[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 83 (Wednesday, April 29, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23866-23869]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-09060]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Program Year 2020
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 167, National
Farmworker Jobs Program Grantee Allotments
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This Notice announces allotments for Program Year (PY) 2020
for the WIOA Title I Section 167 National Farmworker Jobs Program, as
required under Section 182(d) of the Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act of 2014. The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act,
2020, enacted December 20, 2019, provides $85,229,000 for formula
grants and another $6,122,000 for migrant and seasonal farmworker
housing (of which not less than 70 percent shall be for permanent
housing). Another $545,000 will be set aside for discretionary
purposes.
DATES: The PY 2020 National Farmworker Jobs Program allotments become
effective for the grant period that begins July 1, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Questions on this notice can be submitted to the Employment
and
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Training Administration, Office of Workforce Investment, 200
Constitution Ave. NW, Room C4510, Washington, DC 20210, Attention:
Laura Iba[ntilde]ez, Unit Chief, (202) 693-3645 or Steven Rietzke,
Division Chief at (202) 693-3912, or at [email protected]. Individuals with
hearing or speech impairments may access the telephone numbers above
via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at
1-877-889-5627 (TTY-TDD).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published pursuant to Section
182(d) of the WIOA, Prompt Allotment of Funds.
ETA developed the formula for the purpose of distributing funds
geographically by state service area, on the basis of each state
service area's relative share of persons eligible for the program. The
formula's original methodology was described in a notice published in
the Federal Register on May 19, 1999 (64 FR 27390). That information is
accessible at https://www.federalregister.gov/.
Beginning with PY 2018, ETA incorporated two modifications to the
allotment formula, with the goal of providing more accurate estimates
of each state service area's relative share of persons eligible for the
program. The formula also used updated data from each of the four data
files serving as the basis of the formula since 1999. The revised
formula is available at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/07/11/2018-14747/employment-and-training-administration-eta-program-year-py-2018-workforce-innovation-and-opportunity. Based on the new
estimates, the Department of Labor (DOL or Department) instituted a
hold-harmless provision for PY 2018 and two following years. The hold-
harmless provision is designed to provide a staged transition from old
to new funding levels for state service areas and minimize the impact
on those states incurring significant change.
I. Background
The Department is announcing final PY 2020 allotments for the
National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP). This notice provides
information on the amount of funds available during PY 2020 to state
service areas awarded grants through the PY 2020 Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) for the NFJP Career Services and Training grants and
Housing grants. The allotments are based on the funds appropriated in
the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, Public Law 116-94
(from this point forward will be referred to as the ``the Act''). In
appropriating these funds, Congress provided $85,229,000 for Career
Services and Training grants; $6,122,000 for Housing grants; and
$545,000 for discretionary purposes. Included below is the table
listing the PY 2020 allotments for the NFJP Career Services and
Training grants. Individual grants are awarded for Housing as a result
of the grants competition and are further distributed according to
language in the appropriations law requiring that of the total amount
available, not less than 70 percent shall be allocated to permanent
housing activities, leaving not more than 30 percent to temporary
housing activities.
II. Description of Data Files and Review of PY 2018 Modifications to
the Allotment Formula
As with all state planning estimates since 1999, the PY 2020
estimates are based on four data sources: (1) State-level, 2012 hired
farm labor expenditure data from the United States Department of
Agriculture's (USDA) Census of Agriculture (COA); (2) regional-level,
2012 average hourly earnings data from the USDA's Farm Labor Survey;
(3) regional-level, 2006-2014 demographic data from the ETA's National
Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS); and, (4) 2010-2014 (5-year file)
Lower Living Standard Income Level data from the United States Census
Bureau's American Community Survey. A detailed description of how each
data source is used within the formula is in the May 19, 1999 FR (pages
27396 to 27399).
Two modifications were incorporated into the formula in PY 2018,
and the formula for PY 2020 retains those modifications. Additional
information regarding these modifications is located in the May 23,
2018 FR 83 (pages 23937 to 23940) and the July 11, 2018 FR 83 (pages
32151 to 32155).
III. Description of the Hold-Harmless Provision
For PY 2020, the Department will continue the hold-harmless
provision to the allotment formula in order to allow a staged
transition from the application of the previous formula to the modified
formula. The hold-harmless provision provides for a stop loss/stop gain
limit to transition to the use of the updated data. Due to the length
of time between updates, there were significant changes for a few
states, necessitating the stop loss/stop gain approach. This approach
is based on a state service area's previous year's allotment percentage
share, which is its relative share of the total formula allotments. The
staged transition of the hold-harmless provision was implemented
specifically as follows:
(1) In PY 2018, state service areas received an amount equal to 95
percent of their PY 2017 allotment percentage share, as applied to the
PY 2018 formula funds available;
(2) In PY 2019, state service areas received an amount equal to 90
percent of their PY 2018 allotment percentage share, as applied to the
PY 2019 formula funds available;
(3) In PY 2020, state service areas will receive an amount equal to
at least 85 percent of their PY 2019 allotment percentage share, as
applied to the PY 2020 formula funds available.
In PY 2019 and 2020, the hold-harmless provision also provides that
no state service area will receive an amount that is more than 150
percent of their previous year's allotment percentage share.
