To inform State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (also jointly referred to as "States") of the assumptions used in determining the FY 2011 Training Cap; to inform States of the Department of Labor's (Department) decision to distribute 100 percent of these funds through this distribution; and to provide the funding formula used in calculating the Second Distribution of FY 2011 Training Funding Amounts, defined as the remainder of the 35 percent of fiscal year training funds that were held in reserve, as well as to the remainder of job search and relocation allowance funds that were not distributed to States in response to reserve requests received before July 1, 2011.

To provide a summary of selected ETA 581 data with associated charts and tables for CY 2010.

To provide information and procedural guidance to the state workforce agencies (SWAs) on legislative program extensions through December 31, 2011.

a. To provide preliminary FY 2012 dollar and staff year base resource planning targets for UI operations to be used in planning and developing State Quality Service Plans (SQSP); b. To provide general guidelines for FY 2012 resource planning; and c. To explain how base resources were allocated among states.

To announce the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Interstate Benefits and Federal Programs (IBFP) Training Conference scheduled to be held September 7-9, 2011, in St. Petersburg, Florida, and encourage state administrators to send their Interstate/Federal Program Coordinators and Interstate Connection (ICON) programmer(s) to the conference

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011.

To provide information to states regarding FY 2011 UI State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding, and SBRs.

To announce the release and availability of two ETA Occasional Papers on Mentoring, Educational, and Employment Strategies to Improve Academic, Social and Career Pathway Outcomes in Persistently Dangerous Schools prepared by Social Policy Research Associates, Inc. (SPRA).

To advise states that the ETA 203 report, “Characteristics of the Insured Unemployed,” should no longer be produced through statistical sampling.

To provide information on state flexibility in the designation and redesignation of local workforce investment areas.

To provide states the table of weights for use in calculating Program Year (PY) 2010 Workforce Investment Act customer satisfaction results (See Attachment A). This action will enable states to continue to fulfill statutorily required obligations to collect data and measure customer satisfaction.

. To announce the release and availability of the ETA Occasional Paper, Evaluation of the Career Advancement Accounts (CAA) Demonstration Project: An Implementation Study (Interim Report), prepared by Social Policy Research (SPR) Associates.

To initiate the process, provide supplemental instructions, and define additional requirements for the FY 2012 SQSP.

To transmit the third edition of ET Handbook No, 382, Handbook for Measuring Unemployment Insurance (UI) Lower Authority Appeals Quality.

To communicate expectations about integrity and transparency in decisions made by state and local workforce investment boards and officials, and requirements regarding conflict of interest.

To provide final PY 2011 funding allotments for the Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) and Comprehensive Service Program (CSP).

To provide information to all U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) funded YouthBuild programs about the Federal Selective Service requirement for male participants.

To transmit special procedures, updated to reflect regulatory and organization changes in the H-2A Program, for multi-state custom combine owners/operators (including Canadian) who apply to the Department of Labor (Department) to obtain labor certifications to hire temporary agricultural foreign workers as crew members to perform work in the United States.

To establish special procedures for itinerant commercial beekeeper employers who apply to the Department of Labor (Department) to obtain labor certifications to hire temporary agricultural foreign workers to perform work in the United States.

To transmit special procedures, as updated to reflect regulatory and administrative changes in the H-2A Program, for employers who apply to the Department of Labor (Department) to obtain labor certifications to hire temporary agricultural foreign workers to perform sheepherding and/or goatherding activities.