Notice of Proposed Revisions for the LSC Grant Assurances for Calendar Year 2015 Funding, 24454-24455 [2014-09826]
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employment the first option for youth
and adults with significant disabilities.
ODEP launched the Employment First
Leadership State Mentoring Program
(EFLSMP) to assist States in developing
and implementing EF policies. Thirty
States started to participate in technical
assistance sessions and discussions on a
number of topics related to
implementing, assessing, and
disseminating information regarding EF
policies via an online Community of
Practice (CoP). The CoP sessions started
in the fall of 2012 and will run monthly
until the spring of 2014 via the portal
ePolicyWorks.
Promoting and disseminating EF
practices and strategies is a critical step
toward addressing the persistent
problem of low participation rates of
individuals with disabilities in the
workforce and fulfilling the promise of
full integration. As a multitude of local,
State, and Federal agencies are involved
in making the adoption and
implementation of EF strategies a
success, initiatives to align policies,
regulations, and funding are needed.
Technical assistance provided through
the EFLSMP provides participating
States with information on how to
restructure funding patterns, support
collaboration, build staff capacity, and
ultimately increase competitive,
integrated employment outcomes for
individuals with disabilities. ODEP’s EF
initiative is innovative in its inclusion
of a variety of State partners, including:
1. Department of Rehabilitation Services;
2. Department of Mental Health;
3. Department Intellectual and
Developmental Disabilities;
4. Workforce Development System;
5. Department of Education (Special
Education Division); and
6. Medicaid agencies.
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Kathleen Martinez,
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Employment Policy.
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Notice of Proposed Revisions for the
LSC Grant Assurances for Calendar
Year 2015 Funding
II. Review Focus
DOL is interested in comments that:
* Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary,
and whether the information will have
practical utility;
* Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
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III. Current Actions
Agency: Department of Labor, Office
of Disability Employment Policy.
Title: Employment First Leadership
State Mentoring Program Community of
Practice Survey.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Governments.
Total Respondents: 30.
Frequency: Once for each of 6 staffmembers of the respondent.
Total Responses: 180.
Average Time per Response: 15–20
minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 47.
Total Other Burden Cost: $1,850.
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
This data collection is also designed
to gauge the effectiveness of ODEP’s
efforts to promote the implementation of
EF policies and practices and determine
how well remote training and online
forums facilitate the implementation of
EF activities in each participating state.
Findings from this census of
participating CoP states also will
provide the DOL with important
information for strategic planning,
program replication, and development
of disability employment policies,
approaches, and practices.
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proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
* 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.
Comments submitted in response to
this Notice will be summarized and
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
ICR; they will also become a matter of
public record.
Legal Services Corporation.
Notice of proposed changes and
request for comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Legal Services
Corporation (‘‘LSC’’) intends to revise
the LSC Grant Assurances for calendar
year 2015 funding and is soliciting
public comment on the proposed
changes. The proposed revisions affect
Grant Assurances 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, and
16. The proposed LSC grant assurances
for calendar year 2015 funding, in
redline format indicating the proposed
changes to the current ‘‘LSC 2014 Grant
Assurances,’’ are available at https://
grants.lsc.gov/sites/default/files/Grants/
ReferenceMaterials/2015GrantAssurances-Proposed.pdf.
DATES: All comments and
recommendations must be received on
or before the close of business on May
30, 2014.
SUMMARY:
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Written comments may be
submitted by mail, email, or fax to
Reginald J. Haley, Office of Program
Performance, Legal Services
Corporation, 3333 K Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20007;
LSCGrantAssurances@lsc.gov; or (202)
337–6813 (fax). Comments may also be
submitted online at https://www.lsc.gov/
contact-us.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Reginald J. Haley, haleyr@lsc.gov, (202)
295–1545.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of the LSC grant assurances is
to delineate the rights and
responsibilities of LSC and the recipient
pursuant to the provisions of the grant.
As a grant making agency created by
Congress, LSC has grant assurances that
are intended to reiterate and/or clarify
the responsibilities and obligations
already applicable through existing law
and regulations and/or obligate the
recipient to comply with specific
additional requirements in order to
effectuate the purposes of the Legal
Services Corporation Act, as amended,
and other applicable law. A summary of
the changes proposed follows.
Grant Assurance #8 requires LSC
recipients to have an information
security system, the capacity to conduct
program-wide conflicts checking, a
system for backing up program data, the
capacity to digitally transmit data to
LSC, and appropriate computer
hardware and software for casehandlers.
The proposed change is a technical edit
in the last sentence of grant assurance
#8, paragraph (e).
Grant Assurance #9 requires LSC
recipients to work with other LSC and
non-LSC funded legal services providers
in the state to ensure that there is a
statewide Web site that publishes a full
range of legal information covering the
common issues facing the client
community. The proposed changes to
the grant assurance requires LSC
recipients to notify site visitors that LSC
recipients’ participation in the Web site
is consistent with LSC restrictions and
provides recipients with sample
disclaimer language to that effect.
Grant Assurance #10 requires LSC
recipients to give LSC and the U.S.
