

procedures and program operations. It is 

expected that the evaluation will not 

reduce the total number of youth who 

are served by the YouthBuild program. 

Grantees selected to participate in this 

study will be required to cooperate fully 

with ETA and the evaluation team in 

the conduct of the study. Grantee staff 

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survey and host site visits by the 

research team. 

The Following Questions Involve the 

Random Assignment Evaluation: 

Participation in the YouthBuild 

evaluation will provide important input 

into the national debate about policies 

and practices designed to improve the 

well-being of disadvantaged youth. 

Although DOL and the evaluation team 

are continuing to work out the details of 

the study design, below are answers to 

some questions grantees may have about 

the evaluation. 

How will grantees be selected for the 

evaluation and how many will be 

selected? 

Approximately 60 grantees will be 

selected to participate in the evaluation. 

Grantees will be selected randomly, but 

some types of grantees (for example, 

those that have never operated a 

YouthBuild program before) may be 

excluded from consideration. Larger 

programs may have a greater chance of 

being selected in order to ensure that 

the evaluation includes a sufficient 

number of young people. 

YouthBuild has been evaluated before; 

why is this evaluation necessary? 

Previous evaluations of YouthBuild 

have provided very useful information, 

but none of them was designed to 

determine what difference YouthBuild 

makes for the young people it serves 

compared to what would have 

happened if they did not participate. 

The new evaluation is the first one to 

use a random assignment design, which 

is considered to provide the most 

reliable evidence about the effectiveness 

of a social program. Other national 

youth programs such as the Job Corps, 

Service and Conservation Corps, and the 

National Guard Youth ChalleNGe 

program have already been part of 

random assignment evaluations. These 

evaluations are critical to ensuring that 

young people are receiving services that 

will improve their life opportunities and 

demonstrating to policy-makers that 

their investment is paying off. 

Will the evaluation mean that programs 

serve fewer youth than before? 

Most YouthBuild programs are only 

able to serve a very small fraction of the 

youth in their communities who might 

benefit and who apply. Programs 

participating in the evaluation will 

assess and screen youth to identify 

those who are eligible for YouthBuild 

and then use random assignment (like 

picking names from a hat) to select 

which of the eligible youth will be 

admitted. The youth who are selected 

will form the ‘‘program group’’ for the 

study. The youth who are not selected 

will form the ‘‘control group’’ and will 

not be permitted to enroll in YouthBuild 

during the study period, though the 

grantees may be able to refer them to 

other youth programs in the community. 

Ideally, the evaluation should not cause 

YouthBuild programs to serve fewer 

youth than they otherwise would. If the 

programs selected for the study do not 

currently have more qualified 

applicants than they can accept, 

additional recruiting may be necessary. 

Is it unethical to use random assignment 

to decide which youth to accept? 

No, it is not unethical to use random 

assignment to determine who receives 

services. Random assignment is a fair 

way to allocate scarce program slots 

when there are more qualified 

applicants than a program can serve. In 

fact, some youth not selected for the 

program may be more willing to accept 

that this was due to the ‘‘flip of a coin’’ 

rather than to their personal 

characteristics. Before it is finalized, the 

study design will be reviewed by an 

Institutional Review Board to ensure 

that youth in the study will be treated 

fairly. 

What data will grantees be required to 

provide to the evaluators? 

The grantees will not have to do 

anything more than they usually do to 

stay in touch with the young people 

who participate in their program. The 

evaluators will obtain most data for the 

study from the DOL YouthBuild MIS, 

from government records, and from 

surveys of youth in the program and 

control groups. Grantee staff will be 

required to participate in one survey 

and host site visits by the research team. 

Also, grantees will be required to collect 

and enter some information into the 

MIS for all youth entering the study, 

some of whom will be assigned to the 

control group. 

Who will be doing the evaluation? 

ETA selected a team of three 

organizations to conduct the evaluation: 

MDRC (the lead), Mathematica Policy 

Research, and Social Policy Research 

Associates (SPRA). MDRC and SPRA are 

very familiar with YouthBuild programs 

through past evaluations and 

assessments. 

II. Award Information 

A. Award Amount 

Under this competition, ETA intends 

to fund approximately 28 grants ranging 

from $700,000 to $1.1 million from the 

$30 million in FY 2010 funds and 

approximately 100 grants in the same 

range of amounts from the FY 2011 

appropriation (pending availability of 

funding); however, this does not 

preclude DOL from funding grants at 

either a lower or higher amount, or 

funding a smaller or larger number of 

projects, based on the type and the 

number of quality submissions. 

Applicants are encouraged to submit 

budgets for quality projects at whatever 

funding level within this range is 

appropriate to their project. 

Applications requesting more than 

$1.1 million will be considered 

nonresponsive. The average annual cost 

per participant should be between 

$15,000 and $18,000. In the event that 

additional funds become available, ETA 

reserves the right to use such funds to 

select additional grantees from 

applications submitted in response to 

this solicitation. 

B. Period of Performance 

Grants will be awarded for a 3-year 

period of performance. This includes 

two years of core program operations 

(education, occupational skills training, 

and youth leadership development 

activities) for one or more cohorts of 

youth, plus an additional nine to twelve 

months of follow-up support services 

and tracking of participant outcomes for 

each cohort of youth. Further, 

applicants should plan to fully expend 

grant funds during the period of 

performance, while ensuring full 

transparency and accountability for all 

expenditures. Therefore, applicants are 

encouraged to carefully consider their 

ability to spend the level of funding 

requested. 

III. Eligibility Information 

A. Eligible Applicants 

Eligible applicants for these grants are 

public or private non-profit agencies or 

organizations (including a consortium of 

such agencies or organizations with a 

designated lead applicant), including, 

but not limited to: 

• Faith-based and community 

organizations; 

• An entity carrying out activities 

under WIA, such as a local workforce 

investment board, One-Stop Career 

Center, or local school board; 

• A community action agency; 

• A State or local housing 

development agency; 

• An Indian tribe or other agency 

primarily serving Indians; 

• A community development 

corporation; 

• A State or local youth service 

conservation corps; or 

• Any other public or private nonprofit entity that is eligible to provide 

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under a Federal program and can meet 

the required elements of the grant. 

Grantees who received funding in the 

FY 2009 YouthBuild competition [SGA/ 

DFA PY 08–07] (including any affiliates 

or members or affiliates of a grantee’s 

leadership team) will not receive 

funding from the remaining 

approximately $30 million in FY 2010 

funds. Projects funded from the FY 2010 

funds will be limited to applications 

submitted by organizations that did not 

receive funding from the FY 2009 

YouthBuild competition [SGA/DFA PY 

08–07]. If FY 2009 YouthBuild 

competition [SGA/DFA PY 08–07] 

grantees are selected for funding in this 

competition, they will be funded from 

the FY 2011 appropriation, pending 

availability of funds. 

B. Eligible Enrollees 

An individual may participate in a 

YouthBuild program only if the 

individual: 

1. Is between the ages of 16 and 24 on 

the date of enrollment; and 

2. Is a member of a low-income 

family, and/or a youth in foster care 

(including youth aging out of foster 

care), and/or a youth offender, and/or a 

youth who is an individual with a 

disability, and/or a child of an 

incarcerated parent, and/or a migrant 

youth; and 

3. Is a school dropout or an individual 

who has dropped out of high school and 

re-enrolled in an alternative school, if 

that re-enrollment is part of a sequential 

service strategy. 

Organizations are not required to 

serve the entire age group population 

between 16 and 24, but all participants 

must fall within this range. 

Up to (but not more than) 25 percent 

of the participants in the program may 

be youth who do not meet criteria B.2 

or B.3 above, but: 

• Are basic skills deficient, despite 

attainment of a secondary school 

diploma, GED credential, or other staterecognized equivalent (including 

recognized alternative standards for 

individuals with disabilities); or 

• Have been referred by a local 

secondary school for participation in a 

YouthBuild program leading to the 

attainment of a secondary school 

diploma. Referrals from secondary 

schools to YouthBuild programs that 

provide only a GED degree are not 

allowed. 

C. Veterans Priority 

The Jobs for Veterans Act (Pub. L. 

107–288) requires priority of service for 

veterans and spouses of certain veterans 

for the receipt of employment, training, 

and placement services in any job 

training program directly funded, in 

whole or in part, by DOL. The 

regulations implementing this priority 

of service can be found at 20 CFR part 

1010. In circumstances where a grant 

recipient must choose between two 

qualified candidates for a service, one of 

whom is a veteran or eligible spouse, 

the veterans priority of service 

provisions require that the grant 

recipient give the veteran or eligible 

spouse priority of service by first 

providing him or her that service. To 

obtain priority of service, a veteran or 

spouse must meet the program’s 

eligibility requirements. Grantees must 

comply with DOL guidance on veterans’ 

priority. ETA’s Training and 

Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 

No. 10–09 (issued November 10, 2009) 

provides guidance on implementing 

priority of service for veterans and 

eligible spouses in all qualified job 

training programs funded in whole or in 

part by DOL. TEGL No. 10–09 is 

available at http://wdr.doleta.gov/ 

directives/corr_doc.cfm?DOCN=2816. 

D. Matching Funds and Leveraged 

Resources 

Aligning resources and leveraging 

funding are key components of success 

under the YouthBuild grant program. 

Therefore, applicants must provide cash 

or in-kind resources equivalent to 25 

percent of the grant award amount as 

matching funds. Please note that neither 

prior investments nor Federal resources 

may be counted towards the matching 

funds threshold. Construction materials 

that are acquired without grant funds 

and are used for approved projects as 

part of the training for YouthBuild 

participants may be used in fulfilling 

the 25 percent match requirement. 

To be allowable as part of match, a 

cost must be an allowable charge for 

Federal grant funds. Determinations of 

allowable costs will be made in 

accordance with the applicable Federal 

cost principles as indicated in Part IV.E. 

