To announce the availability and distribution of ETA: Inventory of Technical Assistance and Training Initiatives.

To transmit a copy of the Final Report of the Interagency Workgroup on the Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) program and to outline some of the actions that will occur based on that report.

To transmit the revised Federal Schedule of Remuneration (UCX) based on the January 1, 1996, military pay increase.

To provide State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) with guidance and instructions to ensure that they and Federal agencies closely cooperate in the SESAs' establishment and recovery of UCFE overpayments made to furloughed Federal employees.

To inform grantees of the availability of active DINAP bulletins for PYs 1984 to 1993 on diskette and paper copies of supplemental attachments.

To request your nomination for expiring memberships on the Council.

To transmit operating instructions for those grantees planning to operate JTPA title II-B Summer Youth services/activities during the summer of 1996.

To inform States of the status of UI Workload Validation.

To provide information about an Employment and Training Administration (ETA) initiative to identify and recognize promising and effective youth programs.

To issue the new time lapse and quality measures for UI benefits operations to be implemented as a part of UI Performs as described in Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 41-95; to provide a schedule of actions that will occur during implementation of the new measures; and to convey a summary of the comments on the Performance Measurement Review (PMR) Interim Evaluation Report. (See Attachments.)