[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 49 (Friday, March 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12505-12507]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6575]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Job Training Partnership Act Allotments; Wagner-Peyser Act 
Preliminary Planning Estimates; Program Year (PY) 1998

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) 1998 (July 1, 1998-June 30, 
1999) for JTPA

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Titles II-A, 11-C, and III; JTPA Title II-B Summer Youth Employment and 
Training Program for Calendar Year (CY) 1998; and preliminary planning 
estimates for public employment service activities under the Wagner-
Peyser Act for PY 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For JTPA Title II allotments, contact Mr. Haskel Lowery, Office of 
Employment and Training Programs, Room N4469, 2090 Constitution Avenue, 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210; Telephone: 202-219-5305. For JTPA Title 
III allotments, contact Mr. Doug Holl, Office of Worker Retraining and 
Adjustment Programs, Room N5426, 200 Constitution Ave., N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20210; Telephone 202-219-5577. For Employment Service 
planning levels, contact Mr. John R. Beverly, Director, U.S. Employment 
Service, Room N4470, 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W., 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) 1998 (July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999) for JTPA Titles II-
A, II-C, and III, and for the Summer Youth Employment and Training 
Program in Calendar Year (CY) 1998 for JTPA Title II-B; and, in accord 
with section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, preliminary planning 
estimates for public employment service (ES) activities under the 
Wagner-Peyser Act for PY 1998. The allotments and estimates are based 
on the appropriations for DOL for Fiscal Year (FY) 1998.
    Attached is a listing of the allotments for PY 1998 for programs 
under JTPA Titles II-A, II-C, and III; allotments for the CY 1998 
Summer Youth Employment and Training Program under Title II-B of JTPA; 
and preliminary planning estimates for public employment service 
activities under the Wagner-Peyser Act. The PY 1998 allotments for 
Titles II-A, II-C, and III and the ES preliminary planning estimates, 
are based on the appropriations for DOL for FY 1998.
    These JTPA allotments will not be updated for subsequent 
unemployment data. The Employment Service preliminary estimates are 
based on averages for the most current 12 months ending September 1997 
for each State's share of the civilian labor force and unemployment. 
Final planning estimates will be published in the Federal Register 
based on Calendar Year 1997 unemployment data.

Title II-A Allotments

    The Attachment shows the PY 1998 JTPA Title II-A Adult Training 
Program allotments by State for a total appropriation of $955,000,000. 
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 1996 through June 1997.
--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 1997 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 the JTPA. This is the same formula that was used in 
the previous program year.

JTPA Title II-B Allotments

    The Attachment shows the CY 1998 JTPA Title II-B Summer Youth 
Employment and Training Program allotments by State based on the total 
available appropriation for FY 1998 of $871,000,000. These funds will 
be obligated as Fiscal Year 1998 funds, not as Program Year 1998 funds. 
Notices of Obligation will be made in February, 1998 and States (SDAs) 
may begin using the funds when received.
    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 for Native Americans funding, the allotments are based on the 
percentage of Title II-B funds each received during the previous 
summer.
    Title II-B funds for the 1998 Summer Program are to be distributed 
among designated SDAs in accordance with the statutory formula 
contained in Section 252(b) of the JTPA, as amended by the JTPA 
Amendments of 1992. The Title II-B formula is the same as for Title II-
C. This is the same formula that was used in the previous program year.

JTPA Title II-C Allotments

    The Attachment shows the PY 1998 JTPA Title II-C Youth Training 
Program allotments by State for a total appropriation of $129,965,000. 
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.
    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 262(b) of 
the JTPA, as amended by Section 701 of the JTPA Amendments of 1992. 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 1998 JTPA Title III Dislocated Worker 
Program allotments by State, for a total of $1,350,510,000. The total 
includes 80 percent allotted by formula to the States and 20 percent 
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.
    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 1996 through 
September 1997 period. Long-term unemployed data used were for CY 1996. 
Allotments for the Insular Areas are based on the PY 1998 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, 1998. 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 preliminary planning estimates which have been 
produced using the formula set forth at Section 6 of the Wagner-Peyser 
Act, 29

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U.S.C. 49e. These allotments are based on averages for the most current 
12 months ending September 1997 for each State's share of the civilian 
labor force (CLF) and unemployment. Final planning estimates will be 
published in the Federal Register, based on Calendar Year 1997 data, as 
required by the Wagner-Peyser Act.
    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 PY 1998.
    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 set-aside funds are included in the total planning 
estimate. Set-aside 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 6th day of March, 1998.
Raymond Uhalde,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training.
[FR Doc. 98-6575 Filed 3-12-98; 8:45 am]
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