If the cost would not be allowable as a 

grant-funded charge, then it also cannot 

be counted toward matching funds. 

Please note that in addition to the 

Federal amount you are requesting, the 

matching funds must be shown on the 

SF–424 application and SF–424A 

budget form. The SF–424A form is 

required even though the form states 

that it should only be used for nonconstruction. If there is a discrepancy in 

the amount of funds specified on the 

SF–424, SF–424A, or Budget Narrative, 

DOL will consider the amount of funds 

specified on the SF–424 as the 

applicant’s match. 

Applicants are expected to fulfill the 

match amount specified during the 

grant period of performance. If the 

match amount specified by the 

applicant is not met or if a portion of the 

matching funds are found to be an 

unallowable cost, the amount of DOL 

grant funds may be decreased on a 

dollar for dollar basis. If this occurs the 

grantee may be required to repay funds 

to DOL. Applicants who fail to provide 

a 25 percent match will be considered 

non-responsive. 

Applicants are encouraged to leverage 

additional resources beyond the match 

amount to supplement the project as a 

whole. Any cash or in-kind resources 

committed beyond the 25 percent of the 

grant award amount required as 

matching funds should be counted as 

leveraged funds. Applicants must 

clearly make the distinction between 

what will be considered matching funds 

and what will be considered 

‘‘additional’’ leveraged resources, and 

explain leveraged resources in the 

budget narrative separately from the 

explanation of match. Do not include 

the leveraged funds on the SF–424 or 

SF–424A. 

Both matching funds and leveraged 

resources could come from a variety of 

sources, including: public sector (e.g., 

State or local governments); non-profit 

sector (e.g., community organizations, 

faith-based organizations, or education 

and training institutions); private sector 

(e.g., businesses or industry 

associations); investor community (e.g., 

angel networks or economic 

development entities); and the 

philanthropic community (e.g., 

foundations). 

Applications will be evaluated on 

how the match and leveraged funds are 

fully integrated in support of program 

outcomes. Grantees must track and 

report both match and other nonFederal leveraged resources quarterly on 

Form ETA 9130. Instructions and the 

form may be found at http://www.

doleta.gov/grants/financial_reporting.

cfm. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

A. How To Obtain an Application 

Package 

This SGA contains all of the 

information and links to forms needed 

to apply for grant funding. 

B. Content and Form of Application 

Submission 

The proposal will consist of three 

separate and distinct parts—(I) a cost 

proposal; (II) a technical proposal (with 

attachments); and (III) a description of 

and information on the work site. 

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three parts (including the required 

attachments) or that fail to adhere to the 

instructions in this section will be 

considered non-responsive and will not 

be considered. It is the applicant’s 

responsibility to ensure that the funding 

amount requested is consistent across 

all parts and sub-parts of the 

application. 

Part I. The Cost Proposal. The Cost 

Proposal must include the following 

four items: 

• SF–424, ‘‘Application for Federal 

Assistance’’ (available at http://www.

grants.gov/agencies/forms_repository_

information.jsp. The SF–424 must 

clearly identify the applicant and be 

signed by an individual with authority 

to enter into a grant agreement. Upon 

confirmation of an award, the 

individual signing the SF–424 on behalf 

of the applicant will be considered the 

authorized representative of the 

applicant. 

• All applicants for Federal grant and 

funding opportunities are required to 

have a Data Universal Numbering 

System (D–U–N–S® number). See Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

Notice of Final Policy Issuance, 68 FR 

38402, June 27, 2003. Applicants must 

supply their D–U–N–S® number on the 

SF–424. The D–U–N–S® number is a 

non-indicative, nine-digit number that 

uniquely identifies business entities. 

Obtaining a D–U–N–S® number is easy 

and there is no charge. To obtain a 

D–U–N–S® number, call 1–866–705– 

5711 or access this Web site: 

www.dunandbradstreet.com. 

• The SF–424A Budget Information 

Form (available at http://www.grants.

gov/agencies/forms_repository_

information.jsp) In preparing the Budget 

Information Form, the applicant must 

provide a concise narrative explanation 

to support the request, explained in 

detail below. 

The amount of Federal funding 

requested for the entire period of 

performance (i.e., three years) must be 

included on both the SF–424 and SF– 

424A Budget Information Form. Only an 

applicant’s match amount (not other 

leveraged resources) should be listed on 

the SF–424 (Block 18) and SF–424A 

Budget Information Form (Sections A & 

C). Please note that the funding amount 

included on the SF–424 will be 

considered the official funding amount 

requested. 

• Budget Narrative: The budget 

narrative must provide a description of 

costs associated with each line item on 

the SF–424A. Additionally, the budget 

narrative should break down the budget, 

match, and leveraged resources by 

project activity, must discuss cost-perparticipant, and must discuss precisely 

how the administrative costs support 

the project goals. If the applicant plans 

to use grant funds for paid work 

experiences, needs-based payments, and 

other supportive services for the 

participants, sufficient information must 

be provided in the budget narrative to 

clearly justify the proposed amounts to 

be provided. 

Please note that applicants that fail to 

provide a SF–424, SF–424A, a D–U–N– 

S® number, and a budget narrative will 

be considered non-responsive, and 

removed from consideration before the 

technical review process. Applicants are 

also encouraged, but not required, to 

submit OMB Survey No. 1890–0014: 

Survey on Ensuring Equal Opportunity 

for Applicants, which can be found at 

http://www07.grants.gov/applicants/tips

_resources_from_grantors.jsp#13. 

Part II. The Technical Proposal. The 

Technical Proposal must demonstrate 

the applicant’s capability to implement 

the YouthBuild grant project in 

accordance with the provisions of this 

solicitation. The guidelines for the 

content of the Technical Proposal are 

provided in Part V.A of this SGA. The 

Technical Proposal is limited to 20 

double-spaced, single-sided 8.5 x 11 

inch pages with 12 point text font and 

1 inch margins. Applicants should 

number the Technical Proposal 

beginning with page number 1. Any 

materials beyond the 20-page limit will 

not be read. 

Part IIA. Attachments to the 

Technical Proposal. In addition to the 

20 page Technical Proposal, the 

applicant must submit the following 

required attachments: 

(a) An organizational chart that 

reflects how the YouthBuild program 

will be staffed. In instances where the 

YouthBuild program is part of a larger 

organization (e.g., a Housing Authority), 

include a diagram that indicates how 

the YouthBuild program fits within the 

larger organization; 

(b) A timeline outlining project 

activities; 

(c) Letters of commitment from 

partners; and 

(d) A two-page Abstract summarizing 

the proposed project, including 

applicant name, project title, a 

description of the area to be served, and 

the funding level requested. The 

Abstract must note whether the 

application is being submitted as an 

urban, rural, or Native American 

application. 

These additional required materials 

do not count against the 20 page limit 

for the Technical Proposal, but may not 

exceed 20 pages. Any additional 

materials beyond the 20 page 

attachment limit will not be read. Any 

additional materials other than those 

listed in Part II A a), b), c), or d) should 

not be included in the Technical 

Proposal Attachment and will not be 

read. ETA does not permit general 

letters of support submitted by 

organizations or individuals that are not 

partners in the proposed project and 

that do not directly identify the specific 

commitment or roles of the project 

partners. Therefore, additional 

materials, such as re ́sume ́s or general 

letters of support or commitment, will 

not be read. 

The required attachments must be 

affixed as separate, clearly identified 

appendices to the application. 

Commitment letters must accompany 

the application electronically, not be 

mailed separately. Please note that 

applicants should not send letters of 

commitment separately to ETA because 

letters received separately are tracked 

through a different system and will not 

be attached to the application for 

review. Applications that do not include 

the required attachments will be 

considered non-responsive and not 

reviewed. 

An audited financial statement and 

accompanying management letter (if 

applicable) is requested in Section 

V.A.2.i, but neither counts towards the 

page limitations for either the Technical 

Proposal or the Technical Proposal 

Attachment and should be included as 

an appendix. This appendix has no page 

limits. 

Part III. The Worksite Description. 

The applicant must submit the Worksite 

Description Form (ETA–9143) including 

all requested attachments, which 

describes the planned worksite that will 

be used for on-site housing 

rehabilitation and construction training 

for youth participants. These forms can 

be found at http://www.doleta.gov/

youth%5Fservices/pdf/Work_Site_

DescriptionAugus%202010.xls. 

Information on property for use in year 

two of your grant may be required. 

These forms do not count towards the 

20 page limitation for either the 

Technical Proposal or the Technical 

Proposal Attachment; this is a separate 

part of the proposal. Please note that 

before finalizing the grant award 

document, prospective award winners 

must be able to re-verify information on 

the worksite and access to the property 

before grant funds are released. 

Section 10 of ETA 9143 requests 

information from the property owner or 

property management company or 

companies allowing access to the 

housing site(s) for on-site construction 

training. DOL will deem non-responsive 

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construction, including evidence of site 

access. Guidance on evidence of site 

access is as follows: 

• If the applicant has a contract or 

option to purchase the property, include 

a copy of the contract or option; or 

• If a third party owns the property or 

has a contract or option to purchase, 

that third party must provide a letter 

stating the nature of the ownership and 

specifically providing access to the 

property for the purposes of the program 

and the time frame in which the 

property will be available. In the case of 

a contract or option, include a copy of 

the document. These should be 

included as part of Part III of your 

application and do not count against 

page limitations. 

C. Submission Process, Date, Times, and 

Addresses 

Applications may be submitted 

electronically on Grants.gov or in hard 

copy by mail or hand delivery. 

