FY25 Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Technical Assistance Grant Program

WANTO FY 25 FOA

OMB Control Number: 1225-0086

OMB Expiration Date: 6/30/2028

Supplemental Justification

Information Collection Title: FY25 Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Technical Assistance Grant Program

Supplemental Supporting Statement A: Justification

This request seeks OMB approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act for the unique information collection requirements for the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), FY25 Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Technical Assistance Grant Program.

The Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announces the availability of approximately $5,000,000 in grant funds—authorized by the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (“WANTO”) Act of 1992, Pub. L. 102-530, 29 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.; 29 U.S.C. § 13 and the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025—for the WANTO Technical Assistance Grant Program.

Under this FOA, DOL anticipates awarding approximately 6 to 14 grants to eligible organizations, ranging from $350,000 to $750,000. To be eligible to apply, entities must be a nonprofit that meets the WANTO statutory definition of a Community Based Organization, and they may not be a recipient of WANTO Act grant program funds awarded under the FY 2024 FOA. This program aims to provide technical assistance to employers (including public sector entities) and labor unions in the United States and its territories to encourage employment of women in both apprenticeable occupations and nontraditional occupations (A/NTO).

Applications will include the following information collections: 1) Form SF-424 “Application for Federal Assistance,” separately cleared under OMB control number 4040-0004, 2) Project Budget, 3) Project Narrative, and 4) Attachments to the Project Narrative.

Electronic availability:

This grant solicitation is available on the grants.gov website. Based on past DOL experience, the Department anticipates that 100 percent of responses will be submitted electronically.

Small Entities:

This information collection will not have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities.

Assurances of confidentiality:

These grant solicitations do not offer applicants assurances of confidentiality.

Special circumstances:

This FOA implicates no special circumstances.

Select Primary Affected Public with a “P” and all others that apply with an “X”:

__ Individuals or households

__ Farms

__ Business or other for-profit

__ Federal Government

P_ Not-for-profit institutions

__ State, Local or Tribal Government

Burden:

Based on past experience, the DOL expects to receive approximately 70 applications from an equal number of respondents.  The Employment and Training Administration estimates public reporting burden for the information collection to average 50 hours per response for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining needed data, and completing and reviewing the collection of information.

70 applications x 50 hours = 3,500 hours

The DOL uses the hourly professional and business services industry earnings rate of $53.91.

3,500 hours x $53.91 = $188,685

The DOL associates no other burden costs with this information collection. In addition to the application, each grantee will be required to submit quarterly financial, performance, and narrative reports to the ETA. Those information collection requirements will be cleared under a separate control number.

Total burden: 70 respondents, 70 responses, 3,500 hours, $0 other cost burden.

Supplemental Supporting Statement B: Statistical Methods

This information collection does not employ statistical methods.

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