To update procedures for State Workforce Agencies and ETA National Processing Centers to process H-2B labor certification applications in non-agricultural occupations.

To inform states of OMB's approval of the ETA 586, Interstate Arrangement for Combining Employment and Wages, and transmit the new expiration date and the National Office's burden hour estimate for this reporting requirement.

To announce a fourth ETA-sponsored national training session on federal financial and administrative requirements to be held in 2007.

Due to a high level of interest in the first three Financial and Administrative Forums, ETA is sponsoring a fourth session. The primary goal of this session is to provide in-depth guidance and technical support on ETA financial and administrative requirements. Topics for the forum include financial reporting, monitoring, procurement, indirect costs, salary and bonus limitations, audit requirements, and a host of other financial and administrative management topics. The forum will provide educational opportunities for state, local and discretionary grantees and enhance their understanding of the requirements of operating Federal grants. Fiscal and administrative staff working in ETA's formula and discretionary grant programs should attend. Interested program staff is also invited to attend.

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."