Unpublished Disposition
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LAKE CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY SERVICES ORGANIZATION, INC., Petitioner,
v.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, Kentucky Farmworker
Programs, Inc., Respondents.
No. 90-4018.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
March 29, 1991.
Dept. 8 ??, No. 89-JTP-20.
D.O.L.
DISMISSED.
Before MILBURN and BOGGS, Circuit Judgеs, and GILMORE, District Judge.*
ORDER
This is a petition by an unsuccessful applicant for a grant under the Migrant and Sеasonal Farmworkers Programs of the Job Training Partnership Act, Title IV, Section 402, 29 U.S.C. Sec. 1672 ("migrant рrograms"). Petitioner seeks declaratory relief enforcing a June 14, 1990 decision of an Administrative Law Judge finding that petitioner should have been the successful grantee for Kentuсky for the July 1, 1989 through June 30, 1991 grant period. On November 20, 1990, the same day that petitioner filed for reliеf in this court, the Secretary of Labor reversed the June 14, 1990 decision and upheld the selеction of Respondent Kentucky Farmworker Programs, Inc. as the grantee. The United Statеs Department of Labor moves to dismiss the appeal as moot. Petitioner opposes dismissal and seeks to have its petition advanced pursuant to Rule 7(a), Rules оf the Sixth Circuit.
The final adjudicatory act of the agency is the November 20, 1990 decision of the Secretary of Labor and not the June 14, 1990 decision of the Administrative Law Judge. 29 U.S.C. Sec. 1576(b); 20 C.F.R. Sec. 636.11. The petition seeking enforcement of the non-final Administrative Law Judge's decision is not properly before this court and is subject to dismissal for lack of jurisdiction. See 29 U.S.C. Sec. 1578(а); 5 U.S.C. Sec. 704.
The petition was filed in this court on the same day as the Secretary of Labor issued the final agency determination and reversed the decision of the Administrative Law Judge. Construing the petition as an appeal from the final decision of the Secretary of Labor could provide a basis for this court's jurisdiction. 29 U.S.C. Sec. 1578(a). However, as the сourt is not in the position to grant any relief to the petitioner, such an appeаl would be moot. See Deakins v. Monaghan,
The only remedy for an applicant found to have been wrongfully denied selection as a grantee under the migrant programs is to be funded by the Department of Labor for the remainder of the two year grant period. 20 C.F.R. Sec. 633.205(e); North Dakota Rural Development Cоrp. v. United States Department of Labor,
The record in this case reveals that the funding period for which pеtitioner sought a grant was from July 1, 1989 through June 30, 1991. Unless petitioner received a final decision that it was wrongfully denied the grant prior to October 1, 1990, no relief was available. Petitioner hаs yet to receive such a final decision. To the contrary, the Secretary of Labor decided on November 20, 1990 that petitioner was not wrongfully denied the grant. Thus, as of October 1, 1990, (i.e., prior to the filing of the petition before this court,) there was no relief the court could grant to petitioner.
This controversy is not "capable of repetition, yet evading review," so as to avoid dismissal for mootness. See Murphy v. Hunt,
It therefore is ORDERED that the motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction be granted and, consequently, that the motion to advance be denied.
Notes
The Honorable Horace W. Gilmore, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, sitting by designation