[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 84 (Wednesday, May 2, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24328-24329]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-8343]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration


Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Section 167--The National 
Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP)

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Department of 
Labor.

ACTION: Notice of formula allocations for the Program Year (PY) 2007 
NFJP, request for comments.

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SUMMARY: Under Section 182(d) of the WIA of 1998, ETA is publishing the 
PY 2007 allocations for the NFJP, authorized under Section 167 of the 
WIA. The allocations are distributed to the states by a formula that 
estimates, by state, the relative demand for NFJP services. The 
allocations in this notice apply to the PY beginning July 1, 2007.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before May 29, 2007.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to Alina M. Walker, Program Manager, 
Division of Adult Services, Room S-4209, Employment and Training 
Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20210, e-mail address: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alina M. Walker, Program Manager, 
Division of Adult Services, Room S-4209, Employment and Training 
Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20210, telephone: (202) 693-2706 (this is not a toll-
free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background.

    On May 19, 1999, ETA published a notice establishing new factors 
for the formula that allocates funds available for the NFJP in the 
Federal Register at 64 FR 27390. This Federal Register notice is 
available at the following Internet address: http://www.doleta.gov/MSFW/pdf/allocationtable.pdf
    The May 19, 1999, Federal Register may also be obtained by 
submitting a mail, e-mail or telephone request to Alina M. Walker, 
Program Manager, Division of Adult Services, Room S-4209, Employment 
and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, D.C. 20210, e-mail address: 
[email protected], telephone number (202) 693-2706 (this is not a 
toll-free number).
    The May 19, 1999, notice explained the purpose of the formula, 
i.e., distributing funds geographically by state service area on the 
basis of each area's relative share of farmworkers who are eligible for 
enrollment in the NFJP. The data used to run the formula is comprised 
of a combination of data sets that were selected to yield the relative 
share distribution across states of eligible farmworkers. The combined-
data set driven formula is substantially more relevant to the purpose 
of aligning the allocations with the eligible population than the 
allocations determined by the prior formula.
    For PY 2007, the data factors used in the formula remain unchanged 
since they were first developed in 1999. The data sets used for 
determining each State's relative share of eligible farmworkers for PY 
2007 were last updated in PY 2005 with more recent data available from 
the 2000 Census, the 2003 National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS), 
and the 2002 Census of Agriculture, and also remain unchanged.

II. Limitations on Uses of Section 167 Funds

    In appropriating the funds for PY 2007, Congress provided in the 
Fiscal Year 2007 Continuing Appropriations Resolution (Pub. L. 110-5) 
$79,752,000 for carrying out Section 167 of the Workforce Investment 
Act of 1998, including $74,302,000 for state service area grants, 
$4,950,000 for migrant and seasonal farmworker housing grants, and 
$500,000 for Section 167 training, technical assistance and related 
activities. Additional funding for migrant rest center activities is 
included in the $500,000 available for technical assistance and 
training.

III. PY 2007 Allocation Formula

    The calculation of the PY 2007 formula allocation distribution 
incorporates the state-by-state relative shares of eligible farmworkers 
developed for the PY 2005 formula allocations, using the updated data 
sets described above, with various adjustments applied since then. The 
PY 2005 calculation adjusted those state-by-state relative shares of 
eligible farmworkers by ``hold-harmless'' and ``stop-loss''/''stop-
gain'' limits due to the introduction of the updated data. The 
following year, the PY 2006 formula allocations were proportionately 
based on the PY 2005 formula allocations and further adjusted by an 
additional $3.8 million appropriated by Congress for states whose PY 
2005 allocation had been reduced as a result of the updated data used 
for the PY 2005 allocation distribution. Detailed descriptions of the 
formula methodology for PY 2005 and 2006 are provided in the applicable 
announcements.
    The PY 2007 appropriation for the WIA Section 167 program is 
$74,302,000, which is $470 less than the corresponding PY 2006 
appropriation. To maintain stability of funding for the program and 
consistency with the PY 2006 congressional directions to the 
Department, the Department will distribute the $74,302,000 of PY 2007 
formula funding among all states in the same proportion as the 
distribution of the PY 2006 formula allocations.

IV. State Combinations

    We anticipate a single plan of service for operating the PY 2007 
NFJP in the jurisdiction comprised of Delaware and Maryland and the 
jurisdiction

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comprised of Rhode Island and Connecticut.

V. PY 2007 Allocations

    The ``Allocation Table'' provides the allocations for the NFJP in 
PY 2007. NFJP grantees and other interested organizations should use 
these figures in preparing proposals in response to the PY 2007 
Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) for the National Farmworker 
Jobs Program (NFJP).

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 26th day of April 2007.
Emily Stover Derocco,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
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