To transmit a Guide developed to assist in the administration of JTPA performance standards for Program Years (PYs) 1996 and 1997. This Guide supersedes the "Guide to JTPA Performance Standards for Program Years 1994 and 1995", which is now obsolete.

To provide copies of an Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) notice which will implement a demonstration program for Older Workers.

To announce the publication and distribution of the "Casebook of Private Sector Summer Youth Employment Programs" and the "Summer Employment Resource Guide: Involving the Private Sector."

To transmit the directory of Federal and military agencies that have requested detailed UCFE or UCX benefit payment data which supports the Department of Labor quarterly unemployment compensation billings.

To restate a Departmental interpretation of a Federal law exclusion from unemployment compensation (UC) coverage for governmental services performed in case of emergency and to provide the Department's position on the distinction between emergencies and disasters.

To promulgate the subject procedures.

To promulgate the subject procedures.

To announce a policy of acceptance of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) eligibility determinations of persons age 55 or better for SCSEP purposes when there is a joint JTPA-SCSEP agreement.

To issue revisions to the Federal Poverty Income guidelines.

To announce the request for applications from States for the Workforce Flexibility (Work-Flex) Partnership Demonstration Program.

To transmit guidance for the development and submission of a request for waiver of JTPA and Wagner-Peyser Act general statutory/regulatory provisions.

To notify the States of the availability of the Quality Improvement Resource Guide.

To announce plans for training seminars for SESA nonmonetary determination staff.

Purpose. To provide grantees with revised planning figures for JTPA title II-B (Summer Youth) funds for CY 1997.

To provide information on the recently announced Federal welfare to work hiring initiative and its potential impact on ETA funded agencies and programs.

To request your nomination for expiring memberships on the Council.

To inform States that Regional Offices will receive and process all non-SPIR reports beginning with reports for the quarter ending March 31, 1997.

To announce the National One-Stop Conference, to be held May 13 - 15, 1997, in Los Angeles, California, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.

To inform Indian and Native American grantees of the reallocation policy for the JTPA, section 401 program.

To provide grantees with revised planning figures necessitated by completion of Program Years (PYs) 1997-98 designation actions.