service and related needs which are not now being met because of lack of trained workers or other reasons affecting employment or opportunities for employment.

(42 U.S.C. 2572a) Enacted Apr. 26, 1965, P.L. 89–15, sec. 4(a), 79 Stat. 75.

LABOR MOBILITY DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS

SEC. 104. (a) During the period ending June 30, 1970, the Secretary of Labor shall develop and carry out, in a limited number of geographical areas, pilot projects designed to assess or demonstrate the effectiveness in reducing unemployment of programs to increase the mobility of unemployed workers by providing assistance to meet their relocation expenses. In carrying out such projects the Secretary may provide such assistance, in the form of grants or loans, or both, only to involuntarily unemployed individuals who cannot reasonably be expected to secure full-time employment in the community in which they reside, have bona fide offers of employment (other than temporary or seasonal employment), and are deemed qualified to perform the work for which they are being employed.

(b) Loans or grants provided under this section shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary shall prescribe, with loans subject to the following limitations:

(1) there is reasonable assurance of repayment of the loan; (2) the credit is not otherwise available on reasonable terms. from private sources or other Federal, State, or local programs; (3) the amount of the loan, together with other funds available, is adequate to assure achievement of the purposes for which the loan is made;

(4) the loan bears interest at a rate of not less than (A) a rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, taking into consideration the average market yield on outstanding Treasury obligations of comparable maturity, plus (B) such additional charge, if any, toward covering other costs of the program as the Secretary may determine to be consistent with its purposes; and

(5) the loan is repayable within not more than ten years. (c) Of the funds appropriated for a fiscal year to carry out this Act, not more than $5,000,000 may be used for the purposes of this section.

(42 U.S.C. 2572b) Enacted Apr. 26, 1965, P.L. 89-15, sec. 4(a), 79 Stat. 76; amended Nov. 7, 1966, P.L. 89-792, sec. 2(a), 80 Stat. 1434; amended Oct. 24, 1968, P.L. 90–636, sec. 1(1), 82 Stat. 1352.

TRAINEE PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS

SEC. 105. During the period ending June 30, 1970, the Secretary of Labor shall develop and carry out experimental and demonstration projects to assist in the placement of persons seeking employment through a public employment office who have successfully completed or participated in a federally assisted or financed training, counseling, work training, or work experience program and who, after appropriate counseling, have been found by the Secretary to be qualified and suitable for the employment in question, but to whom employment is or may be denied for reasons other than ability to perform, including difficulty in securing bonds for indemnifying their employers

against loss from the infidelity, dishonesty, or default of such persons. In carrying out these projects the Secretary may make payments to or contracts with employers or institutions authorized to indemnify employers against such losses. Of the funds appropriated for a fiscal year to carry out this Act not more than $300,000, may be used for the purposes of this section.

(42 U.S.C. 2572c) Enacted Apr. 26, 1965, P.L. 89-15, sec. 4(a), 79 Stat. 76: amended Nov. 7, 1966, P.L. 89-792, sec. 2(b), 80 Stat. 1434; amended Oct. 24, 1965, P.L. 90-636, sec. 1(2), 82 Stat. 1352.

LABOR MARKET INFORMATION AND JOB MATCHING PROGRAM

SEC. 106. (a) The Secretary of Labor shall develop a comprehensive system of labor market information on a National, State, local, or other appropriate basis, including but not limited to information regarding

(1) the nature and extent of impediments to the maximum development of individual employment potential including the number and characteristics of all persons requiring manpower services;

(2) job opportunities and skill requirements;

(3) labor supply in various skills;

(4) occupational outlook and employment trends in various occupations; and

(5) in cooperation and after consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, economic and business development and location trends. Information collected under this subsection shall be developed and made available in a timely fashion in order to meet in a comprehensive manner the needs of public and private users, including the need for such information in recruitment, counseling, education, training, placement, job development, and other appropriate activities under this Act and under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, the Social Security Act, the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, the Wagner-Peyser Act, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, and other relevant Federal statutes.

