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(A) basic skills training, including remedial
education, literacy training, and English-as-a-
second language instruction;
(B) occupational skills training, provided
either in a classroom or on-the-job; and
(C) other skills-based education and train-
ing that such center considers appropriate,
which may include entrepreneurial training and
training in skills required for high performance
work organizations, such as problem solving
and skills related to the use of new tech-
nologies.
(2) REFERRALS.—An eligible individual who
has an individual reemployment plan developed pur-
suant to subsection (c)(1)(B) that specifies edu-
cation and training services as are necessary to the
reemployment of such individual shall, in consulta-
tion with a career counselor, select a service provider
for such services from the list described in para-
graph (1). The career centers shall refer such indi-
viduals to such service providers and arrange with
the substate grantee for payment to the provider for
the services provided consistent with the limitation
contained in paragraph (5).
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(3) ELIGIBLE PROVIDERS.—For the purposes of
this title, an eligible provider of education and train-
ing services is a provider that meets the require-
ments of section 154.
(4) CONTRACT EXPECTATIONS.—Education and
training services authorized under this title may be
provided pursuant to a contract for services between
the substate grantee and an eligible service provider
in lieu of the referral procedures described in para-
graph (2) if such services—
(A) are customized by a provider to meet
the particular needs of a specific group of eligi-
ble individuals in the substate area; or
(B) are on-the-job training provided by an
employer.
(5) CAP ON TRAINING.—
(A) LIMITATION.—The program under this
title shall not pay an amount in excess of
$4750 for the provision of education and train-
ing to any individual under this subsection over
any 12-month period.
(B) RELATIONSHIP
TO
STUDENT
FINAN-
CIAL ASSISTANCE.—
(i) For purposes of determining a stu-
dent’s need for grant, loan, or work assist-
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ance under title IV of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965, the funds provided to
a participant for education and training
under this subsection shall be considered to
be estimated financial assistance not re-
ceived under such title IV for the purpose
of section 471(3) of such Act.
(ii) Notwithstanding section 401(b) of
such Act, the funds provided to a partici-
pant for education and training under this
subsection shall be applied to reduce the
student’s cost of attendance (as defined in
section 472 of such Act) prior to determin-
ing the amount of a student’s Federal Pell
Grant award under subpart 1 of part A of
title IV of such Act, except that such re-
duction shall not result in a negative num-
ber.
(iii) Nothing in this Act shall be con-
strued to modify the eligibility require-
ments applicable to students, programs of
study, or institutions of higher education
under title IV of such Act.
(6) LIMIT ON LENGTH OF TRAINING.—No par-
ticipant may receive assistance from funds under
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this title for education or training for more than 104
weeks in a five-year period.
(7) APPROVED TRAINING.—
(A) RELATIONSHIP TO INCOME SUPPORT
PROGRAM UNDER TITLE II.—For the purposes
of the program authorized under part A of title
I of the Retraining Income Support Act of
1994, the career centers shall be considered an
agency certified by the Secretary to develop a
reemployment plan.
(B) RELATIONSHIP
TO
UNEMPLOYMENT
COMPENSATION.—An eligible individual partici-
pating in education and training services under
this title shall be deemed to be in training with
the approval of the State agency for the pur-
poses of section 3304(a)(8) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986.
(8) ON-THE-JOB TRAINING.—The provisions of
paragraphs (5), (6), and (7) shall not apply to on-
the-job training provided under this title. Such on-
the-job training shall be provided consistent with the
limitations described in section 161(d).
(e) RETRAINING INCOME SUPPORT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Eligible individuals receiving
education and training services pursuant to sub-
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section (d) who meet the requirements for receiving
retraining income support under part A of title I of
the Retraining Income Support Act of 1994 shall be
referred to such program for such support. For pro-
gram years 1995 through 1999, individuals who do
not meet the requirements of such program but who
do meet the requirements of paragraph (2) shall, to
the extent appropriated funds are available, be pro-
vided retraining income support in accordance with
this subsection.
