Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Program Year 2020 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 167, National Farmworker Jobs Program Grantee Allotments, 23866-23869 [2020-09060]
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• Evaluate the accuracy of the
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• Enhance the quality, utility, and
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• Minimize the burden of the
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technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
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Agency: DOL–ETA.
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Type of Review: Extension without
changes.
Title of Collection: Unemployment
Insurance (UI) State Quality Service
Plan (SQSP) Planning and Reporting
Guidelines.
Form: ET Handbook No. 336, 18th
Edition.
OMB Control Number: OMB 1205–
0132.
Affected Public: State Workforce
Agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
53.
Frequency: Biannual, Annual, and
Quarterly.
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
1257.
Estimated Average Time per
Response: 3.58 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 4,496 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Cost
Burden: $0.
John Pallasch,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and
Training.
[FR Doc. 2020–09061 Filed 4–28–20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4510–FW–P
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
Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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
SUMMARY:
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Training Administration, Office of
Workforce Investment, 200 Constitution
Ave. NW, Room C4510, Washington, DC
20210, Attention: Laura Iban˜ez, Unit
Chief, (202) 693–3645 or Steven Rietzke,
Division Chief at (202) 693–3912, or at
NFJP@dol.gov. 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/employmentand-training-administration-etaprogram-year-py-2018-workforceinnovation-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 holdharmless 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.
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.
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,
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
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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) Statelevel, 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
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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 holdharmless 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
PY 2019
90
StopLoss/
150
StopGain
PY 2020
85
StopLoss/
150
StopGain
Total ..........................................................................................................
$82,447,000
$85,229,000
$2,782,000
3.37
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751,290
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2,378,836
1,072,255
21,868,660
1,262,507
377,130
146,081
........................
3,734,826
1,566,766
301,846
1,666,122
1,637,247
1,073,815
1,488,387
1,143,620
1,090,762
820,452
308,242
362,410
341,568
1,995,828
1,527,595
1,168,525
923,513
589,076
1,214,215
178,911
108,334
627,196
983,177
1,492,399
2,472,721
776,042
1,328,722
1,146,469
2,293,830
1,392,650
2,755,037
56,902
871,010
572,272
838,575
6,011,223
437,588
174,107
939,663
4,234,704
176,865
1,536,848
230,181
801,605
........................
2,538,153
1,144,067
23,333,261
1,347,060
402,388
155,864
........................
3,763,684
1,671,697
322,061
1,777,707
1,746,897
1,145,731
1,588,068
1,220,211
1,044,219
798,040
328,886
386,681
364,444
2,129,494
1,629,902
1,026,761
985,363
628,528
1,295,534
190,893
115,590
602,990
1,049,022
1,574,968
2,638,326
828,016
1,417,710
1,007,381
2,447,454
1,485,920
2,420,800
60,713
811,276
610,598
894,737
5,281,950
466,894
185,768
1,002,595
4,518,313
155,408
1,639,775
245,597
50,315
........................
159,317
71,812
1,464,601
84,553
25,258
9,783
........................
28,858
104,931
20,215
111,585
109,650
71,916
99,681
76,591
(46,543)
(22,412)
20,644
24,271
22,876
133,666
102,307
(141,764)
61,850
39,452
81,319
11,982
7,256
(24,206)
65,845
82,569
165,605
51,974
88,988
(139,088)
153,624
93,270
(334,237)
3,811
(59,734)
38,326
56,162
(729,273)
29,306
11,661
62,932
283,609
(21,457)
102,927
15,416
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BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Aerial Lifts
Standard
Notice of availability; request
for comments.
ACTION:
The Department of Labor
(DOL) is submitting this Occupational
Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA)-sponsored information
collection request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA). Public comments on the ICR are
invited.
DATES: The OMB will consider all
written comments that agency receives
on or before May 29, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (2) if the
information will be processed and used
in a timely manner; (3) the accuracy of
the agency’s estimates of the burden and
cost of the collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (4)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information collection; and
(5) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Frederick Licari by telephone at 202–
693–8073, TTY 202–693–8064, (these
are not toll-free numbers) or by email at
DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Employers
who modify an aerial lift for uses other
than those provided by the
manufacturer must obtain a certificate
from the manufacturer or equivalent
entity certifying that the modification is
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in conformance with applicable ANSI
standards and that the equipment is as
safe as it was prior to the modification.
For additional substantive information
about this ICR, see the related notice
published in the Federal Register on
February 26, 2020 (85 FR 11110).
This information collection is subject
to the PRA. A Federal agency generally
cannot conduct or sponsor a collection
of information, and the public is
generally not required to respond to an
information collection, unless the OMB
approves it and displays a currently
valid OMB Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, no person shall generally be subject
to penalty for failing to comply with a
collection of information that does not
display a valid OMB Control Number.
See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
DOL seeks PRA authorization for this
information collection for three (3)
years. OMB authorization for an ICR
cannot be for more than three (3) years
without renewal. The DOL notes that
information collection requirements
submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs
receive a month-to-month extension
while they undergo review.
Agency: DOL–OSHA.
Title of Collection: Aerial Lifts
Standard.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0216.
Affected Public: Private Sector:
Business or other for-profits.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 10.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 10.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden:
1 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $0.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).
Dated: April 23, 2020.
Frederick Licari,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020–09029 Filed 4–28–20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4510–25–P
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Crawler,
Locomotive, and Truck Cranes
Standard
Notice of availability; request
for comments.
ACTION:
The Department of Labor
(DOL) is submitting this Occupational
Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA)-sponsored information
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collection request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA). Public comments on the ICR are
invited.
DATES: The OMB will consider all
written comments that agency receives
on or before May 29, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (2) if the
information will be processed and used
in a timely manner; (3) the accuracy of
the agency’s estimates of the burden and
cost of the collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (4)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information collection; and
(5) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Frederick Licari by telephone at 202–
693–8073, TTY 202–693–8064, (these
are not toll-free numbers) or by email at
DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Crawler, Locomotive, and Truck Cranes
Standard requires that monthly
inspections be performed on cranes and
running ropes and that a certification
record be prepared. Ropes which have
been idle for a month or more are
required to undergo a thorough
inspection and that a certification
record be generated. For additional
substantive information about this ICR,
see the related notice published in the
Federal Register on February 26, 2020
(85 FR 11112).
This information collection is subject
to the PRA. A Federal agency generally
cannot conduct or sponsor a collection
of information, and the public is
generally not required to respond to an
information collection, unless the OMB
approves it and displays a currently
valid OMB Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, no person shall generally be subject
to penalty for failing to comply with a
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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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