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(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: An agency-level survey will be 

sent to approximately 250 offices. The 

expected burden placed on these 

respondents is about 60 minutes per 

respondent. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: The total respondent burden 

is approximately 282 burden hours. 

If additional information is required 

contact: Jerri Murray, Department 

Clearance Officer, United States 

Department of Justice, Justice 

Management Division, Policy and 

Planning Staff, Two Constitution 

Square, 145 N Street NE., 3E.405B, 

Washington, DC 20530. 

Dated: February 1, 2016. 

Jerri Murray, 

Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

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BILLING CODE 4410–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

[OMB Number 1121—NEW] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed eCollection 

eComments Requested; New 

Collection: State and Local Justice 

Agencies Serving Tribal Lands 

(SLJASTL): Census of State and Local 

Law Enforcement Agencies Serving 

Tribal Lands (CSLLEASTL) 

AGENCY: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 

Department of Justice. 

ACTION: 60-Day notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Justice 

(DOJ), Office of Justice Programs, 

Bureau of Justice Statistics, will be 

submitting the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted for 60 days until April 

5, 2016. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have additional comments 

especially on the estimated public 

burden or associated response time, 

suggestions, or need a copy of the 

proposed information collection 

instrument with instructions or 

additional information, please contact 

Suzanne Strong, Statistician, 

Prosecution and Judicial Statistics, 

Bureau of Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20531 

(email: Suzanne.M.Strong@usdoj.gov; 

telephone: 202–616–3666). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written 

comments and suggestions from the 

public and affected agencies concerning 

the proposed collection of information 

are encouraged. Your comments should 

address one or more of the following 

four points: 

—Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Bureau of Justice 

Statistics, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

—Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

—Evaluate whether and if so how the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected can be 

enhanced; and 

—Minimize the burden of the collection 

of information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms 

of information technology, e.g., 

permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

(1) Type of Information Collection: 

New collection. 

(2) The Title of the Form/Collection: 

State and Local Justice Agencies Serving 

Tribal Lands (SLJASTL): Census of State 

and Local Law Enforcement Agencies 

Serving Tribal Lands (CSLLEASTL). 

(3) The agency form number, if any, 

and the applicable component of the 

Department sponsoring the collection: 

No agency form number at this time. 

The applicable component within the 

Department of Justice is the Bureau of 

Justice Statistics, in the Office of Justice 

Programs. 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Respondents will be general 

purpose state and local law enforcement 

agencies (LEAs) that are responsible for 

policing tribal lands, including police 

departments, sheriff’s offices, state law 

enforcement agencies and special 

jurisdiction agencies. 

Abstract: Among other 

responsibilities, the Bureau of Justice 

Statistics (BJS) is charged with 

collecting data regarding crimes 

occurring on tribal lands. The SLJASTL 

is the first effort by BJS to include state 

and local justice agencies responsible 

for policing and prosecuting crimes that 

occur on tribal lands. Specifically, the 

CSLLEASTL will collect information 

that will help fill the gaps we have in 

our understanding of the nature of crime 

on tribal lands. The data collection 

instrument is designed to capture 

administrative, operational and caseload 

data from respondents. This survey is 

the first of its kind to describe the role 

that state and local law enforcement 

play in policing crime on tribal lands. 

(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: An agency-level survey will be 

sent to approximately 600 agencies. The 

expected burden placed on these 

respondents is about 60 minutes per 

respondent. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: The total respondent burden 

is approximately 713 burden hours. 

If additional information is required 

contact: Jerri Murray, Department 

Clearance Officer, United States 

Department of Justice, Justice 

Management Division, Policy and 

Planning Staff, Two Constitution 

Square, 145 N Street NE., 3E.405B, 

Washington, DC 20530. 

Dated: February 1, 2016. 

Jerri Murray, 

Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

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BILLING CODE 4410–18–P 

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 

Notice—Agricultural Worker 

Population Estimates for Basic Field— 

Migrant Grants 

AGENCY: Legal Services Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On February 3, 2015, the 

Legal Services Corporation (LSC) 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register requesting comment on a 

proposal to update the agricultural 

worker population estimates used for 

determining the amount of Basic Field 

funds that LSC will distribute through 

Basic Field—Migrant grants. 80 FR 

5791. Based on comments received in 

response to this notice, LSC has 

identified three areas for further public 

input. 

