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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Employment and Training
Administration (ETA) Program Year
(PY) 2021; Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 167,
National Farmworker Jobs Program
(NFJP) Grantee Allotments
Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This Notice announces
Program Year (PY) 2021 allotments to
States for the National Farmworker Jobs
Program (NFJP), which is authorized
under the Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act (WIOA), Section 167.
These allotments are based on the funds
appropriated in the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2021 (from this
point forward will be referred to as the
‘‘the Act’’).
DATES: The PY 2021 NFJP allotments
become effective for the grant period
that begins July 1, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Questions on this notice can
be submitted to the Employment and
Training Administration, Office of
Workforce Investment, Attention at:
NFJP@dol.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Laura Iban˜ez, Unit Chief, at (202) 693–
3645. 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 according to Section
182(d) of the WIOA, Prompt Allotment
of Funds. ETA developed the formula to
distribute funds geographically by state
service area, based on each state service
area’s relative share of persons eligible
for the program. The formula’s original
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methodology is described in the Federal
Register notice 64 FR 27390, May 19,
1999. That information is accessible at
https://www.federalregister.gov/. In PY
2018, ETA incorporated two
modifications to the allotment formula
to provide 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 methodology is
described in the Federal Register notice
83 FR 32151, July 11, 2018.
Two modifications were incorporated
into the formula for PY 2021. These
modifications improve the formula’s
accuracy in terms of estimating the true
NFJP-eligible population in state service
areas, and one of the modifications is
necessitated by a recent statutory
change to the NFJP eligibility criteria,
which Congress enacted in the FY 2021
appropriation. Section II includes
further explanation of these
modifications.
This notice represents the final of a
two-stage process. ETA published a
notice requesting public comments on
May 10, 2021, regarding the formula
methodology and modifications.
Additionally, ETA hosted a webinar on
May 5, 2021, to share the preliminary
allotments, explained the data sources,
and encourage response to the notice
published shortly thereafter. ETA did
not receive any comments through the
public comment process. In this final
stage, ETA is publishing the final
formula and final allotment levels.
I. Background
The Department is announcing the
final PY 2021 allotments for the
National Farmworker Jobs Program
(NFJP). This notice provides
information on the amount of funds
available during PY 2021 to state service
areas awarded grants through Funding
Opportunity Announcements FOA–
ETA–20–08 and FOA–ETA–20–08–A for
the NFJP Career Services and Training
grants and Housing grants. Funds to
implement NFJP are appropriated in the
Act. In appropriating these funds,
Congress provided $87,083,000 for
formula grants (of which $86,946,000
was allotted after $137,000 was set aside
for program integrity), $6,256,000 for
migrant and seasonal farmworker
housing (of which not less than 70
percent shall be for permanent housing),
and another $557,000 for discretionary
purposes. Included below is the table
listing the PY 2021 allotments for the
NFJP Career Services and Training
grants. Individual grants are awarded for
Housing as a result of the grants
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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 2021 Modifications to the
Allotment Formula
As with all state planning estimates
since 1999, the PY 2021 estimates are
based on four data sources: (1) Statelevel, 2017 hired farm labor expenditure
data from the United States Department
of Agriculture’s (USDA) Census of
Agriculture (COA); (2) regional-level,
2017 average hourly earnings data from
the USDA’s Farm Labor Survey; (3)
regional-level, 2010–2018 demographic
data from the ETA’s National
Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS);
and, (4) 2015–2019 (5-year file) data
from the United States Census Bureau’s
American Community Survey (ACS). A
detailed description of how each data
source is used within the formula is in
the Federal Register notice 64 FR
27390, May 19, 1999). In addition to
populating the formula with updated
data, ETA incorporated two
modifications that will improve the
formula’s accuracy in terms of
estimating the true NFJP-eligible
population in state service areas. One of
the modifications is necessitated by the
change to the NFJP eligibility criteria
applicable to the PY 2021 appropriation.
