[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 82 (Monday, April 30, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21307-21310]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-8221]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR


Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA); Notice of Incentive 
Funding Availability for Program Year (PY) 2005 Performance

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, in collaboration with the Department 
of Education, announces that nine states are eligible to apply for 
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) (Pub. L. 105-220, 29 U.S.C. 2801 et 
seq.) incentive awards under the WIA Regulations.

DATES: The nine eligible states must submit their applications for 
incentive funding to the Department of Labor by June 14, 2007.

ADDRESSES: Submit applications to the Employment and Training 
Administration, Office of Performance and Technology, 200 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Room S-5206, Washington, DC 20210, Attention: Karen Staha 
and Traci DiMartini, Telephone number: 202-693-3698 (this is not a 
toll-free number). Fax: 202-693-3490. E-mail: [email protected] and 
[email protected]. Information may also be found at the ETA 
Performance Web site: http://www.doleta.gov/performance.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Nine (9) states (see Appendix) qualify to 
receive a share of the $16.3 million available for incentive grant 
awards under WIA section 503. These funds, which were contributed by 
the Department of Education from appropriations for the Adult Education 
and Family Literacy Act and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and 
Technical Education Act, are available for the eligible states to use 
through June 30, 2009, to support innovative workforce development and 
education activities that are authorized under title I (Workforce 
Investment Systems) or title II (the Adult Education and Family 
Literacy Act (AEFLA)) of WIA, or under the Perkins Act (Pub. L. 105-
332, 20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.). In order to qualify for a grant award, a 
state must have exceeded performance levels agreed to by the 
Secretaries, Governor, and State Education Officer for

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outcomes in WIA title I, adult education (AEFLA), and vocational 
education (Perkins Act) programs. The goals included placement after 
training, retention in employment, and improvements in literacy levels, 
among other measures. After review of the performance data submitted by 
states to the Department of Labor and to the Department of Education, 
each Department determined which States would qualify for incentives 
for its programs (the Appendix at the bottom of this notice details the 
eligibility of each State by program). These lists of eligible States 
were compared, and States that qualified under all three programs are 
eligible to apply for and receive an incentive grant award. The amount 
that each state is eligible to receive was determined by the Department 
of Labor and the Department of Education and is based on WIA section 
503(c) (20 U.S.C. 9273(c)), and is proportional to the total funding 
received by these States for the three Acts.
    The states eligible to apply for incentive grant awards and the 
amounts they are eligible to receive are listed in the following chart:

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                                                             Amount of
                          State                                award
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1. Arizona..............................................      $1,724,063
2. Delaware.............................................         967,758
3. Illinois.............................................       3,000,000
4. Iowa.................................................       1,190,729
5. Massachusetts........................................       1,752,678
6. Missouri.............................................       1,922,350
7. Oregon...............................................       1,781,694
8. Tennessee............................................       2,096,895
9. Virginia.............................................       1,917,021
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    Dated: April 24, 2007.
Emily Stover DeRocco,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training.

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