Applicants submitting proposals in hard 

copy must submit an original signed 

application (including the SF–424) and 

one ‘‘copy-ready’’ version free of 

bindings, staples, or protruding tabs to 

ease in the reproduction of the proposal 

by DOL. Applicants submitting 

proposals in hard copy also must 

provide an identical electronic copy of 

the proposal on compact disc (CD). If 

discrepancies between the hard copy 

submission and CD copy are identified, 

the application on the CD will be 

considered the official application for 

evaluation purposes. Failure to provide 

identical applications in hard copy and 

CD format may have an impact on the 

overall evaluation. 

The closing date for receipt of 

applications of this announcement is 

December 3, 2010. Applications must be 

received at the address below no later 

than 4 p.m. Eastern Time. Applications 

sent by e-mail, telegram, or facsimile 

(FAX) will not be accepted. If an 

application is submitted by both hard 

copy and through http:// 

www.grants.gov, a letter must 

accompany the hard copy application 

stating why two applications were 

submitted and the differences between 

the two submissions. If no letter 

accompanies the hard copy, we will 

review the copy submitted through 

http://www.grants.gov. Applications 

that do not meet the conditions set forth 

in this notice will be considered nonresponsive. No exceptions to the 

mailing and delivery requirements set 

forth in this notice will be granted. 

Further, documents submitted 

separately from the application, before 

or after the deadline, will not be 

accepted as part of the application. 

Mailed applications must be 

addressed to the U.S. Department of 

Labor, Employment and Training 

Administration, Division of Federal 

Assistance, Attention: Donna Kelly, 

Grant Officer, Reference SGA/DFA PY 

10–02, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Room N4716, Washington, DC 20210. 

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 at the 3rd and C 

Street entrance. All overnight mail will 

be considered to be hand-delivered and 

must be received at the designated place 

by the specified closing date and time. 

Applications that are submitted 

through Grants.gov must be successfully 

submitted at http://www.grants.gov no 

later than 4 p.m. Eastern Time on the 

closing date, and then subsequently 

validated by Grants.gov. The submission 

and validation process is described in 

more detail below. The process can be 

complicated and time-consuming. 

Applicants are strongly advised to 

initiate the process as soon as possible 

and to plan for time to resolve technical 

problems if necessary. 

The Department strongly recommends 

that before the applicant begins to write 

the proposal, applicants should 

immediately initiate and complete the 

‘‘Get Registered’’ registration steps at 

http://www.grants.gov/applicants/get_

registered.jsp. Applicants should read 

through the registration process 

carefully before registering. These steps 

may take as much as four weeks to 

complete and this time should be 

factored into plans for electronic 

submission in order to avoid 

unexpected delays that could result in 

the rejection of an application. The site 

also contains registration checklists to 

help walk you through the process. The 

Department strongly recommends that 

applicants download the ‘‘Organization 

Registration Checklist’’ at http:// 

www.grants.gov/assets/Organization_

Steps_Complete_Registration.pdf and 

prepare the information requested 

before beginning the registration 

process. Reviewing and assembling 

required information before beginning 

the registration process will alleviate 

last minute searches for required 

information and save time. 

To register with Grants.gov, 

applicants applying electronically must 

have a D–U–N–S® Number and must 

register with the Federal Central 

Contractor Registry (CCR). Step-by-step 

instructions for registering with CCR 

can be found at http://www.grants.gov/ 

applicants/org_step2.jsp. All applicants 

must register with CCR in order to apply 

online. Failure to register with the CCR 

will result in your application being 

rejected by Grants.gov during the 

submission process. 

The next step in the registration 

process is creating a username and 

password with Grants.gov to become an 

Authorized Organizational 

Representative (AOR). AORs will need 

to know the D–U–N–S® Number of the 

organization for which they will be 

submitting applications to complete this 

process. To read more detailed 

instructions for creating a profile on 

Grants.gov visit: http://www.grants.gov/ 

applicants/org_step3.jsp. 

After creating a profile on Grants.gov, 

the E-Biz Point of Contact (E-Biz POC), 

a representative from your organization 

who is the contact listed for CCR, will 

receive an e-mail to grant the AOR 

permission to submit applications on 

behalf of their organization. The E-Biz 

POC will then log in to Grants.gov and 

approve an applicant as the AOR, 

thereby giving him or her permission to 

submit applications. To learn more 

about AOR Authorization visit: http:// 

www.grants.gov/applicants/org_

step5.jsp or to track AOR status visit: 

http://www.grants.gov/applicants/org_

step6.jsp. 

An application submitted through 

Grants.gov constitutes a submission as 

an electronically signed application. 

The registration and account creation 

with Grants.gov, with E-Biz POC 

approval, establishes an AOR. When 

you submit the application through 

Grants.gov, the name of your AOR on 

file will be inserted into the signature 

line of the application. Applicants must 

register the individual who is able to 

make legally binding commitments for 

the applicant organization as the AOR; 

this step is often missed and it is crucial 

for valid submissions. 

When a registered applicant submits 

an application with Grants.gov, an 

electronic time stamp is generated 

within the system when the application 

is successfully received by Grants.gov. 

Within two business days of application 

submission, Grants.gov will send the 

applicant two e-mail messages to 

provide the status of the application’s 

progress through the system. The first 

e-mail, sent almost immediately, will 

contain a tracking number and will 

confirm receipt of the application by 

Grants.gov. The second e-mail will 

indicate the application has either been 

successfully validated or has been 

rejected due to errors. Only applications 

that have been successfully submitted 

by the deadline and subsequently 

successfully validated will be 

considered. It is the sole responsibility 

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submission. While it is not required that 

an application be successfully validated 

before the deadline for submission, it is 

prudent to reserve time before the 

deadline in case it is necessary to 

resubmit an application that has not 

been successfully validated. Therefore, 

sufficient time should be allotted for 

submission (two business days) and, if 

applicable, additional time to address 

errors and receive validation upon 

resubmission (an additional two 

business days for each ensuing 

submission). It is important to note that 

if sufficient time is not allotted and a 

rejection notice is received after the due 

date and time, the application will not 

be considered. 

To ensure consideration, the 

components of the application must be 

saved as .doc, .xls or .pdf files. If 

submitted in any other format, the 

applicant bears the risk that 

compatibility or other issues will 

prevent us from considering the 

application. ETA will attempt to open 

the document but will not take any 

additional measures in the event of 

problems with opening. In such cases, 

the non-conforming application will not 

be considered for funding. 

We strongly advise applicants to use 

the plethora of tools and documents, 

including FAQs, which are available on 

the ‘‘Applicant Resources’’ page at 

http://www.grants.gov/applicants/ 

resources.jsp. 

ETA encourages new prospective 

applicants to view the online tutorial, 

‘‘Grant Applications 101: A Plain 

English Guide to ETA Competitive 

Grants,’’ available through 

Workforce3One at: http:// 

www.workforce3one.org/page/ 

grants_toolkit. 

To receive updated information about 

critical issues, new tips for users, and 

other time sensitive updates as 

information is available, applicants may 

subscribe to ‘‘Grants.gov Updates’’ at 

http://www.grants.gov/applicants/email_subscription_signup.jsp. 

If applicants encounter a problem 

with Grants.gov and do not find an 

answer in any of the other resources, 

call 1–800–518–4726 to speak to a 

Customer Support Representative or email ‘‘support@grants.gov.’’ The Contact 

Center is open 24 hours a day, seven 

days a week. It is closed on Federal 

holidays. 

Late Applications: For applications 

submitted on Grants.gov, only 

applications that have been successfully 

submitted no later than 4 p.m. Eastern 

Time on the closing date and then 

successfully validated will be 

considered. Applicants take a 

significant risk by waiting to the last day 

to submit by Grants.gov. 

Any hard copy application received 

after the exact date and time specified 

for receipt at the office designated in 

this notice will not be considered, 

unless it is received before awards are 

made, it was properly addressed, and it 

was: (a) Sent by U.S. Postal Service 

mail, postmarked not later than the fifth 

calendar day before the date specified 

for receipt of applications (e.g., an 

application required to be received by 

the 20th of the month must be 

postmarked by the 15th of that month); 

or (b) sent by professional overnight 

delivery service to the addressee not 

later than one working day before the 

date specified for receipt of 

applications. ‘‘Postmarked’’ means a 

printed, stamped, or otherwise placed 

impression (exclusive of a postage meter 

machine impression) that is readily 

identifiable, without further action, as 

having been supplied or affixed on the 

date of mailing by an employee of the 

U.S. Postal Service. Therefore, 

applicants should request the postal 

clerk to place a legible hand 

cancellation ‘‘bull’s eye’’ postmark on 

both the receipt and the package. 

Failure to adhere to these instructions 

will be a basis for a determination that 

the application was not filed on time 

and will not be considered. Evidence of 

timely submission by a professional 

overnight delivery service must be 

demonstrated by equally reliable 

evidence created by the delivery service 

provider indicating the time and place 

of receipt. 

D. Intergovernmental Review 

This funding opportunity is not 

subject to Executive Order (EO) 12372, 

‘‘Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs.’’ 

E. Funding Restrictions 

All proposal costs must be necessary 

and reasonable in accordance with 

Federal guidelines. Determinations of 

allowable costs will be made in 

accordance with the applicable Federal 

cost principles, e.g., Non-Profit 

Organizations—OMB Circular A–122. 

Disallowed costs are those charges to a 

grant that the grantor agency or its 

representative determines not to be 

allowed in accordance with the 

applicable Federal cost principles or 

other conditions contained in the grant. 

Applicants will not be entitled to 

reimbursement of pre-award costs. 

