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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 

Job Training Partnership Act Allotments; Wagner-Peyser Act 
Preliminary Planning Estimates; Program Year (PY) 1994

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces States' Job Training Partnership Act 
(JTPA) allotments for Program year (PY) 1994 (July 1, 1994-June 30, 
1995) for JTPA Titles II-A, II-C, and III, and for the JTPA Title II-B 
Summer Youth Program in Calendar Year (CY) 1994; and preliminary 
planning estimates for public employment service activities under the 
Wagner-Peyser Act for PY 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For JTPA allotment, contact, Mr. Hugh Davies, Director, Office of 
Employment and Training Programs, room N4703, 200 Constitution Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC 20210; Telephone: 202-219-5580. For Employment 
Service planning levels contact Mr. Robert A. Schaerfl, Director, U.S. 
Employment Service, room N-4666, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20210; Telephone: 202-219-5257. (These are not toll-free 
numbers.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Labor (DOL or Department) 
is announcing Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) allotments for 
Program Year (PY) 1994 (July 1, 1994-June 30, 1995) for JTPA Titles II-
A, II-C, and III, and for the Summer Youth Program in Calendar Year 
(CY) 1994 for JTPA Title II-B; and, in accord with Section 6 of the 
Wagner-Peyser Act, preliminary planning estimates for public employment 
service (ES) activities under the Wagner-Peyser Act for PY 1994. The 
allotments and estimates are based on the appropriations for DOL for 
Fiscal Year (FY) 1994.
    Attached are lists of the allotments for PY 1994 for programs under 
JTPA Titles II-A, II-C, and III; a list of the allotments for the CY 
1994 Summer Youth Program under Title II-B of JTPA; and a list of 
preliminary planning estimates for public employment service activities 
under the Wagner-Peyser Act. The PY 1994 allotments for Titles II-A, 
II-C, and III and the ES preliminary planning estimates, are based on 
the funds appropriated by the Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 
1994, Public Law 103-112, for FY 1994.
    The base allotments for Title II-B total $876,674,000, or 3.21 
percent above the previous year's level of $849,412,000 (including the 
supplemental appropriation of $166,500,000). Included in these 
allotments are additional 1994 summer funds in the amount of 
$206,000,000 provided by congress in the FY 1994 appropriation act. 
These funds were made available for obligation on October 1, 1993. The 
FY 1993 and FY 1994 funds available for the CY 1994 Summer Program will 
be issued separately on the Notice of Obligation (NOO).
    These JTPA allotments will not be updated for subsequent 
unemployment data. The Employment Service preliminary estimates will be 
updated as final allotments to reflect CY 1993 data and published in 
the Federal Register at a later date.

--Data for areas of substantial unemployment (ASU's) are averages for 
the 12-month period, July 1992 through June 1993.
--The number of excess unemployed individuals or the ASU excess 
(depending on which is higher) are averages for this same 12-month 
period.
--The economically disadvantaged adult data (age 22 to 72, excluding 
college students and military) are from the 1990 Census. These 
allocations reflect the use of corrected Census data on the number of 
economically disadvantaged. ETA was notified by the Bureau of Census in 
November 1993 that the data had been revised to correct a program 
error. The correction affected both adults and youth data. States will 
be provided all corrected data to be used in sub-state allocations.

    The allotments for the Insular Areas, including the Freely 
Associated States, are based on unemployment data from 1990 Census or, 
if not available, the most recent data available. A 90-percent relative 
share ``hold-harmless'' of the PY 1993 Title II-A allotments for these 
areas and a minimum allotment of $75,000 were also applied in 
determining the allotments.
    Title II-A Funds are to be distributed among designated service 
delivery areas (SDAs) according to the statutory formula contained in 
Section 202(b) of JTPA, as amended by Title VII, Miscellaneous 
Provisions, of the Job Training Reform Amendments of 1992. (This Title 
VII provides an interim allocation methodology which applies to the PY 
1994 allotments). This is the same formula that has been used in 
previous program years; however, previous years used a different 
definition of ``economically disadvantaged.''
    In determining any necessary hold-harmless levels for SDAs, the 
States of Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, and Wisconsin shall not include 
any additional funds provided for Rural Concentrated Employment 
Programs (RCEPs).

