ETA-INAP-TEGL-16-23-IY.pdf

EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION

ADVISORY SYSTEM

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Washington, D.C. 20210

CLASSIFICATION

INA PY 2024 Funding Allocations

CORRESPONDENCE SYMBOL

OWI-DINAP

DATE

June 11, 2024

RESCISSIONS

None

EXPIRATION DATE

Continuing

ADVISORY: TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT GUIDANCE LETTER NO. 16-23

TO: ALL WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY ACT (WIOA)

SECTION 166 INDIAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN (INA) GRANTEES

FROM: JOSÉ JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ

Assistant Secretary

SUBJECT: Program Year (PY) 2024 Funding Allotments and Application Instructions for the

WIOA Section 166 INA Programs Grantees

1. Purpose. To provide WIOA Section 166 INA Program grantees with Comprehensive Services

Program (CSP) and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) funding allotments for PY

2024.

2. Action Requested. Grantees must follow the requirements in this guidance to receive PY 2024 funding. Applications and all documents must be submitted through the Grants.gov website at www.grants.gov. We will not accept applications through the mail, email, or fax. For Federally recognized tribes that participate in Public Law 102-477, the Employment and Training

Administration (ETA) will transfer PY 2024 WIOA Section 166 INA Program funds to the

Department of the Interior (DOI), Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Indian Services, Division of Workforce Development. These tribes are not required to submit the documents requested in this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) but should instead follow DOI’s requirements for receiving funds.

3. Summary and Background.

a. Summary - ETA is issuing this TEGL to:

1) notify WIOA INA Program grantees of PY 2024 grant allocations;

2) provide submission requirements to receive grant funding; and

3) describe the process for requesting an increase in the administrative cost limit.

b. Background – On March 23, 2024, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024

(Public Law 118-47) was signed into law, authorizing a full-year fiscal year 2024 appropriations. The Act provides $60 million for the WIOA Section 166 INA Programs. Of this amount, $600,000 will be set-aside for technical assistance pursuant to 20 CFR

684.270(e). Therefore, the total amount available for the INA CSP is $59,400,000. This amount will be allocated to INA Program grantees using the formula at 20 CFR 684.270(b).

The Act also provides approximately $948,130,000 for grants to states for WIOA Youth activities. After reducing the appropriation by $3,131,000 for set asides authorized by the http://www.grants.gov/

Act and reserving $925,200 for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker (MSFW) Youth, $944,073,800 is available and 1½ percent of this amount is reserved for the WIOA Section

166 INA SYSP. Accordingly, $14,161,107 is available for PY 2024 SYSP and will be allotted to INA Program grantees to provide supplemental services to low-income Native

American youth on or near Indian reservations and in Oklahoma, Alaska, and Hawaii. ETA will allocate SYSP funds to WIOA INA Program grantees using the formula described in the WIOA regulations at 20 CFR 684.440.

4. U.S. Census Bureau Data used for Calculating PY 2024 Funding Allotments and Hold-

Harmless Process. For PY 2024, as required by WIOA, ETA is using the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014-2018 American Community Survey data for the WIOA Section 166 INA Program allotment formula. The updated WIOA Service Delivery Area data along with CSP and SYSP Census numbers can be found at: dol.gov/agencies/eta/dinap/census.

To minimize program disruptions, ETA is implementing a hold-harmless or phase-in approach to adjusting funding allotments resulting from use of the updated population data in the funding formula. Pursuant to WIOA 20 CFR 684.270(c), ETA is applying the hold-harmless approach after consulting with the grantee community and the Native American Employment and Training Council beginning with the PY 2024 funding allotments.

The hold-harmless or phase-in process compares each grantee’s relative share (or percentage) of the Census data’s total relevant population to the grantee’s relative share (percentage, not dollars) of the prior year’s (PY 2023) funding allotments. Therefore, when the hold-harmless is applied, a grantee will receive funding for PY 2024 based on no less than 95 percent of their prior year relative share (percentage, not dollars).

