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1So in original. Probably should be ‘‘means the’’.

§ 1782g. Federal responsibilities

(a) In general

The Secretary shall provide assistance to participating communities in implementing the

projects assisted under this part.

(b) Independent evaluation

(1) In general

The Secretary shall provide for a thorough,

independent evaluation of the Youth Fair

Chance program to assess the outcomes of

youth participating in programs assisted

under this part.

(2) Evaluation measures

In conducting the evaluation described in

paragraph (1) the Secretary shall include an

assessment of—

(A) the impact on youth residing in target

areas, including the rates of school completion, enrollment in advanced education or

training, and employment of the youth;

(B) the extent to which participating communities fulfilled the goal of guaranteed access to appropriate education, training, and

supportive services to all eligible youth residing in target areas who seek to participate;

(C) the effectiveness of guaranteed access

to comprehensive services combined with

outreach and recruitment efforts in enlisting the participation of previously unserved

or underserved youth residing in target

areas;

(D) the effectiveness of efforts to integrate

service delivery in target areas, including

systems of common intake, assessment, and

case management; and

(E) the feasibility of extending guaranteed

access to comprehensive education, training

and support services for youth in all areas of

the United States, including possible approaches to incremental extension of such

access over time.

(c) Report

The Secretary shall prepare a report detailing

the results of the independent evaluation described in subsection (b) of this section and shall

submit such report to the Congress not later

than December 31, 1996, along with an analysis

of expenditures made, results achieved, and

problems in the operations and coordination of

programs assisted under this part.

(d) Reservation of funds

The Secretary may reserve not more than 5

percent of the amount appropriated under this

part in each fiscal year to carry out the provisions of this section.

(Pub. L. 97–300, title IV, §498, as added Pub. L.

102–367, title IV, §406, Sept. 7, 1992, 106 Stat.

1091.)

§ 1782h. Definitions

For the purposes of this part—

(1) Participating community

The term ‘‘participating community’’—

(A) in the case of a community conducting

a project in an urban area, means a city in

a metropolitan statistical area;

(B) in the case of a community conducting

a project in a rural area, means a nonmetropolitan county or contiguous nonmetropolitan counties;

(C) in the case of a community conducting

a project in an Indian reservation or Alaska

Native village, the 1 grantee designated

under subsection (c) or (d) of section 1671 of

this title, or a consortium of such grantees

and the State; or

(D) in the case of a community conducting

a project in a migrant or seasonal farmworker community, the 1 grantee designated

under section 1672(c) of this title, or a consortium of such grantees and the State.

(2) High poverty area

The term ‘‘high poverty area’’ means an

urban census tract, a nonmetropolitan county,

a Native American Indian reservation, or an

Alaska Native village, with a poverty rate of

30 percent or more, as determined by the Bureau of the Census, or a migrant or seasonal

farmworker community.

(3) Target area

The term ‘‘target area’’ means a high poverty area or set of contiguous high poverty

areas that will be the focus of the program in

each participating community.

(Pub. L. 97–300, title IV, §498A, as added Pub. L.

102–367, title IV, §406, Sept. 7, 1992, 106 Stat.

1092.)

PART I—MICROENTERPRISE GRANTS PROGRAM

PART REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This part is referred to in section 1502 of this title.

§ 1783. Microenterprise grants

(a) Program authority

From the amount appropriated to carry out

this section for fiscal years 1993 through 1997,

the Secretary of Labor shall make grants of not

more than $500,000 per year to not more than 10

States per year to implement and enhance community-based microenterprise activities. Such

grants shall be an amount adequate to ensure

that the activities will be of sufficient size and

scope to produce substantial benefits. Such activities shall be for the benefit of economically

disadvantaged persons.

(b) Use of funds

Such funds shall be used, notwithstanding section 1551(q) of this title—

(1) to train program staff in such entrepreneurial activities as business plan development, business management, resource inventory design, and marketing approaches, and

other activities necessary to provide effective

entry level training to persons developing a

microenterprise;

(2) to provide to owners or potential owners

of a microenterprise such technical assistance

(including technical assistance with respect to

business planning, securing funding, marketing, and production of marketing materials)

and other assistance as may be necessary to

develop microenterprise activities; and