(1) First, the Act expands program
eligibility for grants funded by the PY
2021 appropriation to include
farmworkers who are in families with
total family incomes at or below 150
percent of the poverty line. Therefore,
the PY 2021 allocations used special
tabulations of data from the ACS and
the NAWS to estimate the share of
farmworkers with total family incomes
at or below 150 percent of the poverty
line. ETA will subsequently revise the
PY 2022 guidance regarding the
definition of ‘‘low-income individual,’’
as needed if the same provision is not
included in subsequent appropriations.
(2) Second, and to more closely align
the formula with the definition of
eligible migrant and seasonal
farmworker under WIOA Section 167(i)
and 20 CFR 685.110 and clarified in the
Training and Employment Guidance
Letter 18–16, ETA modified how the
formula accounts for crop workers who
are primarily employed in agriculture.
This formula considers a crop worker to
be primarily employed in agriculture if
at least 50 percent of their total
individual income is from farm work or
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at least 50 percent of their total
employment time is in farm work.1 As
with all state planning estimates since
1999, ETA used NAWS data to
determine the share of crop labor hours
in each state that was performed by crop
workers who were primarily employed
in agriculture, per this eligibility
criterion.
III. Description of the Hold-Harmless
Provision
ETA has incorporated the holdharmless provision as instituted in PY
2018. The updated data resulted in
significant changes for a few states and
the hold-harmless provision provides
for a stop loss/stop gain limit to
transition to the use of the updated data.
This approach is based on a state service
area’s previous year’s allotment
percentage, which is its relative share of
the total formula allotments. ETA will
implement the staged transition of the
hold-harmless provision as follows:
(1) In PY 2021, each state service area
will receive an amount equal to at least
95 percent of their PY 2020 allotment
percentage, as applied to the PY 2021
formula funds available;
(2) In PY 2022, each state service area
will receive an amount equal to at least
90 percent of their PY 2021 allotment
percentage, as applied to the PY 2022
formula funds available;
(3) In PY 2023, each state service area
will receive an amount equal to at least
85 percent of their PY 2022 allotment
percentage, as applied to the PY 2023
formula funds available.
In PY 2021, 2022, and 2023, the stop
gain provision provides that no state
service area will receive an amount that
is more than 150 percent of their
previous year’s allotment percentage.
In PY 2024, 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
funding formula without adjustment.
IV. Minimum Funding Provisions
A state area that 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
that would receive less than $60,000
may be combined with another adjacent
state area.
V. Program Year 2021 State Allotments
The state allotments set forth in the
Table appended to this notice reflect the
distribution resulting from the allotment
formula described above. For PY 2020,
$85,229,000 was appropriated for
migrant and seasonal farmworker
training grants and allotted based on the
PY 2018 formula updates. The figures in
the first numerical column show the
actual PY 2020 formula allotments to
state service areas. The next column
shows the percentage share of each
allotment to the total available.
For PY 2021, the funding level
provided for in the Act for the migrant
and seasonal farmworker program is
$93,896,000 of which $87,083,000 was
appropriated for training grants. After
allowable funds are set aside for
program integrity ($137,000), the
Department will allot $86,946,000 for
training grants based on the formula and
data outlined in this notice. For
purposes of illustrating the effects of the
updates to the allotment formula,
columns 3 and 4 show the state service
area allotments with the application of
the first-year (95 percent) hold-harmless
and minimum funding provisions,
followed by the percentages. The
difference between PY 2021 and PY
2020 allotments is shown in column 5.
Column 6 of the Table shows the
allotments based on the formula without
the application of the hold-harmless or
minimum funding provisions. The
percentages are reported in column 7.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, NATIONAL FARMWORKER JOBS PROGRAM—
CAREER SERVICES AND TRAINING GRANTS
[Impact of final PY 2021 allotments to states]
PY 2020
PY 2021
With hold harmless
State
Allotment
Percentage
share
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(1)
(2)
Without hold harmless
Allotment
Percentage
share
Difference
(PY 2021 vs.
PY 2020)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Allotment
Percentage
share
(6)
(7)
Total ......................
$85,229,000
100.00000
$86,946,000
100.00000
$1,717,000
$86,946,000
100.00000
Alabama .......................