Specifically, LSC seeks (1) comments 

on the methodology and data used for 

estimating the agricultural worker 

population by the U.S. Department of 

Labor’s Employment Training 

Administration (ETA) considering the 

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with this notice; (2) comments on a new 

estimate of aliens within the agricultural 

worker population who are eligible for 

services from LSC grantees based on 

sexual abuse, domestic violence, 

trafficking, or other abusive or criminal 

activities; and (3) submission of 

available and reliable state- or regionspecific, data-based estimates of the 

population of agricultural workers 

eligible for LSC-funded services to 

augment the ETA estimates in 

individual states or regions. LSC will 

accept such estimates only if they 

include the data and methodologies 

used, including authorship and other 

relevant information. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before March 21, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments must be 

submitted to Mark Freedman, Senior 

Associate General Counsel, Legal 

Services Corporation, 3333 K St. NW., 

Washington, DC 20007–3522; 202–337– 

6519 (fax); mfreedman@lsc.gov. LSC 

prefers electronic submissions via email 

with attachments in Acrobat PDF 

format. Written comments sent to any 

other address or received after the end 

of the comment period may not be 

considered by LSC. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark Freedman, Senior Associate 

General Counsel, Legal Services 

Corporation, 3333 K St. NW., 

Washington, DC 20007–3522; 202–295– 

1623 (phone); 202–337–6519 (fax); 

mfreedman@lsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) 

seeks public comment on three 

enhancements to its proposal to obtain 

and implement more current estimates 

of the U.S. agricultural worker 

population eligible for LSC-funded legal 

assistance. LSC will use those estimates 

to determine how much of the 

appropriated Basic Field Programs 

funds to provide through Basic Field— 

Migrant grants and the distribution of 

those grants among the states and other 

LSC service areas. 

On February 3, 2015, LSC published 

a notice in the Federal Register at 80 FR 

5791 requesting comment on a proposal 

to recalculate the amount and 

distribution of funds through these 

grants based on new estimates obtained 

from the U.S. Department of Labor’s 

Employment Training Administration 

(ETA). LSC set out three issues for 

comment: 

A. Implementing the new estimates 

for the distribution of grants beginning 

in January 2016. 

B. Phasing in the changes by 

providing intermediate funding halfway 

between the old and new levels for 2016 

and fully implementing the new levels 

for 2017. 

C. Obtaining updated estimates every 

three years for recalculation on the same 

statutory cycle as LSC obtains updated 

poverty-population data from the U.S. 

Census Bureau for the distribution of 

LSC’s Basic Field Programs 

appropriation. 

Based on the eleven comments 

received in response to the notice, LSC 

identified three issues for additional 

public comment. 

1. LSC is providing increased access 

to the original source data and 

methodology used by ETA, and LSC 

seeks comments on ETA’s methodology 

and data. 

2. LSC seeks comments on a new 

proposal for estimating the number of 

aliens within the agricultural worker 

population who are eligible for services 

from LSC grantees pursuant to 45 CFR 

1626.4, based on sexual abuse, domestic 

violence, trafficking, or other abusive or 

criminal activities. 

3. LSC will accept submission of 

available and reliable state- or regionspecific, data-based estimates of the 

population of agricultural workers 

eligible for LSC-funded services to 

augment the ETA estimates in 

individual states or regions—LSC will 

accept such estimates only if they 

include the data and methodologies 

used, including authorship and other 

relevant information. 

Individuals and organizations can 

submit materials regarding these three 

topics to LSC at the address noted above 

before the specified deadline. 

LSC has posted on www.lsc.gov the 

original notice, the original ETA report, 

LSC’s memo regarding this issue, the 

comments received, and this notice with 

all referenced tables and appendices. 

www.lsc.gov/ag-worker-data. 

II. Background 

On January 21, 2015, LSC 

Management issued the LSC 

Agricultural Worker Population 

Estimate Update—LSC Management 

Report to the LSC Board of Directors 

(LSC Management Report) providing a 

detailed background and discussion of 

the need for new population estimates 

to inform LSC’s decisions about grant 

funding for legal services to agricultural 

workers. www.lsc.gov/ag-worker-data 

(updated January 30, 2015 version of the 

report). 

