To amend the consolidated list of "acceptable" narrative reasons for separation transmitted in Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 3-95 and UIPL No. 3-95, Changes 1, 2, and 3 to include Force Shaping-Voluntary Separation Payment (VSP) as an acceptable narrative reason for separation.

To announce the release of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2002 Labor Surplus Area (LSA) list. The LSA list is published on the following websites: www.doleta.gov and www.usworkforce.org. It will no longer be published in Area Trends. On December 31, 2001, the list was published in the Federal Register. Unfortunately, the publication contained errors including omission of the City of Miami, Florida; listed Port St. Lucie City, County of St. Lucie Florida in the wrong county and spelled Yuma Arizona as Luma. The FY 2002 list will be republished in the Federal Register, in the near future. The list included on the websites does not contain these errors.

To promote the SCSEP partnership in the One-Stop Career Center System through support from ETA's Regional offices.

UIPL 31-92 -- Not Issued

To notify states of their portion of the $8 billion Reed Act distribution and to provide the methodology used to determine the distribution.

To provide logistical, travel and other related information regarding Regional and State staff participation at the National WOTC/W-2-W Training Conference to be held November 18 - 20, 1997, in Kansas City, Missouri.

To announce the availability of Regional Innovation Grants, utilizing limited National Emergency Grant (NEG) funds, to state workforce agencies and local workforce investment boards (WIBs) to initiate comprehensive, sustainable, and integrated regional planning using the Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) conceptual framework and principles. The activities from this grant will result in a strategic and transformative regional plan that, when implemented, will counteract the effects of events resulting from an economic shock in a region and will prepare workers and businesses to compete and succeed in a global economy.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) guidance on how to count months when verifying AFDC/TANF target group eligibility under the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and the Welfare-to-Work Tax Credits= (WtWTC) Program.

To transmit a checklist of current GALs.

To announce three national education and training sessions on performance reporting and management. These training sessions are intended to introduce and clarify the reporting changes contained in the Workforce Investment Streamlined Performance Reporting (WISPR) System, further enhance states’ ability to report against the common measures and provide a venue for discussing policy questions. Attendees will have the ability to raise issues with federal staff and learn what other states and local areas are doing to support integration by targeting multiple programs. The session will also deal with ways to reduce data validation issues in the workforce system by providing targeted training on common issues, and provide information, clarification, materials and tools to participants to support state and local training efforts.