To transmit guidance on the Secretary's required performance measures and the Secretary's implementing instructions for performance standards for Program Years (PY's) 1994 and 1995 (July 1, 1994-June 30, 1995; July 1, 1995-June 30, 1996).

To provide the State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) with operating guidance on how to interpret and apply the TRA qualifying requirement contained at 20 CFR 617.11 (a) (2) (iv) of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program regulations for the TAA and NAFTA-TAA programs.

Purpose. To provide preliminary planning and guidance for JTPA section 401 grantees for the remainder of Program Year (PY) 1995 activities in the absence of an enacted appropriation.

To solicit comments on the proposed system for enhancing UI operational performance.

To transmit the new expiration date for reporting requirements approved under Office of Management and Budget (OMB) No. 1205- 1207, burden hour estimates for completing petitions, and procedures for classifying Labor Surplus Areas.

To inform grantees of the subject data which will be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

To remind eligible grantees of the need to submit travel reimbursement requests for attendance at the subject conference.

To provide guidance on reporting of program performance status for JTPA Titles II-A and II-C, as amended.

To request your nomination for a vacant membership on the Council.

To remind grantees of the need to complete their PY 1994 Annual Status Reports for the JTPA title IV-A program and to encourage the correct use of the ASR edit check software.

To transmit instructions for submission of revised planning documents for title II-B Summer Youth and title IV-A JTPA programs, and to inform section 401 grantees of Departmental policy with regard to title II-B programs for the summer of 1996.

To inform the UI System of the Department's plans to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the UI Program.

To transmit the subject AWBA computation for State Employment Security Agency (SESA) usage in computing a weekly DUA amount for all major disasters declared during the fourth quarter of FY 1995.

To provide grantees with the PY 1996 Partnership Plan, Federal Representative assignments, and PY 1996 Technical Assistance and Training (TAT) Master Calendar.

To transmit information on statutory amendments to the Defense Conversion Adjustment (DCA) Program and Defense Diversification Program (DDP) under Title III of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA).

To transmit responses to outstanding questions from the 1994 National State Training Symposium held in San Francisco, California.

The purpose of this Bulletin is to advise JTPA Section 402 grantees of the decision to implement Standardized Participant Information Reporting (SPIR), and to transmit copies of the revised SPIR Data Record Format, the SPIR Data Record Instructions, and t

To publicize the local capacity-building conference to be held in St. Louis on August 14-16, 1995.

To provide grantees with the PY 1995 Partnership Plan, new Federal Representative assignments, and a Master Meeting Calendar.

To advise State about the implementation of the new provisions related to requests for waivers of State liability and requests to forego certain debt collection actions against a subrecipient under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA).