Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), Title IV-D, Demonstration Program: Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations

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All information required to submit a proposal is contained in this announcement. Applicants for grant funds should read this notice in its entirety and respond as directed. Grant proposals that are not completed as directed will be judged nonresponsive and will not be evaluated. The Women's Bureau (WB), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announces the sixth and final year of the Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) first authorized under the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Act of 1991. The major provisions of the WANTO legislation are to ``assist business in providing women with opportunities in apprenticeship and nontraditional occupations.'' Moreover, the WANTO grant program funds Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) to provide technical assistance (TA) to employers and labor unions (E/LUs) that will ``enable business to meet the challenge of Workforce 2000.'' The Women's Bureau has co-administered WANTO with the DOL's Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training (BAT), with the WB having responsibility for implementing the grant process. Congress first appropriated funds for WANTO in Fiscal Year (FY) 1994. Since then, WANTO has been funded through JTPA (