To provide guidance on the rescission of Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 formula funds for the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs for Program Year (PY) 2005 as required by the Department of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006, Public Law (P.L.) 109-148, December 30,2005.

To announce the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act (OAA), to provide materials related to the new law, and to identify specific provisions of the law that affect State and Local Workforce Investment Boards and Local One-Stop delivery systems.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the fourth quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2006.

To announce the release and availability of O*NET (Occupational Information Network) Career Exploration Tools. These tools are designed to help youth and adults to explore and plan their career options, preparation, and transitions more effectively.

a. To provide preliminary FY 2007 dollar and staff year base resource planning targets for UI operations to be used in planning and developing State Quality Service Plans; b. To provide general guidelines for FY 2007 resource planning; and c. To explain how base resources were allocated among states.

To announce registration for JETT CON2001 (Joint Employment and Training Technology Conference): Navigating Our Future Together, July 16 - l8, 2001, in Baltimore, Maryland.

To initiate the FY 2007 SQSP process and to issue supplemental instructions for the preparation of the FY 2007 SQSP.

To invite statements of interest and describe the goals of the second round of a national peer-to-peer technical assistance and training project, the National Business Learning Partnership.

To provide the final planning allotments for PY 2001 basic labor exchange activities to the States, as required by Section 6(b)(5) of the W-P Act, as amended.