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Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 68 / Tuesday, April 8, 2008 / Notices
Dated: April 3, 2008.
Lynn Bryant,
Department Clearance Officer, PRA, U.S.
Department of Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives
[OMB Number 1140–0030]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comments Requested
60-Day Notice of Information
Collection Under Review: Records and
Supporting Data: Importation, Receipt,
Storage, and Disposition By Explosives
Importers, Manufacturers, Dealers, and
Users Licensed Under Title 18 U.S.C.
Chapter 40 Explosives.
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ACTION:
The Department of Justice (DOJ),
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives (ATF), will be
submitting the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
The proposed information collection is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies. Comments
are encouraged and will be accepted for
‘‘sixty days’’ until June 9, 2008. This
process is conducted in accordance with
5 CFR 1320.10.
If you have comments especially on
the estimated public burden or
associated response time, suggestions,
or need a copy of the proposed
information collection instrument with
instructions or additional information,
please contact Gary Bangs, Chief,
Explosives Industry Programs Branch,
99 New York Ave, NE., Washington, DC
20226.
Request written comments and
suggestions from the public and affected
agencies concerning the proposed
collection of information are
encouraged. Your comments should
address one or more of the following
four points:
—Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
—Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies
estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
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—Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
—Minimize the burden of the collection
of information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms
of information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Overview of this information
collection:
(1) Type of Information Collection:
Extension of a currently approved
collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
Records and Supporting Data:
Importation, Receipt, Storage, and
Disposition By Explosives Importers,
Manufacturers, Dealers, and Users
Licensed Under Title 18 U.S.C. Chapter
40 Explosives.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department of Justice sponsoring the
collection: Recordkeeping Number: ATF
REC 5400/3. Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Business or other forprofit. Other: None. The records show
daily activities in the importation,
manufacture, receipt, storage, and
disposition of all explosive materials
covered under 18 U.S.C. Chapter 40
Explosives. The records are used to
show where and to whom explosive
materials are sent, thereby ensuring that
any diversions will be readily apparent
and if lost or stolen, ATF will be
immediately notified.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: It is estimated that 50,519
respondents will take 1 hour to
maintain records.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: There are an estimated
637,570 annual total burden hours
associated with this collection.
If additional information is required
contact: Lynn Bryant, Department
Clearance Officer, Policy and Planning
Staff, Justice Management Division,
Department of Justice, Patrick Henry
Building, Suite 1600, 601 D Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: April 3, 2008.
Lynn Bryant,
Department Clearance Officer, PRA,
Department of Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Combating Exploitive Child Labor
Through Education
Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of Intent to Solicit
Cooperative Agreement Applications.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor
(USDOL), Bureau of International Labor
Affairs (ILAB), intends to obligate
approximately USD 21 million to
support cooperative agreement awards
to organizations to address exploitive
child labor and forced labor
internationally. ILAB intends to award,
through a competitive and merit-based
process, cooperative agreements to
organizations to develop and implement
formal, non-formal, and vocational
education projects as a means to combat
exploitive child labor in the following
five countries: Guinea, Jordan,
Madagascar, Nicaragua, and Yemen.
ILAB intends to fund projects that focus
on withdrawing and preventing
children who are engaged in, or at risk
of engaging in, exploitive child labor
through the provision of direct
educational services. The projects
should propose innovative ways to
provide these educational services to
target populations and address the gaps
and challenges to basic education found
in the countries mentioned above. ILAB
also intends to award a cooperative
agreement to an organization(s) to
conduct research on forced labor in
selected countries to be determined.
ILAB intends to solicit cooperative
agreement applications from qualified
organizations (i.e., any commercial,
international, educational, or non-profit
organization, including any faith-based,
community-based, or public
international organizations(s), capable
of successfully developing and
implementing child labor projects) to
implement these projects. 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, 2008. Potential
applicants should not submit inquiries
to USDOL for further information on
these award opportunities until after
USDOL’s publication of the
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solicitations. For a list of frequently
asked questions on Solicitations for
Cooperative Agreement Applications
(based on last year’s solicitations, SGAs
07–10 and 07–11), please visit https://
www.dol.gov/ilab/faq/faq0710.htm.