(b) The Secretary of Labor shall develop and publish on a regular basis information on available job opportunities throughout the United States on a National, State, local, or other appropriate basis for use in public and private job placement and related activities and in connection with job matching programs conducted pursuant to this subsection. The Secretary is directed to develop and establish a program for matching the qualifications of unemployed, underemployed, and low-income persons with employer requirements and job opportunities on a National, State, local, or other appropriate basis. Such programs shall be designed to provide a quick and direct means of communication among local recruitment, job training and placement agencies and organizations, and between such agencies and organizations on a National, State, local, or other appropriate basis, with a view to the referral and placement of such persons in jobs. In the development of such a program, the Secretary shall make maximum possible use of

electronic data processing and telecommunications systems for the storage, retrieval, and communication of job and worker information. (c) A report on the activities and achievements under this section shall be included in the report required under section 107.

(d) Not less than 2 per centum of the sums appropriated in any fiscal year to carry out titles I, II, and III of this Act shall be available only for carrying out the provisions of subsection (b) of this section.

(42 U.S.C. 2573) Enacted Mar. 15, 1962, P.L. 87-415, sec. 103, 76 Stat. 25; redesignated Apr. 26, 1965 as sec. 106 by P.L. 89-15, sec. 4(a), 79 Stat. 75; amended Oct. 24, 1968, P.L. 90-636, sec. 2, 82 Stat. 1352, 1353.

MANPOWER REPORT

SEC. 107. The Secretary of Labor shall make such reports and recommendations to the President as he deems appropriate pertaining to manpower requirements, resources, use, and training; and the President shall transmit to the Congress within sixty days after the beginning of each regular session (commencing with the year 1963) a report pertaining to manpower requirements, resources, utilization, and training.

(42 U.S.C. 2574) Enacted Mar. 15, 1962, P.L. 87-415, sec. 104, 76 Stat. 25; redesignated Apr. 26, 1965, as sec. 107 by P.L. 89-15, sec. 4(a), 79 Stat. 75.

TITLE II-TRAINING AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMS

PART A-DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY OF LABOR

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITY

SEC. 201. In carrying out the purposes of this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall determine the skill requirements of the economy, develop policies for the adequate occupational development and maximum utilization of the skills of the Nation's workers, promote and encourage the development of broad and diversified training programs, including on-the-job training, designed to qualify for employment the many persons who cannot reasonably be expected to secure full-time employment without such training, and to equip the Nation's workers with the new and improved skills that are or will be required. Whenever appropriate, the Secretary of Labor shall coordinate and provide for combinations of programs, to be pursued concurrently or sequentially, under this Act with programs under other Federal Acts, where the purposes of this Act would be accomplished thereby.

(42 U.S.C. 2581) Enacted Mar. 15, 1962, P.L. 87-415, sec. 201, 76 Stat. 25; amended Nov. 8, 1966, P.L. 89-794, sec. 1001 (a), 80 Stat. 1475.

SELECTION OF TRAINEES

SEC. 202. (a) The Secretary of Labor shall provide a program for testing, counseling, and selecting for occupational training under this Act those unemployed or underemployed persons who cannot reasonably be expected to secure appropriate full-time employment without training. Workers in farm families with less than $1,200 annual net family income shall be considered unemployed for the purpose of this Act.

(b) Whenever appropriate the Secretary shall provide a special program for the testing, counseling, selection, and referral of youths, sixteen years of age or older, for occupational training and further schooling, who because of inadequate educational background and work preparation are unable to qualify for and obtain employment without such training and schooling.

(c) The Secretary of Labor shall provide, where appropriate, a special program of testing, counseling, selection, and referral of persons forty-five years of age or older for occupational training and further schooling designed to meet the special problems faced by such persons in the labor market.

(d) Although priority in referral for training shall be extended to unemployed persons, the Secretary of Labor shall, to the maximum extent possible, also refer other persons qualified for training programs which will enable them to acquire needed skills. Priority in referral for training shall also be extended to persons to be trained for skills needed within, first, the labor market area in which they reside and, second, within the State of their residence.