Alaska ..........................
Arizona .........................
Arkansas ......................
California ......................
Colorado .......................
Connecticut ..................
Delaware ......................
Dist of Columbia ..........
Florida ..........................
Georgia ........................
Hawaii ..........................
Idaho ............................
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
0.94053
0.00000
2.97804
1.34234
27.37714
1.58052
0.47213
0.18288
0.00000
4.41597
1.96142
0.37788
2.08580
776,866
........................
2,459,822
1,193,276
22,613,160
1,662,689
501,264
154,593
........................
3,647,531
1,656,566
312,122
2,194,625
0.89350
0.00000
2.82914
1.37243
26.00828
1.91232
0.57652
0.17780
0.00000
4.19517
1.90528
0.35898
2.52412
(24,739)
........................
(78,331)
49,209
(720,101)
315,629
98,876
(1,271)
........................
(116,153)
(15,131)
(9,939)
416,918
774,531
........................
2,547,948
1,262,754
23,114,407
1,759,499
530,450
163,594
........................
3,159,183
1,753,019
157,635
2,322,406
0.89082
0.00000
2.93049
1.45234
26.58478
2.02367
0.61009
0.18816
0.00000
3.63350
2.01622
0.18130
2.67109
1 To determine ‘‘primarily employed in
agriculture’’ criteria, which has two parts, ETA uses
individual income from farm work.
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, NATIONAL FARMWORKER JOBS PROGRAM—
CAREER SERVICES AND TRAINING GRANTS—Continued
[Impact of final PY 2021 allotments to states]
PY 2020
PY 2021
With hold harmless
State
Allotment
Percentage
share
(1)
Illinois ...........................
Indiana .........................
Iowa ..............................
Kansas .........................
Kentucky ......................
Louisiana ......................
Maine ...........................
Maryland ......................
Massachusetts .............
Michigan .......................
Minnesota .....................
Mississippi ....................
Missouri ........................
Montana .......................
Nebraska ......................
Nevada .........................
New Hampshire ...........
New Jersey ..................
New Mexico .................
New York .....................
North Carolina ..............
North Dakota ................
Ohio ..............................
Oklahoma .....................
Oregon .........................
Pennsylvania ................
Puerto Rico ..................
Rhode Island ................
South Carolina .............
South Dakota ...............
Tennessee ...................
Texas ...........................
Utah ..............................
Vermont ........................
Virginia .........................
Washington ..................
West Virginia ................
Wisconsin .....................
Wyoming ......................
(2)
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
2.04965
1.34430
1.86330
1.43169
1.22519
0.93635
0.38589
0.45370
0.42761
2.49856
1.91238
1.20471
1.15614
0.73746
1.52006
0.22398
0.13562
0.70749
1.23083
1.84793
3.09557
0.97152
1.66341
1.18197
2.87162
1.74344
2.84035
0.07124
0.95188
0.71642
1.04980
6.19736
0.54781
0.21796
1.17635
5.30138
0.18234
1.92396
0.28816
Suzan G. LeVine,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Employment and Training, Labor.
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Administration, Labor.
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Allotment
Percentage
share
(3)
(4)
(5)
1,829,288
1,229,140
1,756,778
1,243,435
1,011,993
782,626
408,044
521,061
512,780
2,073,573
1,579,601
995,074
1,219,415
699,452
1,255,552
223,924
145,953
769,856
1,067,856
2,169,172
2,556,903
802,462
1,437,210
976,292
2,371,922
1,762,208
2,346,090
64,858
786,239
665,710
867,124
5,118,941
653,979
204,723
971,653
4,510,391
150,612
1,719,060
312,536
2.10394
1.41368
2.02054
1.43012
1.16393
0.90013
0.46931
0.59929
0.58977
2.38490
1.81676
1.14447
1.40250
0.80447
1.44406
0.25754
0.16787
0.88544
1.22818
2.49485
2.94079
0.92294
1.65299
1.12287
2.72804
2.02678
2.69833
0.07460
0.90428
0.76566
0.99731
5.88749
0.75217
0.23546
1.11754
5.18758
0.17322
1.97716
0.35946
This notice includes the
summaries of two petitions for
modification submitted to the Mine
Safety and Health Administration
(MSHA) by the party listed below.
