Child Labor Education Initiative, 14004-14005 [E6-3968]

Download as PDF 14004 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 53 / Monday, March 20, 2006 / Notices [FR Doc. 06–2591 Filed 3–17–06; 8:45 am] approximately U.S. $15 million to support cooperative agreement awards to organizations to develop and implement formal, non-formal, and vocational education projects as a means to combat exploitive child labor in the following three countries: (1) Egypt, (2) Peru, and (3) Tanzania. ILAB intends to solicit cooperative agreement applications from qualified organizations (i.e., any commercial, international, educational, or non-profit organization capable of successfully developing and implementing education projects) to implement projects that focus on innovative ways to provide educational services to children engaged, or at risk of engaging, in exploitive labor. The projects should address the gaps and challenges to basic education found in the countries mentioned above. Please refer to https://www.dol.gov/ILAB/grants/ main.htm for examples of previous notices of availability of funds and solicitations for cooperative agreement applications. Information on the specific sectors, geographical regions, and funding levels for the potential projects in the countries listed above will be addressed in a solicitation(s) for cooperative agreement applications to be published prior to September 30, 2006. Potential applicants should not submit inquiries to USDOL for further information on these award opportunities until after USDOL’s publication of the solicitations. For a list of frequently asked questions on Child Labor Education Initiative Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement Applications, please visit https://www.dol.gov/ILAB/ faq/faq36.htm. USDOL intends to hold a bidders’ meeting on April 21, 2006 to answer questions potential applicants may have on Child Labor Education Initiative Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement process. Please see below for more information on the bidders’ meeting. BILLING CODE 4410–11–M DATES: ‘‘the court is only authorized to review the decree itself,’’ and not to ‘‘effectively redraft the complaint’’ to inquire into other matters that the United States did not pursue. Id. at 1459–60. The proposed Amended Final Judgment here offers strong and effective relief that fully addresses the competitive harm posed by the transaction. VIII. Determinative Documents There are no determinative materials or documents of the type described in section 2(b) of the APPA, 15 U.S.C. 16(b), that were considered by the United States in formulating the proposed Amended Final Judgment. Dated: March 3, 2006. Respectfully Submitted, Nicole S. Gordon, Jon B. 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Key Dates: A specific solicitation(s) for cooperative agreement applications will be published in the Federal Register and remain open for at least 30 days from the date of publication. All cooperative agreement awards will be made on or before September 30, 2006. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Office of the Secretary Child Labor Education Initiative Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor. Announcement Type: Notice of Intent to Solicit Cooperative Agreement Applications. SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Bureau of International Labor. Affairs (ILAB), intends to obligate up to wwhite on PROD1PC61 with NOTICES AGENCY: VerDate Aug<31>2005 20:35 Mar 17, 2006 Jkt 208001 Submission Address: Applications, in response to solicitations published in the Federal Register, must be delivered to: U.S. Department of Labor, Procurement Services Center, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N–5416, Attention: Lisa Harvey, Washington, DC 20210. ADDRESSES: PO 00000 Frm 00061 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Ms. Lisa Harvey. E-mail address: harvey.lisa@dol.gov. All inquiries should make reference to the USDOL Child Labor Education Initiative— Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement Applications. Bidders’ Meeting: A bidders’ meeting will be held in Washington, DC at the Department of Labor on Friday, April 21, 2006 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The purpose of this meeting is to provide potential applicants with the opportunity to ask questions concerning the Child Labor Education Initiative Solicitation for Cooperative Agreement process. To register for the meeting, please call or e-mail Ms. Alexa Gunter (Phone: 202–693–4843; e-mail: gunter.alexa@dol.gov) by April 7, 2006. Please provide Ms. Gunter with contact information including name, organization, address, phone number, and e-mail address of the attendees. Background Information: Since 1995, USDOL has supported a worldwide technical assistance program implemented by the International Labor Organization’s International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO– IPEC). ILAB has also supported the efforts of other organizations involved in efforts to combat child labor internationally through the promotion of educational opportunities for children-in-need. In total, ILAB has provided over