In PY 2021, since the Department has a responsibility to use the
most current and reliable data available, amounts for the new awards
will be based on updated data from the sources described in Section II,
pending their availability. At that time, the Department will determine
whether the changes to state allotments are significant enough to
warrant another hold-harmless provision. Otherwise, allotments to each
state service area will be for an amount resulting from a direct
allotment of the proposed funding formula without adjustment.
IV. Minimum Funding Provisions
A state area which would receive less than $60,000 by application
of the formula will, at the option of the DOL, receive no allotment or,
if practical, be combined with another adjacent state area. Funding
below $60,000 is deemed insufficient for sustaining an independently
administered program. However, if practical, a state jurisdiction which
would receive less than $60,000 may be combined with another adjacent
state area.
V. Program Year 2020 State Allotments
For PY 2020, ETA based estimated funding on the funding levels
provided in the Act for the migrant and seasonal farmworker program, of
which $85,229,000 was allotted to Career Services and Training grants
and $6,122,000 was allotted to Housing grants on the basis of the
formula. The state service area allotment table shows the application
of the third-year (85 percent) hold-harmless and minimum funding
provisions versus what was allotted in PY 2019, followed by the
difference in dollar amounts from PY
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2019, and the total percentage change (positive or negative).
Signed at Washington, DC.
John Pallasch
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration National Farmworker Jobs Program--Career
Services and Training Grants PY 2020 Allocations to State Service Areas
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PY 2019 90 PY 2020 85
State StopLoss/ 150 StopLoss/ 150 $ Difference Difference
StopGain StopGain
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Total....................................... $82,447,000 $85,229,000 $2,782,000 3.37
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Alabama......................................... 751,290 801,605 50,315 6.70
Alaska.......................................... .............. .............. .............. 0.00
Arizona......................................... 2,378,836 2,538,153 159,317 6.70
Arkansas........................................ 1,072,255 1,144,067 71,812 6.70
California...................................... 21,868,660 23,333,261 1,464,601 6.70
Colorado........................................ 1,262,507 1,347,060 84,553 6.70
Connecticut..................................... 377,130 402,388 25,258 6.70
Delaware........................................ 146,081 155,864 9,783 6.70
Dist of Columbia................................ .............. .............. .............. 0.00
Florida......................................... 3,734,826 3,763,684 28,858 0.77
Georgia......................................... 1,566,766 1,671,697 104,931 6.70
Hawaii.......................................... 301,846 322,061 20,215 6.70
Idaho........................................... 1,666,122 1,777,707 111,585 6.70
Illinois........................................ 1,637,247 1,746,897 109,650 6.70
Indiana......................................... 1,073,815 1,145,731 71,916 6.70
Iowa............................................ 1,488,387 1,588,068 99,681 6.70
Kansas.......................................... 1,143,620 1,220,211 76,591 6.70
Kentucky........................................ 1,090,762 1,044,219 (46,543) -4.27
Louisiana....................................... 820,452 798,040 (22,412) -2.73
Maine........................................... 308,242 328,886 20,644 6.70
Maryland........................................ 362,410 386,681 24,271 6.70
Massachusetts................................... 341,568 364,444 22,876 6.70
Michigan........................................ 1,995,828 2,129,494 133,666 6.70
Minnesota....................................... 1,527,595 1,629,902 102,307 6.70
Mississippi..................................... 1,168,525 1,026,761 (141,764) 12.13
Missouri........................................ 923,513 985,363 61,850 6.70
Montana......................................... 589,076 628,528 39,452 6.70
Nebraska........................................ 1,214,215 1,295,534 81,319 6.70
Nevada.......................................... 178,911 190,893 11,982 6.70
New Hampshire................................... 108,334 115,590 7,256 6.70
New Jersey...................................... 627,196 602,990 (24,206) -3.86
New Mexico...................................... 983,177 1,049,022 65,845 6.70
New York........................................ 1,492,399 1,574,968 82,569 5.53
North Carolina.................................. 2,472,721 2,638,326 165,605 6.70
North Dakota.................................... 776,042 828,016 51,974 6.70
Ohio............................................ 1,328,722 1,417,710 88,988 6.70
Oklahoma........................................ 1,146,469 1,007,381 (139,088) -12.13
Oregon.......................................... 2,293,830 2,447,454 153,624 6.70
Pennsylvania.................................... 1,392,650 1,485,920 93,270 6.70
Puerto Rico..................................... 2,755,037 2,420,800 (334,237) -12.13
Rhode Island.................................... 56,902 60,713 3,811 6.70
South Carolina.................................. 871,010 811,276 (59,734) -6.86
South Dakota.................................... 572,272 610,598 38,326 6.70
Tennessee....................................... 838,575 894,737 56,162 6.70
Texas........................................... 6,011,223 5,281,950 (729,273) -12.13
Utah............................................ 437,588 466,894 29,306 6.70
Vermont......................................... 174,107 185,768 11,661 6.70
Virginia........................................ 939,663 1,002,595 62,932 6.70
Washington...................................... 4,234,704 4,518,313 283,609 6.70
West Virginia................................... 176,865 155,408 (21,457) -12.13
Wisconsin....................................... 1,536,848 1,639,775 102,927 6.70
Wyoming......................................... 230,181 245,597 15,416 6.70
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