Various SGAs NTR

NOTE TO REVIEWER

Grants for Serving Juvenile Offenders in High-Poverty, High-Crime areas; National Farmworker Jobs Program; Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety; MSHA State; Combating Exploitative Child Labor-Jordan; Combating Exploitative Child Labor-Egypt

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This is an umbrella request for approval of several grant solicitations under a generic Control Number for U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) grants.

The Grant Programs and Their Paperwork Burden:

Serving Juvenile Offenders in High-Poverty, High-Crime Communities

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) will announce the availability of approximately $17 million in grant funds authorized by the Workforce Investment Act for two grants to serve juvenile offenders, ages 16 to 24, in high-poverty, 2 high-crime communities. The purpose of these grants is to improve the long-term labor market prospects of these youth. These grants will be awarded through a competitive process open to organizations with the capacity to implement multi-site, multi-state projects. The DOL expects to award two grants of $8.5 million each to cover a planning period and up to 26 months of operation.

The DOL expects approximately 200 applications from an equal number of applicants, and the burden per application will be 20 hours with no capital, start-up, maintenance, or operational costs. Fifty percent of the applications are expected to filed electronically

National Farmworker Jobs Program

The ETA will announce a grant competition for operating the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP), under section 167 of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), 29 U.S.C. 2912. WIA generally requires DOL to conduct a general grants competition every two years to select NFJP grantees. Under section 167(a) of WIA, the Secretary must award grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the purposes of carrying out the activities authorized under section 167.

The DOL expects approximately 75 applications from an equal number of applicants, and the burden per application will be 20 hours with no capital, start-up, maintenance, or operational costs. Sixty percent of the applications are expected to filed electronically

Brookwood-Sago

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), has made $500,000 available in grant funds for educational and training programs to help identify, avoid, and prevent unsafe working conditions in and around mines. The focus of these grants is on training and training materials for mine emergency preparedness and mine emergency prevention for all underground mines. Applicants for the grants may be States and nonprofit (private or public) entities.

The DOL estimates burden to be approximately 10 applications from an equal number of applicants, and the burden per application to be 20 hours with no capital, start-up, maintenance, or operational costs. Some 53 percent of the applications are estimated to be electronic.

MSHA State

The MSHA has made $8,441,000 available in grant funds to improve and secure safe and healthy workplaces for U.S. miners. The focus of these grants is on training and training materials for supporting programs that include training on miners' statutory rights, including: to be provided a safe working environment and their right to refuse to perform an unsafe task. The MSHA also encourages recipients to focus on programs which include education and training related to occupational health hazards and diseases (such as black lung and silicosis), mine emergency evacuation training and drills (including donning and transferring self-contained self-rescuers (SCSRs)), and mine rescue team training..

The DOL estimates burden to be approximately 50 applications from an equal number of applicants, and the burden per application to be 20 hours with no capital, start-up, maintenance, or operational costs. Some 53 percent of the applications are estimated to be electronic.

Combating Exploitative Child Labor by Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods and Educational Opportunities for Children in Egypt

The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) has made up to $9.5 million for technical assistance project to support efforts to eliminate exploitative child labor, particularly the worst forms of child labor, in Egypt. Projects funded under this solicitation seek to combat child labor through an innovative, effective, and integrated approach that involves increasing children’s access to quality education as a means of reducing exploitative child labor, promoting sustainable livelihoods for their households, and increasing beneficiaries’ access to national social protection programs that help households overcome dependence on children working to meet basic needs.

The DOL estimates burden to be approximately 50 applications from an equal number of applicants, and the burden per application to be 40 hours with no capital, start-up, maintenance, or operational costs. Some 53 percent of the applications are estimated to be electronic.

Combating Exploitative Child Labor by Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods and Educational Opportunities for Children in Jordan

The ILAB has made up to $4 million for technical assistance project to support efforts to eliminate exploitative child labor, particularly the worst forms of child labor, in Egypt. Projects funded under this solicitation seek to combat child labor through an innovative, effective, and integrated approach that involves increasing children’s access to quality education as a means of reducing exploitative child labor, promoting sustainable livelihoods for their households, and increasing beneficiaries’ access to national social protection programs that help households overcome dependence on children working to meet basic needs.

The DOL estimates burden to be approximately 50 applications from an equal number of applicants, and the burden per application to be 40 hours with no capital, start-up, maintenance, or operational costs. Some 53 percent of the applications are estimated to be electronic.

Assurances of confidentiality:

These grant solicitations do not offer applicants assurances of confidentiality.

Special circumstances:

This information collection complies with 5 CFR 1320.5

Supporting Statement B; Statistical Methods

This information collection does not employ statistical methods.

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