Comptroller General access to records
they are entitled to under the provisions
of the LSC Act and other applicable law.
The proposed change to the grant
assurance requires LSC recipients to
provide access to records in accordance
with Federal law. The proposed change
results from the recent decision of the
Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit in U.S. v. Cal. Rural
Legal Assistance, 722 F.3d 424. In that
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case, which involved an action to
enforce a subpoena for documents held
by an LSC recipient, the DC Circuit held
that Federal law regarding privilege, not
state law, governs. The proposed change
also includes technical edits in the last
two sentences, which further clarify the
grant assurance.
Grant Assurance #11 requires LSC
recipients to provide LSC and other
Federal agencies auditing the recipient
access to financial records, time records,
retainer agreements, client trust fund
and eligibility records, and client
names, except for those reports or
records that may be properly withheld
under Federal law. As with Grant
Assurance #10, the proposed change
results from the decision in U.S. v. Cal.
Rural Legal Assistance. The proposed
change also includes technical edits,
which further clarify the grant
assurance.
Grant Assurance #15 requires LSC
recipients to notify LSC of any crime,
fraud, misappropriation, embezzlement,
or theft or loss of $200 or more or theft
involving property regardless of
whether the funds or property are
recovered; when local, state, or Federal
law enforcement officials are contacted
by the program about a crime; or when
it has been the victim of a theft that
could lead to a loss of $200 or more. The
proposed change to the grant assurance
notifies LSC recipients that fraudulent
timekeeping must also be reported to
LSC.
Grant Assurance #16 requires
recipients to notify LSC of a receipt of
any notice of a claim for attorney’s fees
from the recipient; any monetary
judgment, sanction, or penalty entered
against the recipient; or a force majeure
event. The proposed change to the grant
assurance requires LSC recipients to
notify LSC if any of the recipient’s key
officials is charged with fraud,
misappropriation, embezzlement, theft,
or any similar offense, or is subjected to
suspension, loss of license, or other
disciplinary action by a bar or other
professional licensing organization.
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Dated: April 25, 2014.
Stefanie K. Davis,
Assistant General Counsel.
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS
ADMINISTRATION
[NARA–2014–025]
Records Schedules; Availability and
Request for Comments
National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA).
ACTION: Notice of availability of
proposed records schedules; request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA)
publishes notice at least once monthly
of certain Federal agency requests for
records disposition authority (records
schedules). Once approved by NARA,
records schedules provide mandatory
instructions on what happens to records
when no longer needed for current
Government business. They authorize
the preservation of records of
continuing value in the National
Archives of the United States and the
destruction, after a specified period, of
records lacking administrative, legal,
research, or other value. Notice is
published for records schedules in
which agencies propose to destroy
records not previously authorized for
disposal or reduce the retention period
of records already authorized for
disposal. NARA invites public
comments on such records schedules, as
required by 44 U.S.C. 3303a(a).
DATES: Requests for copies must be
received in writing on or before May 30,
2014. Once the appraisal of the records
is completed, NARA will send a copy of
the schedule. NARA staff usually
prepare appraisal memorandums that
contain additional information
concerning the records covered by a
proposed schedule. These, too, may be
requested and will be provided once the
appraisal is completed. Requesters will
be given 30 days to submit comments.
ADDRESSES: You may request a copy of
any records schedule identified in this
notice by contacting Records
Management Services (ACNR) using one
of the following means:
Mail: NARA (ACNR), 8601 Adelphi
Road, College Park, MD 20740–6001
E-Mail: request.schedule@nara.gov.
Fax: 301–837–3698.
Requesters must cite the control
number, which appears in parentheses
after the name of the agency which
submitted the schedule, and must
provide a mailing address. Those who
desire appraisal reports should so
indicate in their request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Margaret Hawkins, Director, Records
Management Services (ACNR), National
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Archives and Records Administration,
8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD
20740–6001. Telephone: 301–837–1799.
Email: request.schedule@nara.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year
Federal agencies create billions of
records on paper, film, magnetic tape,
and other media. To control this
accumulation, agency records managers
prepare schedules proposing retention
periods for records and submit these
schedules for NARA’s approval. These
schedules provide for the timely transfer
into the National Archives of
historically valuable records and
authorize the disposal of all other
records after the agency no longer needs
them to conduct its business. Some
schedules are comprehensive and cover
all the records of an agency or one of its
major subdivisions. Most schedules,
however, cover records of only one
office or program or a few series of
records. Many of these update
previously approved schedules, and
some include records proposed as
permanent.
The schedules listed in this notice are
media neutral unless specified
otherwise. An item in a schedule is
media neutral when the disposition
instructions may be applied to records
regardless of the medium in which the
records are created and maintained.
Items included in schedules submitted
to NARA on or after December 17, 2007,
are media neutral unless the item is
limited to a specific medium. (See 36
CFR 1225.12(e).)
No Federal records are authorized for
destruction without the approval of the
Archivist of the United States. This
approval is granted only after a
thorough consideration of their
administrative use by the agency of
origin, the rights of the Government and
of private persons directly affected by
the Government’s activities, and
whether or not they have historical or
other value.