Briefly summarized, Congress 

annually appropriates funds to LSC for 

supporting legal services for eligible 

clients through grants to ‘‘Basic Field 

Programs’’ in each state, territory, and 

the District of Columbia on a per-capita 

basis using poverty-population data 

from the U.S. Census Bureau. Public 

Law 104–134, tit. V, Sec. 501(a), 110 

Stat. 1321, 1321–50 (1996), as amended 

by Public Law 113–6, div. B, tit. IV, 127 

Stat. 198, 268 (2013) (LSC funding 

formula adopted in 1996, incorporated 

by reference in LSC’s appropriations 

thereafter, and amended in 2013). LSC 

divides the total per-capita funding for 

the area into one category for ‘‘Basic 

Field—General’’ grants and another 

category for ‘‘Basic Field—Migrant’’ 

grants (Migrant Grants) to serve the 

‘‘special difficulties of access to legal 

services or special legal problems’’ of 

agricultural workers. 42 U.S.C. 2996f(h) 

(LSC Act requirement that LSC address 

such issues for farmworkers). LSC 

determines where to provide Migrant 

Grants and how much of the Basic Field 

Programs appropriation to allocate to 

each Migrant Grant based on the 

agricultural worker population of that 

area. 

The U.S. Census Bureau does not 

estimate populations of migrant workers 

or agricultural workers. For Migrant 

Grants, LSC has been using information 

based on historical estimates dating 

back to 1990. Furthermore, those 

estimates include only migrant workers 

and do not count the entire population 

of agricultural workers—migrants and 

non-migrants—that LSC expects 

grantees to serve with Migrant Grants. 

Unlike the U.S. Census Bureau, ETA 

collects data and provides estimates of 

the agricultural-worker population for 

federal grants serving the needs of the 

agricultural workers in the U.S. LSC 

contracted with ETA to obtain better 

and more current estimates of the size 

and distribution of the population of 

agricultural workers and their 

dependents who are eligible for services 

provided by LSC grantees, and who 

have incomes below the poverty line 

(the benchmark used by the U.S. Census 

Bureau for defining the poverty 

population that LSC uses for 

distribution of the Basic Field Programs 

appropriation). ETA provided LSC with 

these estimates, including state-by-state 

breakdowns. 

The LSC Management Report 

described the need for special legal 

services grants to serve agricultural 

workers and their dependents, how LSC 

funds those legal services, and the need 

to update population estimates for those 

grants. LSC also provided the new 

national and state-by-state estimates of 

the agricultural worker population 

eligible for LSC services as provided by 

ETA. 

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On February 3, 2015, LSC published 

a notice in the Federal Register at 80 FR 

5791 seeking comments on: 

A. Using the new estimates for 

distribution of Migrant Grants beginning 

in January 2016; 

B. phasing in the funding changes to 

provide intermediate funding halfway 

between the old and new levels for 2016 

and to fully implement the new levels 

for 2017; and 

C. obtaining and implementing new 

estimates every three years on the same 

cycle as LSC obtains and implements 

new poverty-population data for LSC’s 

Basic Field—General grants. 

III. Analysis of Comments Received 

LSC received eleven comments from 

eight organizations and three 

individuals. The National Legal Aid and 

Defender Association (NLADA) 

submitted two comments—one from the 

NLADA Civil Policy Group and one 

from the NLADA Farmworker Section. 

The American Bar Association 

commented through its Standing 

Committee of Legal Aid and Indigent 

Defense. Six LSC grantees submitted 

comments: (1) Georgia Legal Services, 

(2) Iowa Legal Aid, (3) the Michigan 

Advocacy Program (Legal Services of 

South Central Michigan and 

Farmworker Legal Services), (4) 

Southern Minnesota Regional Legal 

Services, (5) Legal Aid of Nebraska, and 

(6) Legal Action of Wisconsin. Three 

individuals submitted comments. 

