foa-eta-15-02 amendment two.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment & Training Administration

Funding Opportunity Announcement

[FOA-ETA-15-02]

Amendment Two

American Apprenticeship Initiative Grants

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor

ACTION: Amendment to FOA-ETA-15-02

SUMMARY: On December 11, 2014, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announced the availability of approximately $100 million in grant funds authorized by Section 414(c) of the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 (ACWIA), as amended (codified at 29 USC 2916a), for the American Apprenticeship Initiative Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA).

The document is hereby amended as follows:

Updated Section IV. Application and Submission Information This is an amendment to the FOA which removes the Administrative Costs requirement at Section IV.E. Funding Restrictions.

Removed Text:

2. Administrative Costs Under this FOA, an entity that receives a grant to carry out a project or program may not use more than 10 percent of the amount of the grant to pay administrative costs associated with the program or project. Administrative costs could be direct or indirect costs. Administrative costs do not need to be identified separately from program costs on the SF-424A Budget Information Form. However, they must be tracked through the grantee’s accounting system. To claim any administrative costs that are also indirect costs, the applicant must obtain an Indirect Cost Rate Agreement from its Federal Cognizant Agency, as specified above.

Updated APPENDIX A.

This is an amendment to Appendix A to the FOA which provides additional instructions to access data on the Department of Labor’s Foreign Labor Certification Data Center website.

Old Text:

Visit the Department of Labor’s Foreign Labor Certification Data Center Web site (http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm) for the latest database of occupations approved under H-1B petitions. Through this link you can access a public disclosure file that contains administrative data from employers’ Labor Condition Applications (LCA) and the certification determinations processed by the Department’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC), Employment and Training Administration, between October 1, 2012 and September 30, 2013.

New Text:

Visit the Department of Labor’s Foreign Labor Certification Data Center Web site at http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm (click on the link or type the URL into your browser) for the latest database of occupations approved under H-1B petitions.

Through this link you can access a public disclosure file that contains administrative data from employers’ Labor Condition Applications (LCA) and the certification determinations processed by the Department’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC), Employment and Training Administration, between October 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014. Next, you must select the Disclosure Data tab. For the FY 2014 Disclosure File, select “H-1B_FY2014.xls” under LCA Programs (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3) (http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/docs/py2014q4/H- 1B_FY14_Q4.xlsx). The file will download as an Excel spreadsheet which can then be sorted, first by the “Status” column and then by the “LCA_Case_SOC_Code” column. Once you have a list of the “certified” SOC codes, you can find the job title information listed in the column labeled _”LCA_Case_Job_Title”. The H-1B information for earlier FYs can also be accessed from the Disclosure Data tab.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Jeannette Flowers, Grants Management Specialist, Office of Grants Management, at (202) 693-3322 or flowers.jeannette@dol.gov.

Signed March 17, 2015 in Washington, D.C. by:

Sara Gallagher Williams Grant Officer, Employment & Training Administration http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/docs/py2014q4/H-1B_FY14_Q4.xlsx http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/docs/py2014q4/H-1B_FY14_Q4.xlsx mailto:flowers.jeannette@dol.gov