Additionally, the hold-harmless approach will be in effect over a three-year period, PY 2024 through PY 2026, applied against the prior year relative share (percentage, not dollars). The hold-harmless levels for the CSP and SYSP will be 95 percent for PY 2024, 90 percent for PY 2025, and 80 percent for PY 2026. In PY 2027, all grantees will receive funding that reflects their actual relative share based on the updated data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.

a. Submission Requirements. Grantees must use the funding allotment amounts in Attachment I of this TEGL, ensuring their amount is reflected across all documents included in the application package. The application package must include the SF-424 Application for Federal Assistance, the SF-424A Budget Information form, and a Budget Narrative describing the projected costs entered for each line item of the SF-424A. Grantees that have an indirect cost rate must also submit a copy of their Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA) or Cost Allocation Plan (if applicable). In addition, grantees that would like to request an administrative cost limit above 15 percent, but not more than 20 percent, must submit such a request with the application. See below for additional information on submitting a request for an increase in the administrative cost limit.

Grantees receiving both CSP and SYSP funds will receive a separate grant for each; therefore, grantees must submit separate application packages for each set of funds under the associated funding opportunity numbers in Grants.gov:

• Applications for INAP Adult funding submit under ETA-INAP-TEGL-16-23-IA

• Applications for INAP Youth funding submit under ETA-INAP-TEGL-16-23-IY https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/dinap/census

Grantees must submit the SF-424, SF-424A, and Budget Narrative (and a NICRA or Cost

Allocation Plan, if applicable) within 30 days from the issue date of this TEGL.

i. Request for an Administrative Cost Rate Above 15 Percent. Administrative costs are defined in the WIOA regulations at 20 CFR 683.215. The grant terms and conditions limit administrative costs for INA grants to 15 percent. However, ETA will approve administrative cost rates of more than 15 percent, but not greater than 20 percent, when the grantee submits acceptable justification. Grantees must include with their application package a description of the conditions that exist within its organizations that require an administrative cost rate above 15 percent. Such conditions may include:

• The amount and nature of on-going direct and indirect administrative costs.

• Local economic conditions such as the cost to rent space, paying salaries that are competitive with other employers in the local area to attract qualified and experienced employees, providing salary increases and other pay incentives to retain good employees.

• The amount and nature of any uncontrollable increases in the grantee’s current administrative costs that are unusual one-time expenses, including significant increases to basic administrative cost components such as rent or staff salaries.

(Supporting documentation is required.)

• How the grantee already supplements the funds it receives from ETA for administrative expenditures with funds from other sources in order to meet its necessary administrative costs.

b. Grants.gov Submission Process. Grantees must submit the application package described in section 4a, above through Grants.gov at www.grants.gov. To submit the application package through Grants.gov, an individual in the grantee organization must be registered as an Authorized Organization Representative (AOR) with Grants.gov. Follow the steps below to submit the required documents for PY 2024 funding through Grants.gov.

Step 1: Go to www.grants.gov.

Step 2: Click on LOGIN in the upper right-hand corner of the screen and log into grants.gov with your username and password.

Step 3: Once you are logged into Grants.gov, select the APPLICANTS tab on the

Grants.gov homepage and then select Apply Now from the pull-down menu.

Step 4: In the Funding Opportunity Number field, enter the number corresponding to the type of funding requested (Adult or Youth), as referenced in Section 4a above. Skip to the Opportunity Package ID and go down to the Application Filing Name field and enter an application filing name and click on Create Workspace. Note: The Applicant Filing name can be any name you wish to use, and it will become the name for the Workspace.

Step 5: Click on the links in the Application Package Forms and complete all required forms.

Submitting the SF-424 through Grants.gov constitutes an electronically signed SF-424, Application for Federal Assistance. Item #18 on the SF-424 must reflect the exact amount of http://www.grants.gov/ https://grants.gov/ the allotment in Attachment I. Additionally, Item #11 of the SF-424 must include the

Assistance Listing #17.265 for Native American Employment and Training.

Submission requirements stipulate that all applicants for Federal grant funding opportunities must have a Unique Entity ID (UEI), a 12-charater alphanumeric ID assigned to an entity by

SAM.gov. The UEI number must be included on the SF-424 and must supply their UEI number on the SF-424.

