This guidance provides states with revised allotment levels for WIOA Adult and Dislocated Worker FY 2017 funds, which became available to states in October 2016. Change 1 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 17-15 indicated a 0.496 percent reduction to funding available to states on October 2016. Change 2 amended the reduction amount to 0.1901 percent. Change 3 fully restores funding to the originally appropriated levels.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides current SCSEP state, territorial, and national grantees with the application instructions, allocations, and the process and procedures for the PY 2017 grant submission.

To provide instructions for National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) grantees for preparing and submitting program plans for Program Year (PY) 2017, establishing PY 2017 performance goals, and to convey the grant fund allocations for the program year.

To provide states and outlying areas with FY 2004 Congressional Rescissions for WIA Adults and Dislocated Workers; WIA Title I Adults and Dislocated Workers and Youth Activities allotments for PY 2004; additional PY 2004 Dislocated Worker National Emergency Reserve funds for eligible states; final allotments for PY 2004 Employment Service (ES) activities, as required by Section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; and Work Opportunity Tax Credit and Welfare-to-Work (W-t-W) Tax Credit allotments for FY 2004.

To revise TEGL 23-16 and provide "final" PY 2017 funding allocations for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Section 166, Indian and Native American (INA) Program, Comprehensive Services (CS) and Supplemental Youth Services (SYS) programs.

To transmit updated economic data for use with performance standards model adjustment worksheets for Program Years (PY) 1998 and 1999 pertaining to the JTPA Titles II-A, II-C, III, and Section 204 (d).

To assist State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as "states") by identifying the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Initial Allocation amounts to states and describing the formula methodology the Department of Labor (Department) uses to calculate these amounts; and to describe the process for states to request Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program reserve funds for Training and Other Activities (TaOA), which includes training, employment and case management services, job search allowances, relocation allowances, and related state administration.

To provide further clarification of the Employment and Training Administration's (ETA) definition of the term credential for national YouthBuild program grantees as well as additional guidance on commonly used construction credentials for YouthBuild participants.

To provide the States information on the availability of Title III Demonstration Funds for Incumbent Worker System Building at the State level for Program Year 1998.

To provide updated guidance to Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) grantees on applying the Selective Service registration requirement and to rescind TEIN No. 20-94.