U.S. $400 million to ILOIPEC and other organizations for international technical assistance to combat abusive child labor around the world. In FY 2006, USDOL’s appropriations included funds earmarked for ILO–IPEC and additional funding for bilateral assistance to improve access to basic education internationally in areas with a high rate of abusive and exploitive child labor. All FY 2006 funds will be obligated on or before September 30, 2006. USDOL’s Child Labor Education Initiative seeks to nurture the development, health, safety, and enhanced future employability of children around the world by increasing access to basic education for children removed from child labor or at risk of entering it. Eliminating child labor depends, in part, on improving access to, quality of, and relevance of educational and training opportunities for children under 18 years of age. Without improving such opportunities, children withdrawn from exploitive forms of labor may not have viable alternatives to child labor and may be more likely to return to such work or resort to other hazardous means of subsistence. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: E:\FR\FM\20MRN1.SGM 20MRN1 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 53 / Monday, March 20, 2006 / Notices In addition to increasing access to education and eliminating exploitive child labor through direct withdrawal and prevention services to children, the Child Labor Education Initiative has the following four strategic goals: 1. Raise awareness of the importance of education for all children and mobilize a wide array of actors to improve and expand education infrastructures; 2. Strengthen formal and transitional education systems that encourage working children and those at risk of working to attend school; 3. Strengthen national institutions and policies on education and child labor; and 4. Ensure the long-term sustainability of these efforts. When working to increase access to quality basic education, USDOL strives to complement existing efforts to eradicate the worst forms of child labor, to build on the achievements of and lessons learned from these efforts, to expand impact and build synergies among actors, and to avoid duplication of resources and efforts. Signed at Washington, DC, this 13th day of March, 2006. Eric Vogt, Grant Officer. [FR Doc. E6–3968 Filed 3–17–06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510–28–P DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Employee Benefits Security Administration [Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2006– 01; Exemption Application No. D–11216 et al.] complete statement of the facts and representations. The application has been available for public inspection at the Department in Washington, DC. The notice also invited interested persons to submit comments on the requested exemption to the Department. In addition the notice stated that any interested person might submit a written request that a public hearing be held (where appropriate). The applicant has represented that it has complied with the requirements of the notification to interested persons. No requests for a hearing were received by the Department. Public comments were received by the Department as described in the granted exemption. The notice of proposed exemption was issued and the exemption is being granted solely by the Department because, effective December 31, 1978, section 102 of Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1978, 5 U.S.C. App. 1 (1996), transferred the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to issue exemptions of the type proposed to the Secretary of Labor. Statutory Findings In accordance with section 408(a) of the Act and/or section 4975(c)(2) of the Code and the procedures set forth in 29 CFR part 2570, subpart B (55 FR 32836, 32847, August 10, 1990) and based upon the entire record, the Department makes the following findings: (a) The exemption is administratively feasible; (b) The exemption is in the interests of the plan and its participants and beneficiaries; and (c) The exemption is protective of the rights of the participants and beneficiaries of the plan. Grant of Individual Exemptions; Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. (the Applicant) Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. (the Applicant) Located in St. Louis, Missouri Employee Benefits Security Administration, Labor. ACTION: Grant of individual exemptions. [Prohibited Transaction Exemption No. 2006–01; Application No. D–11216] wwhite on PROD1PC61 with NOTICES AGENCY: SUMMARY: This document contains exemptions issued by the Department of Labor (the Department) from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code). A notice was published in the Federal Register of the pendency before the Department of a proposal to grant such exemption. The notice set forth a summary of facts and representations contained in the application for exemption and referred interested persons to the application for a VerDate Aug<31>2005 20:35 Mar 17, 2006 Jkt 208001 Exemption The restrictions of sections 406(a)(1)(A) through (D) of the Act and the sanctions resulting from the application of