DATES: All comments on the petitions
must be received by MSHA’s Office of
Standards, Regulations, and Variances
on or before July 16, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit your
comments including the docket number
of the petition by any of the following
methods:
1. Electronic Mail: zzMSHAcomments@dol.gov. Include the docket
number of the petition in the subject
line of the message.
2. Facsimile: 202–693–9441.
SUMMARY:
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(PY 2021 vs.
PY 2020)
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82,391
83,409
168,710
23,224
(32,226)
(15,414)
79,158
134,380
148,336
(55,921)
(50,301)
(31,687)
234,052
70,924
(39,982)
33,031
30,363
166,866
18,834
594,204
(81,423)
(25,554)
19,500
(31,089)
(75,532)
276,288
(74,710)
4,145
(25,037)
55,112
(27,613)
(163,009)
187,085
18,955
(30,942)
(7,922)
(4,796)
79,285
66,939
Allotment
Percentage
share
(6)
(7)
1,935,797
1,300,706
1,859,065
1,315,834
836,164
828,194
431,802
551,400
542,637
2,194,306
1,664,564
922,368
1,290,415
740,177
1,319,642
236,962
154,451
814,680
1,130,032
2,295,471
2,107,580
778,997
1,520,892
926,713
2,335,380
1,864,813
2,043,240
68,635
695,074
704,471
631,232
4,630,482
692,057
216,643
784,640
4,773,008
112,164
1,819,152
330,734
2.22644
1.49599
2.13818
1.51339
0.96170
0.95254
0.49663
0.63419
0.62411
2.52376
1.91448
1.06085
1.48416
0.85131
1.51777
0.27254
0.17764
0.93700
1.29969
2.64011
2.42401
0.89595
1.74924
1.06585
2.68601
2.14479
2.35001
0.07894
0.79943
0.81024
0.72600
5.32570
0.79596
0.24917
0.90245
5.48962
0.12900
2.09228
0.38039
3. Regular Mail or Hand Delivery:
MSHA, Office of Standards,
Regulations, and Variances, 201 12th
Street South, Suite 4E401, Arlington,
Virginia 22202–5452, Attention: Jessica
Senk, Director, Office of Standards,
Regulations, and Variances. Persons
delivering documents are required to
check in at the receptionist’s desk in
Suite 4E401. Individuals may inspect
copies of the petition and comments
during normal business hours at the
address listed above.
MSHA will consider only comments
postmarked by the U.S. Postal Service or
proof of delivery from another delivery
service such as UPS or Federal Express
on or before the deadline for comments.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Program Year (PY)
2021; Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 167,
National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Grantee Allotments
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This Notice announces Program Year (PY) 2021 allotments to
States for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP), which is
authorized under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA),
Section 167. These allotments are based on the funds appropriated in
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (from this point forward will
be referred to as the ``the Act'').
DATES: The PY 2021 NFJP allotments become effective for the grant
period that begins July 1, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Questions on this notice can be submitted to the Employment
and Training Administration, Office of Workforce Investment, Attention
at: [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laura Iba[ntilde]ez, Unit Chief, at
(202) 693-3645. 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 according to
Section 182(d) of the WIOA, Prompt Allotment of Funds. ETA developed
the formula to distribute funds geographically by state service area,
based on each state service area's relative share of persons eligible
for the program. The formula's original methodology is described in the
Federal Register notice 64 FR 27390, May 19, 1999. That information is
accessible at https://www.federalregister.gov/. In PY 2018, ETA
incorporated two modifications to the allotment formula to provide 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 methodology is described in the Federal
Register notice 83 FR 32151, July 11, 2018.
Two modifications were incorporated into the formula for PY 2021.
These modifications improve the formula's accuracy in terms of
estimating the true NFJP-eligible population in state service areas,
and one of the modifications is necessitated by a recent statutory
change to the NFJP eligibility criteria, which Congress enacted in the
FY 2021 appropriation. Section II includes further explanation of these
modifications.