Please be aware that you cannot submit an application through Grants.gov if your organization does not have an active registration in the System for Award Management

(SAM). Grantees can find out if they have an active SAM registration by going to:

www.sam.gov and clicking on the Search Records tab. Then enter your organization’s UEI and click on the Search button. For assistance with SAM registration, please call the SAM

Federal Service Desk at: (866) 606-8220.

5. Inquiries. Please direct questions to the designated Federal Project Officer below.

Nathaniel Coley (202) 693-4287 Jennifer Whitmore (415) 625-7970 coley.nathaniel.d@dol.gov whitmore.jennifer@dol.gov

Duane Hall (972) 850-4637 Stephanie West (202) 693-3021 hall.duane@dol.gov west.stephanie.m@dol.gov

Jolene Aguilar (202) 693-6331 Kayla Hilario (202) 693-2835 aguilar.jolene.c@dol.gov hilario.kayla.o@dol.gov

Carl Duncan (202) 693-3384 duncan.carl.l@dol.gov

6. References.

• Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-47) available at:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2882

• Section 166 of the WIOA (29 U.S.C.3221) available at:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2022-title29/html/USCODE-2022-title29-chap32-subchapI-partD-sec3221.htm

• WIOA; Department of Labor Only, Final Rule at 20 C.F.R. Part 684 available at:

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-V/part-684

• TEGL 15–14, December 19, 2014, Implementation of the New Uniform Guidance

Regulations, available at: http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/corr_doc.cfm?DOCN=5740T

7. Attachment. Attachment I: PY 2024 INA Program Adult and Youth Funding Allocations http://www.sam.gov/ mailto:coley.nathaniel.d@dol.gov mailto:whitmore.jennifer@dol.gov mailto:hall.duane@dol.gov mailto:west.stephanie.m@dol.gov mailto:aguilar.jolene.c@dol.gov mailto:hilario.kayla.o@dol.gov mailto:duncan.carl.l@dol.gov https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2882 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2022-title29/html/USCODE-2022-title29-chap32-subchapI-partD-sec3221.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2022-title29/html/USCODE-2022-title29-chap32-subchapI-partD-sec3221.htm https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-V/part-684 http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/corr_doc.cfm?DOCN=5740

Attachment I

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U.S. Department of Labor

Employment and Training Administration

WIOA Section 166 Adult and Youth Funding for Native Americans

PY 2024 Funding Allotments

Total Adult and Youth Appropriation Amount $60,000,000 $14,161,107

Less 1% for Technical Assistance and Training $600,000 $0

Total Adult and Youth Allocations $59,400,000 $14,161,107

Type State Grantee Name Adult Youth

AL Inter-Tribal Council of Alabama $299,685 $5,209

AL Poarch Band of Creek Indians $96,077 $0

477 AK Aleutian-Pribilof Islands Association $29,162 $12,364

477 AK Association of Village Council Presidents $504,965 $215,966

477 AK Bristol Bay Native Association $120,349 $46,909

477 AK Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes $208,663 $71,298

477 AK Chugachmiut $28,366 $11,304

477 AK Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc $427,811 $135,112

477 AK Copper River Native Association $19,058 $9,121

477 AK Kawerak Incorporated $177,718 $73,593

477 AK Kenaitze Indian Tribe $51,432 $23,070

477 AK Knik Tribe $42,905 $21,522

477 AK Kodiak Area Native Association $35,937 $12,064

477 AK Maniilaq Association $140,628 $64,285

477 AK Metlakatla Indian Community $21,557 $6,486

477 AK Orutsararmuit Native Council $60,188 $20,129

477 AK Tanana Chiefs Conference $294,954 $110,758

AZ American Indian Association of Tucson $490,026 $0

AZ Colorado River Indian Tribes $72,624 $45,555

AZ Gila River Indian Community $597,178 $220,447

AZ Hopi Tribal Council $227,608 $116,591

477 AZ Hualapai Tribe $37,038 $19,545

AZ Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. $94,577 $42,916

AZ Navajo Nation $6,342,111 $2,989,161

477 AZ Pascua Yaqui Tribe $111,961 $62,484

AZ Phoenix Indian Center, Inc. $1,702,940 $0

AZ Quechan Indian Tribe $34,956 $19,859

AZ Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community $113,351 $52,838

