[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 159 (Thursday, August 15, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42444-42447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20822]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Job Training Partnership Act Allotments; Wagner-Peyser Act Final
Planning Estimates; Program Year (PY) 1996
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) 1996 (July 1, 1996-June 30,
1997) 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)
1996; and final planning estimates for public employment service
activities under the Wagner-Peyser Act for PY 1996.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For JTPA allotments, contact Mr. James
M. Aaron, Director, Office of Employment and Training Programs, Room
N4666, 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210;
Telephone: 202-219-5580. For Employment Service planning levels contact
Mr. John R. Beverly, Director, U.S. Employment Service, Room N-4470,
200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, D.C. 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) 1996 (July 1, 1996-June 30, 1997) for JTPA Titles II-
A, II-C, and III, and for the Summer Youth Employment and Training
Program in Calendar Year (CY) 1996 for JTPA Title II-B; and, in accord
with Section 6 of the Wagner-Peyser Act, final planning estimates for
public employment service (ES) activities under the Wagner-Peyser Act
for PY 1996. The allotments and estimates are based on the
appropriations for DOL for Fiscal Year (FY) 1996.
Attached is a listing of the allotments for PY 1996 for programs
under JTPA Titles II-A, II-C, and III; allotments for the CY 1996
Summer Youth Employment and Training Program under Title II-B of JTPA;
and final planning estimates for public employment service activities
under the Wagner-Peyser Act. The PY 1996 allotments for Titles II-A,
II-C, and III and ES final planning estimates, are based on the funds
appropriated by the Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 1996,
Public Law 104-134, for FY 1996.
These JTPA allotments will not be updated for subsequent
unemployment data. The Employment Service final estimates are issued as
final allotments to reflect CY 1995 unemployment data.
Title II-A Allotments. The Attachment shows the PY 1996 JTPA Title
II-A Adult Training Program allotments by State for a total
appropriation of $850,000,000. 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 1994 through June 1995.
--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 1995 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 JTPA Amendments of 1992. (This Title VII provides an
interim allocation methodology which applies to the PY 1996
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.
JTPA Title II-B Allotments. The Attachment shows the CY 1996 JTPA
Title II-B Summer Youth Employment and Training Program allotments by
State based on the total available appropriation for CY 1996 of
$625,000,000. These funds were obligated as Fiscal Year 1996 funds, not
as Program Year 1996 funds.
The data used for these allotments are the same unemployment data
as were used for Title II-A, except that 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 1996 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 JTPA Amendments of 1992. This Title
VII provides an interim allocation methodology which applies to the PY
1996 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.
JTPA Title II-C Allotments. The Attachment shows the PY 1996 JTPA
Title II-C Youth Training Program allotments by State for a total
appropriation of $126,672,000. 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. Title II-C funds are to be distributed among designated SDAs
in accordance with the statutory formula contained in Section 16(b) of
JTPA, as amended by Title VII, Miscellaneous Provisions, of the JTPA
Amendments of 1992. This Title VII provides an interim allocation
methodology which applies to the PY 1996 allotments. The Title II-C
formula is the same as for Title II-B. This is the same formula which
was used in the previous program year.
JTPA Title III Allotments. The Attachment shows the PY 1996 JTPA
Title III Dislocated Worker Program allotments by State, for a total of
$1,097,500,000. The total includes 80 percent allotted by formula to
the States ($878,000,000), and 20 percent ($219,500,000) 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, as amended.
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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 1994 through
September 1995 period. Long-term unemployed data used were for CY 1994.
Allotments for the Insular Areas are based on the PY 1996 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, 1996. 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 Final Planning Estimates. The
Attachment shows final 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 allotments are based on Calendar Year 1995 averages
for each State's share of the civilian labor force (CLF) and
unemployment.
The total planning estimate includes $18,000,000 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 for 1996.
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, $22,312,050 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 August, 1996.
Timothy M. Barnicle,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training.
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