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for America Institute, and shall be awarded no later than January
31, 2005.
Of the funds provided under this heading in Public Law 108–
199 for the Employment and Training Administration, $4,000,000
shall be for a non-competitive grant to the Black Clergy of Philadel-
phia and Vicinity, and shall be awarded no later than January
31, 2005.
Of the funds provided under this heading in Public Law 108–
199 for the Employment and Training Administration, $2,600,000
shall be for a non-competitive grant to the National Center on
Education and the Economy, and shall be awarded no later than
January 31, 2005.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds awarded
under grants to the State of Tennessee for Workforce Essentials,
Inc., in Clarksville, Tennessee on June 29, 2004, and to Hampton
Roads on behalf of the Hampton Roads Workforce Development
Board in Norfolk, Virginia on June 30, 2001, pursuant to section
173 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2918),
may be used to provide services to spouses of members of the
armed forces.
The Secretary of Labor shall take no action to amend, through
regulatory or administration action, the definition established in
20 CFR 667.220 for functions and activities under title I of the
Workforce Investment Act of 1998 until such time as legislation
reauthorizing the Act is enacted.
Of the unobligated funds contained in the H–1B Nonimmigrant
Petitioner Account that are available to the Secretary of Labor
pursuant to section 286(s)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(s)(2)), $100,000,000 are rescinded.
COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT FOR OLDER AMERICANS
To carry out title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as
amended, $440,200,000.
FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCES
For payments during the current fiscal year of trade adjustment
benefit payments and allowances under part I and section 246;
and for training, allowances for job search and relocation, and
related State administrative expenses under part II of chapter
2, title II of the Trade Act of 1974 (including the benefits and
services described under sections 123(c)(2) and 151(b) and (c) of
the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act of 2002, Public Law
107–210), $1,057,300,000, together with such amounts as may be
necessary to be charged to the subsequent appropriation for pay-
ments for any period subsequent to September 15 of the current
year.
STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
OPERATIONS
For authorized administrative expenses, $141,934,000, together
with not to exceed $3,524,301,000 (including not to exceed
$1,228,000 which may be used for amortization payments to States
which had independent retirement plans in their State employment
service agencies prior to 1980), which may be expended from the
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Employment Security Administration Account in the Unemploy-
ment Trust Fund including the cost of administering section 51
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, section 7(d)
of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended, the Trade Act of 1974,
as amended, the Immigration Act of 1990, and the Immigration
and Nationality Act, as amended, and of which the sums available
in the allocation for activities authorized by title III of the Social
Security Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 502–504), and the sums avail-
able in the allocation for necessary administrative expenses for
carrying out 5 U.S.C. 8501–8523, shall be available for obligation
by the States through December 31, 2005, except that funds used
for automation acquisitions shall be available for obligation by
the States through September 30, 2007; of which $141,934,000,
together with not to exceed $763,587,000 of the amount which
may be expended from said trust fund, shall be available for obliga-
tion for the period July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006, to fund
activities under the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, including
the cost of penalty mail authorized under 39 U.S.C. 3202(a)(1)(E)
made available to States in lieu of allotments for such purpose:
Provided, That to the extent that the Average Weekly Insured
Unemployment (AWIU) for fiscal year 2005 is projected by the
Department of Labor to exceed 3,227,000, an additional $28,600,000
shall be available for obligation for every 100,000 increase in the
AWIU level (including a pro rata amount for any increment less
than 100,000) from the Employment Security Administration
Account of the Unemployment Trust Fund: Provided further, That
funds appropriated in this Act which are used to establish a national
one-stop career center system, or which are used to support the
national activities of the Federal-State unemployment insurance
or immigration programs, may be obligated in contracts, grants
or agreements with non-State entities: Provided further, That funds
appropriated under this Act for activities authorized under the
Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended, and title III of the Social Security
Act, may be used by the States to fund integrated Employment
Service and Unemployment Insurance automation efforts, notwith-
standing cost allocation principles prescribed under Office of
Management and Budget Circular A–87.
ADVANCES TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND AND OTHER FUNDS
For repayable advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund as
authorized by sections 905(d) and 1203 of the Social Security Act,
as amended, and to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund as
authorized by section 9501(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1954, as amended; and for nonrepayable advances to the Unemploy-
ment Trust Fund as authorized by section 8509 of title 5, United
States Code, and to the ‘‘Federal unemployment benefits and allow-
ances’’ account, to remain available until September 30, 2006,
$517,000,000.
In addition, for making repayable advances to the Black Lung
Disability Trust Fund in the current fiscal year after September
15, 2005, for costs incurred by the Black Lung Disability Trust
Fund in the current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary.
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
For expenses of administering employment and training pro-
grams, $113,810,000, together with not to exceed $57,663,000, which