This notice represents the final of a two-stage process. ETA
published a notice requesting public comments on May 10, 2021,
regarding the formula methodology and modifications. Additionally, ETA
hosted a webinar on May 5, 2021, to share the preliminary allotments,
explained the data sources, and encourage response to the notice
published shortly thereafter. ETA did not receive any comments through
the public comment process. In this final stage, ETA is publishing the
final formula and final allotment levels.
I. Background
The Department is announcing the final PY 2021 allotments for the
National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP). This notice provides
information on the amount of funds available during PY 2021 to state
service areas awarded grants through Funding Opportunity Announcements
FOA-ETA-20-08 and FOA-ETA-20-08-A for the NFJP Career Services and
Training grants and Housing grants. Funds to implement NFJP are
appropriated in the Act. In appropriating these funds, Congress
provided $87,083,000 for formula grants (of which $86,946,000 was
allotted after $137,000 was set aside for program integrity),
$6,256,000 for migrant and seasonal farmworker housing (of which not
less than 70 percent shall be for permanent housing), and another
$557,000 for discretionary purposes. Included below is the table
listing the PY 2021 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 2021 Modifications to
the Allotment Formula
As with all state planning estimates since 1999, the PY 2021
estimates are based on four data sources: (1) State-level, 2017 hired
farm labor expenditure data from the United States Department of
Agriculture's (USDA) Census of Agriculture (COA); (2) regional-level,
2017 average hourly earnings data from the USDA's Farm Labor Survey;
(3) regional-level, 2010-2018 demographic data from the ETA's National
Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS); and, (4) 2015-2019 (5-year file)
data from the United States Census Bureau's American Community Survey
(ACS). A detailed description of how each data source is used within
the formula is in the Federal Register notice 64 FR 27390, May 19,
1999). In addition to populating the formula with updated data, ETA
incorporated two modifications that will improve the formula's accuracy
in terms of estimating the true NFJP-eligible population in state
service areas. One of the modifications is necessitated by the change
to the NFJP eligibility criteria applicable to the PY 2021
appropriation.
(1) First, the Act expands program eligibility for grants funded by
the PY 2021 appropriation to include farmworkers who are in families
with total family incomes at or below 150 percent of the poverty line.
Therefore, the PY 2021 allocations used special tabulations of data
from the ACS and the NAWS to estimate the share of farmworkers with
total family incomes at or below 150 percent of the poverty line. ETA
will subsequently revise the PY 2022 guidance regarding the definition
of ``low-income individual,'' as needed if the same provision is not
included in subsequent appropriations.
(2) Second, and to more closely align the formula with the
definition of eligible migrant and seasonal farmworker under WIOA
Section 167(i) and 20 CFR 685.110 and clarified in the Training and
Employment Guidance Letter 18-16, ETA modified how the formula accounts
for crop workers who are primarily employed in agriculture. This
formula considers a crop worker to be primarily employed in agriculture
if at least 50 percent of their total individual income is from farm
work or
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at least 50 percent of their total employment time is in farm work.\1\
As with all state planning estimates since 1999, ETA used NAWS data to
determine the share of crop labor hours in each state that was
performed by crop workers who were primarily employed in agriculture,
per this eligibility criterion.
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\1\ To determine ``primarily employed in agriculture'' criteria,
which has two parts, ETA uses individual income from farm work.
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III. Description of the Hold-Harmless Provision
ETA has incorporated the hold-harmless provision as instituted in
PY 2018. The updated data resulted in significant changes for a few
states and the hold-harmless provision provides for a stop loss/stop
gain limit to transition to the use of the updated data. This approach
is based on a state service area's previous year's allotment
percentage, which is its relative share of the total formula
allotments. ETA will implement the staged transition of the hold-
harmless provision as follows:
(1) In PY 2021, each state service area will receive an amount
equal to at least 95 percent of their PY 2020 allotment percentage, as
applied to the PY 2021 formula funds available;
(2) In PY 2022, each state service area will receive an amount
equal to at least 90 percent of their PY 2021 allotment percentage, as
applied to the PY 2022 formula funds available;
(3) In PY 2023, each state service area will receive an amount
equal to at least 85 percent of their PY 2022 allotment percentage, as
applied to the PY 2023 formula funds available.
