Notice2024-31019
Employment and Training Administration Program Year 2024 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Section 167, National Farmworker Jobs Program Final State Allotments
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Published
December 30, 2024
Effective
July 1, 2024
Issuing agencies
Labor DepartmentEmployment and Training Administration
Abstract
This Notice announces final allotments for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Career Services and Training grants for Program Year (PY) 2024, finalizing the preliminary planning estimates provided in a prior Federal Register notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 249 (Monday, December 30, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 106593-106595]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-31019]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Employment and Training Administration Program Year 2024
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Section 167, National
Farmworker Jobs Program Final State Allotments
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This Notice announces final allotments for the National
Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Career Services and Training grants for
Program Year (PY) 2024, finalizing the preliminary planning estimates
provided in a prior Federal Register notice.
DATES: The PY 2024 NFJP allotments are effective for the grant period
that began July 1, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Questions on this notice can be submitted via email to
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e6a8a0acb6a682898ac8818990"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d799919d8797b3b8bbf9b0b8a1">[email protected]</span></a>.
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). If you
are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-
1-1 to access telecommunications relay services.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published pursuant to Section
182(d) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Prompt
Allotment of Funds.
I. Background
The Department is announcing final allotments for the National
Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Career Services and Training (CST)
grants for Program Year (PY) 2024. Specifically, this notice provides
information on the amount of funds available during PY 2024 to state
service areas awarded through the PY 2024 Funding Opportunity
Announcement (``the FOA'') for the NFJP CST grants (FOA-ETA-24-15). In
distributing funds, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
calculated allotments for CST grantees through an administrative
formula. The
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allotments are based on the funds appropriated in the Further
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Public Law 118-47.
PY 2024 funding levels are based on the full-year funding levels
for the NFJP program in PY 2023 as indicated in Federal Register notice
88 FR 31279, May 16, 2023, pro-rated based on the availability of
funding for NFJP formula grants in PY 2024. For PY 2024, Congress has
provided $90,134,000 for formula grants (of which $90,048,000 is
available for formula grants after setting aside $86,000 for program
integrity). While Congress appropriated the same amount for formula
grants in PY 2023 and PY 2024, ETA is setting aside less funding in PY
2024 for program integrity. Accordingly, as noted above and explained
further below, ETA is calculating state allotment amounts by pro-rating
the PY 2024 allotment amounts based on the results of the PY 2023
formula and the updated availability of formula funding after set-
asides in PY 2024.
In the competition for CST grants, the Department did not receive
competitive applications from eligible applicants for some states. The
Department did not reopen the competition to seek prospective
applicants to provide services in those states. In determining a course
of action for those states' funds, the Department followed the
procedures described in the FOA for the competition. Thus, for states
where the Department did not receive any competitive applications and
did not award an NFJP grant under the PY 2024 competition, the
Department instead redistributed the remaining funds among the grants
awarded to other state service areas, distributing funds proportionally
based on the NFJP allotment formula results for PY 2024.
As background, the PY 2024 appropriation also provides $6,591,000
for migrant and seasonal farmworker housing (of which $6,585,000 was
allotted after $6,000 was set aside for program integrity and of which
not less than 70 percent shall be for permanent housing), as well as
$671,000 for other discretionary purposes. The Housing grant allotments
are distributed as a result of a separate competition and are not the
subject of this Notice.
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 prorated method for allotments
for the implementation year starting in PY 2024.
<bullet> Section IV provides final state allotments for PY 2024.
II. Description of Data Files and Allotment Formula
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>.
Like the PY 2023 appropriation, the PY 2024 appropriation includes
language expanding program eligibility to 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). Because the PY 2024
allotments will be prorated based on the results of the PY 2023
formula, the PY 2024 allotment results continue to reflect
modifications to the formula related to this expansion. ETA will
subsequently revise relevant guidance regarding the definition of
``low-income individual'' as needed if the same expansion of
eligibility is not included in subsequent appropriations.
III. Description of the Prorated Method for Allotments
The Department used a prorated method for PY 2024 allotments. For
PY 2024, each state service area received a prorated allotment based on
their PY 2023 allotment percentage, as applied to the PY 2024 formula
funds available. ETA anticipates updating data and reimplementing a
staged stop loss/stop gain in PY 2026. ETA will explain its approach to
calculating allotments in PY 2026 in a subsequent notice at a later
date.
IV. Program Year 2024 Final State Allotments
The allotments set forth in the Table appended to this notice
reflect the distribution resulting from the prorated methodology
described above, including redistribution of funds remaining after the
PY 2024 competition.
For purposes of illustrating the effects of redistribution of funds
remaining after the PY 2024 competition, columns 2 and 3 show the state
allotments for PY 2024 prorated and PY 2024 prorated including
redistribution.
Jos[eacute] Javier Rodr[iacute]guez,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training, Labor.
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration,
National Farmworker Jobs Program--Career Services and Training Grants
Program Year 2024 Allotments to States Including Redistribution of Funds
Remaining After the PY 2024 Competition
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PY 2024 Prorated Inc
State PY 2024 Prorated No Redistribution No
StopLoss/StopGain StopLoss/StopGain
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Total....................... $90,048,000 $90,048,000
Alabama..................... 801,079 819,254
Alaska...................... .................... ....................
Arizona..................... 2,635,284 2,695,075
Arkansas.................... 1,306,038 1,335,670
California.................. 23,906,708 24,449,119
Colorado.................... 1,819,809 1,861,098
Connecticut................. 548,632 561,080
Delaware.................... 169,201 173,040
Dist of Columbia............ .................... ....................
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Florida..................... 3,267,472 3,341,607
Georgia..................... 1,813,107 1,854,244
Hawaii...................... 247,292 ....................
Idaho....................... 2,402,012 2,456,510
Illinois.................... 2,002,152 2,047,578
Indiana..................... 1,345,291 1,375,814
Iowa........................ 1,922,790 1,966,415
Kansas...................... 1,360,937 1,391,815
Kentucky.................... 864,825 884,447
Louisiana................... 856,583 876,018
Maine....................... 446,602 456,735
Maryland.................... 570,300 583,239
Massachusetts............... 561,237 ....................
Michigan.................... 2,269,521 2,321,013
Minnesota................... 1,721,621 1,760,682
Mississippi................. 953,985 975,630
Missouri.................... 1,334,647 1,364,928
Montana..................... 765,549 782,918
Nebraska.................... 1,364,877 1,395,844
Nevada...................... 245,085 250,646
New Hampshire............... 159,745 ....................
New Jersey.................. 842,606 861,724
New Mexico.................. 1,168,767 1,195,285
New York.................... 2,374,154 2,428,020
North Carolina.............. 2,179,822 2,229,279
North Dakota................ 805,699 823,979
Ohio........................ 1,573,024 1,608,714
Oklahoma.................... 958,478 ....................
Oregon...................... 2,415,431 2,470,234
Pennsylvania................ 1,928,734 1,972,494
Puerto Rico................. 2,113,276 2,161,223
Rhode Island................ 70,988 ....................
South Carolina.............. 718,900 735,211
South Dakota................ 728,617 745,148
Tennessee................... 687,016 702,603
Texas....................... 4,789,203 4,897,864
Utah........................ 715,778 732,018
Vermont..................... 224,069 229,153
Virginia.................... 811,536 829,949
Washington.................. 4,936,614 5,048,619
West Virginia............... 119,328 122,035
Wisconsin................... 1,881,508 1,924,197
Wyoming..................... 342,071 349,832
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[FR Doc. 2024-31019 Filed 12-27-24; 8:45 am]
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