Notice2023-10370
Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Program Year (PY) 2023 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 167, National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Grantee Allotments
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Published
May 16, 2023
Effective
July 1, 2023
Issuing agencies
Labor DepartmentEmployment and Training Administration
Abstract
This notice announces allotments for Program Year (PY) 2023 for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP).
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 94 (Tuesday, May 16, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31279-31281]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10370]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Program Year (PY)
2023 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 167,
National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Grantee Allotments
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces allotments for Program Year (PY) 2023
for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP).
DATES: The PY 2023 NFJP allotments become effective for the grant
period that begins July 1, 2023. Written comments on this notice are
invited and must be received on May 30, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Comments are accepted via email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f5bbb3bfa5b5919a99db929a83"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="86c8c0ccd6c6e2e9eaa8e1e9f0">[email protected]</span></a>. Please
enter ``PY23 National Farmworker Jobs Program Grantee Allotments Public
Comment'' in the subject line of the email.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Rietzke, Chief, Division of
National Programs, Tools and Technical Assistance, Office of Workforce
Investment, at 202-693-3980. (This is not a toll-free number.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published pursuant to Section
182(d) of the WIOA, Prompt Allotment of Funds.
I. Background
The Department is announcing preliminary PY 2023 allotments for the
NFJP. This notice provides information on the amount of funds available
during PY 2023 to state service areas awarded through the PY 2020
Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the NFJP Career Services and
Training and Housing Grants. The allotments are based on the funds
appropriated in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Public Law
117-328 (from this point forward will be referred to as the ``the
Act'').
In appropriating these funds, Congress provided $90,134,000 for
formula grants (of which $90,032,000 was allotted after $102,000 was
set aside for program integrity), $6,591,000 for migrant and seasonal
farmworker housing (of which $6,584,000 was allotted after $7,000 was
set aside for program integrity and of which not less than 70 percent
shall be for permanent housing), and another $671,000 was set aside for
discretionary purposes. The Housing grant allotments are distributed as
a result of a competition and 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.
This notice includes the following sections:
<bullet> Section II of this notice provides a discussion of the
data used to populate the formula.
<bullet> Section III describes the hold-harmless provision for the
implementation year.
<bullet> Section IV describes minimum funding provisions to address
State service areas that would receive less than $60,000.
<bullet> Section V describes the application of the formula and the
hold-harmless provision using preliminary state allotments for PY 2023.
II. Description of Data Files and Allotment Formula
As with all state planning estimates since 1999, the PY 2023
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
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Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS); and, (4) 2015-2019 (5-year file)
data from the United States Census Bureau's American Community Survey
(ACS).
The formula's original methodology is described in the Federal
Register notice 64 FR 27390, May 19, 1999. 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. In PY 2021, ETA incorporated two
modifications to the allotment formula. These modifications are
described in Federal Register notice 86 FR 32063, June 16, 2021. The
Federal Register notices are accessible at <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/">https://www.federalregister.gov/</a>.
The Department will continue to apply the modifications that were
incorporated in the PY 2021 allotments to the PY 2023 allotments,
including the expansion to include farmworkers who are in families with
total family incomes at or below 150 percent of the poverty line rather
than the higher of the poverty line or 70 percent of the lower living
standard income level. ETA will subsequently revise the PY 2024
guidance regarding the definition of ``low-income individual'' as
needed if the same provision is not included in subsequent
appropriations.
III. Description of the Hold-Harmless Provision
ETA will continue the hold-harmless provision as instituted in PY
2018. 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. 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. The staged transition of the hold-harmless provision is as
follows:
(1) In PY 2021, each state service area received 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 received 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 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 proposed 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 2023 Preliminary 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 2022, $88,160,000 was allotted for career services and
training grants, $6,447,000 was allotted for housing grants, and
$657,000 was retained for other discretionary purposes.
For PY 2023, the funding level provided for in the Act for the
migrant and seasonal farmworker program is $97,396,000. Congress
provided $90,134,000 for formula grants (of which $90,032,000 was
allotted after $102,000 was set aside for program integrity),
$6,591,000 for migrant and seasonal farmworker housing (of which
$6,584,000 was allotted after $7,000 was set aside for program
integrity and of which not less than 70 percent shall be for permanent
housing), and another $671,000 was set aside for other discretionary
purposes.
