DOL Partnerships for Compliance Assistance Program (PCAP) and
Request for Applications for Partnerships
[11/16/2005]
Volume 70, Number 220
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
DOL Partnerships for Compliance Assistance Program (PCAP) and
Request for Applications for Partnerships
AGENCY: Office of Assistant Secretary for Policy/Office of Compliance
Assistance Policy (ASP/OCA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces an opportunity for partnerships and the
re-opening of the DOL Partnerships for Compliance Assistance Program
(PCAP).
The primary goal of these partnerships is to better inform
businesses and workers, through nonprofit third-party membership
organizations, of the compliance assistance tools and resources the
Department has available to help them comply with its laws and
regulations.
Letters of interest from nonprofit third-party membership
organizations should contain information identifying the organization,
including Web site URL and promotional literature describing their
mission/purpose statement and constituent information; ideas on how a
DOL partnership benefits the organization's constituents, members or
stakeholders; and a contact person's name, title, address and telephone
number. Letters of interest in PCAP should also identify the documents
in the submission that should be kept confidential (e.g., due to
copyright concerns).
DATES: Letters of interest will be considered if received at the
appropriate address, as provided below, no later than 5 p.m. on January
3, 2006.
ADDRESSES: To submit letters of interest, or for further information on
the Partnerships for Compliance Assistance Program (PCAP), you may
write to the following address: Office of Compliance Assistance Policy,
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Labor,
Attention: Barbara
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Bingham, 200 Constitution Ave NW., Rm. S2312, Washington, DC 20210.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Bingham, Director of the
Office of Compliance Assistance Policy, (202) 693-5080, or visit http://www.dol.gov/compliance
.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In March 2004, the Department of Labor (DOL), through the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Policy's Office of Compliance Assistance
Policy (OCA), launched the Partnerships for Compliance Assistance
Program (PCAP) which is aimed at promoting greater awareness and
compliance with DOL's employment laws through partnerships and
activities with nonprofit third-party membership organizations. Through
DOL's and its partners' efforts, PCAP increases opportunities to
provide DOL's customers with assistance in complying with federal
employment laws. Following the March 2004 PCAP announcement, nine
organizations were recommended and approved for partnership.
Partnership activities include but are not limited to dissemination of
compliance assistance educational materials, participation in Web
casts, e-mail alerts of new compliance assistance tools or resources,
newsletter articles, Web links, and speaking engagements.
OCA is again seeking partnership applications from nonprofit third-
party trade, professional or labor membership organizations that share
DOL's understanding of the importance of providing clear, accurate and
easy-to-access compliance assistance to employers and other
stakeholders, in order to protect the wages, health benefits,
retirement security, safety and health of America's workforce.
Partnership efforts are designed to provide nonprofit third-party
organizations and their members with an awareness of the various laws
and regulations DOL administers and where to get accurate and easy-to-
access information on compliance assistance. These partnerships enable
DOL to reach a greater number of businesses and workers than it could
solely through its own outreach efforts.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 9th day of November, 2005.
Barbara Bingham,
Director, Office of Compliance Assistance Policy.
[FR Doc. 05-22675 Filed 11-15-05; 8:45 am]
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