Key Dates: The forthcoming
solicitation(s) for cooperative agreement
applications will be published on
https://www.grants.gov and USDOL/
ILAB’s Web site. A brief synopsis of the
solicitation(s) for cooperative agreement
applications (SGA) and Web site links to
the full-text SGAs will be published in
the Federal Register. The SGA will
remain open for at least 30 days from
the date of publication. All cooperative
agreement awards will be made on or
before September 30, 2008.
Submission Information: Applications
in response to the forthcoming
solicitation must be submitted via
https://www.grants.gov. Any application
sent by mail or other delivery services,
e-mail, telegram, or facsimile (Fax) will
not be accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Lisa Harvey. E-mail address:
harvey.lisa@dol.gov. All inquiries
should make reference to the USDOL
Combating Child Labor through
Education—Solicitations for
Cooperative Agreement Applications.
Bidders’ Meeting: USDOL intends to
hold a bidders’ meeting on April 24,
2008, in Washington, DC at the
Department of Labor from 1:30 p.m. to
3:30 p.m. The purpose of this meeting
is to provide potential applicants with
the opportunity to ask questions
concerning this Solicitation for
Cooperative Agreement Applications
process. To register for the meeting,
please call or email Ms. Doris Senko
(Phone: 202–693–4843; E-mail:
senko.doris@dol.gov) by April 17, 2008.
Please provide Ms. Senko with
attendees’ contact information,
including name, organization, address,
phone number, and e-mail address.
Background Information: Since 1995,
USDOL has supported technical
cooperation programming to combat
exploitive child labor internationally
through the promotion of educational
opportunities for children in need. In
total, the U.S. Congress has
appropriated to USDOL over U.S. $660
million to support activities to combat
exploitive child labor internationally. In
turn, ILAB has signed cooperative
agreements with various organizations
to support international technical
assistance projects to combat exploitive
child labor in over 75 countries around
the world.
USDOL international programming to
combat exploitive child labor through
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education seeks to nurture the
development, health, safety, and
enhanced future employability of
children around the world by
withdrawing or preventing children
from involvement in exploitive labor
and providing them with access to basic
education, vocational training and other
services. Eliminating exploitive 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.
International projects funded by
USDOL to combat exploitive child labor
seek to:
1. Withdraw or prevent children from
involvement in exploitive child labor
through the provision of direct
educational and training services;
2. Strengthen policies on child labor
and education, the capacity of national
institutions to combat child labor, and
formal and transitional education
systems that encourage working
children and those at risk of working to
attend school;
3. Raise awareness of the importance
of education for all children and
mobilize a wide array of actors to
improve and expand education
infrastructures;
4. Support research and the collection
of reliable data on child labor; and
5. Ensure the long-term sustainability
of these efforts.
When working to eradicate exploitive
child labor, USDOL strives to
complement existing efforts, 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 1st day of
April, 2008.
Lisa Harvey,
Grant Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Mine Safety and Health Administration
Proposed Information Collection
Request; Submitted for Public
Comment and Recommendations;
Hazard Communication
ACTION:
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden
conducts a preclearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or containing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
June 9, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to U.S.
Department of Labor, Mine Safety and
Health Administration, Debbie Ferraro,
Management Services Division, 1100
Wilson Boulevard, Room 2141,
Arlington, VA 22209–3939. Commenters
are encouraged to send their comments
on a computer disk, or via Internet Email to Ferraro.debbie@dol.gov. Ms.
Ferraro can be reached at (202) 693–
9821 (voice), or (202) 693–9801
(facsimile).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contact the employee listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Section 101(a)(7) of the Mine Act
requires, in part, that mandatory
standards ‘‘prescribe the use of labels or
other appropriate forms of warning as
are necessary to insure that miners are
apprised of all hazards to which they
are exposed, relevant symptoms and
appropriate emergency treatment, and
proper conditions and precautions for
safe use or exposure’’. MSHA collected
evidence from the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health’s
(NIOSH) Occupational Health Survey of
Mining and other sources indicating
that there is chemical exposure
occurring in every type of mine,
although every miner may not be
exposed. We are concerned that miners
being exposed to chemicals may not
know the hazards of those chemicals or
the appropriate precautions to prevent
injury or illness caused by exposure to
a hazardous chemical.
II. Desired Focus of Comments
Currently, the Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA) is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed
extension of the information collection
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Combating Exploitive Child Labor Through Education
AGENCY: Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of
Labor.