(2) ELIGIBILITY.—An eligible individual shall,
to the extent appropriated funds are available, be
provided retraining income support in accordance
with this subsection if such individual—
(A) has been permanently laid off;
(B) either—
(i) had been continuously employed at
the time of such permanent layoff for a pe-
riod of one year or more, but less than
three years, by the employer from whom
such individual has been permanently laid
off; or
(ii) was continuously employed in the
same occupation and industry by an em-
ployer for a period of one year or more and
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was, within the preceding 12-month pe-
riod—
(I) separated from such em-
ployer, and
(II) employed in the same occu-
pation and industry by the subsequent
employer from whom such individual
has been permanently laid off;
(C)(i) was entitled, as a result of the layoff
described in subparagraph (A), to (or would
have been entitled to if such individual had ap-
plied therefor) unemployment compensation
under any Federal or state law for a week with-
in the benefit period—
(I) in which the layoff took place, or
(II) which began (or would have
begun) by reason of the filing of a claim
for unemployment compensation by such
individual after such layoff;
(ii) has exhausted all rights to any unem-
ployment compensation to which such individual
was entitled (or would have been entitled if
such individual had applied therefor); and
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(iii) does not have an unexpired waiting
period applicable to such individual for such un-
employment compensation;
(D) has been enrolled in education or
training pursuant to subsection (d) by—
(i) the end of the 16th week after the
permanent layoff described in subpara-
graph (A), or, if later, the end of the 14th
week after such individual was informed
that the layoff will exceed 6 months; or
(ii) a period that is not in excess of
30 days after the periods described in
clause (i), in cases where the substate
grantee determines, in accordance with
guidelines issued by the Secretary, that
there are extenuating circumstances that
justify such extension, such as a cancella-
tion of a course, a first available enroll-
ment date that is after the periods de-
scribed in subparagraph (A), or the com-
mencement of negotiations for reopening a
plant or facility from which an individual
has been laid off; and
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(E) is participating, and making satisfac-
tory progress, in education or training provided
pursuant to subsection (d).
(3) SPECIAL RULES.—
(A) CONTINUOUS EMPLOYMENT.—
(i) For purposes of clause (ii) of para-
graph (2)(B) and subject to the limitations
of clause (ii) of this subparagraph, contin-
uous employment shall be deemed to in-
clude any week in which an individual—
(I) was on employer-authorized
leave for purposes of vacation, sick-
ness, injury or inactive duty or active
duty military service for training,
(II) was on employer-authorized
leave because of circumstances de-
scribed in subsection 102(a) of the
Family and Medical Leave Act of
1993,
(III) did not work because of a
disability that is compensable under a
worker’s compensation law or plan of
a State or the United States,
(IV) had his, or her, employment
interrupted in order to serve as a full-
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time representative of a labor organi-
zation in such firm or subdivision,
(V) was on call-up for purposes
of active duty in a reserve status in
the Armed Forces of the United
States, provided such active duty is
‘‘Federal service’’ as defined in 5
U.S.C. 8521(a)(1), or
(VI) was on temporary layoff.
(ii) For the purposes of clause (i), no
more than the following number of weeks
within a one year period may be treated as
weeks of employment—
(I) 7 weeks in the case of weeks
described in subclauses (I) or (IV) of
clause (i), or both;
(II) 12 weeks in the case of
weeks described in subclause (II) of
clause (i); and
(III) 26 weeks in the case of
weeks described in subclause (III) and
(V) of clause (i).
(B) SAME EMPLOYER.—
(i) For the purpose of clause (ii) of
paragraph (2)(B), employment deemed to
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be employment for a single employer shall
include—
(I) all employment that was cov-
ered by a multiemployer plan defined
by section 4001(a)(3) of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of
1974;
(II) all employment that was ob-
tained through a single hiring hall,
(III) all employment for the em-
ployer from whom the individual was
laid-off or the predecessor of such em-
ployer, and
(IV) all employment for employ-
ers in a joint employment relation-
ship, as described in section 791.2(b)
of title 29 of the Code of Federal Reg-
ulations, with the individual.
(ii) For purposes of subclause (III) of
clause (i), an employer shall be considered
a predecessor of the employer from whom
the individual was laid-off (hereinafter re-
ferred to as successor employer) if—
(I) the successor employer ac-
quired substantially all the property
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used in a trade or business, or used in
a separate unit of a trade or business,
from such employer; and
(II) the individual who was laid
off was employed by such employer in
such trade or business, or in a sepa-
rate unit of such trade or business,
immediately before the acquisition and
was employed by the successor em-
ployer immediately after the acquisi-
tion.
(c) INDIVIDUAL TREATED AS PARTICIPAT-
ING IN EDUCATION OR TRAINING PROGRAM.—
For purposes of subparagraph (E) of paragraph
(2), an individual shall be treated as participat-
ing, and making satisfactory progress, in an
education or training program during any week
which is part of a break from training that does
not exceed 28 days if the break is provided
under such program.
(4) WEEKLY AMOUNT OF PAYMENTS.—The re-
training income support payment payable to an indi-
vidual under this subsection shall be an amount
equal to the most recent benefit amount of the un-
employment compensation payable to such individual
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describing the time periods by which enrollment in
education and training must occur in order to be eli-
gible for retraining income support pursuant to
paragraph (2)(D) of this subsection and section 102
of the Retraining Income Support Act of 1994. In
addition, the substate grantee shall make arrange-
ments with the State agency charged with the ad-
ministration of the State unemployment compensa-
tion law to make such information generally avail-
able to claimants along with other information de-
scribing the services available under this title.