For purposes of illustrating the effects of the updates to the
allotment formula, columns 2 and 3 show the state allotments with the
application of the 90 percent hold-harmless for PY 2022 and 85 percent
hold-harmless for PY 2023. The dollar difference between PY 2022 and PY
2023 allotments is shown in column 4. The percent difference is
reported in column 5.
Brent Parton,
Acting Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training, Labor.
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, National Farmworker Jobs Program--Career
Services and Training Grants
[PY 2023 Allotments to States]
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PY 2022 90% PY 2023 85%
State StopLoss/150% StopLoss/150% $ Difference % Difference
StopGain StopGain
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Total........................................... $88,160,000 $90,032,000 $1,872,000 2.12
Alabama......................................... 776,212 800,937 24,725 3.19
Alaska.......................................... .............. .............. .............. 0.00
Arizona......................................... 2,553,478 2,634,816 81,338 3.19
Arkansas........................................ 1,265,495 1,305,806 40,311 3.19
California...................................... 23,164,574 23,902,460 737,886 3.19
Colorado........................................ 1,763,318 1,819,486 56,168 3.19
Connecticut..................................... 531,602 548,535 16,933 3.19
Delaware........................................ 163,949 169,171 5,222 3.19
Dist of Columbia................................ .............. .............. .............. 0.00
Florida......................................... 3,328,614 3,266,891 (61,723) -1.85
Georgia......................................... 1,756,823 1,812,785 55,962 3.19
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Hawaii.......................................... 284,832 247,248 (37,584) -13.20
Idaho........................................... 2,327,447 2,401,585 74,138 3.19
Illinois........................................ 1,939,999 2,001,796 61,797 3.19
Indiana......................................... 1,303,529 1,345,052 41,523 3.19
Iowa............................................ 1,863,100 1,922,448 59,348 3.19
Kansas.......................................... 1,318,690 1,360,695 42,005 3.19
Kentucky........................................ 923,511 864,671 (58,840) -6.37
Louisiana....................................... 829,992 856,431 26,439 3.19
Maine........................................... 432,739 446,523 13,784 3.19
Maryland........................................ 552,597 570,199 17,602 3.19
Massachusetts................................... 543,815 561,137 17,322 3.19
Michigan........................................ 2,199,069 2,269,118 70,049 3.19
Minnesota....................................... 1,668,177 1,721,315 53,138 3.19
Mississippi..................................... 924,370 953,815 29,445 3.19
Missouri........................................ 1,293,215 1,334,410 41,195 3.19
Montana......................................... 741,784 765,413 23,629 3.19
Nebraska........................................ 1,322,506 1,364,634 42,128 3.19
Nevada.......................................... 237,476 245,041 7,565 3.19
New Hampshire................................... 154,787 159,717 4,930 3.19
New Jersey...................................... 816,449 842,456 26,007 3.19
New Mexico...................................... 1,132,485 1,168,559 36,074 3.19
New York........................................ 2,300,453 2,373,732 73,279 3.19
North Carolina.................................. 2,333,344 2,179,435 (153,909) -6.60
North Dakota.................................... 780,688 805,556 24,868 3.19
Ohio............................................ 1,524,192 1,572,744 48,552 3.19
Oklahoma........................................ 928,725 958,308 29,583 3.19
Oregon.......................................... 2,340,449 2,415,002 74,553 3.19
Pennsylvania.................................... 1,868,860 1,928,391 59,531 3.19
Puerto Rico..................................... 2,140,963 2,112,901 (28,062) -1.31
Rhode Island.................................... 68,784 70,975 2,191 3.19
South Carolina.................................. 717,495 718,772 1,277 0.18
South Dakota.................................... 706,000 728,488 22,488 3.19
Tennessee....................................... 791,308 686,894 (104,414) -13.20
Texas........................................... 4,671,373 4,788,352 116,979 2.50
Utah............................................ 693,559 715,651 22,092 3.19
Vermont......................................... 217,113 224,029 6,916 3.19
Virginia........................................ 886,698 811,392 (75,306) -8.49
Washington...................................... 4,783,367 4,935,737 152,370 3.19
West Virginia................................... 137,443 119,307 (18,136) -13.20
Wisconsin....................................... 1,823,100 1,881,174 58,074 3.19
Wyoming......................................... 331,452 342,010 10,558 3.19
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[FR Doc. 2023-10370 Filed 5-15-23; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4510-FN-P
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