To provide policy clarification and procedural guidance for making prevailing wage determinations for nonagricultural immigration programs subsequent to the implementation of the wage component of the Occupational Employment Statistics program.

To transmit a checklist of current GALs.

To provide logistical, travel and other related information regarding Regional and State staff participation at the National WOTC/W-2-W Training Conference to be held November 18 - 20, 1997, in Kansas City, Missouri.

To promote the SCSEP partnership in the One-Stop Career Center System through support from ETA's Regional offices.

To announce the publication and distribution of a new Simply Better! technical assistance guide, Service by Design.

To provide information on publications containing findings that should be of interest to SCSEP sponsors and the broader workforce development community serving mature, experienced workers.

To transmit the subject computation for State Employment Security Agency (SESA) usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the first quarter of FY 1998.

To invite the participation of workforce development professionals in the employment and training community to attend one of three multi-regional conferences dealing with the employment and training of mature and experienced workers.

To announce three conferences to be held in November dealing with employment, training and placement of mature, experienced workers; and to invite the participation of workforce development professionals in the employment and training community in those c

To alert all SCSEP sponsors to the "Search for America's Oldest Worker." We at the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA) are happy to be collaborating with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administratio

To provide State Employment Security Agencies with the specifications for ADP tasks required to achieve year-2000 compliance for the UI BAM program and to enable the BAM program to include samples of denied claims for unemployment compensation in order to determine if the claims were properly denied.

To transmit information and policy recommendations to State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) that may assist them to improve the quality of reemployment services delivered by Wagner-Peyser service providers to profiled and referred UI claimants.

To announce the extension of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval of Form ETA 581, Contribution Operations.

To advise that a copy of the Final Report, "Creating Workforce Development Systems That Work: An Evaluation of the Initial One-Stop Implementation Experience," is being sent under separate cover.

To advise the States of amendments made to Federal law by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 affecting the Federal-State Unemployment Compensation (UC) program.

To provide revised program guidance to State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) on the payment of TRA and subsistence and transportation allowances when a worker also receives Federal student financial assistance.

To announce JETT*CON '97 - Change, Challenge, Opportunity! (Joint Employment and Training Technology Conference) December 16-18, 1997, at the Sheraton Chicago, Illinois.

To provide information to State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) on the Risk Analysis Project Advanced Training.

To announce: a) the reauthorization of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Program under the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (P. L. 105-34), the Act, and provide information on the major changes in the program as a result of the new law; and, b) the new Welfare-to-Work Tax Credit authorized under the Act, which is to be administered in the same manner as the WOTC program.

To advise States of the decision of the United States Supreme Court (Court) overturning, with respect to State and local laws, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) and to rescind Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 28-94.