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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 

Wagner-Peyser Act Final Planning Allotments for Program Year (PY) 
1994

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the final planning allotments for 
Program Year (PY) 1994 (July 1, 1994, through June 30, 1995) for basic 
labor exchange activities provided under the Wagner-Peyser Act.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert A. Schaerfl, Director, U.S. Employment Service, 200 Constitution 
Avenue NW., room N-4470, Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: (202) 219-
5257 (this is not a toll-free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with Section 6(b)(5) of the 
Wagner-Peyser Act, the Employment and Training Administration is 
publishing final planning allotments for each State for Program Year 
(PY) 1994 (July 1, 1994, through June 30, 1995). Preliminary planning 
estimates were provided to each State on February 25, 1994. Funds are 
distributed in accordance with formula criteria established in Section 
6 (a) and (b) of the Wagner-Peyser Act. Civilian labor force (CLF) and 
unemployment data for Calendar Year 1993 are used in making the formula 
calculations.
    The total amount of funds currently available for distribution is 
$832,856,000. The Secretary of Labor 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 by 
Section 6(b)(4) of the Act. In accordance with this provision, 
$24,396,018 is set aside for administrative formula allocation. These 
funds are included in the total planning allotment. The funds that are 
set aside are distributed in two steps to States which have lost in 
relative share of resources from the prior year. In Step 1, 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. The remainder is distributed in Step 2 to all other States 
losing in relative share from the prior year but which do not meet the 
size and density criteria for Step 1.
    Postage costs incurred by States during the conduct of employment 
service (ES) activities are billed directly to the Department of Labor 
by the U.S. Postal Service. The total final planning allotment reflects 
$19,655,400, or 2.36 percent of the total amount available, withheld 
from distribution to finance postage costs associated with the conduct 
of ES business.
    The Department had planned to require State Employment Security 
Agencies (SESAs) to convert from penalty mail systems to commercial 
mail systems effective October 1, 1994, at which time the Employment 
and Training Administration (ETA) had planned to allocate national 
postage reserves to the SESAs. Based on a legal opinion, the Department 
cannot require this conversion. SESAs are entitled to the penalty mail 
privilege pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3202(a)(1)(E). This does not impact on 
the change to direct accountability that SESAs implemented on October 
1, 1993. States will continue to use penalty mail systems (penalty 
meters, penalty stamps and envelopes, permit G-12, and Business Reply 
Mail permit 12634) and ETA will continue to pay the SESA penalty mail 
costs to the U.S. Postal Service. ETA 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 ETA to 
allocate postage resources to the States who could then have the option 
of using commercial or penalty mail systems. It continues to the 
Departmental policy that States utilize commercial mail methods for 
mail which pertains to both employment security and non-employment 
security business. In such instances, ETA will reimburse the SESA for 
the employment security share of the cost.
    Differences between preliminary planning estimates and final 
planning allotments are caused by the use of a Calendar Year data base 
as opposed to the earlier data used for preliminary planning estimates. 
Ten percent of the total sums allotted to each State shall be reserved 
for use by the Governor to provide performance incentives for public ES 
offices; services for groups with special needs; and for the extra 
costs of exemplary models for delivering job services.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 8th day of April, 1994.
Robert A. Schaerfl,
Director, U.S. Employment Service.

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