(e) The Secretary of Labor shall determine the occupational training needs of referred persons, provide for their orderly selection and referral for training under this Act, and provide counseling and placement services to persons who have completed their training, as well as follow-up studies to determine whether the programs provided meet the occupational training needs of the persons referred.

(f) Before selecting a person for training (other than for training under subsection (j)) the Secretary shall determine that there is a reasonable expectation of employment in the occupation for which the person is to be trained. If such employment is not available in the area in which the person resides, the Secretary shall obtain reasonable assurance of such person's willingness to accept employment outside his area of residence.

(g) The Secretary shall not refer persons for training in an occupation which requires less than two weeks training, unless there are immediate employment opportunities in such occupation.

(h) The duration of any training program to which a person is referred shall be reasonable and consistent with the occupation for which the person is being trained.

(i) Upon certification by the responsible training agency that a person who has been referred for training does not have a satifactory attendance record or is not making satisfactory progress in such training absent good cause, the Secretary shall forthwith terminate his training and subsistence allowances, and his transportation allowances except such as may be necessary to enable him to return to his regular place of residence after termination of training, and withdraw his referral. Such person shall not be eligible for such allowances for one year thereafter.

(j) Whenever appropriate, the Secretary of Labor may also refer, for the attainment of basic education and communications and employment skills, those eligible persons who indicate their intention to and will thereby be able to pursue, subsequently or concurrently, courses of occupational training of a type for which there appears to be a reasonable expectation of employment, or who have completed or do not need occupational training but do require such other prepara

tion to render them employable. Such referrals shall be considered a referral for training within the meaning of this Act.

(k) The Secretary of Labor may enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for the purpose of furthering the objectives of this Act by facilitating the provision of appropriate physical examinations, medical treatment, and prostheses for persons selected or otherwise eligible to be selected for training under this Act. The agreement may provide that where any such person cannot reasonably be expected to pay the cost of the services and the services are not otherwise available without cost to him from any other resource in the community, there may be expended (from sums appropriated to carry out this title and pursuant to arrangements made by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) not more than an aggregate of $100 to provide such services to that person. If the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare is unable to arrange for the provision of services under this section, the Secretary of Labor may expend not more than an aggregate of $100 to provide such services to any one person.

(1) In order to assist in providing qualified workers_in_areas or in occupations in which there are critical skill shortages the Secretary of Labor shall, in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, provide an experimental program for part-time training of persons, including employed persons, to meet such skill shortages.

(42 U.S.C. 2582) Enacted Mar. 15, 1962, P.L. 87-415, sec. 202, 76 Stat. 25; amended Dec. 19, 1963, P.L. 88-214, sec. 2, 77 Stat. 422; amended Apr. 26, 1965, P.L. 89-15, sec. 5, 79 Stat. 77; amended Nov. 7, 1966, P.L. 89-792, sec. 3, 80 Stat. 1434; amended Oct. 24, 1968, P.L. 90-636, sec. 3 (a), 82 Stat. 1353.

TRAINING ALLOWANCE

SEC. 203. (a) The Secretary of Labor may, on behalf of the United States, enter into agreements with States under which the Secretary of Labor shall make payments to such States either in advance or by way of reimbursement for the purpose of enabling such States, as agents for the United States, to make payment of weekly training allowances to unemployed persons selected for training pursuant to the provisions of section 202 and undergoing such training in a program operated pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Such payments shall be made for a period not exceeding one hundred and four weeks, and the basic amount of any such payment in any week for persons undergoing training, including uncompensated employer-provided training, shall not exceed $10 more than the amount of the average weekly gross unemployment compensation payment (including allowances for dependents) for a week of total unemployment in the State making such payments during the most recent four-calendar-quarter period for which such data are available: Provided, That the basic amount of such payments may be increased by $5 a week for each dependent over two up to a maximum of four additional dependents: Provided further, That in any week an individual who, but for his training, would be entitled to unemployment compensation in excess of his total allowance, including payments for dependents, shall receive an allowance increased by the amount of such taxes. With respect to Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Secretary shall be regulation determine the amount of the