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Wagner-Peyser Act Staffing; Corrections

---
identifier: "/us/fr/2024-03871"
source: "fr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "Wagner-Peyser Act Staffing; Corrections"
title_number: 0
title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "2024-03871"
section_name: "Wagner-Peyser Act Staffing; Corrections"
positive_law: false
currency: "2024-02-28"
last_updated: "2024-02-28"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
agency: "Labor Department"
document_number: "2024-03871"
document_type: "rule"
publication_date: "2024-02-28"
agencies:
  - "Labor Department"
  - "Employment and Training Administration"
cfr_references:
  - "20 CFR Part 651"
rin: "1205-AC02"
fr_citation: "89 FR 14581"
fr_volume: 89
docket_ids:
  - "Docket No. ETA-2022-0003"
effective_date: "2024-02-28"
fr_action: "Correcting amendments."
---

#  Definitions of terms used in this part and parts 652, 653, 654, and 658 of this chapter.

**AGENCY:**

Employment and Training Administration, Labor.

**ACTION:**

Correcting amendments.

**SUMMARY:**

The U.S. Department of Labor (Department) published the Wagner-Peyser Act Staffing rule on November 24, 2023. In that rulemaking document, the Department inadvertently removed the definition of *State Workforce Agency (SWA) official.* The Department is correcting the regulatory text to align with the preamble description of retaining the definition of *State Workforce Agency (SWA) official.* This document corrects the final regulations that became effective January 23, 2024.

**DATES:**

Effective on February 28, 2024.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Kim Vitelli, Administrator, Office of Workforce Investment, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room C-4526, Washington, DC 20210, Telephone: (202) 693-3980 (voice) (this is not a toll- free number). For persons with a hearing or speech disability who need assistance to use the telephone system, please dial 711 to access telecommunications relay services.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**

On November 24, 2023, the Department published a final rule (88 FR 82658) making changes to staffing requirements under the Wagner-Peyser Act. Within the amendments to 20 CFR part 651, the introduction of the changes to the definitions in 20 CFR 651.10 specified at 2.f the removal of the definition *State Workforce Agency (SWA) official.* The Department intended to retain this definition as discussed in section V.B of the preamble to the final rule. This correction reinstates the definition of *State Workforce Agency (SWA) official.*

**List of Subjects in 20 CFR Part 651**

Employment, Grant programs—labor.

Accordingly, 20 CFR part 651 is corrected by making the following correcting amendments:

**PART 651—GENERAL PROVISIONS GOVERNING THE WAGNER-PEYSER ACT EMPLOYMENT SERVICE**

**20 CFR Part 651**

1. The authority citation for part 651 continues to read as follows:

**Authority:**

29 U.S.C. 49a and 49k; 38 U.S.C. 101, chapters 41 and 42; Secs. 3, 189 and 503, Pub. L. 113-128, 128 Stat. 1425 (Jul. 22, 2014).

**20 CFR Part 651**

2. Amend § 651.10 by adding in alphabetical order the definition of *State Workforce Agency (SWA) official* to read as follows:

§ 651.10

*State Workforce Agency (SWA) official* means an individual employed by the State Workforce Agency or any of its subdivisions.

Laura P. Watson,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, Labor.