[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 23, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8829-8849]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3420]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Trade Adjustment Assistance Program: Training and Employment 
Guidance Letter

    The Employment and Training Administration interprets Federal law 
requirements pertaining to Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA). These 
interpretations are issued in Training and Employment Guidance Letters 
(TEGLs) to the State Workforce Agencies. The TEGL described below is 
published in the Federal Register in order to inform the public.
    TEGL 2-03, Change 1, clarifies the interim operating instructions 
published in TEGL 2-03, and TEGL 2-03, Change 2, amends operating 
instructions issued in TEGL 2-03 and TEGL 2-03, Change 1.

TEGL 2-03 Change 1

    TEGL 2-03 provided interim operating instructions for states to use 
in implementing the ATAA program. TEGL 2-03, Change 1, provides answers 
to questions the Department received concerning the operation of the 
ATAA program. The attachment restates the questions raised and provides 
the answers to those questions.

TEGL 2-03, Change 2

    This TEGL modifies TEGL 2-03 and TEGL 2-03, Change 1, to allow 
certain certified worker groups to apply for ATAA retroactively. This 
will include workers who filed a petition using a form that did not 
include an opportunity to indicate whether or not the petitioner wished 
to request ATAA certification, and who either had a petition in process 
on August 6, 2003, or filed a petition on or after that date.
    The instructions in TEGL 2-03, Change 1 and Change 2, are issued to 
the states and the cooperating state workforce agencies (SWAs) as 
guidance provided by the U.S. Department of Labor in its role as the 
principal in the TAA program. As agents of the Secretary of Labor, the 
states and cooperating SWAs may not vary from the instructions in TEGL 
2-03, Change 1 and Change 2, without prior approval from the 
Department.

    Dated: February 16, 2005.
Emily Stover DeRocco,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
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