Generally, the comments supported 

using better estimates for distributing 

funds for these grants. This section 

summarizes the comments and 

identifies three issues about which LSC 

now seeks further comment. LSC does 

not seek comment on any of the other 

issues in the original notice or 

comments. 

A. The Need for Specialized Services 

and Separate Grants To Support Legal 

Services for Agricultural Workers 

The comments all affirmed the need 

for specialized services to agricultural 

workers and dependents, and endorsed 

continuing to separate funds for grants 

for those specialized services out of the 

Basic Field Programs appropriation. 

These comments agreed with LSC’s 

determination that due to a variety of 

factors—including social, cultural, and 

geographic isolation and the unique 

body of laws governing agricultural 

employment—eligible agricultural 

workers and their families have special 

legal problems and difficulties accessing 

civil legal services that are different 

from those faced by the general 

population of eligible clients. Thus, 

consistent with the LSC Act’s 

requirement to address such issues, LSC 

should provide separate Migrant Grants. 

B. More Current Estimates of the 

Population of Agricultural Workers 

The comments supported LSC’s 

proposal to obtain and use more current 

estimates of the size of the agricultural 

worker population within each state. 

C. Updating the Definition of 

Agricultural Workers 

Most comments supported LSC’s 

proposal to update its definition of 

eligible agricultural workers and 

dependents to include all crop workers 

(migrant, seasonal, and otherwise), 

livestock workers, and forestry workers. 

One LSC grantee recommended 

limiting the parameters to people who 

perform agricultural work as migrants 

and excluding non-migrant workers. 

One individual expressed concern about 

the impact of including livestock and 

forestry workers (or other nontraditional agricultural workers) in the 

national count of ‘‘agricultural 

workers.’’ That commenter argued that 

those other populations have less need 

for specialized legal services than 

people working in traditional handharvest labor. Furthermore, that 

commenter expressed concern that the 

inclusion of these workers would result 

in a shift in funding and service 

delivery from the ‘‘traditional 

farmworker states’’ to other states. 

LSC will include the previouslyproposed categories of livestock and 

forestry workers (and other non-migrant 

agricultural workers) in the new 

estimates as supported by many of the 

comments. LSC agrees that migrant 

workers and their dependents face 

particular challenges because of their 

geographic mobility and heightened 

social and cultural isolation. For the 

reasons set forth in the LSC 

Management Report, the legal needs of 

non-migrant agricultural workers are 

more similar to those of migrant 

agricultural workers than to those of 

non-agricultural workers and are most 

efficiently and effectively addressed by 

legal services providers with experience 

serving those unique needs. Thus, LSC 

can best serve the legal needs of all 

individuals eligible for LSC-funded 

services by allocating funds to the 

Migrant Grants for all agricultural 

workers rather than dividing the 

agricultural worker population between 

Migrant Grants and Basic Field— 

General grants. 

The comments expressing concerns 

that a modification in the definition of 

agricultural workers will alter the 

distribution of funds among the states 

are based on a misunderstanding 

regarding the allocation of funding to 

Migrant Grants. Changes in Migrant 

Grant funding in one state will not affect 

Migrant Grant funding in any other 

state. Rather, ‘‘funding for migrant legal 

services is based on the estimated size 

of the migrant poverty population in 

each geographic area . . . [and] the 

funding for this population is ‘backed 

out’ of the funding for the rest of [that] 

state’s poverty population.’’ LSC 

Management Report, 19 (emphasis 

added). Thus, increasing the 

agricultural-worker count for one State 

will have no effect on any LSC grants in 

any other state. 

Finally, some comments also 

suggested that LSC include off-farm fruit 

and vegetable canning workers in its 

definition of agricultural workers 

because those workers can face the same 

barriers to accessing civil legal 

assistance experienced by the 

agricultural workers currently included 

in LSC’s ‘‘agricultural worker’’ 

definition. The ETA expert panel 

recommended excluding those off-farm 

workers from the definition of 

agricultural workers because those 

workers are not subject to the special 

Fair Labor Standards Act rules that 

apply to the other categories of 

agricultural workers. See 29 CFR part 

780 (exemptions for agricultural work). 

