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TITLE VIII-NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS

Section 801. Short title__

Section 802. Statement of purpose..

Section 803. Financial assistance for Native American projects.

Section 804. Technical assistance and training.

Section 805. Research, demonstration, and pilot projects-

Section 806. Announcement of research, demonstration, or pilot projects

Section 807. Submission of plans to States and local officials

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Section 901. Program and project evaluation.

Section 902. Cooperation of and consultation with other Federal agencies-
Section 903. Evaluation by other administering agencies_ _

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COMPREHENSIVE EMPLOYMENT AND

TRAINING ACT OF 1973

As Amended by the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act of 1974 1

AN ACT To assure opportunities for employment and training to unemployed and underemployed persons.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973".

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

SEC. 2. It is the purpose of this Act to provide job training and employment opportunities for economically disadvantaged, unemployed, and underemployed persons, and to assure that training and other services lead to maximum employment opportunities and enhance self-sufficiency by establishing a flexible and decentralized system of Federal, State, and local programs.

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 3. (a) To the extent necessary to provide for the orderly transition of supporting job training programs, and to provide continued financial assistance for such programs, prior to July 1, 1974, the Secretary is authorized to provide financial assistance in the same manner and on the same conditions as provided in the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, as in effect prior to June 30, 1973, title I of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, and the Emergency Employment Act of 1971, as in effect prior to June 30, 1973, from funds appropriated pursuant to this Act.

(b) The authority contained in this section shall not be construed to postpone or impede the prompt designation of prime sponsors and the implementation of other provisions of this Act.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act other than the provisions of section 4(d) (1), the Secretary is authorized from appropriations available under this Act for fiscal year 1974 to provide financial assistance for the program described in section 304 (a) (3) during the period June 1, 1974, through October 1, 1974, in the same manner and on the same conditions as provided pursuant to the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, as in effect prior to June 30, 1973, and title I of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. as in effect prior to repeal by this Act.

1 Changes made in the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-567) by the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act of 1973 are shown as follows: matter stricken by such Amendments is shown in brackets and new matter added by such Amendments is shown in italics.

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AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 4. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for each of the three succeeding fiscal years for carrying out the provisions of this Act.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless enacted in specific limitation of the provisions of this subsection, any funds appropriated to carry out this Act which are not obligated prior to the end of the fiscal year for which such funds were appropriated shall remain available for obligation during the succeeding fiscal year, and any funds obligated in any fiscal year may be expended during a period of two years from the date of obligation.

(c) (1) For the purpose of affording adequate notice of funding available under this Act, appropriations under this Act are authorized to be included in an appropriation Act for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which they are available for obligation.

(2) In order to effect a transition to the advance funding method of timing appropriation action, the provisions of this subsection shall apply notwithstanding that its initial application will result in the enactment in the same year (whether in the same appropriation Act or otherwise) of two separate appropriations, one for the then current fiscal year and one for the succeeding fiscal year.

(d) (1) Of the amounts appropriated to carry out this Act, the Secretary shall reserve and make available not less than $250,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and not less than $350,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, to carry out public service employment programs under title II.

(2) In addition to the amounts reserved under paragraph (1) of this subsection, there are authorized to be appropriated and made available for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1974, and June 30, 1975, such sums as may be necessary to carry out public service employment programs under title II. There are authorized to be appropriated and made available for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and for the succeding fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to carry out public service employment programs under title II.

(e) of the amount appropriated to carry out this Act for any fiscal year, not more than 20 percent of such amount (excluding any amount in excess of $250,000,000 of the amount made available for carrying out title II) shall be available for carrying out the provisions of title III and title IV.

TITLE I-COMPREHENSIVE MANPOWER SERVICES

DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM

SEC. 101. It is the purpose of this title to establish a program to provide comprehensive manpower services throughout the Nation. Such program shall include the development and creation of job opportunities and the training, education, and other services needed to enable individuals to secure and retain employment at their maximum capacity. Comprehensive manpower services may include, but shall not be limited to, programs and activities designed to carry out the purpose of this title, such as

(1) outreach to make persons aware of the availability of manpower services and persuade them to use such services,

(2) assessment of the individual's needs, interests, and potential in the labor market and referral to appropriate employment, training, or other opportunities,

(3) orientation, counseling, education, and institutional skill training to prepare the individual to enter the labor market or to qualify for more productive job opportunities,

(4) training on the job,

(5) payments or other inducements to public or private employers to expand job opportunities, but payments to employers organized for profit shall not exceed the difference berween the costs of recruiting, training, and providing supportive services for low-income persons and those regularly employed,

(6) services to individuals to enable them to retain employment, (7) payment of allowances to persons in training for which they receive no remuneration and payment of such allowances for transportation, subsistence, or other expenses incurred in participating in manpower services or employment as are necessary to enable the individual to participate therein,

(8) supportive services to enable individuals to take advantage of employment opportunities, including necessary health care and medical services, child care, residential support, assistance in securing bonds, or any other necessary assistance incident to employment, and any other service needed to participate in employment or manpower services,

(9) development of information concerning the labor market and activities, such as job restructuring, to make it more responsive to objectives of the manpower services program.

(10) manpower training, employment opportunities, and related services conducted by community-based organizations, (11) transitional public service employment programs, and (12) any programs authorized by part A of title III and by title IV of this Act.

PRIME SPONSOR

SEC. 102. (a) The Secretary may make financial assistance available. to a prime sponsor to enable it to carry out all or a substantial part of a comprehensive manpower program. A prime sponsor shall be(1) a State;

(2) a unit of general local government which has a population of one hundred thousand or more persons on the basis of the most satisfactory current data available to the Secretary;

(3) any combination of units of general local government which includes any unit of general local government qualifying under paragraph (2) of this subsection;

(4) any unit of general local government or any combination of such units, without regard to population, which, in exceptional circumstances, is determined by the Secretary of Labor

(A) (i) to serve a substantial portion of a functioning labor market area, or (ii) to be a rural area having a high level of unemployment; and

(B) to have demonstrated (i) that it has the capability for edequately carrying out programs under this Act, and (ii)

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