ACTION: Notice of Intent to Solicit Cooperative Agreement Applications.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Bureau of International
Labor Affairs (ILAB), intends to obligate approximately USD 21 million
to support cooperative agreement awards to organizations to address
exploitive child labor and forced labor internationally. ILAB intends
to award, through a competitive and merit-based process, cooperative
agreements to organizations to develop and implement formal, non-
formal, and vocational education projects as a means to combat
exploitive child labor in the following five countries: Guinea, Jordan,
Madagascar, Nicaragua, and Yemen. ILAB intends to fund projects that
focus on withdrawing and preventing children who are engaged in, or at
risk of engaging in, exploitive child labor through the provision of
direct educational services. The projects should propose innovative
ways to provide these educational services to target populations and
address the gaps and challenges to basic education found in the
countries mentioned above. ILAB also intends to award a cooperative
agreement to an organization(s) to conduct research on forced labor in
selected countries to be determined. ILAB intends to solicit
cooperative agreement applications from qualified organizations (i.e.,
any commercial, international, educational, or non-profit organization,
including any faith-based, community-based, or public international
organizations(s), capable of successfully developing and implementing
child labor projects) to implement these projects. 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, 2008. Potential
applicants should not submit inquiries to USDOL for further information
on these award opportunities until after USDOL's publication of the
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solicitations. For a list of frequently asked questions on
Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement Applications (based on last
year's solicitations, SGAs 07-10 and 07-11), please visit https://
www.dol.gov/ilab/faq/faq0710.htm.
Key Dates: The forthcoming solicitation(s) for cooperative
agreement applications will be published on https://www.grants.gov and
USDOL/ILAB's Web site. A brief synopsis of the solicitation(s) for
cooperative agreement applications (SGA) and Web site links to the
full-text SGAs will be published in the Federal Register. The SGA will
remain open for at least 30 days from the date of publication. All
cooperative agreement awards will be made on or before September 30,
2008.
Submission Information: Applications in response to the forthcoming
solicitation must be submitted via https://www.grants.gov. Any
application sent by mail or other delivery services, e-mail, telegram,
or facsimile (Fax) will not be accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Lisa Harvey. E-mail address:
harvey.lisa@dol.gov. All inquiries should make reference to the USDOL
Combating Child Labor through Education--Solicitations for Cooperative
Agreement Applications.
Bidders' Meeting: USDOL intends to hold a bidders' meeting on April
24, 2008, in Washington, DC at the Department of Labor from 1:30 p.m.
to 3:30 p.m. The purpose of this meeting is to provide potential
applicants with the opportunity to ask questions concerning this
Solicitation for Cooperative Agreement Applications process. To
register for the meeting, please call or email Ms. Doris Senko (Phone:
202-693-4843; E-mail: senko.doris@dol.gov) by April 17, 2008. Please
provide Ms. Senko with attendees' contact information, including name,
organization, address, phone number, and e-mail address.
Background Information: Since 1995, USDOL has supported technical
cooperation programming to combat exploitive child labor
internationally through the promotion of educational opportunities for
children in need. In total, the U.S. Congress has appropriated to USDOL
over U.S. $660 million to support activities to combat exploitive child
labor internationally. In turn, ILAB has signed cooperative agreements
with various organizations to support international technical
assistance projects to combat exploitive child labor in over 75
countries around the world.
USDOL international programming to combat exploitive child labor
through education seeks to nurture the development, health, safety, and
enhanced future employability of children around the world by
withdrawing or preventing children from involvement in exploitive labor
and providing them with access to basic education, vocational training
and other services. Eliminating exploitive 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.
International projects funded by USDOL to combat exploitive child
labor seek to:
1. Withdraw or prevent children from involvement in exploitive
child labor through the provision of direct educational and training
services;
2. Strengthen policies on child labor and education, the capacity
of national institutions to combat child labor, and formal and
transitional education systems that encourage working children and
those at risk of working to attend school;
3. Raise awareness of the importance of education for all children
and mobilize a wide array of actors to improve and expand education
infrastructures;
4. Support research and the collection of reliable data on child
labor; and
5. Ensure the long-term sustainability of these efforts.
When working to eradicate exploitive child labor, USDOL strives to
complement existing efforts, 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 1st day of April, 2008.
Lisa Harvey,
Grant Officer.
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