[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 14, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8418-8425]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-3544]



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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Job Training Partnership Act Allotments; Wagner-Peyser Act 
Preliminary Planning Estimates; Program Year (PY) 1995

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) 1995 (July 1, 1995-June 30, 
1966) for JTPA Titles II-A, II-C, and III, and for the JTPA Title II-B 
Summer Youth Employment and Training Program in Calendar Year (CY) 
1995; and preliminary planning estimates for public employment service 
activities under the Wagner-Peyser Act for PY 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For JTPA allotments, contact, Mr. Donald Kulick, Deputy Administrator, 
Office of Job Training Programs, Room N4459, 200 Constitution Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC 20210; Telephone: 202-219-6236. For Employment 
Service planning levels contact Mr. John Robinson, 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) 1995 (July 1, 1995-June 30, 1996) for JTPA Titles II-
A, II-C, and III, and for the Summer Youth Employment and Training 
Program in Calendar Year (CY) 1995 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 1995. The allotments and estimates are based on the 
appropriations for DOL for Fiscal Year (FY) 1995.
    Attached are lists of the allotments for PY 1995 for programs under 
JTPA Titles II-A, II-C, and III; a list of the allotments for the CY 
1995 Summer Youth Employment and Training 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 1995 
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, 1995, Public Law 103-333, for 
FY 1995.
    The base allotments for Title II-B total $867,070,000. Included in 
these allotments are additional 1995 summer funds in the amount of 
$184,788,000 provided by Congress in the FY 1995 appropriation act. 
These fund were made available for obligation on July 1, 1995. The FY 
1994 and FY 1995 funds available for the CY 1995 Summer Program will be 
issued separately through a 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 1994 data and published in 
the Federal Register at a later date.

Title II-A Allotments

    Attachment I shows the PY 1995 JTPA Title II-A Adult Training 
Program allotments by State. For all States, Puerto Rico and the 
District of Columbia, the following data were used in computing the 
allotments:

--Data for areas of substantial unemployment (ASU) are averages for the 
12-month period, July 1993 through June 1994.
--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.

    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 1994 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 
1995 allotments.) This is the same formula that has been used in 
previous program years; however, prior to PY 1993 a different 
definition of ``economically disadvantaged'' was used.
    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 
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JTPA Title II-B Allotments

    Attachment II shows the CY 1995 JTPA Title II-B Summer Youth 
Employment and Training Program allotments by State based on total 
available appropriations for CY 1995 of $867,070,000. The data used for 
these allotments are the same unemployment data as were used for Title 
II-A except that the data for the number for economically disadvantaged 
youth (age 16 to 21, excluding college students and military) from the 
1990 Census was used.
    For the Insular Areas and Native Americans, the allotments are 
based on the percentage of Title II-B funds each received during the 
previous summer.
    Title II-B funds for the 1995 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 Reform Amendments of 
1992. This Title VII provides an interim allocation methodology which 
applies to the PY 1995 allotments. The Title II-B formula is the same 
as for Title II-C. This is the same formula which was used in the 
previous program year.
    In determining any necessary hold-harmless levels for SDAs, the 
State 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 1995 JTPA Title II-C Youth Training 
Program allotments by State for a total appropriation of $598,682,000. 
The amount is composed entirely of PY 1995 formula funds. For all 
States, the Insular Areas, 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.
    The allotments for the Insular Areas are based on unemployment data 
from the 1990 census or, if not available, the most recent data 
available. A 90 percent relative share ``hold-harmless'' of the PY 1994 
Title II-C allotments for those areas and a minimum allotment of 
$50,000 were also applied in determining the allotments.

JTPA Title III Allotments

    Attachment IV shows the PY 1995 JTPA Title III Dislocated Worker 
Program allotments by State, for a total of $1,296,000,000. The total 
includes 80 percent allotted by formula to the States ($1,036,800,000), 
and 20 percent ($259,200,000) for the National Reserve, including funds 
allotted to the Insular Areas.
    Title III formulas funds are to be distributed to State and 
substate grantees in accordance with the provisions in Section 302 (c) 
and (d) of JTPA, as amended.
    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 1993 through 
September 1994 period. Long-term unemployed data used were for CY 1993.
    Allotments for the Insular Areas are based on the PY 1995 Title II-
A allotments for these areas.
    A reallotment of these published Title III formula amounts, as 
provided for by Section 303 of JTPA, as amended, will be based on 
completed program year expenditure reports submitted by the States and 
received by October 1, 1995. 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 1994 for each State's share of 
the civilian labor force (CLF) and unemployment. Final planning 
estimates will be issued based on CY 1994 data, as required by the 
Wagner-Peyser Act.
    The total planning estimate includes $22,019,700, or 2.603 percent 
of the total amount available, which is being withheld from 
distribution to States to finance postage costs associated with the 
conduct of Employment Service business of 1995.
    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, $24,716,769 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 allotted 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 delivering job 
services.

