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the base funding formula is intended to
ensure awards are large enough to act as
an incentive to states to improve RESEA
performance but also prevent
inundating small state programs with
excessively large awards that cannot be
expended within the period of
performance or providing a large state
program with a small award for which
any potential benefit would be
outweighed by the administrative
burden of implementation.
Signed in Washington, DC.
Angela Hanks,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment
and Training.
Outcome Payments Distribution
Timeline
Labor Surplus Area Classification
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V. Conclusion
The RESEA outcome payments
distribution methodology articulated in
this notice will be utilized with respect
to FY 2021 for distribution in December
2021.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Section 306(f)(2)(A), SSA, requires the
Department to make outcome payments
based on RESEA outcomes reported for
the previous fiscal year starting in FY
2021. There are several timing issues
associated with calculation of the
performance to enable the outcome
payments. First, the period of
performance for RESEA is January 1
through December 31. The
reemployment outcomes data has a fourquarter lag (three quarters for
reemployment outcomes to be available,
and one quarter for state reporting). In
order to allow time for necessary data
collection and analysis, the distribution
of outcome payments will occur in
December of the FY following the year
in which the RESEA grant funds are
awarded. For example, the outcome
payments for FY 2021 will be made to
states by December 31, 2021.
Due to the impact of COVID–19 on
state RESEA program operations, the
performance period was modified from
the complete FY 2020 to October 2019
through March 2020 to capture state
performance under normal prepandemic conditions. The following
schedule applies solely to the award of
FY 2021 outcome payments:
• Data for performance period
October 2019 through March 2020,
which became available for ETA review
in May 2021;
• The pool of eligible states will be
determined using the methodology
outlined in Steps 1 and 2 above; and
• Outcome payments will be
distributed no later than December 31,
2021.
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The purpose of this notice is
to announce the annual Labor Surplus
Area list for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022.
DATES: The annual LSA list is effective
October 1, 2021, for all states, the
District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Samuel Wright, Office of Workforce
Investment, Employment and Training
Administration, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW, Room C–4514,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone:
(202) 693–2870 (This is not a toll-free
number) or email wright.samuel.e@
dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Labor’s regulations
implementing Executive Orders 12073
and 10582 are set forth at 20 CFR part
654, subpart A. These regulations
require the Employment and Training
Administration (ETA) to classify
jurisdictions as Labor Surplus Areas
(LSAs) pursuant to the criteria specified
in the regulations, and to publish
annually a list of LSAs. Pursuant to
those regulations, ETA is hereby
publishing the annual LSA list.
In addition, the regulations provide
exceptional circumstance criteria for
classifying LSAs when catastrophic
events, such as natural disasters, plant
closings, and contract cancellations are
expected to have a long-term impact on
labor market area conditions,
discounting temporary or seasonal
factors.
SUMMARY:
Eligible Labor Surplus Areas
A LSA is a civil jurisdiction that has
a civilian average annual
unemployment rate during the previous
two calendar years of 20 percent or
more above the average annual civilian
unemployment rate for all states during
the same 24-month reference period.
ETA uses only official unemployment
estimates provided by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics in making these
classifications. The average
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unemployment rate for all states
includes data for the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico. The LSA classification
criteria stipulate a civil jurisdiction
must have a ‘‘floor unemployment rate’’
of 6 percent or higher to be classified a
LSA. Any civil jurisdiction that has a
‘‘ceiling unemployment rate’’ of 10
percent or higher is classified a LSA.
Civil jurisdictions are defined as
follows:
1. A city of at least 25,000 population
on the basis of the most recently
available estimates from the Bureau of
the Census; or
2. A town or township in the States
of Michigan, New Jersey, New York, or
Pennsylvania of 25,000 or more
population and which possess powers
and functions similar to those of cities;
or
3. All counties, except for those
counties which contain any type of civil
jurisdictions defined in ‘‘1’’ or ‘‘2’’
above; or
4. A ‘‘balance of county’’ consisting of
a county less any component cities and
townships identified in ‘‘1’’ or ‘‘2’’
above; or
5. A county equivalent which is a
town in the States of Connecticut,
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, or a
municipio in the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico.
Procedures for Classifying Labor
Surplus Areas
ETA issues the LSA list on a fiscal
year basis. The list becomes effective
each October 1, and remains in effect
through the following September 30.
