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Revised 2017 workforce information grant deadlines
Summary ETA corrected six due dates for 2017 Workforce Labor Market Information Grants to States, including June 30, 2018 for the Workforce Information Database and October 1, 2018 for the annual report. State grant administrators were asked to use the revised dates in the letter and its updated attachment. ETA now lists this change as Canceled.
Document
Federal guidance
Agency
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
Document number
TEGL No. 4-17, Change 1
Date issued
December 22, 2017
Status
Withdrawn
ETA lists this advisory Canceled as of 2026-10-24, although its PDF prints Expiration Date: Continuing.
Status last verified October 24, 2026
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CLASSIFICATION
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION Workforce Information
ADVISORY SYSTEM CORRESPONDENCE SYMBOL
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR DNPTTA/Workforce Information
Washington, D.C. 20210 DATE
December 22, 2017
ADVISORY: TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT GUIDANCE LETTER NO. 4-17,
Change 1
TO: STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES
STATE WORKFORCE ADMINISTRATORS
STATE LABOR COMMISSIONERS
STATE AND LOCAL WORKFORCE BOARD CHAIRS AND DIRECTORS
STATE WORKFORCE LIAISONS
STATE LABOR MARKET INFORMATION, WORKFORCE
INFORMATION, OR RESEARCH DIRECTORS
FROM: ROSEMARY LAHASKY /s/
Deputy Assistant Secretary
SUBJECT: Change 1 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 4-17 Program
Year (PY) 2017 Workforce Labor Market Information Grants to States
(WIGS): Policy and Program Guidance, and Revised due Dates for Deliverables
1. Purpose. To revise the due dates specified for the Statewide long-term projections, the
Workforce Information Database (WIDb), and the WIGS 2017 Statewide Economic and
Annual Report in both the TEGL and Attachment 1. The references to the due dates for these
deliverables are corrected as follows:
1. The Statewide long-term projections due date is corrected by replacing “No 10-year
Projections are due in 2018” with “10-year Projections are due one week following June
29, 2018” (TEGL, pg. 4);
2. The Workforce Information Database (WIDb) due date is corrected by replacing
“January 8, 2018” with “June 30, 2018” (TEGL, pg. 4);
3. The (WIGS) 2017 Statewide Economic and Annual Report due date is corrected by
replacing “September 30, 2018” with “October 1, 2018” (TEGL, pg. 5);
4. The Workforce Information Database (WIDb) due date is corrected by replacing “Within
180 days from the release of a new database version” with “June 30, 2018” (Attachment
1, pg. 3);
5. The Statewide long-term industry and occupational projections (10-year projections) due
date is corrected by replacing “One week following June 30, 2017” with “One week
following June 29, 2018” (Attachment 1, pg. 3); and
6. The Annual and Economic Analysis Report due date is corrected by replacing
“September 30, 2018” with “October 1, 2018” (Attachment 1, pg. 4).
RESCISSIONS EXPIRATION DATE
None Continuing
2. Background. TEGL 4-17 was published on September 22, 2017, and specified due dates for
a number of deliverables under the WIGS projects. However, the TEGL specified incorrect
due dates for the deliverables described above. This Change 1 provides the correct due dates.
3. Action Requested. State Administrators are requested to adhere to the revised due dates for
the deliverables specified above.
4. Inquiries. Please direct all inquiries to the appropriate Regional Office.
5. Attachment.
Attachment I - Consolidated Requirements for WIGS Grantees, Revised for TEGL 4-17
Change 1
Attachment (official PDF: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/advisories/TEGL/2017/TEGL_4-17_Change_1_Attachment_1.pdf)
Attachment 1. Consolidated Requirements for WIGS Grantees, Revised for TEGL 4-17
Change 1
The following table summarizes the deliverables and requirements in column 1 (the body of the
TEGL explains these in full). Columns 2 and 3 contain important administrative details that have
not been included in the body of the TEGL, which focuses on policy. Brackets are used in the
table to indicate activities that are not required.
Deliverables and Requirements Due Dates Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements
RECORDKEEPING AND REPORTING
SF 424 (Application for Federal Assistance) at The SF 424 was • States must submit the
https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms/sample/SF424- required to be SF 424 to
V2.0.pdf All sections of the form must be completed. submitted to www.Grants.gov.
Grants.gov by
Instructions for the 424 and forms are at July 14, 2017. States must submit
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/form- an original and one
instructions.html. copy of the SF 424
that was submitted
through Grants.gov.
If a state believes it is necessary to revise their
expenditure plan due to unforeseen factors, the state
may petition the regional office for approval to modify
the plan.
Sample completed SF 424 forms may be
obtained from the applicable ETA regional
office.
