Employment and Training Administration April 20, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Employment and Training Administration is issuing this notice to announce the receipt of a ``Certification of Non-Relocation and Market and Capacity Information Report'' (Form 4279-2) for the following: Applicant/Location: Student Assistance Foundation/Helena, Montana. Principal Product: The loan, guarantee, or grant application is to construct a new primary office facility, refinance an existing office facility, and refinance land already acquired. The NAICS industry code for this enterprise is: 522294 Secondary Market Financing.

The U.S. Department of Labor (the Department or DOL), Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Office of Workforce Investment (OWI), Division of Adult Services (DAS), announces a grant competition for operating the housing assistance portion of the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP), under section 167 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), 29 U.S.C. 2912. All applicants for grant funds should read this notice in its entirety. Section 167, paragraph (a) of WIA requires the Secretary to award grants or contracts on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the purposes of carrying out the activities authorized under section 167. Although housing assistance is identified in WIA as one of the allowable activities under the NFJP, Congressional appropriations language directs the Department to make available a specific amount of the funds appropriated for the NFJP for migrant and seasonal farmworkers housing assistance grants, and that no less than 70 percent of the specified amount must be used for permanent housing activities. Therefore, under this solicitation, of the $4,950,000 appropriated for NFJP Housing assistance, approximately $3,465,000 will be available for permanent housing assistance and approximately $1,485,000 for temporary and/or emergency housing assistance.