AZ San Carlos Apache Community College $401,012 $216,304

477 AZ Tohono O'Odham Nation $402,784 $232,054

AZ White Mountain Apache Tribe $528,745 $259,304

AR American Indian Center of Arkansas, Inc. $353,310 $0

CA California Indian Manpower Consortium, Inc. $3,466,159 $123,364

CA Native American Health Center, Inc. $484,557 $0

CA Northern California Indian Development Council, Inc. $625,820 $67,198

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CA Southern California American Indian Resource Center, Inc. $748,665 $0

CA Tule River Tribal Council $137,026 $12,923

CA United American Indian Involvement $1,709,020 $0

CO Denver Indian Center Inc. $745,630 $0

CO Ute Mountain Ute Tribe $89,793 $22,151

FL Florida Governor's Council on Indian Affairs, Inc. $1,304,581 $0

FL Miccosukee Tribe of Indians $123,715 $0

HI Alu Like, Inc. $1,369,444 $1,850,078

477 ID Nez Perce Tribe $78,232 $21,364

477 ID Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Inc $194,612 $56,030

IN Place Holder $265,750 $0

KS United Tribes of Kansas and Southeast Nebraska, Inc. $236,957 $10,772

LA Inter-Tribal Council of Louisiana, Inc. $509,434 $3,909

ME Penobscot Indian Nation $208,163 $24,497

477 MA Mashpee-Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc. $60,000 $0

477 MI Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians $34,480 $5,457

MI Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Inc. $96,200 $35,671

MI Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians $142,045 $0

MI Michigan Indian Employment and Training Services, Inc. $335,809 $0

MI North American Indian Association of Detroit, Inc. $161,064 $0

MI Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians $179,705 $24,505

MI Southeastern Michigan Indians. Inc. $82,440 $0

MN American Indian Opportunities, Inc. $266,164 $0

477 MN Bois Forte Reservation Tribal Council $26,111 $8,861

MN Fond Du Lac Reservation $198,548 $23,682

MN Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe $45,668 $55,678

477 MN Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians $55,764 $23,194

MN Minneapolis American Indian Center $373,304 $0

MN Northwest Indian OIC $122,893 $0

477 MN Red Lake Nation $247,590 $89,073

477 MN White Earth Reservation Tribal Council $132,841 $56,346

MS Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians $327,824 $85,326

MO American Indian Council $769,059 $9,121

477 MT Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes $273,099 $134,213

477 MT Blackfeet Tribal Business Council $287,498 $128,250

MT Business Committee of the Chippewa Cree Tribe $144,184 $49,837

477 MT Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes $284,675 $135,516

477 MT Fort Belknap Community Council $132,936 $53,037

MT Little Big Horn College $164,535 $85,740

MT Montana United Indian Association $343,028 $0

MT Northern Cheyenne Tribe $213,871 $96,425

NE Omaha Tribe of Nebraska $84,811 $45,606

NE Ponca Tribe of Nebraska $285,134 $0

477 NE Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska $51,547 $21,990

NV Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada $361,028 $58,914

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NV Las Vegas Indian Center, Inc. $268,839 $0

477 NV Reno Sparks Indian Colony $22,796 $9,626

477 NV Shoshone-Paiute Tribes $134,304 $14,334

NM Alamo Navajo School Board, Inc. $89,129 $48,212

NM Eight Northern Indian Pueblo Council $73,379 $29,596

NM Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos, Inc. $163,986 $90,952

NM Jicarilla Apache Tribe $67,728 $29,635

NM Mescalero Apache Tribe $97,305 $59,940

NM National Indian Youth Council $1,819,566 $0

477 NM Ohkay Owingeh $28,956 $14,196

NM Pueblo of Acoma $149,392 $29,970

NM Pueblo of Isleta $53,195 $23,029

477 NM Pueblo of Laguna $94,538 $36,485

477 NM Pueblo of Taos $40,719 $18,242

477 NM Pueblo of Zuni $302,671 $128,250

NM Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc. $108,156 $31,008

NM Santo Domingo Tribe $100,179 $44,303

NY Native American Community Svcs. of Erie & Niagara Counties, Inc. $367,113 $7,305