The reference period used in preparing
the current list was January 2019
through December 2020. The national
average unemployment rate (including
Puerto Rico) during this period is
rounded to 4.45 percent. Twenty
percent higher than the national
unemployment rate during this period is
rounded to 5.34 percent. Since the
calculated unemployment rate plus 20
percent (5.34 percent) is below the
‘‘floor’’ LSA unemployment rate of 6
percent, a civil jurisdiction must have a
two-year unemployment rate of 6
percent or higher in order to be
classified a LSA. To ensure that all areas
classified as labor surplus meet the
requirements, when a city is part of a
county and meets the unemployment
qualifier as a LSA, that city is identified
in the LSA list, the balance of county,
not the entire county, will be identified
as a LSA if the balance of county also
meets the LSA unemployment criteria.
The data on the current and previous
years’ LSAs are available at
www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/lsa.
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Petition for Exceptional Circumstance
Consideration
The classification procedures also
provide criteria for the designation of
LSAs under exceptional circumstances
criteria. These procedures permit the
regular classification criteria to be
waived when an area experiences a
significant increase in unemployment
which is not temporary or seasonal and
which was not reflected in the data for
the 2-year reference period. Under the
program’s exceptional circumstance
procedures, LSA classifications can be
made for civil jurisdictions,
Metropolitan Statistical Areas or
Combined Statistical Areas, as defined
by the U.S. Office of Management and
Budget. In order for an area to be
classified as a LSA under the
exceptional circumstance criteria, the
state workforce agency must submit a
petition requesting such classification to
the ETA. The current criteria for an
exceptional circumstance classification
are:
1. An area’s unemployment rate is at
least 6 percent for each of the three most
recent months; and
2. A projected unemployment rate of
at least 6 percent for each of the next 12
months because of an event.
When submitting such a petition, the
state workforce agency must provide
documentation that the exceptional
circumstance event has occurred. The
state workforce agency may file
petitions on behalf of civil jurisdictions,
Metropolitan Statistical Areas, or
Micropolitan Statistical Areas.
State Workforce Agencies may submit
petitions in electronic format to
wright.samuel.e@dol.gov, or in hard
copy to the U.S. Department of Labor,
Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Workforce
Investment, 200 Constitution Avenue
NW, Room C–4514, Washington, DC
20210, Attention Samuel Wright. Data
collection for the petition is approved
under OMB 1205–0207, expiration date
May 31, 2023.
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Signed at Washington, DC.
Angela Hanks,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment
and Training Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request;
Occupational Noise Exposure
Notice of availability; request
for comments.
ACTION:
The Department of Labor
(DOL) is submitting this Mine Safety
and Health Administration (MSHA)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 November 18, 2021.
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:
Crystal Rennie by telephone at 202–
693–0456 or by email at DOL_PRA_
PUBLIC@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Noise is a
harmful physical agent and one of the
most pervasive health hazards in
mining. Repeated exposure to high
levels of sound over time causes
occupational noise-induced hearing loss
(NIHL). NIHL is a serious, often
profound physical impairment for
miners, with far-reaching psychological
and social effects. NIHL can be
distinguished from aging and other
factors that can contribute to hearing
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loss and it can be prevented. According
to the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), NIHL is among the ‘‘top ten’’
leading occupational illnesses and
injuries.
For many years, NIHL was regarded as
an inevitable consequence of working in
a mine. Mining, an intensely
mechanized industry, relies on drills,
crushers, compressors, conveyors,
trucks, loaders, and other heavy-duty
equipment for the excavation, haulage,
and processing of material. This
equipment creates high sound levels,
exposing machine operators as well as
miners working nearby to occupational
noise that can contribute to hearing loss.
MSHA, the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration, the military, and
other organizations around the world
have established and enforced standards
to reduce the loss of hearing. Quieter
equipment, isolation of workers from
noise sources, and limiting the time
workers are exposed to noise are among
the many well-accepted methods that
will prevent NIHL.
Records of miners’ exposures to noise
are necessary so that mine operators and
MSHA can evaluate the need for and
effectiveness of engineering controls,
administrative controls, and personal
protective equipment to protect miners
from harmful levels of noise that can
result in hearing loss. However, the
Agency believes that extensive records
for this purpose are not needed. Instead,
the requirements are a performanceoriented approach to monitoring.
Records of miners’ hearing
examinations enable mine operators and
MSHA to ensure that the controls are
effective in preventing NIHL for
individual miners. Records of training
are needed to confirm that miners
receive the information they need to
become active participants in hearing
conservation efforts. For additional
substantive information about this ICR,
see the related notice published in the
Federal Register on May 10, 2021 (86
FR 24897).
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)
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Labor Surplus Area Classification
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to announce the annual Labor
Surplus Area list for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022.