section 4975 of the Code, by reason of section 4975(c)(1)(A) through (D) of the Code, shall not apply to the extension of credit to the Applicant, by certain IRAs whose assets are held in custodian accounts by the Applicant, a party in interest and a disqualified person with respect to the IRAs, in connection with the Applicant’s use of uninvested IRA cash balances (Free Credit Balance(s)) in such accounts. This exemption is conditioned upon the adherence to the PO 00000 Frm 00062 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 14005 material facts and representations described herein and upon the satisfaction of the following requirements: (a) Neither the Applicant nor any affiliate has any discretionary authority or control with respect to the investment of the cash balances of the IRA that are held in the Free Credit Balance or provides investment advice (within the meaning of 29 CFR 2510.3– 21(c)) with respect to those assets; (b) Edward Jones credits the IRA with monthly interest on its Free Credit Balance at an annual rate no less than the bank national index rate for interest checking, as reported in the Bank Rate Monitor. This rate will be subject to a minimum rate level of 10 basis points (0.10%); (c) The interest rate will be no less than the rate paid by Edward Jones on non-IRA Free Credit Balances; (d) The IRA independent fiduciary has the ability to withdraw the Free Credit Balance at any time without restriction; (e) The Applicant provides in writing, to the IRA independent fiduciary, prior to any transfer of the IRA’s available cash into a Free Credit Balance account, an explanation (i) that funds invested in a Free Credit Balance are not segregated and may be used in the operation of the business of the Applicant; (ii) of the method to be used for crediting interest to the Free Credit Balance; and (iii) that the funds are payable to the IRA on demand; (f) On the basis of the information disclosed pursuant to paragraph (e) above, the IRA independent fiduciary approves the transfer of the IRA’s available cash into a Free Credit Balance account. If the disclosure includes a specified date before which the independent fiduciary must object to the transfer of the IRA’s existing cash balances into a Free Credit Balance account, failure of the IRA independent fiduciary to object to the transfer by that date will be deemed an approval by the IRA independent fiduciary of the transfer to and holding of the IRA’s available cash in the Free Credit Balance account. The Applicant provides, with or as part of the customer’s statement of account, no less frequently than once every three months, notification that the IRA independent fiduciary may, at any time and without penalty, direct the Applicant in writing to withdraw the IRA’s available cash from the Free Credit Balance account. Failure of the IRA independent fiduciary to provide such written direction will be deemed an approval by the IRA independent fiduciary of the transfer to and holding E:\FR\FM\20MRN1.SGM 20MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 53 (Monday, March 20, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14004-14005]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-3968]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary


Child Labor Education Initiative

AGENCY: Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of 
Labor.
    Announcement Type: Notice of Intent to Solicit Cooperative 
Agreement Applications.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Bureau of International 
Labor. Affairs (ILAB), intends to obligate up to approximately U.S. $15 
million to support cooperative agreement awards to organizations to 
develop and implement formal, non-formal, and vocational education 
projects as a means to combat exploitive child labor in the following 
three countries: (1) Egypt, (2) Peru, and (3) Tanzania. ILAB intends to 
solicit cooperative agreement applications from qualified organizations 
(i.e., any commercial, international, educational, or non-profit 
organization capable of successfully developing and implementing 
education projects) to implement projects that focus on innovative ways 
to provide educational services to children engaged, or at risk of 
engaging, in exploitive labor. The projects should address the gaps and 
challenges to basic education found in the countries mentioned above. 
Please refer to https://www.dol.gov/ILAB/grants/main.htm for examples of 
previous notices of availability of funds and solicitations for 
cooperative agreement applications.
    Information on the specific sectors, geographical regions, and 
funding levels for the potential projects in the countries listed above 
will be addressed in a solicitation(s) for cooperative agreement 
applications to be published prior to September 30, 2006. Potential 
applicants should not submit inquiries to USDOL for further information 
on these award opportunities until after USDOL's publication of the 
solicitations. For a list of frequently asked questions on Child Labor 
Education Initiative Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement 
Applications, please visit https://www.dol.gov/ILAB/faq/faq36.htm.