1. Legal Rules Pertaining to Inherently 

Religious Activities by Organizations 

That Receive Federal Financial 

Assistance 

Direct Federal grants, sub-awards, or 

contracts under this program must not 

be used to support inherently religious 

activities such as religious instruction, 

worship, or proselytization. Therefore, 

organizations must take steps to 

separate, in time or location, their 

inherently religious activities from the 

services supported with DOL financial 

assistance under this program. Neutral, 

secular criteria that neither favor nor 

disfavor religion must be employed in 

the selection of grant and sub-grant 

recipients. In addition, under WIA and 

DOL regulations implementing WIA, a 

recipient may not use direct Federal 

assistance to train a participant in 

religious activities, or employ 

participants to construct, operate, or 

maintain any part of a facility that is 

used or to be used for religious 

instruction or worship. See 29 CFR 

37.6(f). Under WIA, ‘‘[n]o individual 

shall be excluded from participation in, 

denied the benefits of, subjected to 

discrimination under, or denied 

employment in the administration of or 

in connection with, any such program 

or activity because of race, color, 

religion, sex (except as otherwise 

permitted under Title IX of the 

Education Amendments of 1972 and the 

Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 

1993), national origin, age, disability, or 

political affiliation or belief.’’ 29 U.S.C. 

2938(a)(2). Regulations on the Equal 

Treatment for Faith-Based 

Organizations, which includes the 

prohibition against supporting 

inherently religious activities with 

direct DOL financial assistance, can be 

found at 29 CFR part 2, subpart D. 

Provisions relating to the use of indirect 

support (such as vouchers) are at 29 

CFR 2.33(c) and 20 CFR 667.266. 

A faith-based organization receiving 

Federal financial assistance retains its 

independence from Federal, State, and 

local governments, and may continue to 

carry out its mission, including the 

definition, practice, and expression of 

its religious beliefs. For example, a 

faith-based organization may use space 

in its facilities to provide secular 

programs or services supported with 

Federal financial assistance without 

removing religious art, icons, scriptures, 

or other religious symbols. In addition, 

a faith-based organization that receives 

Federal financial assistance retains its 

authority over its internal governance, 

and it may retain religious terms in its 

organization’s name, select its board 

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include religious references in its 

organization’s mission statements and 

other governing documents in 

accordance with all program 

requirements, statutes, and other 

applicable requirements governing the 

conduct of DOL funded activities. 

The Religious Freedom Restoration 

Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. sec. 2000bb, 

applies to all Federal law and its 

implementation. If your organization is 

a faith-based organization that makes 

hiring decisions on the basis of religious 

belief, it may be entitled to receive 

Federal financial assistance under Title 

I of WIA and maintain that hiring 

practice even though Section 188 of 

WIA contains a general ban on religious 

discrimination in employment. If you 

are awarded a grant, you will be 

provided with information on how to 

request such an exemption. 

Faith-based and community 

organizations may reference 

‘‘Transforming Partnerships: How to 

Apply the U.S. Department of Labor’s 

Equal Treatment and Religion-Related 

Regulations to Public-Private 

Partnerships’’ at: http:// 

www.workforce3one.org/view/5566/info. 

2. Indirect Costs 

As specified in OMB Circular Cost 

Principles, indirect costs are those that 

have been incurred for common or joint 

objectives and cannot be readily 

identified with a particular final cost 

objective. In order to use grant funds for 

indirect costs incurred, the applicant 

must obtain an Indirect Cost Rate 

Agreement with its Federal Cognizant 

Agency either before or shortly after the 

grant award. If an applicant already has 

a Federal Indirect Cost Rate Agreement, 

that agreement may be used. 

3. Administrative Costs 

Under the YouthBuild grants, an 

entity that receives a grant to carry out 

a project or program may not use more 

than 15 percent of the amount of the 

grant to pay administrative costs 

associated with the program or project. 

Administrative costs could be direct or 

indirect costs and are defined at 20 CFR 

667.220. Administrative costs do not 

need to be identified separately from 

program costs on the SF–424A Budget 

Information Form. They should be 

discussed in the budget narrative and 

tracked through the grantee’s accounting 

system. To claim any administrative 

costs that are also indirect costs, the 

applicant must obtain an indirect cost 

rate agreement from its Federal 

Cognizant Agency as specified above. 

4. Intellectual Property Rights 

The Federal Government reserves a 

paid-up, nonexclusive, and irrevocable 

license to reproduce, publish or 

otherwise use, and to authorize others to 

use for Federal purposes: (i) The 

copyright in all products developed 

under the grant, including a subgrant or 

contract under the grant or subgrant; 

and (ii) any rights of copyright to which 

the grantee, subgrantee or a contractor 

purchases ownership under an award 

(including but not limited to curricula, 

training models, technical assistance 

products, and any related materials). 

Such uses include, but are not limited 

to, the right to modify and distribute 

such products worldwide by any means, 

electronically or otherwise. Federal 

funds may not be used to pay any 

royalty or licensing fee associated with 

such copyrighted material, although 

they may be used to pay costs for 

obtaining a copy which is limited to the 

developer/seller costs of copying and 

shipping. If revenues are generated 

through selling products developed 

with grant funds, including intellectual 

property, these revenues are program 

income. Program income is added to the 

grant and must be expended for 

allowable grant activities. 

If applicable, the following needs to 

be on all products developed in whole 

or in part with grant funds: 

This workforce product was funded by a 

grant awarded by the U.S. Department of 

Labor’s Employment and Training 

Administration. The product was created by 

the grantee and does not necessarily reflect 

the official position of the U.S. Department 

of Labor. The Department of Labor makes no 

guarantees, warranties, or assurances of any 

kind, express or implied, with respect to 

such information, including any information 

on linked sites and including, but not limited 

to, accuracy of the information or its 

completeness, timeliness, usefulness, 

adequacy, continued availability, or 

ownership. This product is copyrighted by 

the institution that created it. Internal use by 

an organization and/or personal use by an 

individual for non-commercial purposes is 

permissible. All other uses require the prior 

authorization of the copyright owner. 

5. Salary and Bonus Limitations 

Under Public Law 109–234, none of 

the funds appropriated in Public Law 

109–149 or prior Acts under the heading 

‘‘Employment and Training 

Administration’’ that are available for 

expenditure on or after June 15, 2006, 

may be used by a recipient or subrecipient of such funds to pay the salary 

and bonuses of an individual, either as 

direct costs or indirect costs, at a rate in 

excess of Executive Level II, except as 

provided for in section 101 of Public 

Law 109–149. This limitation applies to 

grants funded by this Solicitation under 

Public Law 111–117, and will also 

apply to grants funded by this 

Solicitation under the FY 2011 

appropriation. The salary and bonus 

limitation does not apply to vendors 

providing goods and services as defined 

in OMB Circular A–133 (codified at 29 

CFR Parts 96 and 99). See TEGL No. 5– 

06 for further clarification: http:// 

wdr.doleta.gov/directives/ 

corr_doc.cfm?DOCN=2262. 

F. Other Submission Requirements 

Withdrawal of Applications: 

Applications may be withdrawn by 

written notice or telegram (including 

mailgram) to the Grant Officer received 

at any time before an award is made. 

Applications may be withdrawn in 

person by the applicant or by an 

authorized representative thereof, if the 

representative’s identity is made known 

and the representative signs a receipt for 

the return of the proposal. 

V. Application Review Information 

A. Evaluation Criteria 

This section identifies and describes 

the criteria that will be used to evaluate 

proposals for a YouthBuild Grant. These 

criteria and point values are: 

Criterion Points 

1. Statement of Need ................... 10 

2. Program Management, Organizational Capacity, and Evidence 

of Past and Projected Success 

in YouthBuild or Other Relevant 

Programs ................................... 35 

3. Project Design, Service Strategy, and Program Outcomes .... 40 

4. Linkages to Key Partners, 

Match and Leveraged Resources ...................................... 15 

Total .......................................... 100 

1. Statement of Need (10 Points) 

Please describe the community where 

the YouthBuild program will operate. 

Identify the need for a YouthBuild 

program in the community that is 

proposed to be served through the grant 

and demonstrate the need for the project 

in that area. Applicants are expected to 

present information on various 

characteristics of the community(ies) in 

which they expect to operate. If there 

are particular neighborhoods within the 

city where the grant will be focused, 

describe these neighborhoods and 

provide available data specific to those 

areas. Required information includes 

the population of the area, its poverty 

rate, shortage of affordable housing, its 

unemployment rate, the graduation rate, 

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without a high school diploma. In 

addition, because one of the goals of the 

YouthBuild program is to provide for 

the inclusion of tenants who were 

previously homeless individuals or 

families in the rental of housing 

provided through the program, the 

incidence of homelessness in your 

community should be included. 

To obtain these indicators, applicants 

can use census tract data from the 2000 

census—go to http://factfinder.census.

gov and use the link on the left for 

People. Graduation rates for every 

school district in the nation may be 

found at http://www.edweek.org/apps/

maps/. 

All of these indicators must be 

presented in chart form, which may be 

single-spaced, and the applicant must 

provide the sources for the data 

provided. In addition, applicants should 

provide information on the economic 

and employment factors facing the 

community, including negative factors 

as well as promising economic and 

employment trends that will require an 

educated and skilled workforce. 

If the organization plans to build or 

rehabilitate houses or community/ 

public facilities in a different 

community from that in which youth 

will be recruited, present the 

homelessness and poverty data for that 

area and the unemployment, poverty, 

and graduation rates for the area in 

which the organization will be 

recruiting youth participants. 

Applicants will be evaluated on: 

• The clear and specific need for a 

YouthBuild program in their 

community, as evidenced by high 

poverty and low graduation rates; and 

• The degree to which other factors in 

distressed communities, such as crime, 

unemployment, plant closures, or other 

indicators of economic decline, 

particularly in comparison with other 

areas of the city or state, are negatively 

impacting youth and their families. 

2. Program Management, Organizational 

Capacity, and Evidence of Past and 

Projected Success in YouthBuild or 

Other Relevant Programs (35 Points). 

i. Program Management and 

Organizational Capacity (15 Points) 

The applicant must provide a 

description of the applicant’s 

organization and a statement of its 

qualifications for running a YouthBuild 

program, including years of operation, 

current annual budget, continuity of 

leadership, and the experience of staff, 

their roles, as well as those of any 

consultants and collaborative 

organizations that may be part of 

operating the YouthBuild program. 