In PY 2021, 2022, and 2023, the stop gain provision provides that
no state service area will receive an amount that is more than 150
percent of their previous year's allotment percentage.
In PY 2024, 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 funding formula without adjustment.
IV. Minimum Funding Provisions
A state area that 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 that
would receive less than $60,000 may be combined with another adjacent
state area.
V. Program Year 2021 State Allotments
The state allotments set forth in the Table appended to this notice
reflect the distribution resulting from the allotment formula described
above. For PY 2020, $85,229,000 was appropriated for migrant and
seasonal farmworker training grants and allotted based on the PY 2018
formula updates. The figures in the first numerical column show the
actual PY 2020 formula allotments to state service areas. The next
column shows the percentage share of each allotment to the total
available.
For PY 2021, the funding level provided for in the Act for the
migrant and seasonal farmworker program is $93,896,000 of which
$87,083,000 was appropriated for training grants. After allowable funds
are set aside for program integrity ($137,000), the Department will
allot $86,946,000 for training grants based on the formula and data
outlined in this notice. For purposes of illustrating the effects of
the updates to the allotment formula, columns 3 and 4 show the state
service area allotments with the application of the first-year (95
percent) hold-harmless and minimum funding provisions, followed by the
percentages. The difference between PY 2021 and PY 2020 allotments is
shown in column 5. Column 6 of the Table shows the allotments based on
the formula without the application of the hold-harmless or minimum
funding provisions. The percentages are reported in column 7.
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, National Farmworker Jobs Program--Career Services and Training Grants
[Impact of final PY 2021 allotments to states]
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PY 2020 PY 2021
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With hold harmless Without hold harmless
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Allotment Percentage Difference (PY
share Allotment Percentage 2021 vs. PY Allotment Percentage
share 2020) share
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
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Total............................... $85,229,000 100.00000 $86,946,000 100.00000 $1,717,000 $86,946,000 100.00000
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Alabama................................. 801,605 0.94053 776,866 0.89350 (24,739) 774,531 0.89082
Alaska.................................. .............. 0.00000 .............. 0.00000 .............. .............. 0.00000
Arizona................................. 2,538,153 2.97804 2,459,822 2.82914 (78,331) 2,547,948 2.93049
Arkansas................................ 1,144,067 1.34234 1,193,276 1.37243 49,209 1,262,754 1.45234
California.............................. 23,333,261 27.37714 22,613,160 26.00828 (720,101) 23,114,407 26.58478
Colorado................................ 1,347,060 1.58052 1,662,689 1.91232 315,629 1,759,499 2.02367
Connecticut............................. 402,388 0.47213 501,264 0.57652 98,876 530,450 0.61009
Delaware................................ 155,864 0.18288 154,593 0.17780 (1,271) 163,594 0.18816
Dist of Columbia........................ .............. 0.00000 .............. 0.00000 .............. .............. 0.00000
Florida................................. 3,763,684 4.41597 3,647,531 4.19517 (116,153) 3,159,183 3.63350
Georgia................................. 1,671,697 1.96142 1,656,566 1.90528 (15,131) 1,753,019 2.01622
Hawaii.................................. 322,061 0.37788 312,122 0.35898 (9,939) 157,635 0.18130
Idaho................................... 1,777,707 2.08580 2,194,625 2.52412 416,918 2,322,406 2.67109
