Union Calendar No. 356
105TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4274
[Report No. 105–635]
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Departments of
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Edu-
cation, and related agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 1999, and for other pur-
poses.
JULY 20, 1998
Reported from the Committee on Appropriations, com-
mitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
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Union Calendar No. 356
105TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H.R. 4274
[Report No. 105–635]
Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 20, 1998
Mr. PORTER, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following
bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health
and Human Services, and Education, and related agen-
cies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
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Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1999, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
(INCLUDING RESCISSION)
For necessary expenses of the Job Training Partner-
ship Act, as amended, including the purchase and hire of
passenger motor vehicles, the construction, alteration, and
repair of buildings and other facilities, and the purchase
of real property for training centers as authorized by the
Job Training Partnership Act; the Stewart B. McKinney
Homeless Assistance Act; the Women in Apprenticeship
and Nontraditional Occupations Act; the National Skill
Standards Act of 1994; and the School-to-Work Opportu-
nities Act; $4,000,873,000 plus reimbursements, of which
$3,771,654,000 is available for obligation for the period
July 1, 1999 through June 30, 2000; of which
$150,572,000 is available for the period July 1, 1999
through June 30, 2002 for necessary expenses of construc-
tion, rehabilitation, and acquisition of Job Corps centers;
and of which $75,000,000 shall be available from July 1,
1999 through September 30, 2000, for carrying out activi-
ties of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act: Provided,
That $53,815,000 shall be for carrying out section 401
of the Job Training Partnership Act, $71,017,000 shall
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be for carrying out section 402 of such Act, $7,300,000
shall be for carrying out section 441 of such Act,
$5,000,000 shall be for all activities conducted by and
through the National Occupational Information Coordi-
nating Committee under such Act, $955,000,000 shall be
for carrying out title II, part A of such Act, and
$129,965,000 shall be for carrying out title II, part C of
such Act: Provided further, That the National Occupa-
tional Information Coordinating Committee is authorized,
effective upon enactment, to charge fees for publications,
training and technical assistance developed by the Na-
tional Occupational Information Coordinating Committee:
Provided further, That revenues received from publications
and delivery of technical assistance and training, notwith-
standing 31 U.S.C. 3302, shall be credited to the National
Occupational Information Coordinating Committee pro-
gram account and shall be available to the National Occu-
pational Information Coordinating Committee without fur-
ther appropriations, so long as such revenues are used for
authorized activities of the National Occupational Infor-
mation Coordinating Committee: Provided further, That
no funds from any other appropriation shall be used to
provide meal services at or for Job Corps centers: Provided
further, That funds provided for title III of the Job Train-
ing Partnership Act shall not be subject to the limitation
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contained in subsection (b) of section 315 of such Act;
that the waiver described in section 315(a)(2) may be
granted if a substate grantee demonstrates to the Gov-
ernor that such waiver is appropriate due to the availabil-
ity of low-cost retraining services, is necessary to facilitate
the provision of needs-related payments to accompany
long-term training, or is necessary to facilitate the provi-
sion of appropriate basic readjustment services; and that
funds provided for discretionary grants under part B of
such title III may be used to provide needs-related pay-
ments to participants who, in lieu of meeting the enroll-
ment requirements under section 314(e) of such Act, are
enrolled in training by the end of the sixth week after
grant funds have been awarded: Provided further, That
service delivery areas and substate areas may transfer up
to 20 percent of the funding provided herein under author-
ity of title II, part A and title III of the Job Training
Partnership Act between the programs authorized by
those titles of the Act, if such transfer is approved by the
Governor: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any
other provision of law, any proceeds from the sale of Job
Corps center facilities shall be retained by the Secretary
of Labor to carry out the Job Corps program: Provided
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Secretary of Labor may waive any of the statutory
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or regulatory requirements of titles I–III of the Job Train-
ing Partnership Act (except for requirements relating to
wage and labor standards, worker rights, participation
and protection, grievance procedures and judicial review,
nondiscrimination, allocation of funds to local areas, eligi-
bility, review and approval of plans, the establishment and
functions of service delivery areas and private industry
councils, and the basic purposes of the Act), and any of
the statutory or regulatory requirements of sections 8–10
of the Wagner-Peyser Act (except for requirements relat-
ing to the provision of services to unemployment insurance
claimants and veterans, and to universal access to basic
labor exchange services without cost to job seekers), only
for funds available for expenditure in program year 1999,
pursuant to a request submitted by a State which identi-
fies the statutory or regulatory requirements that are re-
quested to be waived and the goals which the State or
local service delivery areas intend to achieve, describes the
actions that the State or local service delivery areas have
undertaken to remove State or local statutory or regu-
latory barriers, describes the goals of the waiver and the
expected programmatic outcomes if the request is granted,
describes the individuals impacted by the waiver, and de-
scribes the process used to monitor the progress in imple-
menting a waiver, and for which notice and an opportunity