[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 96 (Friday, May 17, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35151-35155]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-12417]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment And Training Administration


Wagner-Peyser Act Final Planning Allotments for Program Year (PY) 
2002

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the final planning allotments for 
Program Year (PY) 2002 (July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003) for basic 
labor exchange activities provided under the Wagner-Peyser Act.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Timothy S. Felegie, Office of 
Workforce Security, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Room S-4231, 
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: (202) 693-2934 (this is not a toll-
free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with section 6(b)(5) of the 
Wagner-Peyser Act, 29 U.S.C. 49e(b)(5), the Employment and Training 
Administration is publishing final planning allotments for each State 
for Program Year (PY) 2002 (July 1, 2002, through June 30, 2003). 
Preliminary planning estimates were provided to each State on March 8, 
2002. The Secretary of Labor distributes funds in accordance with 
formula criteria established in section 6(a) and (b) of the Wagner-
Peyser Act. The Secretary uses Civilian labor force (CLF) and 
unemployment data for Calendar Year 2001 to make the formula 
calculations.

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    The total amount of funds currently available for distribution is 
$761,735,000. The Secretary may set aside up to three percent (3%) 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, 29 U.S.C. 49e(b)(4). In 
accordance with this provision, the Secretary has set aside $22,372,050 
for administrative formula allocation. These funds are included in the 
total planning allotment. The Secretary distributes the funds that are 
set aside in two steps to States that have lost in relative share of 
resources from the prior year. In Step One, States that 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 Secretary distributes the remainder in Step Two to all other 
States losing their relative share from the prior year, but which do 
not meet the size and density criteria for Step One. 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 
$16,000,000, or 2.1 percent of the total amount available, withheld 
from distribution to finance postage costs associated with the conduct 
of ES business. Under section 7(b) of the Act, 29 U.S.C 49f(b), 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 and programs; 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 the use of Calendar Year 2001 data as 
opposed to the earlier data (12 months ending September 2001) used for 
preliminary planning estimates.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 8th day of May, 2002.
Emily Stover DeRocco,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training.

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