Notice2026-09142
Employment and Training Administration Program Year 2026 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Section 167, National Farmworker Jobs Program State Allotments
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Published
May 8, 2026
Effective
July 1, 2026
Issuing agencies
Labor DepartmentEmployment and Training Administration
Abstract
This notice announces allotments for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Career Services and Training grants for Program Year (PY) 2026.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 89 (Friday, May 8, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25381-25383]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-09142]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Employment and Training Administration Program Year 2026
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Section 167, National
Farmworker Jobs Program State Allotments
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces allotments for the National Farmworker
Jobs Program (NFJP) Career Services and Training grants for Program
Year (PY) 2026.
DATES: The PY 2026 NFJP allotments are effective for the grant period
that begins July 1, 2026. Written comments on this notice are invited
and must be received on May 22, 2026. Comments submitted after the
deadline for submission will not be considered.
ADDRESSES: Comments on this notice can be submitted to the Employment
and Training Administration (ETA), Office of Workforce Investment, 200
Constitution Ave. NW, Room C-4510, Attention: Steven Rietzke, Chief,
Division of National Programs, Tools and Technical Assistance.
Additionally, comments on this notice can be submitted via email to
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3b757d716b7b5f5457155c544d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a0eee6eaf0e0c4cfcc8ec7cfd6">[email protected]</span></a>. Please enter ``PY26 NFJP Grantee Allotments Public
Comment'' in the subject line of the email.
Comments: The Department will retain all comments on this notice
and will release them upon request via email to any member of the
public. The Department also will make all the comments it receives
available for public inspection by appointment during normal business
hours at the above address. If you need assistance to review the
comments, the Department will provide you with appropriate aids such as
readers or print magnifiers. The Department will make copies of this
notice available, upon request, in large print, Braille, and electronic
file. The Department also will consider providing the notice in other
formats upon request. To schedule an appointment to review the comments
and/or obtain the notice in an alternative format, contact Steven
Rietzke using the information provided below. The Department will
retain all comments received without making any changes to the
comments, including any personal information provided. Please do not
submit comments containing trade secrets, confidential or proprietary
commercial or financial information, personal health information,
sensitive personally identifiable information (for example, social
security numbers, driver's license or state identification numbers,
passport numbers, or financial account numbers), or other information
that you do not want to be made available to the public. Should the
Department become aware of such information, the Department reserves
the right to redact or refrain from sharing the information and
libelous or otherwise inappropriate comments, including those that
contain obscene, indecent, or profane language; that contain threats or
defamatory statements; or that contain hate speech. Please note that
depending on how information is submitted, the Department may not be
able to redact the information and instead reserves the right to
refrain from sharing the
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information or comment in such situations. It is the commenter's
responsibility to safeguard his or her information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Rietzke, Chief, Division of
National Programs, Tools and Technical Assistance, Office of Workforce
Investment, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#297b404c5d53424c077a5d4c5f4c47694d4645074e465f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="184a717d6c62737d364b6c7d6e7d76587c7774367f776e">[email protected]</span></a> or 202-693-3912 (This is not a
toll-free number).
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 grantee allotments for the NFJP Career
Services and Training (CST) grants for PY 2026. Specifically, this
notice provides information on the amount of funds available during PY
2026 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 allotments are based on the funds
appropriated in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, Public Law
119-75 (from this point forward, referred to as ``the Act'').
The Act allows the Secretary to set aside up to 0.5 percent of each
discretionary appropriation for activities related to program integrity
and up to 0.75 percent of most operating funds for evaluations.
Additionally, section 102 allows for up to 1 percent of discretionary
funds in the Act to be transferred between programs, projects, or
activities. For PY 2026, Congress provided $90,134,000 for formula
grants (of which $89,405,000 is available for formula grants after
setting aside $729,000 as authorized by the Act). While Congress
appropriated the same amount for formula grants in PY 2025 and PY 2026,
ETA is setting aside more funding in PY 2026 for set asides as
authorized by the Act. Accordingly, as noted above and explained
further below, ETA is calculating state allotment amounts by pro-rating
the PY 2026 allotment amounts based on the results of the PY 2025
formula and the updated availability of formula funding after set-
asides in PY 2026.
As background, the PY 2026 appropriation also provides $6,591,000
for migrant and seasonal farmworker housing (of which $6,539,000 was
allotted after $52,000 was set aside as authorized by the Act 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 2026.
<bullet> Section IV provides final state allotments for PY 2026.
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 2025 appropriation, the PY 2026 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).