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Illinois................................ 1,746,897 2.04965 1,829,288 2.10394 82,391 1,935,797 2.22644
Indiana................................. 1,145,731 1.34430 1,229,140 1.41368 83,409 1,300,706 1.49599
Iowa.................................... 1,588,068 1.86330 1,756,778 2.02054 168,710 1,859,065 2.13818
Kansas.................................. 1,220,211 1.43169 1,243,435 1.43012 23,224 1,315,834 1.51339
Kentucky................................ 1,044,219 1.22519 1,011,993 1.16393 (32,226) 836,164 0.96170
Louisiana............................... 798,040 0.93635 782,626 0.90013 (15,414) 828,194 0.95254
Maine................................... 328,886 0.38589 408,044 0.46931 79,158 431,802 0.49663
Maryland................................ 386,681 0.45370 521,061 0.59929 134,380 551,400 0.63419
Massachusetts........................... 364,444 0.42761 512,780 0.58977 148,336 542,637 0.62411
Michigan................................ 2,129,494 2.49856 2,073,573 2.38490 (55,921) 2,194,306 2.52376
Minnesota............................... 1,629,902 1.91238 1,579,601 1.81676 (50,301) 1,664,564 1.91448
Mississippi............................. 1,026,761 1.20471 995,074 1.14447 (31,687) 922,368 1.06085
Missouri................................ 985,363 1.15614 1,219,415 1.40250 234,052 1,290,415 1.48416
Montana................................. 628,528 0.73746 699,452 0.80447 70,924 740,177 0.85131
Nebraska................................ 1,295,534 1.52006 1,255,552 1.44406 (39,982) 1,319,642 1.51777
Nevada.................................. 190,893 0.22398 223,924 0.25754 33,031 236,962 0.27254
New Hampshire........................... 115,590 0.13562 145,953 0.16787 30,363 154,451 0.17764
New Jersey.............................. 602,990 0.70749 769,856 0.88544 166,866 814,680 0.93700
New Mexico.............................. 1,049,022 1.23083 1,067,856 1.22818 18,834 1,130,032 1.29969
New York................................ 1,574,968 1.84793 2,169,172 2.49485 594,204 2,295,471 2.64011
North Carolina.......................... 2,638,326 3.09557 2,556,903 2.94079 (81,423) 2,107,580 2.42401
North Dakota............................ 828,016 0.97152 802,462 0.92294 (25,554) 778,997 0.89595
Ohio.................................... 1,417,710 1.66341 1,437,210 1.65299 19,500 1,520,892 1.74924
Oklahoma................................ 1,007,381 1.18197 976,292 1.12287 (31,089) 926,713 1.06585
Oregon.................................. 2,447,454 2.87162 2,371,922 2.72804 (75,532) 2,335,380 2.68601
Pennsylvania............................ 1,485,920 1.74344 1,762,208 2.02678 276,288 1,864,813 2.14479
Puerto Rico............................. 2,420,800 2.84035 2,346,090 2.69833 (74,710) 2,043,240 2.35001
Rhode Island............................ 60,713 0.07124 64,858 0.07460 4,145 68,635 0.07894
South Carolina.......................... 811,276 0.95188 786,239 0.90428 (25,037) 695,074 0.79943
South Dakota............................ 610,598 0.71642 665,710 0.76566 55,112 704,471 0.81024
Tennessee............................... 894,737 1.04980 867,124 0.99731 (27,613) 631,232 0.72600
Texas................................... 5,281,950 6.19736 5,118,941 5.88749 (163,009) 4,630,482 5.32570
Utah.................................... 466,894 0.54781 653,979 0.75217 187,085 692,057 0.79596
Vermont................................. 185,768 0.21796 204,723 0.23546 18,955 216,643 0.24917
Virginia................................ 1,002,595 1.17635 971,653 1.11754 (30,942) 784,640 0.90245
Washington.............................. 4,518,313 5.30138 4,510,391 5.18758 (7,922) 4,773,008 5.48962
West Virginia........................... 155,408 0.18234 150,612 0.17322 (4,796) 112,164 0.12900
Wisconsin............................... 1,639,775 1.92396 1,719,060 1.97716 79,285 1,819,152 2.09228
Wyoming................................. 245,597 0.28816 312,536 0.35946 66,939 330,734 0.38039
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Suzan G. LeVine,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training, Labor.
[FR Doc. 2021-12604 Filed 6-15-21; 8:45 am]
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