Applicants should include an 

organizational chart that reflects how 

the YouthBuild program will be staffed 

and, in instances where the YouthBuild 

program is part of a larger organization 

(e.g., a Housing Authority), a diagram 

that indicates where the YouthBuild 

program fits within the larger 

organization. 

The applicant must fully describe the 

organization’s capacity to track and 

report outcomes and its ability to collect 

and manage data in a way that allows 

consistent, accurate, and expedient 

reporting. The applicant must discuss 

the professional development activities 

available to staff, either on-site or 

through training funds. 

The applicant must fully describe any 

previous experience of the organization 

in operating grants from either Federal 

or non-Federal sources. Describe the 

fiscal controls in place in the 

organization for auditing and 

accountability procedures. Applicant 

must also provide information on the 

overall financial stability of the 

organization that has financial oversight 

for this program. Applicants must 

include the most recent audited 

financial statements and, if applicable, 

the accompanying management letter. 

This attachment will not count towards 

your 20-page limit for either the 

technical proposal or attachments. 

The applicant must describe the 

organization’s ability to handle multiple 

funding streams with appropriate 

accounting systems in place. 

The applicant must describe its 

proposed project management structure 

including, where appropriate, the 

identification of a proposed project 

manager, discussion of the proposed 

staffing pattern, and the qualifications 

and experience of key staff members or 

short job descriptions and their time 

commitment to the project. 

Scoring under this criterion will be 

based on the extent to which applicants 

provide evidence of the following: 

• The overall financial stability of the 

organization as demonstrated by strong 

accounting systems, fiscal controls, 

previous grants management, and the 

audited financial statements. 

• The capacity of the applicant 

organization to accomplish the goals 

and outcomes of the project, including 

the ability to collect and manage data in 

a way that allows consistent, accurate, 

and expedient reporting. 

• The time commitment of the 

proposed staff dedicated to the 

YouthBuild program is sufficient to 

ensure proper direction, management, 

and timely completion of the project. 

• The roles and contribution of staff, 

consultants, and collaborative 

organizations are clearly defined and 

linked to specific tasks. 

• The background, experience, and 

other qualifications of the staff are 

sufficient to carry out their designated 

roles. 

• The adequacy of the budget and 

narrative to run the proposed program, 

including the cost per participant, 

which should not exceed the range of 

$15,000–$18,000. 

ii. Evidence of Past Success in 

YouthBuild or Other Relevant Programs 

(20 Points) 

The applicant must fully describe and 

document past accomplishments it has 

had operating a YouthBuild program or 

another youth workforce development 

program that is comparable to 

YouthBuild in its complexity and 

duration in the provision of education 

and skills training for at-risk youth, 

including skills training in housing 

rehabilitation and construction 

activities. If you have previously 

received a YouthBuild award from DOL, 

please include the quarterly 

performance numbers from the most 

recently submitted Quarterly 

Performance Report. The applicant must 

describe the program and how long the 

program has been in operation. 

Applicants that have operated a 

YouthBuild program or another 

comparable youth workforce 

development program must provide in a 

chart, which may be single-spaced, the 

following information: 

• Program duration (e.g., months 

participants are enrolled in the 

program); 

• Number of youth recruited; 

• Number of youth enrolled; 

• Number of youth who successfully 

completed the program; 

• Number and percent of youth 

receiving their GED, high school 

diploma, and/or other state recognized 

equivalent (including recognized 

alternative standards for individuals 

with disabilities; please differentiate 

between these credentials); 

• Rate of literacy and numeracy gains 

by participants; 

• Number and percent of youth who 

have entered construction-related 

employment; 

• Number and percent of youth who 

have entered other employment; 

• Employment retention rates; 

• Number and percent of youth who 

have entered post-secondary training or 

education; 

• Post-secondary training or 

education retention rates (where 

available, please indicate the number of 

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secondary training or education and 

have achieved a credential); 

• Number and percent of youth who 

have entered registered apprenticeship 

programs; and 

• Cost per participant. 

The applicant must indicate the 

projected enrollment per year. Please 

fully describe how both the academic 

and skills training curricula were 

developed and how long they have been 

used. Please note that projected 

enrollment described in this section is 

not binding. At the time of grant award, 

DOL will inform grantees of expected 

enrollment goals as well as expected 

outcomes based on existing outcome 

data for a YouthBuild program or 

another comparable youth workforce 

development program. DOL reserves the 

right to set expected performance 

outcomes at a later date in the awards 

selection process. 

Scoring under this criterion will be 

based on the extent to which applicants 

provide evidence of the following: 

• The degree to which the 

performance data is provided and 

documented; 

• The degree to which the 

organization has demonstrated success 

in working with at-risk youth and 

preparing them for employment or 

education; 

• The complexity of construction 

activities undertaken and the degree to 

which youth are exposed and trained in 

a variety of construction skills; 

• The use of occupational skills 

training curriculum that resulted in 

youth receiving industry-recognized 

credentials, e.g., the National Center for 

Construction Education and Research, 

the Home Builders Institute’s 

curriculum, or the Building Trades 

Multi-Craft Core curriculum; and 

• The use of State-approved curricula 

for either GED or high school diploma. 

3. Project Design, Service Strategy, and 

Program Outcomes (40 Points Total). 

i. How will youth be recruited and 

selected for the program? (5 Points) 

The applicant must provide a 

description that fully demonstrates how 

eligible youth will be recruited and 

selected as participants, including a 

description of arrangements that will be 

made for the recruitment and selection 

of eligible youth with the following 

groups: Local Workforce Investment 

Boards, One-Stop Career Centers, faithbased and community organizations, 

State educational agencies or local 

educational agencies (including 

agencies of Indian tribes), public 

assistance agencies, the courts of 

jurisdiction, agencies operating shelters 

for homeless individuals, people with 

disabilities, and other agencies that 

serve youth who are homeless 

individuals, foster care agencies, and 

other appropriate public and private 

agencies. The applicant must provide a 

description that fully demonstrates the 

outreach efforts that will be undertaken 

to recruit eligible young women 

(including young women with 

dependent children) as participants. 

Scoring under this criterion will be 

based on the extent to which applicants 

provide evidence of the following: 

• The quality and comprehensiveness 

of their recruitment strategy including 

methods for outreach, referral, and 

selection. 

• The program’s successful efforts to 

recruit eligible young women into the 

YouthBuild program or other 

comparable youth workforce 

development program. 

ii. How will education and occupational 

skills training be delivered to youth as 

required by the YouthBuild Transfer Act 

in an integrated and cross-cutting 

manner? (20 Points) 

The applicant must fully demonstrate 

how the academic program is integrated 

with the occupational skills training 

component of the program. The 

applicant must explain how academic 

and occupational skills training 

instructors work together to reinforce 

and complement classroom and 

workplace lessons and how other 

innovative teaching strategies are used 

in the program. Describe how the 

applied learning of the construction 

trades will improve and enhance the 

academic outcomes for the youth and 

provide examples of the integration of 

these two YouthBuild program 

components. 

The applicant must provide a 

description that fully demonstrates the 

educational and job training activities, 

work opportunities, post-secondary 

education and training opportunities, 

and other services that will be provided 

to participants, and how those activities, 

opportunities, and services will prepare 

youth for employment in construction 

occupations in demand in the local 

labor market. Given the connection 

between education and earnings, DOL 

expects that the academic component 

will be rigorous and challenging and 

will provide youth with opportunities to 

transition to post-secondary training. 

The program must be structured so that 

participants in the program are offered 

education and related services designed 

to meet educational needs for at least 50 

percent of the time during which they 

participate in the program. YouthBuild 

program participants must be offered 

work and skill development activities in 

housing rehabilitation and construction 

activities, for at least 40 percent of the 

time during which they participate in 

the program. The 50–40 time allocation 

applies at the program level and not to 

the actual time that an individual 

spends in a component. 

The applicant must indicate the type 

of academic credential that participants 

will earn while in the program (GED, 

high school diploma or degree 

certificate, or other state recognized 

equivalent including recognized 

alternative standards for people with 

disabilities). The applicant must fully 

describe the quality of the academic 

program and the qualifications of the 

teaching staff. The applicant must fully 

describe any innovative and successful 

strategies that the program or initiative 

has used to address low basic skills of 

participants. The applicant must 

describe if and how the academic 

portion of your program differs from 

that of a traditional comprehensive high 

school. If distance learning and/or credit 

retrieval is used, please fully describe 

how this is incorporated into the overall 

academic program. The applicant must 

describe how student mastery is 

demonstrated. 

The applicant must describe how it 

will link program participants to local 

community colleges and trade schools, 

particularly for YouthBuild programs 

that only offer GEDs to participants. 

Please also describe the types of college 

exploration, planning, preparation, and 

assistance that will be provided. 

The applicant must discuss the 

occupational skills training component 

of the program, including where and 

how the training will be conducted, 

how the curriculum is developed, the 

type of industry-recognized credentials 

that result from the training, the 

inclusion of green construction skill 

training, and the involvement of 

industry partners and apprenticeship 

programs in the development of the 

training. Please describe the skills and 

qualifications of the occupational skills 

training instructors. Applicants must 

provide the worksite form ETA–9143 

and all related attachments as part of 

their proposal. All information 

requested on the ETA–9143 and related 

attachments must be addressed in full in 

order to be considered responsive to this 

requirement. Please provide a 

description of the payment structure for 

participants. 

The applicant must describe how it 

will oversee the worksite to identify 

existing and potential hazards, how 

youth will be trained to protect 

themselves from potential worksite 

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prevented and controlled through 

policies and procedures. Provide 

information on how worksite 

supervisors will be trained to ensure 

OSHA-approved worksite safety. The 

applicant must indicate the ratio of 

adults to youth at construction training 

sites. 