Rather, those off-farm workers are 

subject to the same Fair Labor Standards 

Act rules as other non-agricultural U.S. 

workers. Furthermore, the Migrant and 

Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection 

Act does not apply to local workers 

employed in packing, processing, or 

canning operations. Therefore, LSC will 

not include off-farm fruit and vegetable 

canning workers in the ‘‘agricultural 

worker’’ definition. 

One individual commented that LSC 

should provide funds to serve both 

eligible and ineligible workers. LSC 

does not structure special-purpose 

grants to serve ineligible people. 

D. Methodological Issues 

Some comments questioned ETA’s 

methodology, source data, and the 

resulting estimates. As discussed in 

more detail in Section IV below (Areas 

for Further Public Input), these 

comments focused on (1) potential 

inaccuracies in ETA’s final state 

estimates based on the use of the 

National Agricultural Worker Survey 

(NAWS) and United States Department 

of Agriculture (USDA) National 

Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) 

regional ratios, (2) the lack of access to 

the source data and methodology used 

by ETA, and (3) the need for 

adjustments to the estimates for aliens 

eligible for LSC-grantee services based 

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on sexual abuse, domestic violence, 

trafficking, or other abusive or criminal 

activities. 45 CFR 1626.4—Aliens 

eligible for assistance under anti-abuse 

laws. LSC will address these concerns 

through the information provided in 

this notice for additional comment. 

Some comments also asked if the 

count of eligible dependents of 

farmworkers excluded as 

‘‘unauthorized’’ aliens who are spouses, 

parents, or (in some cases) children of 

U.S. citizens and who are beneficiaries 

of pending I–130 petitions for 

permanent residence. LSC grantees can 

serve those individuals under 45 CFR 

1626.5(b). ETA reported that the NAWS 

survey instrument is designed to 

identify individuals with pending I–130 

petitions, so that those individuals were 

included in the eligible population 

estimate. 

E. Implementation of New Estimates 

All comments endorsed a phase-in 

approach, while many suggested a delay 

to allow grantees (both farmworker and 

basic field grant recipients) time to 

implement appropriate delivery changes 

based on new estimates. LSC’s decision 

to publish this notice seeking additional 

comment has moved implementation to 

January 2017. LSC will phase in funding 

changes so that one-half of the transition 

occurs in 2017 and the full changes 

occur in 2018. 

All comments supported LSC’s 

proposal to update the estimates at 

regular intervals. These comments 

agreed with LSC that updating those 

estimates on a more regular basis would 

cause less disruption for recipients in 

the future. 

A number of comments, however, 

questioned whether LSC’s proposal to 

update these estimates in three-year 

intervals would be sufficiently regular 

enough to account for rapid changes in 

agricultural worker populations. 

Furthermore, comments requested that 

LSC accept additional public comment 

once more information is known about 

the impact of the Census Bureau’s 

recent announcement concerning 

discontinuing the so-called ‘‘three-year 

estimates’’ produced in conjunction 

with the American Community Survey. 

LSC will adopt the proposed triennial 

adjustment because Congress mandates 

that LSC obtain updated povertypopulation data from the Census Bureau 

every three years for redistribution of 

the Basic Field Program appropriation. 

Public Law 104–134, tit. V, 501(a)(2)(A), 

110 Stat. 1321, 1321–51 (1996), as 

amended by Public Law 113–6, div. B, 

tit. IV, 127 Stat. 198, 268 (2013) (LSC 

funding formula adopted in the 1996 

LSC appropriation, incorporated by 

reference in LSC’s appropriations 

thereafter, and amended in the 2013 

LSC appropriation). LSC grantees can 

budget and plan service delivery better 

if LSC makes one adjustment to the 

distribution of grant funds every three 

years that includes both (1) the national 

distribution among states and territories 

and (2) the local distribution within 

each state or territory between 

farmworker grants and general-purpose 

grants. 

IV. Areas for Further Public Input 

LSC has identified three additional 

areas for public comment. 

A. LSC Is Providing Increased Access to 

the Original Source Data and 

Methodology Used by ETA, and LSC 

Seeks Comments on ETA’s Methodology 

and Data 

Some comments maintained that they 

could not evaluate the validity of the 

ETA estimates because they did not 

have all the necessary information about 

the methodologies and data used to 

develop those estimates. LSC has 

provided greater access to the data and 

methodology used by ETA by producing 

the following additional tables. All 

tables are published at www.lsc.gov/agworker-data. 

