[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR615.15]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 615--EXTENDED BENEFITS IN THE FEDERAL-STATE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 615.15  Records and reports.

    (a) General. State agencies shall furnish to the Secretary such 
information and reports and make such studies as the Secretary decides 
are necessary or appropriate for carrying out the purposes of the Act 
and this part.
    (b) Recordkeeping. Each State agency will make and maintain records 
pertaining to the administration of the Extended Benefit Program as the 
Department requires, and will make all such records available for 
inspection, examination and audit by such Federal officials or employees 
as the Secretary or the Department may designate or as may be required 
by law.
    (c) Weekly report of Extended Benefit data. Each State shall file 
with the Department within 10 calendar days after the end of each 
calendar week a weekly report entitled ETA 539, Extended Benefit Data. 
The report shall include:
    (1) The data reported on the form ETA 539 for the week ending 
(date). Week-ending dates shall always be the Saturday ending date of 
the calendar week beginning at 12:01 a.m. Sunday and ending 12:00 p.m. 
Saturday.
    (2)(i) The number of continued weeks claimed for regular 
compensation in claims filed during the week ending (date). The report 
shall include intrastate continued weeks claimed and interstate 
continued weeks claimed (taken as agent State) but shall exclude 
interstate continued weeks claimed (received as liable State) and 
continued weeks claimed for regular compensation filed solely under 5 
U.S.C. chapter 85; and
    (ii) The report of the number of continued weeks claimed filed in 
the State for regular compensation shall not be adjusted for 
seasonality.
    (3) The average weekly number of weeks claimed in claims filed in 
the most recent calendar week and the immediately preceding 12 calendar 
weeks.
    (4) The rate of insured unemployment for the current 13-week period.
    (5) The average of the rates of insured unemployment in 
corresponding 13-week periods in the preceding two years.
    (6) The current rate of insured unemployment as a percentage of the 
average of the rates in the corresponding 13-week periods in the 
preceding two years.
    (7) The 12 month average monthly employment covered by the State law 
for the first 4 of the last 6 complete calendar quarters ending prior to 
the end of the last week of the current 13-week period to which the 
insured unemployment data relate. Such covered employment shall exclude 
Federal civilian and military employment covered by 5 U.S.C. chapter 85.
    (8) The date that a State Extended Benefit Period begins or ends, or 
a report that there is no change in the existing Extended Benefit Period 
status.
    (d) Methodology. The State agency head shall submit to the 
Department, for approval, the method used to identify and select the 
weeks claimed which are used in the determination of

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an ``on'' or ``off'' or ``no change'' indicator. Any change proposed in 
the method of identification and selection of such weeks claimed 
constitutes a new plan which must be submitted to and approved by the 
Department prior to implementing the new plan.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
1205-0028)