DATES: The annual LSA list is effective October 1, 2021, for all
states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Samuel Wright, Office of Workforce
Investment, Employment and Training Administration, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW, Room C-4514, Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: (202) 693-2870
(This is not a toll-free number) or email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Labor's regulations
implementing Executive Orders 12073 and 10582 are set forth at 20 CFR
part 654, subpart A. These regulations require the Employment and
Training Administration (ETA) to classify jurisdictions as Labor
Surplus Areas (LSAs) pursuant to the criteria specified in the
regulations, and to publish annually a list of LSAs. Pursuant to those
regulations, ETA is hereby publishing the annual LSA list.
In addition, the regulations provide exceptional circumstance
criteria for classifying LSAs when catastrophic events, such as natural
disasters, plant closings, and contract cancellations are expected to
have a long-term impact on labor market area conditions, discounting
temporary or seasonal factors.
Eligible Labor Surplus Areas
A LSA is a civil jurisdiction that has a civilian average annual
unemployment rate during the previous two calendar years of 20 percent
or more above the average annual civilian unemployment rate for all
states during the same 24-month reference period. ETA uses only
official unemployment estimates provided by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics in making these classifications. The average unemployment
rate for all states includes data for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The LSA classification criteria stipulate a civil jurisdiction must
have a ``floor unemployment rate'' of 6 percent or higher to be
classified a LSA. Any civil jurisdiction that has a ``ceiling
unemployment rate'' of 10 percent or higher is classified a LSA.
Civil jurisdictions are defined as follows:
1. A city of at least 25,000 population on the basis of the most
recently available estimates from the Bureau of the Census; or
2. A town or township in the States of Michigan, New Jersey, New
York, or Pennsylvania of 25,000 or more population and which possess
powers and functions similar to those of cities; or
3. All counties, except for those counties which contain any type
of civil jurisdictions defined in ``1'' or ``2'' above; or
4. A ``balance of county'' consisting of a county less any
component cities and townships identified in ``1'' or ``2'' above; or
5. A county equivalent which is a town in the States of
Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, or a municipio in the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Procedures for Classifying Labor Surplus Areas
ETA issues the LSA list on a fiscal year basis. The list becomes
effective each October 1, and remains in effect through the following
September 30. The reference period used in preparing the current list
was January 2019 through December 2020. The national average
unemployment rate (including Puerto Rico) during this period is rounded
to 4.45 percent. Twenty percent higher than the national unemployment
rate during this period is rounded to 5.34 percent. Since the
calculated unemployment rate plus 20 percent (5.34 percent) is below
the ``floor'' LSA unemployment rate of 6 percent, a civil jurisdiction
must have a two-year unemployment rate of 6 percent or higher in order
to be classified a LSA. To ensure that all areas classified as labor
surplus meet the requirements, when a city is part of a county and
meets the unemployment qualifier as a LSA, that city is identified in
the LSA list, the balance of county, not the entire county, will be
identified as a LSA if the balance of county also meets the LSA
unemployment criteria. The data on the current and previous years' LSAs
are available at www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/lsa.
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Petition for Exceptional Circumstance Consideration
The classification procedures also provide criteria for the
designation of LSAs under exceptional circumstances criteria. These
procedures permit the regular classification criteria to be waived when
an area experiences a significant increase in unemployment which is not
temporary or seasonal and which was not reflected in the data for the
2-year reference period. Under the program's exceptional circumstance
procedures, LSA classifications can be made for civil jurisdictions,
Metropolitan Statistical Areas or Combined Statistical Areas, as
defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. In order for an
area to be classified as a LSA under the exceptional circumstance
criteria, the state workforce agency must submit a petition requesting
such classification to the ETA. The current criteria for an exceptional
circumstance classification are:
1. An area's unemployment rate is at least 6 percent for each of
the three most recent months; and
2. A projected unemployment rate of at least 6 percent for each of
the next 12 months because of an event.
When submitting such a petition, the state workforce agency must
provide documentation that the exceptional circumstance event has
occurred. The state workforce agency may file petitions on behalf of
civil jurisdictions, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, or Micropolitan
Statistical Areas.
State Workforce Agencies may submit petitions in electronic format
to [email protected], or in hard copy to the U.S. Department of
Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Workforce
Investment, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room C-4514, Washington, DC
20210, Attention Samuel Wright. Data collection for the petition is
approved under OMB 1205-0207, expiration date May 31, 2023.
Signed at Washington, DC.
Angela Hanks,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Administration.
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