To provide state workforce agencies with guidance on improving the Trade Act programs.

TEGL No. 13-06, Change 1, has four purposes:

• To inform states that May 1, 2007, is the revised deadline for submission of modifications of their State Strategic Plans for Title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) and the Wagner-Peyser Act (“the State Plan”) for years three and four of the current five-year planning cycle;
  
  
• To announce an option for states with newly-elected governors to request an additional sixty days to submit their State Plan modifications;
  
  
• To announce an electronic mail address for states to submit inquiries regarding the planning process to the Employment and Training Administration; and
  
  
• To provide additional instructions to states for modifying their State Plans using the unified planning guidance issued on April 12, 2005.

To establish procedures for notifying the IRS and DOL in the event an Indian Tribe fails to make required payments under state UI law.

To transmit instructions for implementing the revised ETA-563 Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Quarterly Activities Report.

To answer questions related to the use of Reed Act funds that have arisen since the issuance of Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 18-01.

To provide states and outlying areas with WIA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities program allotments for Program Year (PY) 2007; final allotments for PY 2007 Employment Service (ES) activities, as required by Section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; and the Consolidated Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) FY 2007.

To announce the availability of the Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration's (DOL/ETA) guide entitled,"How Youth Programs Manage Intake, Individual Services Strategies (ISS) and Case Files."

To provide a new Federal Identification Code (FIC) for the U.S. Bureau of the Census and solicit state cooperation in handling the large influx of claimants expected as a result of the 2010 decennial census.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWA) with guidelines and key dates for the release of UI BAM program data for CY 2001 and to inform SWAs that the Department of Labor will publish BAM program data in the CY 2001 UI PERFORMS Annual Report.

To inform state workforce agencies (SWAs) about an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) initiative related to “questionable employment tax practices” (QETP) and to encourage SWAs to participate in this initiative.