WIGS Attachment I

Attachment I

Consolidated Requirements for WIGS Grantees

The following table summarizes the deliverables and requirements in column 1 (the body of the
TEGL explains these in full). Columns 2 and 3 contain important administrative details that have
not been included in the body of the TEGL, which focuses on policy.

Deliverables and Requirements

Due Dates

Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements

The SF 424 is
required to be
submitted
according to the
instructions in
TEGL 09-21.

States must submit the SF
424 to www.Grants.gov.

Within 45 days
after the end of
each quarter.
Specified in
TEGL 20-19.

August 15,

REPORTING
SF 424 (Application for Federal Assistance)
Instructions for the SF-424 and forms can be found at
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/forms/sf-424family.html. Select either “Instructions” or “PDF” for
OMB number 4040-0004, currently the third row on
the page.
If a state believes it is necessary to revise their
expenditure plan due to unforeseen factors, the state
may petition the regional office for approval to modify
the plan.
Sample completed SF 424 forms may be obtained from
the applicable ETA regional office.

ETA Form 9130 quarterly financial reports. All
sections of the form must be completed.

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November 15,
February 15, and
May 15.

Deliverables and Requirements

Due Dates

WIGS Annual Performance Report. The report must October 1, 2023
include hyperlinks to all published products, and major
unpublished products must be attached. It must also
summarize all activities, including the following.
• Describe all deliverables, highlighting new
accomplishments and noting whether partnerships
or collaborations were involved.
• The required customer consultations regarding
products and services, including the customer needs
identified. If customers identified needed
improvements, state the responsive measures taken.
• Partnership and collaborative efforts, including
activities to leverage grant funding and new
activities.
• Recommendations to ETA for changes and
improvements.
• Description of the training provided to include date,
subject, who attended and the presenter(s).

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Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements
1) This report must be
submitted to the
appropriate ETA regional
office in a Section 508compliant accessible PDF
format for posting online
on www.doleta.gov.
2) States must post this
document on their LMI
website.
3) Unless a product
referred to is a Web site,
all Internet links in the
document must lead
directly to the product, not
to a Web site that includes
the product.
4) See general product and
publication requirements.

Deliverables and Requirements

Due Dates

Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements

Ongoing

All products must include
the date of issuance or
revision, and an
acknowledgement that the
product was produced
either in whole or in part
with Department of
Labor-funded WIGS.
Documents must be
formatted to permit parts
to be copied (including
specific words), e.g., a MS
Word document or
accessible .pdf formatting
enabling such copying.

Publication Requirements (general). States must
post all grant-funded products, reports, and workforce
information on the Internet in a manner accessible to
all members of the public (unless otherwise indicated)
and comply with Rehabilitation Act Section 508
requirements.

Within a
reasonable
period after the
completion of
the work

States must include links
to all WIGS-funded
published material on
their LMI Web site and
present it in a manner that
makes it easy for the
public to find this
material. States must post
this document on their
LMI website.

Workforce Information Database (WID).
Implement and maintain the most current version (2.8)
of the WID and populate all designated core tables in
accordance with Analyst Resource Center (ARC)
guidelines (required data elements are listed at
www.widcenter.org/state-dbas).

July 15, 2023

Occupational licensing information: states must
populate the database with the “license” and “licauth”
licensing files and submit them to ARC in alternating
years.

June 30, 2023

PRODUCT AND PUBLICATION
REQUIREMENTS
Product Requirements (general)
• Provide accurate and actionable information that
enables informed decisions by customers and
supports the development of data-driven strategies
and policies.
• Produce products benefitting the governor, state
legislature, state and local WDBs, relevant
stakeholders, and the public.
• ETA encourages grantees to notify their regional
office when products are posted on the Internet.

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Implemented in the
manner specified by the
(no revisions this ARC. (States should
year; version 2.8 inform their regional
should have been office if they use
implemented by supplemental or nonJuly 15, 2020)
standard WID tables.)
States must submit data in
the manner specified by
ARC.

Deliverables and Requirements

Due Dates

Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements

Employment Projections (general)

Ongoing

State must provide links to
all published projections
in the WIGS Annual
Performance Report.
States must post published
employment projections
on their LMI website and
provide them to the PMP
for posting on its website.
Any unpublished
projections products must
be provided to the ETA
regional office.

Statewide long-term industry and occupational
projections

Due July 8, 2022
for PY21
deliverable; not
required for
PY22

Statewide 10 Year
Projections are not
required under this TEGL.
Please note these will be
required under next year’s
TEGL.

Due March 7,
2023 for either
short-term or
mid-term
projections.

File must be provided to
PMP in a manner to be
specified by the PMP.
These should also be
posted to the state LMI
website.

Due July 7, 2023

Sub-state 10 Year
Projections should be
posted to the state LMI
website

NA

If submitted, the file must
be provided to PMP in a
manner to be specified by
the PMP. These should
also be posted to the state
LMI website if they are
created.

•

10-year projections (2020 – 2030)

Either statewide short-term or mid-term industry and
occupational projections
•
•

short-term projections (2022 – 2024), or
If available in PY 2022 and approved by ETA and the
PMP, states may replace the short-term projection with a
mid-term projection. The due dates apply to either
option.

Sub-state long-term industry and occupational
projections
•

10-year projections (2020 – 2030)

Sub-state short-term, or mid-term if ETA/PMP
approved, industry and occupational projections
•

[Optional: allowable and encouraged, but not required,
activity]

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Deliverables and Requirements

Due Dates

Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements

Annual and Economic Analysis Reports (or
substitute as explained in the body of the TEGL). The
information must be based on needs identified through
customer consultations; must come from multiple
credible sources; and must be clearly referenced and/or
footnoted.

Economic
Reports due
October 1, 2023

• The WIGS Annual
Performance Report
must have a signed
cover letter, from the
state Workforce
Agency director,
stating the state has
fulfilled all the
deliverables of the
WIGS grant. The
state LMI Director is
to submit the signed
letter and report as
separate files to the
appropriate ETA
regional office.
• All Economic
Analysis and WIGS
Annual Performance
Reports files must be
in PDF format.
• Annual and Economic
Reports accepted by
the FPO must be
posted to the state
LMI website.
• Unless a product
referred to is a Web
site, all Internet links
in the document must
lead directly to the
product, not to a Web
site that includes the
product.
• See general product
and publication
requirements.

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Annual Reports
and signed cover
letter due
October 1, 2023

Other Published Reports. The information must be
based on needs identified through customer
consultations; must come from multiple credible
sources; and must be clearly referenced and/or
footnoted.

Within 90
calendar days
following the
end of the
program year

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Due Date

Data collection. All data collection, population, and
dissemination activities must conform to the
appropriate BLS, PMP, ARC, or generally accepted
professional standards and methodologies.

Ongoing

IT systems and applications. Any IT system or
application developed with WIGS is to adhere to
industry-standard, open architecture principles with
documentation and software made available for use by
other organizations for Federal governmental purposes.

Ongoing

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Must be formatted in a
manner to permit parts of
it to be copied (including
specific words), e.g., a MS
Word document or
accessible .pdf formatting
enabling such copying.
Please post any published
report on the state LMI
website.