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SEC. 117. (a) The Director shall not use any funds made available to carry out this part for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, 42 USC in a manner that will increase the residential capacity of Job Corps centers above forty-five thousand enrollees.

(b) The Director shall take necessary action to assure that on or before June 30, 1968, of the total number of Job Corps enrollees receiving training at least 25 per centum shall be women. The Director shall immediately take steps to achieve an enrollment ratio of 50 per centum women enrollees in training in the Job Corps consistent with (1) efficiency and economy in the oper.ation of the program, (2) sound administrative practice, and (3) the socioeconomic, educational, and training needs of the population to be served.

(c) The Director shall take necessary action to assure that for any fiscal year the direct operating costs of Job Corps centers which have been in operation for more than nine months do not exeed $6,900 per enrollee.

(d) The Director shall take necessary action to assure that all studies, evaluations, proposals, and data produced or developed with Federal funds in the course of the operation of any conservation or training center shall become the property of the United States.

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POLITICAL DISCRIMINATION AND POLITICAL ACTIVITY

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SEC. 118. (a) No officer or employee of the executive branch of the Federal Government shall make any inquiry concerning 42 USC the political affiliation or beliefs of any enrollee or applicant for enrollment in the Corps. All disclosures concerning such matters shall be ignored, except as to such membership in political parties or organizations as constitutes by law a disqualification for Government employment. No discrimination shall be exercised, threatened, or promised by any person in the executive branch of the Federal Government against or in favor of any enrollee in the Corps, or any applicant for enrollment in the Corps because of his political affiliation or beliefs, except as may be specifically authorized or required by law.

(b) No officer, employee, or enrollee of the Corps shall take any active part in political management or in political campaigns, except as may be provided by or pursuant to statute, and no such officer, employee, or enrollee shall use his official position or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or affecting the result thereof. All such persons shall retain the right to vote as they may choose and to express, in their private capacities, their opinions on all political subjects and candidates. Any officer, employee, enrollee, or Federal employee who solicits funds for political purposes from members of the Corps shall be in violation of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, 1925.

(c) Whenever the United States Civil Service Commission finds that any person has violated the foregoing provisions, it shall, after giving due notice and opportunity for explanation

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to the officer or employee or enrollee concerned, certify the fact to the Director with specific instructions as to discipline or dis missal or other corrective actions.

PART B-WORK AND TRAINING FOR YOUTH AND ADULTS

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

SEC. 120. The purpose of this part is to provide useful wor and training opportunities, together with related services an 42 USC assistance, that will assist low-income youths to continue or r sume their education, and to help unemployed or low-incom persons, both young and adult, to obtain and hold regular con petitive employment, with maximum opportunities for local in tiative in developing programs which respond to local needs an problems, and with emphasis upon a comprehensive approa which includes programs using both public and private resourc to overcome the complex problems of the most severely disa vantaged in urban and rural areas having high concentration or proportions of unemployment, underemployment, and low i

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COMMUNITY PROGRAM AREAS AND COMPREHENSIVE WORK AND
TRAINING PROGRAMS

SEC. 121. (a) The Director shall designate or recognize co munity program areas for the purpose of planning and condu 42 USC ing comprehensive community work and training programs.

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(b) For the purpose of this part, a community may be a ci county, multicity, or multicounty unit, an Indian reservatio or a neighborhood or other area (irrespective of boundaries political subdivisions) which provides a suitable organization base and possesses the commonality of interest needed for a co prehensive work and training program. The Director shall co sult with the heads of other Federal agencies responsible programs relating to community action, manpower services, ph ical and economic development, housing, education, health, a other community services to encourage the establishment of terminous or complementary boundaries for planning purpo among those programs and comprehensive work and traini programs assisted under this part.

(c) A comprehensive work and training program must s to provide participants an unbroken sequence of services wh will enable them to obtain and hold employment. It shall prov a systematic approach to planning and implementation includ: the linkage of relevant component programs authorized by t Act with one another and with other appropriate public private programs and activities. It shall also provide for eval tion.

PRIME SPONSORS AND DELEGATE AGENCIES

SEC. 122. (a) For each community program area, the Direc 42 USC shall recognize a public or private nonprofit agency which sh

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(b) The prime sponsor shall provide for participation of employers and labor organizations in the planning and conduct of the comprehensive work and training programs.

(c) The prime sponsor shall be encouraged to make use of public and private organizations as delegate agencies to carry out components of the comprehensive work and training program, including without limitation agencies governed with the participation of the poor and other residents of the neighborhoods or rural areas served, educational institutions, the public employment service, the public welfare agency, other health and welfare agencies, private training institutions, and other capable public and private organizations.

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(d) The prime sponsor and delegate agencies shall provide for participation of residents of the area and members of the 42 USC groups served in the planning, conduct, and evaluation of the comprehensive work and training program and its components. Such persons shall be provided maximum employment opportunity in the conduct of component programs, including opportunity for further occupational training and career advancement. (e) The Director shall prescribe regulations to assure that programs under this part have adequate internal administrative controls, accounting requirements, personnel standards, evaluation procedures, and other policies as may be necessary to promote the effective use of funds.

ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES

SEC. 123. (a) The Director may provide financial assistance in urban and rural areas for comprehensive work and training programs or components of such programs, including the following:

(1) programs to provide part-time employment, on-thejob training, and useful work experience for students from low-income families who are in the ninth through twelfth grades of school (or are of an age equivalent to that of 42 USC students in such grades) and who are in need of the earnings 2740 to permit them to resume or maintain attendance in school;

(2) programs to provide unemployed, underemployed, or low-income persons (aged sixteen and over) with useful work and training (which must include sufficient basic education and institutional or on-the-job training) designed to assist those persons to develop their maximum occupational potential and to obtain regular competitive employment;

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(3) special programs which involve work activities directed to the needs of those chronically unemployed poor who have poor employment prospects and are unable, because of age, lack of employment opportunity, or otherwise, to secure appropriate employment or training assistance

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under other programs, and which, in addition to other serv ices provided, will enable such persons to participate in proj ects for the betterment or beautification of the communit or area served by the program, including without limitation activities which will contribute to the management, con servation, or development of natural resources, recreationa areas, Federal, State, and local government parks, highways and other lands;

(4) special programs which provide unemployed or low income persons with jobs leading to career opportunities including new types of careers, in programs designed to im prove the physical, social, economic, or cultural condition of the community or area served in fields including withou limitation health, cducation, welfare, neighborhood redevel opment, and public safety, which provide maximum prospect for advancement and continued employment without Fed eral assistance, which give promise of contributing to th broader adoption of new methods of structuring jobs an 42 USC new methods of providing job ladder opportunities, an which provide opportunities for further occupational train ing to facilitate career advancement;

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(5) special programs which concentrate work and trainin; resources in urban and rural areas having large concentra tions or proportions of low-income, unemployed persons and within those rural areas having substantial outmigratio to urban areas, which are appropriately focused to assur that work and training opportunities are extended to th most severely disadvantaged persons who can reasonabl be expected to benefit from such opportunities, and whic are supported by specific commitments of cooperation fror private and public employers;

(6) supportive and follow-up services to supplement wor and training programs under this or other Acts includin health services, counseling, day care for children, transports tion assistance, and other special services necessary to assis individuals to achieve success in work and training program and in employment;

(7) employment centers and mobile employment servic units to provide recruitment, counseling, and placemen services, conveniently located in urban neighborhoods an rural areas and easily accessible to the most disadvantage

(8) programs to provide incentives to private employers other than nonprofit organizations, to train or employ un employed or low-income persons, including arrangement by direct contract, reimbursements to employers for a limite period when an employee might not be fully productive, pay ment for on-the-job counseling and other supportive services payment of all or part of employer costs of sending re cruiters into urban and rural areas of high concentrations o proportions of unemployed or low-in-come persons, and pay ments to permit employers to provide employees residen

Page 17 in such areas with transportation to and from work or to reimburse such employees for such transportation: Provided, That in making such reimbursements to employers the Director shall assure that the wages paid any employee shall not be less than the minimum wage which would be applicable to employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 if section 6 of such Act applied to the employee and he was not exempt under section 13 thereof; and (9) means of planning, administering, coordinating, and evaluating a comprehensive work and training program. (b) Commencing July 1, 1968, all work and training component programs conducted in a community under this sec- 42 USC tion shall be consolidated into the comprehenssive work and 2740 training program and financial assistance for such components shall be provided to the prime sponsor unless the Director determines there is a good cause for providing an extension of time, except as otherwise provided by subsection (c). After that date, the work and training components of programs authorized by section 502 of this Act and by section 261 of part E of title II of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 shall to the maximum extent feasible be linked to the comprehensive work and training program, including funding through the prime sponsor where appropriate.

(c) The Director may provide financial assistance to a public agency or private organization other than a prime sponsor to carry out one or more component programs described in subsection (a) when he determines, after soliciting and considering comments of the prime sponsor, if any, that such assistance would enhance program effectiveness or acceptance on the part of persons served and would serve the purposes of this part. In the case of programs under subsection (a) (1) of this section, financial assistance may be provided directly to local or State educational agencies pursuant to agreements between the Director and the Secretary of Labor providing for the operation of such programs under direct grants or contracts.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

SEC. 124. (a) The Director shall not provide financial assistance for any program under this part unless he determines, in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, that

(1) no participant will be employed on projects involving political parties, or the construction, operation, or mainte- 42 USC nance of so much of any facility as is used or to be used for sectarian instruction or as a place for religious worship;

(2) the program will not result in the displacement of employed workers or impair existing contracts for services, or result in the substitution of Federal for other funds in connection with work that would otherwise be performed;

(3) the rates of pay for time spent in work-training and education, and other conditions of employment, will be appropriate and reasonable in the light of such factors as the

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