[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 76 (Wednesday, April 20, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22147-22148]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-9514]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment & Training Administration
[SGA-DFA-PY-10-03]
Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA); Trade Adjustment
Assistance Community College and Career Training Grants Program;
Amendment Three
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice: Amendment to SGA/DFA PY 10-03.
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SUMMARY: The Employment and Training Administration published a notice
in the Federal Register on January 21, 2011, announcing the
availability of funds and Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) for
the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training
grant program (TAACCCT) to be awarded through a competitive process.
This amendment to the SGA clarifies items related to making portions of
grant applications publicly available. The document is hereby amended.
In Section IIIG3, of the solicitation (http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-03.pdf), the following text should be
replaced:
Old Text--``The Department is committed to conducting a transparent
grant award process and publicizing information about program outcomes.
Applicants are advised their application and information related to its
review and evaluation (whether or not the application is successful)
may be made publicly available, either fully or partially. In addition,
information about grant progress and results may also be made publicly
available.''
New Text--``The Department is committed to conducting a transparent
grant application and award process. Among other things, posting grant
applications on public Web sites is a means of promoting and sharing
innovative ideas. For this grant competition, we will publish the
Technical Proposal required by Section IVB, Part II for all those
applications that are awarded grants, on the
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Department's Web site or a similar location. Additionally, in
accordance with Section IVB, Part IIIa, of the SGA, which states that
the Abstracts will be shared publicly, we will publish the Abstracts
for all applications on the Department's Web site or similar location.
No other attachments to the application will be published. The
Technical Proposals and Abstracts will not be published until after
grants are awarded.''
DOL recognizes that grant applications sometimes contain
information that an applicant may consider proprietary or business
confidential, or they may contain personally identifiable information.
Information is considered proprietary or confidential commercial/
business information when it is not usually disclosed outside your
organization, and when its disclosure is likely to cause you
substantial competitive harm. Personally identifiable information is
information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's
identity, such as a name, social security number, date and place of
birth, mother's maiden name, or biometric records, or any other
information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as
medical, educational, financial, and employment information.
In order to ensure that such information is properly protected from
disclosure when DOL posts the winning Technical Proposals, applicants
whose technical proposals will be posted will be asked to submit a
second redacted version of their Technical Proposal, with proprietary,
confidential commercial/business, and personally identifiable
information redacted. All non-public information about the applicant's
and consortium members' staff (if applicable) should be removed as
well. The Department will contact the applicants whose technical
proposals will be published by letter or email, and provide further
directions about how and when to submit the redacted version of the
Technical Proposal. Submission of a redacted version of the Technical
Proposal will constitute permission by the applicant, and anyone
identified in the application, for DOL to post that redacted version.
If an applicant fails to provide a redacted version of the Technical
Proposal, DOL will publish the original Technical Proposal in full,
after redacting personally identifiable information. (Note that the
original, unredacted version of the Technical Proposal will remain part
of the complete application package, including an applicant's
proprietary and confidential information and any personally
identifiable information.)
Applicants are encouraged to maximize the grant application
information that will be publicly disclosed, and to exercise restraint
and redact only information that truly is proprietary, confidential
commercial/business information, or capable of identifying a person.
The redaction of entire pages or sections of the Technical Proposal is
not appropriate, and will not be allowed, unless the entire portion
merits such protection. Should a dispute arise about whether redactions
are appropriate, DOL will follow the procedures outlined in the
Department's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations (29 CFR part
70).
Redacted information in grant applications will be protected by DOL
from public disclosure in accordance with Federal law, including the
Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C. 1905), FOIA, and the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C.
552a). If DOL receives a FOIA request for your application, the
procedures in DOL's FOIA regulations for responding to requests for
commercial/business information submitted to the government will be
followed, as well as all FOIA exemptions and procedures. 29 CFR 70.26.
Consequently, it is possible that application of FOIA rules may result
in release of information in response to a FOIA request that an
applicant redacted in its ``redacted copy.''
The Department is working with OMB to meet the requirements of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1965 (PRA), and will not require any
applicants to submit any redactions until the PRA process has been
completed. The public reporting burden for this collection of
information is tentatively estimated at six hours per response.''
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melissa Abdullah, Grants Management
Specialist, Division of Federal Assistance, at (202) 693-3346.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 14th day of April 2011.
Donna Kelly,
Grant Officer, Employment & Training Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-9514 Filed 4-19-11; 8:45 am]
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