This section of the proposal will be 

rated on: 

• The use of innovative and evidencebased instructional strategies to address 

basic skills deficiencies; 

• The extent to which a challenging 

curriculum is provided; 

• The extent to which project-based 

learning or other methods of integrating 

education and occupational skill 

training are used; 

• The specific partnerships that 

create explicit links for participants to 

local community colleges and trade 

schools; 

• The degree to which career and 

college exploration are incorporated 

into the overall culture of the program; 

• The availability of industryrecognized credentials upon completion 

of the occupational skills training 

components of the program; 

• The strength of connections to 

business partners and apprenticeship 

programs; 

• The comprehensiveness of form 

ETA–9143 describing the worksite and 

access; 

• The comprehensiveness of safety 

plans for the occupational skills training 

worksite, including the training of staff 

and participants in OSHA guidelines; 

• The extent of green construction 

training that is included in the overall 

construction curriculum; 

• The proposed time period during 

which educational programming will be 

offered (including when the 

programming will be offered and the 

amount of time that it will be offered); 

• The proposed time period during 

which occupational skills training will 

be offered (including when the 

programming will be offered and the 

amount of time that it will be offered); 

and 

• The quality of the integration of 

these two components. 

iii. How will community service 

learning and leadership development 

opportunities be provided for youth in 

the program? (5 Points) 

The applicant must describe the 

proposed leadership curriculum, 

qualifications of instructors, and the 

impact of the proposed leadership 

activities on the target area. The 

application must fully describe the 

leadership development training that 

will be offered to participants, the 

expected leadership competencies with 

which participants will graduate, youth 

committee involvement strategies, 

efforts for providing the training to 

build group cohesion and peer support, 

and opportunities for continued 

leadership after graduation. The 

applicant must describe how 

community service learning 

opportunities will be implemented at 

the site. 

Applicants will be evaluated on: 

• The quality of leadership 

development and community service 

learning activities; and 

• How these activities are integrated 

with academic, skills training, and 

career exploration components of the 

program. 

iv. What types of post-program 

transition services will be provided and 

how will follow-up for outcome 

reporting and participant retention be 

assured? (10 Points) 

Post-program transition services are 

defined as services offered during 

program enrollment that will assist a 

young person in making a successful 

transition from the YouthBuild program 

into employment and/or post-secondary 

education and training programs. 

Follow-up services are services that may 

be provided to a YouthBuild program 

participant upon exit from the program. 

Please fully describe the types of postprogram transition services that will be 

offered to prepare youth for career 

pathway opportunities and placements 

and/or educational opportunities and 

placements. The applicant must 

describe how each individual’s work 

readiness will be assessed and how 

work readiness training will be 

provided. Also describe how an 

individual’s readiness for placement in 

post-secondary education and/or 

apprenticeship programs will be 

assessed. The applicant must 

demonstrate the types of career 

exploration and planning activities that 

will be offered by the program, 

particularly for high-growth, highdemand, and high-wage occupations. 

For a list of ETA’s or the Department’s 

Targeted High-Growth Industries, go to: 

http://www.doleta.gov/brg/ 

jobtraininitiative/#TargetedIndustries. 

The applicant must describe the 

program’s job placement and retention 

strategy, including how the program 

will work with employers and/or OneStop Career Centers to identify and 

create job openings for the young people 

served by the program. Describe the 

types of follow-up services that will be 

provided to support youth as they 

transition to post-secondary education 

or employment and ensure that they are 

retained in placements. Describe how 

appropriate continued support services 

will be provided during the nine to 

twelve month follow-up period. 

Important elements for evaluation 

include: 

• The degree to which work readiness 

and career exploration are integrated 

into the culture, core mission, and 

activities of the program; 

• The program’s integrated approach 

to providing post-program planning for 

participants; and 

• The structure of its participant 

follow-up service strategy. 

4. Linkages to Key Partners, Match and 

Leveraged Resources (15 Points Total) 

i. Who are the key partners that will be 

supporting the program? (10 Points) 

The applicant must describe the key 

partners who will be involved in the 

proposed YouthBuild project. 

Specifically, describe in detail the 

activities to be undertaken by partners, 

the level of commitment from each 

partnering organization, and their 

qualifications to assist with this project. 

As an attachment, the applicant must 

include letters of commitment from key 

partners that demonstrate the strength 

and maturity of the partnership, 

including previous collaboration on 

projects. Please note that letters of 

support do not equate to letters of 

commitment and should not be 

included. 

The applicant must provide a 

description of how the proposed 

program will coordinate with Federal, 

State, and local agencies and Indian 

tribes to access services, including local 

workforce investment activities with 

One-Stop Career Centers and their 

cooperating partners, vocational 

education programs, faith-based 

organizations, limited English 

proficiency instruction programs, and 

activities conducted by public schools, 

community colleges, and national 

service programs, as well as other job 

training provided with funds available 

under this title. 

The applicant must describe 

partnerships with the juvenile justice 

system, adult probation/parole agencies, 

and housing and community 

development systems. The applicant 

must fully describe the specific role of 

employers in the proposed program, 

such as their role in developing the 

proposed program and assisting in 

service provision and in placement 

activities. The applicant must fully 

describe the program’s relationship with 

local building trade unions and their 

role in training, the relationship of the 

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registered apprenticeship programs and 

employers, and the ability of the 

applicant to grant industry-recognized 

skills certifications through the 

program. 

The applicant must indicate the types 

of private funding the organization has 

secured in the past. Also, fully describe 

long-term partnerships with 

organizations that have added to the 

robustness of the program and how the 

organization has sustained these 

partnerships. The applicant must 

discuss how they have successfully 

managed partnerships. 

Points for this factor will be awarded 

based on: 

• The commitment of additional 

resources to the proposed program (in 

addition to the funds made available 

through the grant) by: 

(1) An applicant; 

(2) Recipients of other Federal, State, 

or local housing and community 

development assistance who will 

sponsor any part of the rehabilitation, 

construction, operation and 

maintenance, or other housing and 

community development activities 

undertaken as part of the proposed 

program; or 

(3) Entities carrying out other Federal, 

State, or local activities or activities 

conducted by Indian tribes, including 

vocational education programs, adult 

and language instruction educational 

programs, and job training using funds 

provided under WIA. 

• An applicant’s ability to attract as 

partners in the proposed program: 

(1) Education and training providers 

including: 

(i) The kindergarten through twelfth 

grade educational system; 

(ii) Adult education; 

(iii) Community and technical 

colleges; 

(iv) Four-year colleges and 

universities; 

(v) Registered apprenticeship 

programs; and 

(vi) Other training entities. 

(2) Employers, including professional 

organizations and associations. An 

applicant will be evaluated on the 

extent to which employers participate 

in: 

(i) Defining the program strategy and 

goals; 

(ii) Identifying needed skills and 

competencies; 

(iii) Designing training approaches 

and curricula; 

(iv) Contributing financial support; 

and 

(v) Hiring qualified YouthBuild 

graduates. 

(3) The workforce investment system 

which may include: 

(i) State and local workforce 

investment boards; 

(ii) State workforce agencies; and 

(iii) One-Stop Career Centers and their 

cooperating partners. 

(4) The juvenile justice system, and 

the extent to which it provides: 

(i) Support and guidance for 

YouthBuild participants with court 

involvement; and 

(ii) Assists in the reporting of 

recidivism rates among YouthBuild 

participants. 

(5) Faith-based and community 

organizations that serve at-risk and 

disadvantaged youth, and the extent to 

which they provide a variety of grant 

services such as: 

(i) Case management; 

(ii) Mentoring; 

(iii) English as a Second Language 

courses; and 

(iv) Other comprehensive supportive 

services, when appropriate. 

(6) Local building trade unions and 

established registered apprenticeship 

programs and the extent to which they 

play a role in training, developing 

curricula, and providing post-program 

opportunities for employment or entry 

into training programs. 

(7) Housing authorities, where 

appropriate, and how they are engaged 

in the YouthBuild program including, 

the recruitment of potential 

participants, the provision of worksites 

for participant training, office or 

training space, staff, and any other 

resources that they may be providing to 

the YouthBuild program; 

• The partners’ knowledge and 

experience about the proposed grant 

activities and their ability to impact the 

success of the project; 

• Evidence, including letters of 

commitment (not letters of support), 

that key partners have expressed a clear 

dedication to the project and 

understand their areas of responsibility; 

and 

• Evidence of the demonstrated 

ability of the applicant to successfully 

manage partnerships. 

ii. What match and other leveraged 

resources are being contributed to this 

project? (5 Points) 

Applicants should clearly describe 

the required matching funds (not to 

exceed 25 percent and any additional 

funds or resources leveraged in support 

of the proposed strategies and 

demonstrate how these funds contribute 

to the goals of the project. Important 

elements of the explanation include: 

• Which partners and/or grant subrecipients have or will contribute(d) 

match and leveraged resources and the 

extent of each contribution, including 

an itemized description of each 

contribution; 

• The quality of the match and 

leveraged resources, including the 

extent to which each contribution will 

be used to further the goals of the 

project; and 

• Evidence, such as letters of 

commitment (not letters of support), 

that key partners have expressed a clear 

commitment to provide the 

contribution. 

Assessment of this criterion will be 

based on the extent to which the 

applicant fully describes the amount, 

commitment, nature, and quality of 

match and leveraged resources. A match 

in the sum of exactly 25 percent of the 

Federal funding request must be 

provided. Matching funds may be either 

cash or in-kind. Application will also be 

evaluated on the extent to which 

additional Federal, State, local, or 

private funding is provided for 

wraparound support services as well as 

to support the costs associated with 

their defined construction project. Both 

matching funds and additional 

leveraged resources will be scored based 

on the degree to which the source and 

use of those resources are clearly 

explained and the extent to which all 

resources are fully integrated into the 

project to support grant outcomes. 

