"ALLOWANCE AND SUPPORT "SEC. 109. (a) The Director may provide enrollees with such personal travel and leave allowances, and such quarters, subsistence, transportation, equipment, clothing, recreational services, and other expenses as he may deem necessary or appropriate to their needs. Personal allowances shall be established at a rate not to exceed $50 per month, except in unusual circumstances as determined by the Director; shall be graduated up to the maximum so as to encourage achievement and the best use by the enrollee of the funds so provided; and shall be subject to reduction in appropriate cases as a disciplinary measure. To the degree reasonable, enrollees shall be required to meet or contribute to costs associated with their individual comfort and enjoyment from their personal allowances. "(b) The Director shall prescribe specific rules governing the accrual of leave by enrollees. Except in the case of emergency, he shall in no event assume transportation costs connected with leave of any enrollee who has not completed at least six months service in the Job Corps. "(c) The Director may provide each former enrollee, upon termination, a readjustment allowance at a rate not to exceed $50 for each month of satisfactory participation in the Job Corps. No enrollee shall be entitled to a readjustment allowance, however, unless he has remained in the program at least ninety days, except in unusual circumstances as determined by the Director. The Director máy, from time to time, advance to or on behalf of an enrollee such portions of his readjustment allowance as the Director deems necessary to meet extraordinary financial obligations incurred by that enrollee; and he may also, pursuant to rules or regulations, reduce the amount of an enrollee's readjustment allowance as a penalty for misconduct during participation in the Job Corps. In the event of an enrollee's death during his period of service, the amount of any unpaid readjustment allowance shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of section 5582 of title 5, United States Code. "(d) Under such circumstances as the Director may determine, a portion of the readjustment allowance of an enrollee not exceeding $25 for each month of satisfactory service may be paid during the period of service of the enrollee directly to a spouse or child of an enrollee or to any other relative who draws substantial support from the enrollee, and any sum so paid shall be supplemented by the payment of an equal amount by the Director. "STANDARDS OF CONDUCT "SEC. 110. (a) Within Job Corps centers, standards of conduct and deportment shall be provided and stringently enforced. In the case of violations committed by enrollees, dismissals from the Corps or transfers to other locations shall be made in every instance where it is determined that retention in the Corps, or in the particular Job Corps center, will jeopardize the enforcement of such standards of conduct and deportment or diminish the opportunity of other enrollees. "(b) In order to promote the proper moral and disciplinary conditions in the Job Corps, the individual directors of Job Corps centers shall be given full authority to take appropriate disciplinary measures against enrollees including, but not limited to, dismissal from the Job Corps, subject to expeditious appeal procedures to higher authority, as provided under regulations set by the Director. "COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION "SEC. 111. The Director shall encourage and shall cooperate in activities designed to establish a mutually beneficial relationship between Job Corps centers and surrounding or nearby communities. These activities shall include the establishment of community advisory councils to provide a mechanism for joint discussion of common problems and for planning programs of mutual interest. Youth participation in advisory council affairs shall be encouraged and where feasible separate youth councils may be established, to be composed of representative enrollees and representative young people from the communities. The Director shall establish necessary rules and take necessary action to assure that each center is operated in a manner consistent with this section with a view to achieving, so far as possible, objectives which shall include: (1) giving community officials appropriate advance notice of changes in center rules. procedures, or activities that may affect or be of interest to the community; (2) affording the community a meaningful voice in center affairs of direct concern to it, including policies governing the issuance and terms of passes to enrollees; (3) providing center officials with full and rapid access to relevant community groups and agencies, including law enforcement agencies and agencies which work with young people in the community; (4) encouraging the fullest practicable participation of enrollees in programs or projects for community improvement or betterment, with adequate advance consultation with business, labor, professional, and other interested community groups and organizations; (5) arranging recreational, athletic, or similar events in which enrollees and local residents may participate together; (6) providing community residents with opportunities to work with enrollees directly, as part-time instructors, tutors, or advisers, either in the center or in the community; (7) developing, where feasible, job or career opportunities for enrollees in the community; and (8) promoting interchanges of information and techniques among, and cooperative projects involving, the center and community schools, educational institutions, and agencies serving young people. "PLACEMENT AND FOLLOWTHROUGH "SEC. 112. The Director shall provide or arrange for necessary services to assist enrollees to secure suitable employment or further training opportunities, to return to school or pursue their education, or undertake some other activity having a career potential. To the extent feasible, placement services shall be undertaken through or in cooperation with agencies or organizations, including the public employment service, which will be in a position to provide enrollees with reasonable followthrough necessary or appropriate to aid them in making a satisfactory initial adjustment with particular attention to those enrollees who in the course of completing their enrollment in a satisfactory manner have demonstrated the motivation to overcome special handicaps, or who face unusual adjustment problems, as in a new community. "EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECTS "SEC. 113. (a) The Director shall provide for the careful and systematic evaluation of the Job Corps program, with a view to