Table I—Updated Estimates of the Size 

and Geographic Distribution of the LSCEligible Agricultural Worker Population 

and the Sources and Calculations Used 

To Develop Those Estimates 

Table I is a forty-three-column table 

that provides updated estimates of the 

LSC-Eligible Agricultural Worker 

Population for each state, for each 

region, and nationally and identifies all 

of the data sources, methods and 

calculations on which the updated 

agricultural working population 

estimates are based. 

Table II—National and State Estimates 

of the LSC-Eligible Agricultural Worker 

Population—Summary Table 

Table II is an abbreviated version of 

Table I. This fifteen-column table 

provides the updated estimates of the 

LSC-Eligible Agricultural Worker 

Population for each state, for each 

region, and nationally and identifies the 

most significant steps in the estimation 

formula on which the updated 

agricultural working population 

estimates are based. 

Table III—Percentages of Agricultural 

Workers by National Agricultural 

Worker Survey (NAWS) Region and 

State Who Are Authorized and in 

Poverty 

Table III is a five-column table that 

identifies for each state, for each region, 

and nationally: (1) The percentage of 

agricultural workers in poverty, (2) the 

percentage of farmworkers that are U.S. 

citizens or authorized aliens, and (3) the 

percentage of farmworkers that are in 

both categories. 

Table IV—Average Numbers of 

Dependents per Farmworker by 

National Agricultural Worker Survey 

(NAWS) Region and State 

Table IV is a five-column table that 

identifies for each state, for each region, 

and nationally the percentage of 

agricultural worker dependents who are: 

(1) In poverty, (2) U.S. citizens or 

authorized aliens, and (3) in both 

categories. 

Table V—Number and Percentage of 

LSC-Eligible Agricultural Workers in 

Each State Who Are Crop, Livestock, 

and Forestry Workers 

Table V is a nine-column table that 

identifies for each state, for each region, 

and nationally the percentage and 

number of agricultural workers who are 

eligible (i.e., in poverty and either U.S. 

citizens or authorized aliens) and who 

are crop, livestock, or forestry workers. 

Table VI—Number of Unauthorized and 

Below-Poverty Farmworkers Eligible for 

LSC-Funded Services Pursuant to AntiAbuse Provisions of 45 CFR 1626.4(3) 

Table VI is a twelve-column table that 

identifies each for state, for each region, 

and nationally the number of 

unauthorized and below-poverty 

agricultural workers eligible for LSCfunded services pursuant to the AntiAbuse provisions of 45 CFR 1626.4. 

Table VII—LSC-Eligible Agricultural 

Worker Population by State: 

Comparison of Current Population 

Estimates and Updated January 2016 

Department of Labor, Employment and 

Training Administration (ETA) 

Estimates 

Table VII is a seven-column table that 

provides for each state and nationally 

the estimated migrant population 

currently used to allocate LSC funding 

and the updated estimated agricultural 

worker population. 

Because of NAWS survey data 

confidentiality issues, not all survey 

data can be published. Persons or 

entities needing access to the restricted 

NAWS data may seek approval to access 

the data in either (1) Washington, DC, at 

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the Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, or (2) in Burlingame, California, 

at the office of ETA’s NAWS contractor, 

JBS International. The request should be 

submitted in writing to Mr. Daniel 

Carroll at ETA—carroll.daniel.j@

dol.gov—and identify the need for the 

NAWS information for commenting on 

this LSC proposal and explain why the 

NAWS public data file does not provide 

sufficient information. 

B. LSC Seeks Comments on a New 

Proposal for Estimating the Number of 

Aliens Within the Agricultural Worker 

Population Who Are Eligible for 

Services From LSC Grantees Pursuant to 

45 CFR 1626.4, Based on Sexual Abuse, 

Domestic Violence, Trafficking, or Other 

Abusive or Criminal Activities 

Several comments questioned the 

potential exclusion in the published 

estimates of certain non-U.S. citizen 

‘‘unauthorized’’ farmworkers who could 

be LSC eligible pursuant to specific antiabuse statutes, as provided in 45 CFR 

1626.4. LSC separates Basic Field 

Programs funds into Basic Field— 

General Grants and Migrant Grants in 

order to make LSC funds available 

through grantees that are best equipped 

to serve the needs of different parts of 

the population of LSC-eligible clients. 