Proposing a match amount in excess of 

the required 25 percent will NOT result 

in additional points and may have a 

negative impact on the overall 

evaluation. 

B. Review and Selection Process 

Applications for grants under this 

Solicitation will be accepted after the 

publication of this announcement and 

until the closing date. Proposals that are 

timely and responsive to the 

requirements of this SGA will be rated 

against the criteria listed above by an 

independent panel comprised of 

representatives from DOL, HUD, U.S. 

Department of Justice, U.S. Department 

of Health and Human Services, and 

other peers. The ranked scores will 

serve as the primary basis for selection 

of applications for funding, in 

conjunction with other factors such as 

urban, rural, and geographic balance; 

whether the areas to be served have 

previously received grants for 

YouthBuild programs; the availability of 

funds; and which proposals are most 

advantageous to the Department. The 

approximately $30 million that remains 

of FY 2010 funds will be reserved for 

awards to organizations that did not 

receive funding in the FY 2009 

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If an applicant that did not receive 

funding in the FY 2009 YouthBuild 

competition [SGA/DFA PY 08–07] does 

not receive an award from the 

approximately $30 million of FY 2010 

funds, their application will 

automatically be considered for award 

from the FY 2011 appropriation. 

The panel results are advisory in 

nature and not binding on the Grant 

Officer, who may consider any 

information that comes to his/her 

attention. The Department may elect to 

award the grant(s) with or without 

discussions with the applicants. Should 

a grant be awarded without discussions, 

the award will be based on the 

applicant’s signature on the SF–424, 

which constitutes a binding offer by the 

applicant (including electronic 

signature via E–Authentication on 

http://www.grants.gov). 

VI. Award Administration Information 

A. Award Notices 

All award notifications will be posted 

on the ETA homepage (http:// 

www.doleta.gov). Applicants selected 

for award will be contacted directly 

before the grant’s execution. Applicants 

not selected for award will be notified 

by mail. All applicants will be given the 

opportunity to request written feedback 

based on the technical panel review. 

As part of the grant package and 

before any drawdown, all successful 

grantees will be required to re-confirm 

access to their proposed worksite. In 

addition, a revised worksite plan will be 

required before funds can be drawn 

down for the second year of the grant. 

B. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements 

1. Administrative Program 

Requirements 

All grantees will be subject to all 

applicable Federal laws, regulations, 

and the applicable OMB Circulars. The 

grant(s) awarded under this SGA will be 

subject to the following administrative 

standards and provisions: 

i. Non-Profit Organizations—OMB 

Circular A–122 (Cost Principles), 

relocated to 2 CFR part 230, and 29 CFR 

part 95 (Administrative Requirements). 

ii. Educational Institutions—OMB 

Circular A–21 (Cost Principles), 

relocated to 2 CFR part 220, and 29 CFR 

part 95 (Administrative Requirements). 

iii. State, Local, and Indian Tribal 

Governments—OMB Circular A–87 

(Cost Principles), relocated to 2 CFR 

part 225, and 29 CFR part 97 

(Administrative Requirements). 

iv. Profit Making Commercial Firms— 

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)— 

48 CFR part 31 (Cost Principles), and 29 

CFR part 95 (Administrative 

Requirements). 

v. The Workforce Investment Act of 

1998, Public Law 105–220, 112 Stat. 936 

(codified, as amended, at 29 U.S.C. 2801 

et seq.) and 20 CFR part 667 (General 

Fiscal and Administrative Rules); 

vi. 29 CFR Part 37—Implementation 

of the Nondiscrimination and Equal 

Opportunity Provisions of the 

Workforce Investment Act of 1998; 

vii. All entities must comply with 29 

CFR parts 93 (New Restrictions on 

Lobbying), 29 CFR part 94 

(Governmentwide Requirements for 

Drug-Free Workplace (Financial 

Assistance)), and 29 CFR part 98 

(Governmentwide Debarment and 

Suspension), and, where applicable, 29 

CFR part 96 (Audit Requirements for 

Grants, Contracts, and Other 

Agreements) and 29 CFR Part 99 (Audits 

of States, Local Governments and NonProfit Organizations). 

ix. 29 CFR part 2, subpart D—Equal 

Treatment in Department of Labor 

Programs for Religious Organizations, 

Protection of Religious Liberty of 

Department of Labor Social Service 

Providers and Beneficiaries. 

x. 29 CFR part 31—Nondiscrimination 

in Federally Assisted Programs of the 

Department of Labor—Effectuation of 

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

xi. 29 CFR part 32— 

Nondiscrimination on the Basis of 

Handicap in Programs and Activities 

Receiving or Benefiting from Federal 

Financial Assistance. 

xii. 29 CFR part 33—Enforcement of 

Nondiscrimination on the Basis of 

Handicap in Programs or Activities 

Conducted by the Department of Labor. 

xiii. 29 CFR part 35— 

Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Age 

in Programs or Activities Receiving 

Federal Financial Assistance from the 

Department of Labor. 

xiv. 29 CFR part 36— 

Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex 

in Education Programs or Activities 

Receiving Federal Financial Assistance. 

The following administrative 

standards and provisions also may be 

applicable: 

i. The YouthBuild Transfer Act, 

Public Law 109–281, 120 Stat 1173 

(codified at 29 U.S.C. 2918a); 

ii. 29 CFR parts 29 and 30—Labor 

Standards for the Registration of 

Apprenticeship Programs and Equal 

Employment Opportunity in 

Apprenticeship and Training; 

iii. 29 CFR part 570—Child Labor 

Regulations, Orders, and Statements of 

Interpretation; 

iv. The Davis-Bacon Act, as amended, 

40 U.S.C. 3141 et seq. and 29 CFR part 

5—Labor Standards Provisions 

Applicable to Contracts Covering 

Federally Financed and Assisted 

Construction; 

v. Health and Safety Standards 

established under Federal and State Law 

(including the Occupational Safety and 

Health Act of 1970) otherwise 

applicable to working conditions of 

employees are equally applicable to 

working conditions of participants 

engaged in the activities funded by this 

grant. See 29 U.S.C. 2931(b)(4); and 

vi. Environmental protection statutes 

and regulations as applicable. 

In accordance with Section 18 of the 

Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–65) (2 U.S.C. 1611) non-profit 

entities incorporated under Internal 

Revenue Service Code section 501(c)(4) 

that engage in lobbying activities are not 

eligible to receive Federal funds and 

grants. 

Other Administrative Standards and 

Provisions: 

Except as specifically provided in this 

Notice, DOL/ETA’s acceptance of a 

proposal and an award of Federal funds 

to sponsor any program(s) does not 

provide a waiver of any grant 

requirements and/or procedures. For 

example, OMB Circulars require that an 

entity’s procurement procedures must 

ensure that all procurement transactions 

are conducted, as much as practical, to 

provide open and free competition. If a 

proposal identifies a specific entity to 

provide services, the DOL/ETA’s award 

does not provide the justification or 

basis to sole source the procurement, 

i.e., avoid competition, unless the 

activity is regarded as the primary work 

of an official partner to the application. 

Further, as a Federal agency, DOL has 

a statutory duty to affirmatively further 

fair housing. DOL requires the same of 

its funding recipients under this 

solicitation. If the organization is a 

successful applicant, the organization 

will have a duty to affirmatively further 

fair housing opportunities for classes 

protected under the Fair Housing Act. 

Protected classes include race, color, 

national origin, religion, sex, disability, 

and familial status. Therefore, the 

grantee must take specific steps to: 

• Overcome the effects of 

impediments to fair housing choice that 

were identified in the jurisdiction’s 

Analysis of Impediments (AI) to Fair 

Housing Choice; 

• Remedy discrimination in housing; 

or 

• Promote fair housing rights and fair 

housing choice. 

Further, the applicant has a duty to 

carry out the specific activities provided 

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address affirmatively furthering fair 

housing. 

2. Special Program Requirements 

i. Evaluation of YouthBuild Program. 

To measure the impact of the 

YouthBuild programs, DOL has 

arranged for an independent evaluation 

of the outcomes and benefits of the 

projects. ETA has contracted with an 

independent organization to conduct a 

rigorous, national evaluation of the 

YouthBuild program. A subset of 

grantees will be selected to participate 

in the evaluation and those that are 

selected will be required to participate. 

The evaluation will use a random 

assignment design, which includes a 

computerized process that will 

randomly select which of the youth that 

grantees deem eligible for the program 

will receive YouthBuild services. This 

process, similar to drawing names from 

a hat, is fair and ensures that everyone 

has the same chance of getting 

YouthBuild services. Those who are not 

admitted will form a control group and 

may be referred to other non-similar 

youth services. The grantees will be 

responsible for obtaining the consent of 

applicants to be randomly selected to be 

in the control group, and for informing 

the applicants that they have been 

selected. The evaluation contractor will 

work with each grantee to develop study 

procedures that minimize any 

disruption of the grantee’s intake 

procedures and program operations. It is 

expected that the evaluation will not 

reduce the total number of youth who 

are served by the YouthBuild program. 

For more information on the evaluation, 

please see the Q & A section of this 

solicitation. 

C. Reporting 

Grantees must agree to meet DOL 

reporting requirements. Quarterly 

financial reports, quarterly progress 

reports, and MIS data will be submitted 

by the grantee electronically. The 

grantee is required to provide the 

reports and documents listed below: 

1. Quarterly Financial Reports 

A Quarterly Financial Status Report 

(ETA 9130) is required until such time 

as all funds have been expended or the 

grant period has expired. Quarterly 

reports are due 45 days after the end of 

each program year quarter. Grantees 

must use DOL’s On-Line Electronic 

Reporting System about which 

information and instructions will be 

provided to grantees. 