Besides identifying the Federal
agencies and any subdivisions
requesting disposition authority, this
public notice lists the organizational
unit(s) accumulating the records or
indicates agency-wide applicability in
the case of schedules that cover records
that may be accumulated throughout an
agency. This notice provides the control
number assigned to each schedule, the
total number of schedule items, and the
number of temporary items (the records
proposed for destruction). It also
includes a brief description of the
temporary records. The records
schedule itself contains a full
description of the records at the file unit
level as well as their disposition. If
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LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
Notice of Proposed Revisions for the LSC Grant Assurances for
Calendar Year 2015 Funding
AGENCY: Legal Services Corporation.
ACTION: Notice of proposed changes and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Legal Services Corporation (``LSC'') intends to revise the
LSC Grant Assurances for calendar year 2015 funding and is soliciting
public comment on the proposed changes. The proposed revisions affect
Grant Assurances 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, and 16. The proposed LSC grant
assurances for calendar year 2015 funding, in redline format indicating
the proposed changes to the current ``LSC 2014 Grant Assurances,'' are
available at https://grants.lsc.gov/sites/default/files/Grants/ReferenceMaterials/2015-GrantAssurances-Proposed.pdf.
DATES: All comments and recommendations must be received on or before
the close of business on May 30, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be submitted by mail, email, or fax to
Reginald J. Haley, Office of Program Performance, Legal Services
Corporation, 3333 K Street NW., Washington, DC 20007;
LSCGrantAssurances@lsc.gov; or (202) 337-6813 (fax). Comments may also
be submitted online at https://www.lsc.gov/contact-us.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Reginald J. Haley, haleyr@lsc.gov,
(202) 295-1545.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the LSC grant assurances is
to delineate the rights and responsibilities of LSC and the recipient
pursuant to the provisions of the grant. As a grant making agency
created by Congress, LSC has grant assurances that are intended to
reiterate and/or clarify the responsibilities and obligations already
applicable through existing law and regulations and/or obligate the
recipient to comply with specific additional requirements in order to
effectuate the purposes of the Legal Services Corporation Act, as
amended, and other applicable law. A summary of the changes proposed
follows.
Grant Assurance 8 requires LSC recipients to have an
information security system, the capacity to conduct program-wide
conflicts checking, a system for backing up program data, the capacity
to digitally transmit data to LSC, and appropriate computer hardware
and software for casehandlers. The proposed change is a technical edit
in the last sentence of grant assurance 8, paragraph (e).
Grant Assurance 9 requires LSC recipients to work with
other LSC and non-LSC funded legal services providers in the state to
ensure that there is a statewide Web site that publishes a full range
of legal information covering the common issues facing the client
community. The proposed changes to the grant assurance requires LSC
recipients to notify site visitors that LSC recipients' participation
in the Web site is consistent with LSC restrictions and provides
recipients with sample disclaimer language to that effect.
Grant Assurance 10 requires LSC recipients to give LSC and
the U.S. Comptroller General access to records they are entitled to
under the provisions of the LSC Act and other applicable law. The
proposed change to the grant assurance requires LSC recipients to
provide access to records in accordance with Federal law. The proposed
change results from the recent decision of the Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit in U.S. v. Cal. Rural Legal Assistance,
722 F.3d 424. In that
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case, which involved an action to enforce a subpoena for documents held
by an LSC recipient, the DC Circuit held that Federal law regarding
privilege, not state law, governs. The proposed change also includes
technical edits in the last two sentences, which further clarify the
grant assurance.
Grant Assurance 11 requires LSC recipients to provide LSC
and other Federal agencies auditing the recipient access to financial
records, time records, retainer agreements, client trust fund and
eligibility records, and client names, except for those reports or
records that may be properly withheld under Federal law. As with Grant
Assurance 10, the proposed change results from the decision in
U.S. v. Cal. Rural Legal Assistance. The proposed change also includes
technical edits, which further clarify the grant assurance.
Grant Assurance 15 requires LSC recipients to notify LSC
of any crime, fraud, misappropriation, embezzlement, or theft or loss
of $200 or more or theft involving property regardless of whether the
funds or property are recovered; when local, state, or Federal law
enforcement officials are contacted by the program about a crime; or
when it has been the victim of a theft that could lead to a loss of
$200 or more. The proposed change to the grant assurance notifies LSC
recipients that fraudulent timekeeping must also be reported to LSC.
Grant Assurance 16 requires recipients to notify LSC of a
receipt of any notice of a claim for attorney's fees from the
recipient; any monetary judgment, sanction, or penalty entered against
the recipient; or a force majeure event. The proposed change to the
grant assurance requires LSC recipients to notify LSC if any of the
recipient's key officials is charged with fraud, misappropriation,
embezzlement, theft, or any similar offense, or is subjected to
suspension, loss of license, or other disciplinary action by a bar or
other professional licensing organization.
Dated: April 25, 2014.
Stefanie K. Davis,
Assistant General Counsel.
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