LSC therefore needs to use the best 

available information to estimate those 

populations and direct funds 

accordingly. Notably, these estimates do 

not affect the eligibility of any 

applicants for services; the numbers are 

used only for distribution of funding. 

It is widely recognized by experts in 

the field that significant numbers of 

non-U.S. citizen farmworkers without 

work authorization are already subject 

to the abusive or criminal activities that 

would qualify them for LSC grantees’ 

services pursuant to § 1626.4. However, 

the lack of data on this population 

precluded ETA from developing a 

national number to estimate this 

population. As a result, the published 

estimates implicitly assume that no 

unauthorized farmworkers are eligible 

for LSC-funded services. 

This implicit assumption is 

inconsistent with statutes that explicitly 

authorize representation of 

unauthorized individuals who have 

been subject to abuse, sexual assault, 

trafficking, or certain other crimes and 

both public and private data that 

demonstrate that significant numbers of 

farmworkers are subject to such crimes 

and therefore eligible for LSC-funded 

services based on the provisions of 45 

CFR 1626.4. In response to these 

concerns, LSC has identified and 

assessed available sources regarding the 

extent of these crimes against 

farmworkers and developed a 

methodology to estimate the size of the 

farmworker population that would be 

eligible for LSC grantees’ services based 

on the provisions of § 1626.4. See 

Appendix A—Estimate of the 

Population of Agricultural Workers 

Eligible for LSC-Funded Services 

Pursuant to 45 CFR 1626.4—Anti-Abuse 

Law. LSC seeks feedback on the 

methodology and results produced by 

this methodology. 

C. LSC Will Accept Submission of 

Available and Reliable State- or RegionSpecific Estimates of the Population of 

Agricultural Workers Eligible for LSCFunded Services To Augment the ETA 

Estimates in Individual States or 

Regions—LSC Will Accept Such 

Estimates Only if They Include the Data 

and Methodologies Used, Including 

Authorship and Other Relevant 

Information 

Some comments raised concerns 

about the source data and the 

methodology used by ETA. In 

particular, concerns were raised about 

the types of state groupings used for 

distribution of the estimated population 

among the states, leading to 

understatements of the number of LSCeligible farmworkers in particular states. 

Specifically, comments stated that 

differences affecting agricultural 

workforces within a NAWS/NASS 

region produced inaccurate estimates 

for states within that region. Comments 

expressed the concern that states 

grouped together by geographic 

proximity did not share similarities in 

commodities or farmworker workforces. 

These comments also identified 

potential sources of more detailed 

estimates within specific states or 

regions. 

LSC investigated the possibility of 

ETA’s developing alternative estimates 

of the LSC-eligible population by 

reconfiguring the NAWS/NASS regions, 

but ETA determined that doing so is not 

feasible. 

Although the NAWS/NASS regions 

produce the best available nationwide 

and regional population estimates, LSC 

understands that the NAWS/NASS 

regions might not account for unique, 

state-specific factors that could be 

relevant to delivery of these legal 

services in some states. Therefore, LSC 

requests submission of available and 

reliable state- or region-specific 

estimates of the population of 

agricultural workers eligible for LSCfunded services to augment the ETA 

estimates in individual states or regions. 

We underscore that the estimates must 

include both the source data (and data 

description) and a detailed summary of 

the research methodology employed to 

derive the estimates. The information 

should also identify all authors and any 

relevant citations or references to those 

estimates or to materials relied upon by 

those estimates. Please note that LSC 

uses the 100%-of-poverty threshold for 

population estimates. After the close of 

the comment period, LSC will publish 

on www.lsc.gov all actual, potentially 

reliable estimates submitted and related 

information. LSC will also publish a 

notice in the Federal Register regarding 

the availability of the estimates and 

providing a comment period. 

Dated: February 1, 2016. 

Stefanie K. Davis, 

Assistant General Counsel. 

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