JTPA Title II-B Allotments

    Attachment II shows the CY 1994 JTPA Title II-B Summer Youth 
Program allotments by State based on a total FY 1994 available 
appropriation of $876,674,000. The data used for these allotments are 
the same unemployment data as were used for Title II-A except the use 
of the corrected number for economically disadvantaged youth (age 14 to 
21, excluding college students and military) from the 1990 Census was 
used.
    For the Insular Areas and Native Americans, the amount is based on 
the percentage of Title II-B funds each received during the previous 
summer.
    Title II-B funds for the 1994 Summer Program are to be distributed 
among designated SDAs in accordance with the statutory formula 
contained in section 252(b) of JTPA, as amended by Title VII, 
Miscellaneous Provisions, of the Job Training Reformation Amendments of 
1992. This Title VII provides an interim allocation methodology which 
applies to the PY 1994 allotments. The Title II-B formula is the same 
as for Title II-C. This is the same formula which has been used in 
previous program years, however, previous years used a different 
definition of economically disadvantaged.
    In determining any necessary hold-harmless levels for SDA's, the 
States of Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, and Wisconsin shall not include 
any additional funds provided for RCEPs.

JTPA Title II-C Allotments.

    Attachment III shows the PY 1994 JTPA Title II-C allotments by 
State on a total appropriation of $658,682,000. The amount is composed 
entirely of PY 1994 formula funds. For all States, Puerto Rico, and the 
District of Columbia, the data used in computing the allotments are the 
same data as were used for Title II-B allotments.

JTPA Title III Allotments

    Attachment IV shows the PY 1994 JTPA Title III Dislocated Worker 
Program allotments by State, for a total of $1,118,000,000. The total 
includes 80 percent allotted by formula to the States ($896,777,268), 
and 20 percent ($221,222,732) for the National Reserve, including funds 
allotted to the Insular Areas.
    Title III formula funds are to be distributed to State and substate 
grantees in accordance with the provisions in Section 302(c) and (d) of 
JTPA.
    Except for the Insular Areas, the unemployment data used for 
computing these allotments, relative numbers of unemployed and relative 
numbers of excess unemployed, are averages for the October 1992 through 
September 1993 period. Long-term unemployed data used were for CY 1992.
    Allotments for the Insular Areas are based on the PY 1994 Title II-
A allotments for these areas.
    A reallotment of these published Title III formula amounts, as 
provided for by Section 303 of JTPA, will be based on completed program 
year expenditure reports submitted by the States and received by 
October 1, 1994. The Title III allotment for each State will be 
adjusted upward or downward, based on whether the State is eligible to 
share in reallotted funds or is subject to recapture of funds.

Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service Preliminary Planning Estimates

    Attachment V shows planning estimates which have been produced 
using the formula set forth at section 6 of the Wagner-Peyser Act, 29 
U.S.C. 49e. These preliminary estimates are based on averages for the 
most current 12 months ending September 1993 for each State's share of 
the civilian labor force (CLF) and unemployment. Final planning 
estimates will be issued based on CY 1993 data, as required by the 
Wagner-Peyser Act.
    The total planning estimate does not include $19,655,400 of the 
total amount available, which is withheld for the payment of the 
States' employment service penalty mail costs. The Department had 
planned to require State Employment Security Agencies to convert from 
penalty mail systems to commercial mail systems effective October 1, 
1994. Based on a legal opinion, the Department cannot require this 
conversion; therefore, States will continue to use penalty mail systems 
and the Department will continue to pay the costs centrally to the U.S. 
Postal Service. The Department will explore with the U.S. Postal 
Service the possibility of having individual State penalty mail 
agreements with the U.S. Postal Service. This would permit the 
Department to allocate postage resources to the States who could then 
have the option of using commercial or penalty mail systems. It 
continues to be Departmental policy that States utilize commercial mail 
methods for mail which pertains to both employment security and 
nonemployment security business. In such instances, the Department will 
reimburse the agency for the employment security share of the cost. For 
information purposes only, Attachment V reflects Wagner-Peyser 
allotments including the amount reserved for postage.
    The Secretary of Labor has set aside 3 percent of the total 
available funds to assure that each State will have sufficient 
resources to maintain statewide employment services, as required under 
section 6(b)(4) of the Wagner-Peyser Act. In accordance with this 
provision, $24,838,265 is set aside for administrative formula 
allocation. These setaside funds are included in the total planning 
estimate. Setaside funds are distributed in two steps to States which 
have lost in their relative share of resources from the prior year. In 
step one, States which have a CLF below one million and are below the 
median CLF density are maintained at 100 percent of their relative 
share of prior year resources. All remaining set-aside funds are 
distributed on a pro rata basis in step two to all other States losing 
in relative share from the prior year, but which do not meet the size 
and density criteria for step one.
    Ten percent of the total sums allocated to each State shall be 
reserved for use by the Governor to provide performance incentives for 
public employment service offices, services for groups with special 
needs, and for the extra costs of exemplary models for delivery job 
services.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 18th day of April, 1994.
Doug Ross,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training.

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