ETA Form 9130 quarterly financial reports. All Within 45 days November 14,
sections of the form must be completed. after the end of 2017
each quarter February 14,
May 15, 2018
August 14, 2018
Deliverables and Requirements Due Dates Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements
Annual Performance Report. The report must October 1, 2018 This report must be
include hyperlinks to all published products, and major submitted to the
unpublished products must be attached. It must also appropriate ETA regional
summarize all activities, including the following. office in a Section 508-
• Describe all deliverables, highlighting new compliant accessible PDF
accomplishments and noting whether partnerships for posting online on
or collaborations were involved. www.doleta.gov
• The required customer consultations (see below) Unless a product referred
regarding products and services, including the to is a Web site, all
customer needs identified. If customers identified Internet links in the
needed improvements, state the responsive document must lead
measures taken. directly to the product, not
• Partnership and collaborative efforts, including to a Web site that includes
activities to leverage grant funding and new the product. A cover
activities. letter signed by the State
• Recommendations to ETA for changes and LMI Director (or the LMI
improvements. Director’s designee or
State Workforce Agency
Director) needs to be sent
with this report.
See general product and
publication requirements.
PRODUCT AND PUBLICATION
REQUIREMENTS
Product Requirements (general) Ongoing All products must include
• Provide accurate and actionable information that the date of issuance or
enables informed decisions by customers, and revision, and an
supports the development of data-driven strategies acknowledgement that the
and policies. product was produced
• Produce products benefitting the governor, state either in whole or in part
legislature, state and local WDBs, relevant with Department of
stakeholders, and the public. Labor-funded WIGS.
• ETA encourages grantees to notify their regional Documents must be
office when products are posted on the Internet. formatted to permit parts
to be copied (including
specific words), e.g., a MS
Word document or
accessible .pdf formatting
enabling such copying.
Deliverables and Requirements Due Dates Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements
Publication Requirements (general). States must Within a States must include links
post all grant-funded products, reports, and workforce reasonable to all WIGS-funded
information on the Internet in a manner accessible to period after the published material on
all members of the public (unless otherwise indicated), completion of their LMI Web site, and
and comply with Rehabilitation Act Section 508 the work present it in a manner that
requirements. makes it easy for the
public to find this
material.
Workforce Information Database (WIDb). June 30, 2018 Implemented in the
Implement and maintain the most current version (now manner specified by the
2.7) of the WIDb and populate all designated core ARC. [States should
tables in accordance with Analyst Resource Center inform their regional
(ARC) guidelines (required data elements are listed at office if they use
http://www.widcenter.org/). supplemental or non-
standard WIDb tables.]
Occupational licensing information: states must At least every 2 States must submit data in
populate the database with the license.dbf and years the manner specified by
licauth.dbf licensing files. ARC.
Employment Projections (general) Ongoing State must provide links to
all published projections
on a single Web page.
Unpublished projections
products must be provided
to the ETA regional office
(to confirm that the
deliverable was
completed).
Statewide long-term industry and occupational One week File must be provided to
projections following June PMP in a manner to be
• 10-year projections 29, 2018 for the specified by the PMP
2016-2026
projections.
Statewide short-term industry and occupational One Week File must be provided to
projections following PMP in a manner to be
• 2-year projections February 28, specified by the PMP
2018.
Sub-state long-term industry and occupational No Sub-state 10 No Sub-state 10 Year
projections Year Projections Projections this year
• 10-year projections this year
Sub-state short-term industry and occupational NA If submitted, the file must
projections be provided to PMP in a
• [Optional: allowable and encouraged, but not manner to be specified by
required, activity] the PMP.
Deliverables and Requirements Due Dates Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements
Annual and Economic Analysis Report (or substitute October 1, 2018 • Unless a product
as explained in the body of the TEGL). The referred to is a Web
information must be based on needs identified through site, all Internet links
customer consultations; must come from multiple, in the document must
credible sources; and must be clearly referenced and/or lead directly to the
footnoted. product, not to a Web
site that includes the
product.
• See general product
and publication
requirements
Other Published Reports. The information must be Within 90 Must be formatted in a
based on needs identified through customer calendar days manner to permit parts of
consultations; must come from multiple, credible following the it to be copied (including
sources; and must be clearly referenced and/or end of the specific words), e.g., a MS
footnoted. program year Word document or
accessible .pdf formatting
enabling such copying.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Consultations with customers about WLMI Ongoing
produced with grant funding.
• Customers consulted must include those specified
in the Wagner-Peyser Act §15(e)(2).
• ETA does not prescribe the consultation
methodology. Consultations must be documented
in the grantee’s internal files, and made available
upon request to ETA officials.
Data collection. All data collection activities must Ongoing
conform to the BLS technical standards and
methodologies. If this does not occur, the grantee must
document a defensible rationale for an alternative.
IT systems and applications. Any IT system or Ongoing
application developed with WIGS is to adhere to
industry-standard, open architecture principles with
documentation and software made available for use by
other organizations for Federal governmental purposes.
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