To give the status of UIDV implementation, announce the current planning target date for beginning implementation, invite States to participate in UIDV, and provide instructions for performing validation activities.

To advise states of the amendments to Federal law designed to prohibit "SUTA Dumping."

To further announce the establishment of the requirement that Employment and Training Administration (ETA) grantees, their sub-grantees, and selected ETA contractors use the official branding logo for America=s Workforce Network on their public materials. This Notice also provides the AWN Concept Paper, which outlines initial thinking on the national branding and marketing campaign and will serve as the basis for discussions among the partners regarding the development of said campaign.

To advise state workforce agencies (SWAs) of a new format for the Handbook for Interstate Overpayment Recovery and request submission of the states` updated sections concerning their overpayment recovery procedures and contact information.

To remind States of the Department of Labor's (Department's) interpretation of the "payment when due" requirement of Section 303(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as applied during a continued claim series, and to provide clarification concerning this interpretation.

To inform the state workforce investment system of the opportunity to apply for Secretary`s discretionary National Emergency Grant(NEG) funds, pursuant to the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Title I, Section 173, as amended, to provide employment-related assistance for members of the National Guard and Military Reserves who were required to interrupt or postpone employment-related assistance (including training funded by Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)) in order to fulfill requirements involving deployment to Iraq, Afghanistan or other locations.

To announce the schedule and locations of the FY 2001 BTQ Nonmonetary Determination Evaluation Training Seminars.

To provide revisions and clarifications to policy guidance previously issued to states and national program grantees concerning the Employment and Training Administration`s data validation policy, for the following programs: Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Title IB, Wagner-Peyser Act/Employment Service (ES), Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP), Indian and Native American (INA) Program and Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP).

To provide the Department's interpretation, under the Trade Act of 1974 and its implementing regulations, of the conditions under which distance training may be a type of training approvable as classroom training.

To inform the workforce investment system of additional changes to the ET406 Handbook not captured in Training and Employment Guidance Letter No.1-02,Change1.