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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 [www.gpo.gov]
[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 
[email protected].

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:
     Section II of this notice provides a discussion of the 
data used to populate the formula.
     Section III describes the prorated method for allotments 
for the implementation year starting in PY 2024.
     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 https://www.federalregister.gov/.
    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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