    USDOL intends to hold a bidders' meeting on April 21, 2006 to 
answer questions potential applicants may have on Child Labor Education 
Initiative Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement process. Please see 
below for more information on the bidders' meeting.

DATES: Key Dates: A specific solicitation(s) for cooperative agreement 
applications will be published in the Federal Register and remain open 
for at least 30 days from the date of publication. All cooperative 
agreement awards will be made on or before September 30, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Submission Address: Applications, in response to 
solicitations published in the Federal Register, must be delivered to: 
U.S. Department of Labor, Procurement Services Center, 200 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Room N-5416, Attention: Lisa Harvey, Washington, DC 20210.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Lisa Harvey. E-mail address: 
harvey.lisa@dol.gov. All inquiries should make reference to the USDOL 
Child Labor Education Initiative--Solicitations for Cooperative 
Agreement Applications.
    Bidders' Meeting: A bidders' meeting will be held in Washington, DC 
at the Department of Labor on Friday, April 21, 2006 from 9:30 a.m. to 
11:30 a.m. The purpose of this meeting is to provide potential 
applicants with the opportunity to ask questions concerning the Child 
Labor Education Initiative Solicitation for Cooperative Agreement 
process. To register for the meeting, please call or e-mail Ms. Alexa 
Gunter (Phone: 202-693-4843; e-mail: gunter.alexa@dol.gov) by April 7, 
2006. Please provide Ms. Gunter with contact information including 
name, organization, address, phone number, and e-mail address of the 
attendees.
    Background Information: Since 1995, USDOL has supported a worldwide 
technical assistance program implemented by the International Labor 
Organization's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor 
(ILO-IPEC). ILAB has also supported the efforts of other organizations 
involved in efforts to combat child labor internationally through the 
promotion of educational opportunities for children-in-need. In total, 
ILAB has provided over U.S. $400 million to ILO-IPEC and other 
organizations for international technical assistance to combat abusive 
child labor around the world.
    In FY 2006, USDOL's appropriations included funds earmarked for 
ILO-IPEC and additional funding for bilateral assistance to improve 
access to basic education internationally in areas with a high rate of 
abusive and exploitive child labor. All FY 2006 funds will be obligated 
on or before September 30, 2006.
    USDOL's Child Labor Education Initiative seeks to nurture the 
development, health, safety, and enhanced future employability of 
children around the world by increasing access to basic education for 
children removed from child labor or at risk of entering it. 
Eliminating child labor depends, in part, on improving access to, 
quality of, and relevance of educational and training opportunities for 
children under 18 years of age. Without improving such opportunities, 
children withdrawn from exploitive forms of labor may not have viable 
alternatives to child labor and may be more likely to return to such 
work or resort to other hazardous means of subsistence.

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    In addition to increasing access to education and eliminating 
exploitive child labor through direct withdrawal and prevention 
services to children, the Child Labor Education Initiative has the 
following four strategic goals:
    1. Raise awareness of the importance of education for all children 
and mobilize a wide array of actors to improve and expand education 
infrastructures;
    2. Strengthen formal and transitional education systems that 
encourage working children and those at risk of working to attend 
school;
    3. Strengthen national institutions and policies on education and 
child labor; and
    4. Ensure the long-term sustainability of these efforts.
    When working to increase access to quality basic education, USDOL 
strives to complement existing efforts to eradicate the worst forms of 
child labor, to build on the achievements of and lessons learned from 
these efforts, to expand impact and build synergies among actors, and 
to avoid duplication of resources and efforts.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 13th day of March, 2006.
Eric Vogt,
Grant Officer.
[FR Doc. E6-3968 Filed 3-17-06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4510-28-P

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