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ETA Advisory File Text

Attachment II FY 2023 Grant Allotments The funding authorized for foreign labor certification state grants in the Consolidated Appropriation Act 2023 was allocated to the SWAs as described below 1. Base Allocation 13 813 250 With limited exceptions a base allocation was allocated to each SWA commensurate with its base allocation for the previous fiscal year and the level of obligations made under its active foreign labor certification grants. The exceptions are comprised of SWAs meeting each of the following criteria a. the SWA processed an annual average of less than five clearance orders attached to H- 2A applications during the three most recently completed fiscal years FY 2020-2022 b. the SWA processed an annual average of less than five H-2B job orders during the three most recently completed fiscal years and c. an annual average of less than five housing units were identified on clearance orders attached to H-2A applications processed by the SWA during the three most recently completed fiscal years. In circumstances where a SWA s workload met all three of these aforementioned factors the SWA was allocated 5 000 to support the costs associated with processing this minimal level of foreign labor certification workload. The SWAs meeting these criteria were the District of Columbia Guam and the Virgin Islands. 2. Ongoing Workload Allocation 9 468 750 In addition to its base allocation each SWA except those meeting the criteria described above was allocated an additional ongoing allocation based on its share of the national foreign labor certification workload. Each SWA s additional ongoing allocation was determined in the following manner a. One-third of the additional allocation was based on each SWA s proportion of the estimated national H-2A housing inspection workload. This was defined as the total number of housing units identified on clearance orders attached to H-2A applications processed during the three most recently completed fiscal years FY 2020-2022 and located in the jurisdiction of the SWA divided by the total number of housing units identified on clearance orders attached to H-2A applications processed by all SWAs during the three most recently completed fiscal years. b. Two-thirds of the additional allocation was based on each SWA s share of the national workload associated with reviewing and posting H-2A and H-2B job orders during the three most recently completed fiscal years FY 2020 2022 . II-1 Seventy percent of this two-thirds amount was allocated based on each SWA s share of the total clearance orders attached to H-2A applications processed during the three most recently completed fiscal years FY 2020 2022 . For example if SWA 1 processed five percent of the total nationwide clearance orders attached to H-2A applications processed during the three most recently completed fiscal years then SWA 1 would receive five percent of the funding allocated on this basis. Because SWA reviews of clearance orders attached to H-2A applications have significantly more complex regulatory requirements than SWA reviews of H-2B job orders a higher percentage of the available resources were allocated on the basis of clearance orders attached to H-2A applications than on H-2B job orders. The remaining thirty percent of the two-thirds amount was allocated based on each SWA s share of the total H-2B job orders processed during the three most recently completed fiscal years FY 2020 2022 . For example if SWA 1 processed five percent of the total nationwide H-2B job orders processed during the three most recent fiscal years then SWA 1 would receive five percent of the funding allocated based on H-2B job orders. 3. Total Grant Allocation The combined total of each SWA s base allocation and ongoing workload allocation comprises the SWA s total FY 2023 grant award. 4. Data Sources The data sources used to support the funding allocations are available in the OFLC disclosure data published at www.dol.gov agencies eta foreign- labor performance. Housing unit data was derived from Form ETA-790A Addendum B. Data from the three most recently completed fiscal years was used for the workload factors to more accurately reflect long-term trends. II-2 FY 2023 Funding Level 23 282 000 The funding amount below must be indicated on the SF-424 and SF-424A for FY 2023 Total FY 2023 Grant Total 23 282 000 Alabama 198 879 Alaska 96 661 Arizona 341 198 Arkansas 333 026 California 2 186 241 CNMI 67 192 Colorado 488 338 Connecticut 296 022 Delaware 81 657 District of Columbia 5 000 Florida 1 179 451 Georgia 831 118 Guam 5 000 Hawaii 66 973 Idaho 731 842 Illinois 436 454 Indiana 192 915 Iowa 361 216 Kansas 237 017 Kentucky 723 053 Louisiana 730 663 Maine 367 961 Maryland 517 190 Massachusetts 381 000 Michigan 592 316 Minnesota 265 533 Mississippi 422 437 Missouri 266 293 Montana 451 055 Nebraska 225 991 Nevada 347 181 New Hampshire 89 738 New Jersey 508 649 New Mexico 114 960 New York 1 752 806 North Carolina 954 759 North Dakota 446 642 II-3 Total FY 2023 Grant Ohio 434 065 Oklahoma 179 214 Oregon 403 860 Pennsylvania 570 695 Puerto Rico 64 559 Rhode Island 85 431 South Carolina 339 281 South Dakota 250 589 Tennessee 435 478 Texas 978 916 Utah 296 895 Vermont 176 804 Virgin Islands 5 000 Virginia 565 203 Washington 664 713 West Virginia 62 958 Wisconsin 219 506 Wyoming 174 406 Online Wage Library 80 000 II-4