2. Quarterly Narrative Progress Reports 

The grantee must submit a quarterly 

progress report to their designated 

Federal Project Officer within 45 days 

after the end of each quarter. This report 

must provide a detailed account of 

activities undertaken during that 

quarter. The quarterly progress report 

should be in narrative form and should 

include: 

i. In-depth information on 

accomplishments, including project 

success stories, upcoming grant 

activities, and promising approaches 

and processes. 

ii. Progress toward performance 

outcomes, including updates on 

product, curricula, and training 

development. 

3. Quarterly Performance Reports 

Organizations will be required to 

submit updated data on enrollment, 

services provided, placements, 

outcomes, and follow-up status within 

45 days after the end of each quarter. A 

government-procured, Web-based Case 

Management and Performance system 

will be provided at no charge to all 

grantees. Grantees will be required to 

have industry-standard computer 

hardware and high-speed Internet 

access in order to use the MIS system. 

Grant funds may be used with the prior 

approval of the Grant Officer to upgrade 

computer hardware and Internet access 

to enable projects to use the MIS system. 

4. Injury Incident Reports 

Organizations will be required to 

submit incident reports of injuries 

received by enrollees during the training 

program. DOL will provide 

specifications for this reporting after 

grant award. 

5. Final Report 

A final report must be submitted no 

later than 90 days after the expiration 

date of the grant. This report must 

summarize project activities, 

employment outcomes, and related 

results of the training project, and 

should thoroughly document capacity 

building and training approaches. The 

final report should also include copies 

of all deliverables, e.g. curricula and 

competency models. Three copies of the 

final report must be submitted to ETA, 

and grantees must agree to use a 

designated format specified by DOL for 

preparing the final report. 

6. A Closeout Financial Status Report Is 

Due 90 Days After the End of the Grant 

Period. 

7. Record Retention 

Applicants should be aware of 

Federal guidelines on record retention, 

which require grantees to maintain all 

records pertaining to grant activities for 

a period of not less than 3 years from 

the time of final grant close-out. 

VII. Agency Contacts 

For further information about this 

SGA, please contact Ariam Ferro, Grants 

Management Specialist, Division of 

Federal Assistance, at (202) 693–3968 

(please note this is not a toll-free 

number). Applicants should fax all 

technical questions to (202) 693–2705 

and must specifically address the fax to 

the attention of Ariam Ferro and should 

include SGA/DFA PY 10–02, a contact 

name, fax and phone number, and email address. This announcement is 

being made available on the ETA Web 

site at http://www.doleta.gov/grants/

find_grants.cfm, at http:// 

www.grants.gov, and in the Federal 

Register. 

VIII. Additional Resources of Interest to 

Applicants 

A. Web-Based Resources 

DOL maintains a number of Webbased resources that may be of 

assistance to applicants: 

• The Web site for ETA (http:// 

www.doleta.gov) is a valuable source for 

background information on the High 

Growth Job Training Initiative. 

• The Workforce3One Web site 

(http://www.workforce3one.org) is a 

valuable resource for information about 

demand-driven projects of the 

workforce investment system, 

educators, employers, and economic 

development representatives. 

• America’s Service Locator (http:// 

www.servicelocator.org) provides a 

directory of the nation’s One-Stop 

Career Centers. 

• We encourage applicants to review 

‘‘Applying for ETA Competitive Grants: 

A Web-Based Toolkit for Prospective 

Applicants’’ (http://www.workforce3one.

org/page/grants_toolkit). 

• For an understanding of the 

Department’s Equal Treatment and 

Religion-Related regulations and the 

responsibilities of receiving Federal 

grant support, please see ‘‘Transforming 

Partnerships: How to Apply the U.S. 

Department of Labor’s Equal Treatment 

and Religion-Related Regulations to 

Public-Private Partnerships’’ at: http://

www.workforce3one.org/view/5566/info. 

• TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT 

NOTICE NO. 44–07 ‘‘Providing 

Strategies to the One-Stop Career Center 

System on Collaborating with 

YouthBuild Programs’’ can be found at 

http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/corr_

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IX. Other Information 

OMB Information Collection No. 1225– 

0086 

OMB Information Collection No. 1225– 

0086, Expires November 30, 2012 

According to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are 

required to respond to a collection of 

information unless such collection 

displays a valid OMB control number. 

Public reporting burden for this 

collection of information is estimated to 

average 20 hours per response, 

including time for reviewing 

instructions, searching existing data 

sources, gathering and maintaining the 

data needed, and completing and 

reviewing the collection of information. 

Send comments regarding the burden 

estimated or any other aspect of this 

collection of information, including 

suggestions for reducing this burden, to 

the U.S. Department of Labor, to the 

attention of: Departmental Clearance 

Officer, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Room N–1310, Washington, DC 20210. 

Comments may also be e-mailed to 

DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. Please do 

not return the completed application to 

this address. Send it to the sponsoring 

agency as specified in this solicitation. 

This information is being collected for 

the purpose of awarding a grant. The 

information collected through this 

‘‘Solicitation for Grant Applications’’ 

will be used by DOL to ensure that 

grants are awarded to the applicant best 

suited to perform the functions of the 

grant. Submission of this information is 

required in order for the applicant to be 

considered for award of this grant. 

Unless otherwise specifically noted in 

this announcement, information 

submitted in the respondent’s 

application is not considered to be 

confidential. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 28th day of 

September 2010. 

Donna Kelly, 

Grant Officer, Employment and Training 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2010–24825 Filed 10–1–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FT–P 

MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE 

CORPORATION 

[MCC FR 10–11] 

Notice of Entering Into a Compact With 

the Republic of the Philippines 

AGENCY: Millennium Challenge 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 

610(b)(2) of the Millennium Challenge 

Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108–199, Division 

D), the Millennium Challenge 

Corporation (MCC) is publishing a 

summary and the complete text of the 

Millennium Challenge Compact 

between the United States of America, 

acting through the Millennium 

Challenge Corporation, and the 

Republic of the Philippines. 

Representatives of the United States 

Government and the Republic of the 

Philippines executed the Compact 

documents on September 23, 2010. 

Dated: September 29, 2010. 

Melvin F. Williams, Jr., 

VP/General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, 

Millennium Challenge Corporation. 

Summary of Millennium Challenge 

Compact With the Republic of the 

Philippines 

The five-year Millennium Challenge 

Compact with the Republic of the 

Philippines (‘‘Compact’’) will provide up 

to $433,910,000 million to reduce 

poverty and accelerate economic 

growth. The Compact is intended to 

support: (i) Reforms and investments to 

modernize the Bureau of Internal 

Revenue to increase fiscal space for 

public investment and to reduce 

opportunities for corruption in tax 

administration; (ii) expansion and 

improvement of a community-driven 

development project, Kalahi-CIDSS; and 

(iii) rehabilitation of a secondary 

national road in Samar province. 

Revenue Administration Reform Project 

($54.3 million) 

The Revenue Administration Reform 

Project addresses two problems: (i) the 

need to raise tax revenues and (ii) the 

need to reduce tax evasion and revenue 

agent-related corruption. A key 

constraint to economic growth in the 

Philippines is the lack of fiscal space for 

growth-enhancing investments in public 

goods such as infrastructure and social 

services (e.g., education and health). 

This project will focus on the Bureau of 

Internal Revenue within the Department 

of Finance to increase the efficiency and 

sustainability of revenue collection 

through a redesign and computerization 

of business processes, thereby helping 

to relieve some pressure on the 

Government of the Republic of the 

Philippines’ (‘‘GRP’s’’) fiscal position. 

This project will narrow the gap 

between potential and actual collections 

by reducing the discretion of individual 

revenue (i.e., tax and customs) 

collection officers, and help improve the 

predictability and impartiality with 

which revenue laws and regulations are 

enforced. Some of these activities are 

extensions of the Philippines’ threshold 

program activities that concluded in 

May 2009. The project is expected to 

reach the entire Philippine population 

and has an economic rate of return of 40 

percent. 

Kalahi-CIDSS Community Development 

Project ($120.0 million) 

The Kalahi-CIDSS Project will 

improve welfare in rural areas by 

targeting communities where poverty 

incidence exceeds the national average 

for small-scale, community-driven 

development projects. The project does 

this through the direct provision of 

infrastructure and services associated 

with community-selected and managed 

sub-projects, strengthened community 

participation in development and 

governance activities at the village and 

municipal level, and improved 

responsiveness of local government to 

community needs. The project will 

build on and support the application of 

the participatory planning, 

implementation, and evaluation 

methodology developed by GRP’s 

Department of Social Welfare and 

Development (DSWD) in collaboration 

with the World Bank. 

Grants for the community sub-projects 

are provided directly to the local 

communities, which are responsible for 

sub-project selection, the procurement 

of goods and services for their subproject, and, in most cases, the 

operations and maintenance of the 

physical assets. DSWD will implement 

the project, overseen by a National 

Steering Committee that includes 

representatives from government 

departments and NGOs, and in 

collaboration with local governments. 

Typical sub-projects will include 

small-scale transportation infrastructure 

such as village access roads and bridges, 

school buildings, health clinics, 

drinking water systems, pre-and postharvest facilities, and other economic 

assets. The project is expected to benefit 

over five million beneficiaries over the 

next 20 years and has an estimated 

economic rate of return of 13 percent. 

Secondary National Roads Development 

Project ($214.4 million) 

The Secondary National Roads 

Development Project is designed to 

reduce transportation costs through the 

rehabilitation of an existing 222 

kilometer road segment. By bringing 

about savings in vehicle operating cost 

and time for both passengers and goods, 

and by reducing road maintenance 

costs, the investment will facilitate 

increased commerce in and between the 

provinces of Samar and Eastern Samar, 


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