477 NY Seneca Nation of Indians $237,961 $42,781

477 NY St. Regis Mohawk Tribe $139,093 $30,800

NC Cumberland County Association for Indian People, Inc. $79,646 $0

NC Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians $116,514 $58,544

NC Guilford Native American Association $94,977 $0

NC Lumbee Regional Development Association, Inc. $1,361,532 $0

NC North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs $420,024 $0

477 ND Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe $167,566 $77,598

477 ND Standing Rock Sioux Tribe $250,438 $128,887

477 ND Three Affiliated Tribes $188,856 $54,727

ND Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians $307,869 $125,092

ND United Tribes Technical College $272,614 $0

OH North American Indian Cultural Center, Inc. $545,572 $0

477 OK Absentee Shawnee Tribe $25,513 $14,435

477 OK Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma $1,462,134 $756,977

477 OK Cheyenne Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma $162,460 $101,637

477 OK Chickasaw Nation $371,375 $197,800

477 OK Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma $596,507 $284,061

477 OK Citizen Potawatomi Nation $476,594 $338,904

OK Comanche Tribe of Oklahoma $158,656 $70,364

477 OK Creek Nation of Oklahoma $825,316 $403,040

OK Inter-Tribal Council of Northeast Oklahoma $82,965 $32,021

OK Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma $233,760 $154,018

477 OK Osage Nation $100,675 $50,819

OK Otoe-Missouria Tribe $33,982 $16,418

477 OK Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma $32,373 $17,457

OK Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma $84,857 $54,467

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OK Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma $64,769 $27,364

OK United Urban Indian Council, Inc. $377,909 $194,152

477 OK Wyandotte Nation $113,053 $0

477 OR Confed. Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation $30,303 $14,334

477 OR Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians $496,966 $3,921

OR Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs $147,854 $50,726

PA Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center, Inc. $1,043,652 $0

RI Rhode Island Indian Council, Inc. $2,110,192 $8,861

SC South Carolina Indian Development Council, Inc. $290,880 $3,748

477 SD Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe $252,453 $138,122

SD Lower Brule Sioux Tribe $58,621 $24,951

SD Oglala Sioux Tribe $690,777 $410,301

477 SD Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Nation) $1,237,624 $277,322

477 SD Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate $146,391 $63,606

SD Yankton Sioux Tribe $112,679 $56,784

TN Native American Indian Association, Inc. $266,014 $0

TX Alabama-Coushatta Indian Tribal Council $888,765 $1,819

TX Dallas Inter-Tribal Center $473,209 $0

TX Ysleta del Sur Pueblo $717,158 $24,147

UT Indian Training & Education Center $412,163 $5,733

UT Ute Indian Tribe $123,490 $60,280

VA Mattaponi Pamunkey Monacan Consortium $283,665 $0

WA American Indian Community Center $450,581 $22,085

WA Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakama Nation $227,476 $112,126

477 WA Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation $190,877 $48,212

477 WA Lummi Indian Business Council $121,518 $26,061

477 WA Makah Tribal Council $35,731 $13,030

477 WA South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency $642,716 $93,818

477 WA Spokane Reservation $43,596 $23,455

477 WA Suquamish Indian Tribe $152,365 $2,606

477 WA The Tulalip Tribes $46,296 $20,848

WA United Indians of All Tribes Foundation $298,146 $0

477 WI Ho-Chunk Nation $183,230 $7,300

WI Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Governing Board $205,567 $59,288

WI Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Inc. $52,919 $17,914

477 WI Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin $102,881 $48,212

WI Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin $194,284 $22,063

WI Spotted Eagle, Inc. $227,150 $0

477 WI Stockbridge-Munsee Community $58,379 $3,648

477 WY Eastern Shoshone Tribe $135,107 $34,921

477 WY Northern Arapaho Business Council $229,725 $78,443

TOTAL $59,400,000 $14,161,107