III. Description of the Prorated Method for Allotments
The Department used a prorated method for PY 2026 allotments. For
PY 2026, each state service area received a prorated allotment based on
their PY 2025 allotment percentage, as applied to the PY 2026 formula
funds available.
IV. Program Year 2026 State Allotments
The allotments set forth in the Table appended to this notice
reflect the distribution resulting from the prorated methodology
described above.
Henry Maklakiewicz,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, Labor.
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, National Farmworker Jobs Program--Career
Services and Training Grants
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PY 2025 PY 2026
Prorated no Prorated no
State stoploss/ stoploss/ $ Difference % Difference
stopgain stopgain
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Total........................................... $90,064,000 $89,405,000 ($659,000) -0.73
Alabama......................................... 819,400 813,404 (5,996) -0.73
Alaska.......................................... .............. .............. .............. 0.00
Arizona......................................... 2,695,554 2,675,831 (19,723) -0.73
Arkansas........................................ 1,335,907 1,326,132 (9,775) -0.73
California...................................... 24,453,463 24,274,537 (178,926) -0.73
Colorado........................................ 1,861,429 1,847,809 (13,620) -0.73
Connecticut..................................... 561,180 557,074 (4,106) -0.73
Delaware........................................ 173,071 171,805 (1,266) -0.73
Dist of Columbia................................ .............. .............. .............. 0.00
Florida......................................... 3,342,201 3,317,746 (24,455) -0.73
Georgia......................................... 1,854,573 1,841,003 (13,570) -0.73
Hawaii.......................................... .............. .............. .............. 0.00
Idaho........................................... 2,456,947 2,438,969 (17,978) -0.73
Illinois........................................ 2,047,942 2,032,957 (14,985) -0.73
Indiana......................................... 1,376,058 1,365,989 (10,069) -0.73
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Iowa............................................ 1,966,764 1,952,373 (14,391) -0.73
Kansas.......................................... 1,392,062 1,381,876 (10,186) -0.73
Kentucky........................................ 884,604 878,131 (6,473) -0.73
Louisiana....................................... 876,174 869,763 (6,411) -0.73
Maine........................................... 456,816 453,473 (3,343) -0.73
Maryland........................................ 583,343 579,075 (4,268) -0.73
Massachusetts................................... .............. .............. .............. 0.00
Michigan........................................ 2,321,425 2,304,439 (16,986) -0.73
Minnesota....................................... 1,760,995 1,748,110 (12,885) -0.73
Mississippi..................................... 975,803 968,663 (7,140) -0.73
Missouri........................................ 1,365,171 1,355,182 (9,989) -0.73
Montana......................................... 783,057 777,327 (5,730) -0.73
Nebraska........................................ 1,396,092 1,385,877 (10,215) -0.73
Nevada.......................................... 250,691 248,857 (1,834) -0.73
New Hampshire................................... .............. .............. .............. 0.00
New Jersey...................................... 861,877 855,571 (6,306) -0.73
New Mexico...................................... 1,195,497 1,186,750 (8,747) -0.73
New York........................................ 2,428,451 2,410,682 (17,769) -0.73
North Carolina.................................. 2,229,675 2,213,360 (16,315) -0.73
North Dakota.................................... 824,125 818,095 (6,030) -0.73
Ohio............................................ 1,609,000 1,597,227 (11,773) -0.73
Oklahoma........................................ .............. .............. .............. 0.00
Oregon.......................................... 2,470,673 2,452,595 (18,078) -0.73
Pennsylvania.................................... 1,972,845 1,958,410 (14,435) -0.73
Puerto Rico..................................... 2,161,607 2,145,790 (15,817) -0.73
Rhode Island.................................... .............. .............. .............. 0.00
South Carolina.................................. 735,342 729,961 (5,381) -0.73
South Dakota.................................... 745,280 739,827 (5,453) -0.73
Tennessee....................................... 702,728 697,586 (5,142) -0.73
Texas........................................... 4,898,734 4,862,890 (35,844) -0.73
Utah............................................ 732,148 726,791 (5,357) -0.73
Vermont......................................... 229,194 227,517 (1,677) -0.73
Virginia........................................ 830,096 824,022 (6,074) -0.73
Washington...................................... 5,049,516 5,012,569 (36,947) -0.73
West Virginia................................... 122,057 121,164 (893) -0.73
Wisconsin....................................... 1,924,539 1,910,457 (14,082) -0.73
Wyoming......................................... 349,894 347,334 (2,560) -0.73
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[FR Doc. 2026-09142 Filed 5-7-26; 8:45 am]
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