measuring specific benefits, so far as practicable, and providing information needed to assess the effectiveness of program procedures, policies, and methods of operation. In carrying out such evaluations, the Director shall consult with other agencies and officials in order to compare the relative effectiveness of Job Corps techniques with those used in other programs, and shall endeavor to secure, through employers, schools, or other Government and private agencies specific information concerning the residence of former enrollees, their employment status, compensation, and success in adjusting to community life. He shall also secure, to the extent feasible, similar information directly from enrollees at appropriate intervals following their completion of the Job Corps program. "(b) The Director may undertake or make grants or contracts for experimental, research, or demonstration projects directed to developing or testing ways of securing the better use of facilities, of encouraging a more rapid adjustment of enrollees to community life that will permit a reduction in the period of their enrollment, of reducing transportation and support costs, or of otherwise promoting greater efficiency and effectiveness in the program authorized under this part. These projects shall include one or more projects providing youths with education, training, and other supportive services on a combined residential and nonresidential basis. Projects under this subsection shall be developed after appropriate consultation with other Federal or State agencies conducting similar or related programs or projects. They may be undertaken jointly with other Federal or federally assisted programs, including programs under part B of this title, and funds otherwise available for activities under those programs shall, with the consent of the head of any agency concerned. be available to projects under this section to the extent they include the same or substantially similar activities. The Director may waive any provision of this title which he finds would prevent the carrying out of elements of projects under this subsection essential to a determination of their feasibility and usefulness. He shall either in his annual report or a separate annual document, report to the Congress concerning the actions taken under this section, including a full description of progress made in connection with combined residential and nonresidential projects. "SEC. 114. The Director shall make use of advisory committees or boards in connection with the operation of the Job Corps, and the operation of Job Corps centers, whenever he determines that the availability of outside advice and counsel on a regular basis would be of substantial benefit in identifying and overcoming problems, in planning program or center development, or in strengthening relationships between the Job Corps and agencies, institutions, or groups engaged in related activities. Nothing in this section shall be considered as limiting the functions of the National Advisory Council, established pursuant to section 605 of this Act, with respect to any matter or question involving the Job Corps; but this shall not prevent the establishment through or in cooperation with the National Advisory Council of one or more boards or committees under this section. "PARTICIPATION OF THE STATES "SEC. 115. (a) The Director shall take necessary action to facilitate the effective participation of States in the Job Corps program, including, but not limited to, consultation with appropriate State agencies on matters pertaining to the enforcement of applicable State laws, standards of enrollee conduct and discipline, the development of meaningful work experience and other activities for enrollees, and coordination with State-operated programs. "(b) The Director may enter into agreements with States to assist in the operation or administration of State-operated programs which carry out the purpose of this part. The Director may, pursuant to regulations, pay part or all of the operative or administrative costs of such programs. "(c) No Job Corps center or other similar facility designed to carry out the purpose of this Act shall be established within a State unless a plan setting forth such proposed establishment has been submitted to the Governor, and such plan has not been disapproved by him within 30 days of such submission. "APPLICATION OF PROVISIONS OF FEDERAL LAW "SEC. 116. (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided in the following paragraphs of this subsection, enrollees in the Job Corps shall not be considered Federal employees and shall not be subject to the provisions of law relating to Federal employment, including those regarding hours of work, rates of compensation, leave, unemployment compensation, and Federal employee benefits: "(1) For purposes of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 1 et seq.) and title II of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), enrollees shall be deemed employees of the United States and any service performed by an individual as an enrollee shall be deemed to be performed in the employ of the United States. "(2) For purposes of subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 5 of the United States Code (relating to compensation to Federal employees for work injuries), enrollees shall be deemed civil employees of the United States within the meaning of the term 'employee' as defined in section 8101 of title 5, United States Code, and the provisions of that subchapter shall apply except as follows: "(A) The term 'performance of duty' shall not include any act of an enrollee while absent from his or her assigned post of duty, except while participating in an activity (including an activity while on pass or during travel to or from such post of duty) authorized by or under the direction and supervision of the Job Corps ; "(B) In computing compensation benefits for disability or death, the monthly pay of an enrollee shall be deemed that received under the entrance salary for a grade GS-2 employee, and sections 8113 (a) and (b) of title 5, United States Code, shall apply to enrollees; and "(C) Compensation for disability shall not begin to accrue until the day following the date on which the injured enrollee is terminated. "(3) For purposes of the Federal tort claims provisions in title 28, United States Code, enrollees shall be considered employees of the Government. "(b) When the Director finds a claim for damage to persons or property resulting from the operation of the Job Corps to be a proper charge against the United States, and it is not cognizable under section 2672 of title 28, United States Code, he may adjust and settle it in