To inform States of ETA's implementation guidelines for the Negotiation and Goal Setting Process as well as for the Incentive and Sanction Process.

To clarify to States that Welfare-to-Work (WtW) funds used to provide service for Out of School Youth (OSY) must remain consistent with overall program goals.

To inform State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) that correspondence symbols are no longer used for the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and to provide SESAs with a crosswalk from the old symbols to the new office and division titles.

To announce Fiscal Year 2000 (FY 00) training seminars for SESA/BAM Investigators.

To provide guidelines for implementation of the Work-Flex waiver authority authorized by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998.

To provide information on the FY 2000 training seminar in Washington, D.C. including hotel and other logistics information for training participants.

To advise States of the elimination of the Claimant/Employer Separation Statement, Form IB-3, and to provide agent State instructions for providing weeks claimed information to liable States on backdated initial claims.

To provide State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) with advance information concerning the purchase of new Sun Enterprise Ultra SPARC 10 computer systems.

To provide States and outlying areas with WIA title I Adults and Dislocated Workers and Youth Activities allotments for PY 2000; and preliminary planning estimates for PY 2000 public employment service (ES) activities, as required by Section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended.

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 and 2 to include separations from the Army under the Army National Guard Combat Reform Initiative (ANGCRI) program.