    Signed at Washington, D.C., this 7th day of February, 1995.
Doug Ross,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training.
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Attachment V

 U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration Preliminary PY 1995 Wagner-Peyser Allotments to
                                                     States                                                     
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                                                                  3% Distribution                               
              State                Basic formula ------------------------------------------------      Total    
                                                      Step 1*        Step 2**          Total         allotment  
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Alabama.........................      11,665,318               0         186,693         186,693      11,852,011
Alaska..........................       7,818,086       1,138,016               0       1,138,016       8,956,102
Arizona.........................      10,962,428               0               0               0      10,962,428
Arkansas........................       6,585,108               0         224,468         224,468       6,809,576
California......................     100,509,042               0               0               0     100,509,042
Colorado........................      10,544,711               0               0               0      10,544,711
Connecticut.....................       9,715,024               0         541,197         541,197      10,256,221
Delaware........................       2,232,068               0          69,207          69,207       2,301,275
District of Columbia............       4,063,968               0         424,662         424,662       4,488,630
Florida.........................      39,304,326               0         132,803         132,803      39,437,129
Georgia.........................      19,950,543               0               0               0      19,950,543
Hawaii..........................       3,190,448               0               0               0       3,190,448
Idaho...........................       6,513,857         948,170               0         948,170       7,462,027
Illinois........................      33,911,766               0       1,835,084       1,835,084      35,746,850
Indiana.........................      16,065,017               0          74,437          74,437      16,139,454
Iowa............................       7,698,247               0         386,124         386,124       8,084,371
Kansas..........................       7,263,953               0               0               0       7,263,953
Kentucky........................       9,736,987               0         517,573         517,573      10,254,560
Louisiana.......................      11,889,765               0         174,435         174,435      12,064,200
Maine...........................       3,873,730         563,868               0         563,868       4,437,598
Maryland........................      14,835,112               0         141,556         141,556      14,976,668
Massachusetts...................      18,009,455               0       1,122,149       1,122,149      19,131,604
Michigan........................      27,543,280               0       1,135,703       1,135,703      28,678,983
Minnesota.......................      12,897,151               0         266,746         266,746      13,163,897
Mississippi.....................       7,142,550               0         203,927         203,927       7,346,477
Missouri........................      14,482,951               0         622,357         622,357      15,105,308
Montana.........................       5,323,158         774,849               0         774,849       6,098,007
Nebraska........................       6,397,389         931,217               0         931,217       7,328,606
Nevada..........................       5,174,670         753,235               0         753,235       5,927,905
New Hampshire...................       3,350,553               0         274,927         274,927       3,625,480
New Jersey......................      23,789,340               0         370,650         370,650      24,159,990
New Mexico......................       5,973,519         869,517               0         869,517       6,843,036
New York........................      52,000,890               0         815,469         815,469      52,816,359
North Carolina..................      18,488,752               0         489,652         489,652      18,978,404
North Dakota....................       5,420,567         789,028               0         789,028       6,209,595
Ohio............................      31,170,198               0         601,116         601,116      31,771,314
Oklahoma........................       9,574,365               0       1,000,468       1,000,468      10,574,833
Oregon..........................       9,290,917               0          60,694          60,694       9,351,611
Pennsylvania....................      33,842,741               0         994,023         994,023      34,836,764
Puerto Rico.....................      10,083,046               0         282,584         282,584      10,365,630
Rhode Island....................       3,090,997               0         114,522         114,522       3,205,519
South Carolina..................      10,630,355               0         241,416         241,416      10,871,771
South Dakota....................       5,009,850         729,244               0         729,244       5,739,094
Tennessee.......................      13,907,340               0          51,315          51,315      13,958,655
Texas...........................      54,787,361               0               0               0      54,787,361
Utah............................      10,957,150       1,594,944               0       1,594,944      12,552,094
Vermont.........................       2,346,901         341,619               0         341,619       2,688,520
Virginia........................      18,190,693               0         216,196         216,196      18,406,889
Washington......................      15,743,889               0         310,434         310,434      16,054,323
West Virginia...................       5,734,268         834,692               0         834,692       6,568,960
Wisconsin.......................      14,596,482               0               0               0      14,596,482
Wyoming.........................       3,886,885         565,783               0         565,783       4,452,668
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    Formula Total...............     797,167,167      10,834,182      13,882,587      24,716,769     821,883,936
Guam............................         385,518               0               0               0         385,518
Virgin Islands..................       1,622,846               0               0               0       1,622,846
Indicia Postage.................      22,019,700               0               0               0      22,019,700
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    National Total..............     821,195,231      10,834,182      13,882,587      24,716,769     845,912,000
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*Funds are allocated to the 13 States whose relative share decreased from PY 1994 to the PY 1995 basic formula  
  amount and which have a Civilian Labor Force (CLF) below one million and are below the median CLF density.    
  These States are held harmless at 100% of their PY 1994 relative share.                                       
**The balance of the 3% funds are distributed to the remaining 31 States losing in relative share from PY 1994  
  to their PY 1995 total allotment amount.                                                                      


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