an amount not exceeding $500. "(c) Personnel of the uniformed services who are detailed or assigned to duty in the performance of agreements made by the Director for the support of the Corps shall not be counted in computing strength under any law limiting the strength of such services or in computing the percentage authorized by law for any grade therein. "SPECIAL LIMITATIONS "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, in a manner that will increase above forty-five thousand the enrollee capacity of Job Corps centers. "(b) The Director shall take necessary action to insure that on or before June 30, 1968, of the total number of Job Corps enrollees in residence and receiving training, at least 25 per centum shall be women. "(c) The Director shall take necessary action to insure 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 exceed $7,300 per enrollee. "(d) The Director shall take necessary action to insure 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. "POLITICAL DISCRIMINATION AND POLITICAL ACTIVITY "SEC. 118. (a) No Officer or employee of the executive branch of the Federal Government shall make any inquiry concerning 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 Corrupt Practices Act. "(c) Whenever the United States Civil Service Commission finds than any person has violated the foregoing provisions, it shall, after giving due notice and opportunity for explanation to the officer or employee or enrollee concerned. certify the facts to the Director with specific instructions as to discipline or dismissal or other corrective actions." WORK AND TRAINING PROGRAMS SEC. 102. Parts B and D of title I of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 are consolidated as a new part B of such title and amended to read as follows: "PART B-WORK AND TRAINING FOR YOUTH AND ADULTS "SEC. 120. The purpose of this part is to provide useful work-experience and work-training opportunities, together with related services and assistance, that will assist low-income youths to continue or resume their education, and to help unemployed, underemployed, or other low-income and severely disadvantaged persons, both young and adult, to obtain and hold regular competitive employment, with maximum opportunities for local initiative in developing programs which respond to local needs and problems, including programs using both public and private resources to overcome the complex problems of the most severely disadvantaged in areas having high concentrations of unemployment, underemployment, and low income. "NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS "SEC. 121. The Director may provide financial assistance for "(1) programs to provide part-time employment, on-the-job 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 students in such grades) and who are in need of the earnings to permit them to resume or maintain attendance in school; and "(2) programs to provide unemployed individuals (aged sixteen through twenty-one years at the time of enrollment) with useful work experience and on-the-job training, combined where needed with educational and training assistance, including basic literacy and occupational training, designed to assist those individuals to develop their maximum occupational potential. "COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS "SEC. 122. (a) The Director may provide financial assistance for community employment and training projects. These projects shall provide work experience, on-the-job, or work training for unemployed, underemployed, or low-income persons (including projects involving both adults and youths age sixteen or over). They shall be designed to assist participants to secure or qualifying for— "(1) permanent, meaningful employment without further assistance under this section, and "(2) wherever possible, entry-level jobs invloving the use or acquisition of skills needed for subprofessional or other career opportunities offering promise of regular or continued advancement. "(b) Where feasible and consistent with the objectives of subsection (a), projects under this section shall be designed so that participants acquire work skills or experience in activities that involve, or will lead to permanent employment in, fields where there are critical or unmet community needs. These fields may include, without limitation, the management, conservation, or development of natural resources, recreational areas, public parks, highways, or other lands; neighborhood redevelopment; the provision of health, education, welfare, or public safety services; or other activities directed to bettering or beautifying a community or area or improving its physical, social, economic, or cultural condition. "(c) Projects under this section shall include related supportive services, including basic education, occupational training, health services, and special counseling, as needed to assist participants to attain the objectives described in subsection (a). "(d) In determining whether, in what amount and on what conditions, to assist projects or parts of projects otherwise eligible under this section, the Director shall consider "(1) in all cases, the degree to which efforts have been made to provide assurances of regular employment at the earliest feasible time, and the degree to which the project has been developed and realistically structured so as to take account of the desires, needs, and capabilities of participants: "(2) in the case of projects or parts of projects involving activities related to physical improvements, whether the improvements will be substantially used by the low-income persons and families or will contribute substantially to amenities or facilities in areas or neighborhoods having concentrations of low-income persons and families; "(3) in the case of projects or parts of projects involving the development of entry-level employment opportunities, the extent to which the proposed activities will not only benefit those directly participating but will also contribute or give promise of contributing to the broader adoption of new methods of structuring jobs or providing job ladder opportunities, the development and recognition of new types of careers for low-income and disadvantaged persons, or the elimination of artificial barriers in the community to employment and advancement on the part of those persons. "SPECIAL URBAN EMPLOYMENT IMPACT PROGRAMS "SEC. 123. (a) The Director may provide necessary financial assistance, as provided in this section, to meet costs of developing, planning, and carrying out projects which are designed to assist in meeting some of the critical problems facing urban areas, and to stimulate the fuller and more effective use of the |