Final 1995 Wagner-Peyser basic labor exchange allotments

Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 9-94

Issue date: April 21, 1995
Classification: ES
Correspondence symbol: TEESS
Expiration date: Continuing

TO: All State JTPA Liaisons; All State Worker Adjustment Liaisons; All State Employment Security Agencies

FROM: Barbara Ann Farmer, Administrator for Regional Management

SUBJECT: Final Planning Allotments for Program Year (PY) 1995 Basic Labor Exchange Activities

Purpose. To announce final planning allotments for PY 1995 basic labor exchange activities, required by Section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended.

References. The Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended (P.L. 97-300); 20 CFR 652; TEGL No. 4-94.

Background. The Secretary of Labor is issuing final planning allotments for each State's share of PY 1995 funds for basic labor exchange activities. These allotments (Attachment I) are based on the FY 1995 appropriation of $845,912,000 and are distributed by the statutory formula described in Section 6 of the Act. The allotments are also being published in the Federal Register. The data used are Calendar Year 1994 averages of civilian labor force (CLF) and number of unemployed individuals.

Section 6(b)(4) of the Act authorizes the Secretary of Labor to reserve up to 3 percent of the total fund availability to assure that each State will have sufficient resources to maintain statewide employment service (ES) activities. The set-aside for distribution through an administrative formula for PY 1995 is $24,791,040. The 3 percent distribution is included in the total final allotment. The set-aside was distributed in two steps to States whose relative share of resources declined from the previous year. In Step 1, those States with a CLF below one million and that are also below the median CLF density were held harmless at 100 percent of their prior year relative share of resources. The remainder was distributed in Step 2 in pro rata shares to all other States that lost in relative share from the prior year but did not meet the size and density criteria for Step 1.

Differences between preliminary and final planning estimates are caused by the use of Calendar Year data as opposed to the earlier data used for preliminary planning estimates and postage savings related to U.S. Postal Service changes in methodology of calculating charges and improved mail management practices. Postage costs incurred by States during the conduct of ES activities are billed directly to the Department of Labor by the U.S. Postal Service. The States' final allotments do not include $19,544,000 of the total amount available, which is withheld for the payment of the States' ES penalty mail costs.

Action. State planning activities are to be guided by the process described in the Wagner-Peyser Act, Federal Regulations at 20 CFR Part 652, and planning guidance provided by ETA Regional Offices.

Attachment I: Final planning allotments

ETA's archived letter names the attachment but does not link it. The identical final allotments appear in ETA's Federal Register notice, 60 FR 19961–19963, published April 21, 1995. The breakdown below reproduces the notice's page 19963; its page 19962 repeats the total allotment column. Figures are dollars. Both page images were checked on October 27, 2026.

* Step 1 funds are allocated to the 13 states whose relative share decreased from PY 1994 to the PY 1995 basic formula amount and which have a civilian labor force below one million and are below the median civilian labor force density. Those states are held harmless at 100 percent of their PY 1994 relative share.

** The balance of the 3 percent funds is distributed to the remaining 27 states losing in relative share from PY 1994 to their PY 1995 total allotment amount.