PART 619—UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION DATA EXCHANGE STANDARDIZATION FOR IMPROVED INTEROPERABILITY Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1111; Section 2104(b) of Pub. L. 112-96; 42 U.S.C. 1302(a). Source: 79 FR 9411, Feb. 19, 2014, unless otherwise noted. § 619.1 Definitions. As used in this part— Administrator of the Office of Unemployment Insurance Department eXtensible Markup Language XML Federal funds Federally-funded (1) Supplemental budget funds that are designated by the Department for State IT modernization efforts; (2) General State UI administration funding for State program operations (an administrative grant issued by the Department at the beginning of each fiscal year); and (3) Special UI funding distributions. Interstate Connection Network ICON Interstate Wages and Benefits Inquiries/Responses Major IT Modernization Project State States State Identification Inquiry State Information Data Exchange System SIDES State unemployment compensation law UC law State Workforce Agency SWA Unemployment Compensation UC Unemployment Insurance UI Withdrawn/Invalid Claims § 619.2 Data exchange standardization for ICON. (a) XML is the data exchange standard for the real-time ICON applications. These applications are: Interstate Wages and Benefits Inquiries/Responses; Withdrawn/Invalid Claims; and State Identification Inquiry. (b) All SWAs using real-time ICON applications must comply with this XML data exchange standard no later than September 30, 2018. A SWA may request an extension of this deadline if it demonstrates that resources are not available to meet this requirement. These requests must be submitted in writing to the Administrator of the Office of Unemployment Insurance no later than 6 months before the deadline; requests will be approved or denied within 30 days. § 619.3 Data exchange standardization for SIDES. (a) XML is the data exchange standard for SIDES. (b) This standard applies to any Federally-funded SIDES consortium, and any future agents of the Department providing vendor services for the development, maintenance, support, and operations of the SIDES, and for any State that adopts SIDES. A SIDES consortium involves a group of two or more States jointly establishing a project team to oversee the design, development, and implementation of a new SIDES data exchange module. As States implement SIDES or new data exchange modules of SIDES, they must conform to this data exchange standard by application design. (c) XML is designated as the data exchange standard to govern the reporting of information through SIDES data exchange modules. The regulation applies to current SIDES data exchange modules and any future SIDES data exchange modules developed with Federal funds. (d) The standard designated in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this section is effective March 21, 2014. § 619.4 Data exchange standardization for the UI Benefits and Tax Systems. (a) XML is the data exchange standard for the real time ICON applications set out in § 619.2 and for the SIDES exchanges set out in § 619.3 associated with major IT modernization projects, to upgrade UI Benefits and Tax Systems by SWAs using Federal funds. (b) The standard designated in paragraph (a) of this section is effective March 21, 2014.