[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 77 (Friday, April 21, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19961-19963]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-9921]



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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration


Wagner-Peyser Act Final Planning Allotments for Program Year (PY) 
1995

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the final planning allotments for 
Program Year (PY) 1995 (July 1, 1995, through June 30, 1996) for basic 
labor exchange activities provided under the Wagner-Peyser Act.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
John Robinson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Employment Service, 200 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Room N-4470, Washington DC 20010. 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) 1995 (July 1, 1995, through June 30, 1996). Preliminary planning 
estimates were provided to each State on December 19, 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 1994 are used in making the formula 
calculations.
    The total amount of funds currently available for distribution is 
$845,912,000. 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, 
$24,791,040 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 
$19,544,000, or 2.31 percent of the total amount available, withheld 
from distribution to finance postage costs associated with the conduct 
of ES business. 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.
    Differences between preliminary planning estimates and final 
planning allotments are caused by: (1) An additional $2.5 million 
distributed to the States and Guam and the Virgin Islands due to 
postage savings related to U.S. Postal Services changes methodology of 
calculating charges and improved State mail management practices, and 
(2) the use of Calendar Year 1994 data as opposed to the earlier data 
(12 months ending September 1994) used for preliminary planning 
estimates.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 17th day of April, 1995.
John Robinson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Employment Service.
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Appendix

[FR Doc. 95-9921 Filed 4-20-95; 8:45 am]
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