To ensure that State Unemployment Insurance (UI) officials are aware of the requirement that Employment and Training (ETA) grantees, including UI grantees, use the official branding logo for America`s Workforce Network on their public materials and to advise SESA's that basic guidelines for the use of the logo will be sent along with the UI grant modification within the next two weeks.

To provide clarification to State Employment Service Agencies with regard to the processing of H-2B temporary applications for limited jobs in the landscaping industry which includes only those activities addressed in this guidance for the 2000-2001 season.

To announce the recognition of the Youth Development Practitioner Occupation and the development of the Youth Development Practitioner Apprenticeship

To transmit the entire CY 1999 Supplement to ET Handbook 394, Unemployment Insurance Financial Data, including pages 2,4, and 6 which were inadvertently omitted from previous transmittal..

To remind State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) of the importance of NAICS coding, to provide an updated implementation schedule, and to define the State unemployment insurance (UI) program responsibilities for NAICS implementation.

To provide State Employment Security Agencies with instructions for coding race and ethnicity data in the BAM DCI.

To transmit the CY 1999 Supplement to ET Handbook 394, Unemployment Insurance Financial Data.

To provide policy clarification and procedural guidance for the notification process between employers and the State Employment Security Agency (SESA) regarding worker rejection and termination from H-2A temporary agricultural emoplyment.

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

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.