(f) SUPPORTIVE SERVICES.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Each career center shall
make available to an eligible individual, either
through direct payment, payment to a service pro-
vider, or arrangements through appropriate agen-
cies, such supportive services as are identified in
such individuals’s reemployment plan as necessary to
enable such individual to participate in intensive re-
employment services or education and training serv-
ices.
(2) OPTIONAL SERVICES.—Each career center
may make available to an eligible individual such
supportive services as such center determines is ap-
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propriate to enable such individual to participate in
basic reemployment services.
(3) SERVICES
AVAILABLE.—The supportive
services provided pursuant to this subsection may in-
clude, but are not limited to, transportation, depend-
ent care, meals, health care, temporary shelter,
needs-related payments, drug and alcohol abuse
counseling and referral, family counseling, and other
similar services.
(g) SUPPLEMENTAL WAGE ALLOWANCE FOR OLDER
WORKERS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—An eligible individual may
receive a supplemental wage allowance in the
amount specified in paragraph (2) if—
(A) such individual is age 55 or older,
(B) such individual accepts full-time em-
ployment at a weekly wage that is less than
such individual’s preceding wage,
(C) such individual received basic reem-
ployment services provided under subsection (a)
and was unable to obtain employment with a
higher wage than the employment obtained pur-
suant to subparagraph (B), and
(D) such individual and a career center
counselor agree that participation in the supple-
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mental wage allowance is the most effective ad-
justment option available to such individual.
(2) AMOUNT
OF
ALLOWANCE.—The supple-
mental wage allowance payable to an eligible individ-
ual under this section with respect to any week in
which services are performed in such a reemploy-
ment job shall be an amount that—
(A) is equal to three quarters of the dif-
ference between—
(i) the weekly wage received for such
week and
(ii) an amount equal to 80 percent of
the individual’s average weekly wage in the
preceding employment; but
(B) does not exceed 50 percent of the
weekly benefit amount of regular compensation
under the State unemployment compensation
law payable to such individual for a week of
total unemployment.
(3) DURATION OF ALLOWANCES.—An eligible
individual may receive the supplemental wage allow-
ance authorized under this section for a period of up
to 52 weeks.
(4) ADMINISTRATION.—The substate grantee
shall enter into an agreement with the State agency
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charged with the administration of the State unem-
ployment compensation law under which such agency
will administer, on a cost-reimbursable basis, the
supplemental wage allowances authorized under this
subsection.
SEC. 120. CERTIFICATES OF CONTINUING ELIGIBILITY.
(a) IN GENERAL.—A career center may issue a cer-
tificate of continuing eligibility for services under this title
if such career center determines that—
(1) such individual is eligible for services under
section 103; and
(2) such individual is accepting employment
and such employment is—
(A) at a wage significantly less than such
individual’s previous wage; or
(B) in an occupation significantly different
from such individual’s previous occupation.
(b) CONTENTS.—A certificate of continuing eligibility
issued pursuant to subsection (a) shall specify a period
of time not to exceed 104 weeks that such individual shall
remain eligible, notwithstanding the requirements of sec-
tion 103, for services under this title and for retraining
income support payments under section 119(e) and part
A of title I of the Retraining Income Support Act of 1994.
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(c) ELIGIBILITY
FOR RETRAINING INCOME SUP-
PORT.—With respect to the continuing eligibility of an in-
dividual receiving a certificate under this section for re-
training income support—
(1) the requirements relating to eligibility for
unemployment 
compensation 
under 
section
119(e)(2)(C) and section 102(a)(3) of the Retrain-
ing Income Support Act of 1994 and to the weekly
amount of such support under section 119(e)(4) and
part A of title I of the Retraining Income Support
Act of 1994 shall apply to such individual’s status
at the time such individual receives a certificate
under this section and shall not apply to such indi-
vidual’s status at the time of separation from subse-
quent employment described in subsection (a)(2);
and
(2) the requirements relating to enrollment in
training in order to qualify for such income support
shall remain applicable except that the 16-week and
14-week periods described in section 119(e)(2) and
section 102(a)(4) of the Retraining Income Support
Act shall commence with such individual’s separa-
tion from the subsequent employment described in
subsection (a)(2).
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(d) LIMITATION.—An individual may not receive a
wage supplement authorized under section 119(g) after re-
ceiving a certificate of continuing eligibility under this sec-
tion.
PART B—FEDERAL SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEM
SEC. 131. NATIONAL DISCRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall establish
a program of national grants to address large scale eco-
nomic dislocations that result from plant closures, base
closures, or mass layoffs.
(b) PROJECTS AND SERVICES.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The programs assisted
under this section shall be used to provide services
of the type described in section 119 in projects that
relate to—
(A) industry-wide dislocations;
(B) multistate dislocations;
(C) dislocations resulting from reductions
in defense expenditures;
(D) dislocations resulting from inter-
national trade;
(E) dislocations resulting from environ-
mental laws and regulations, including the
Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act;
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(F) dislocations affecting Native American
tribal entities; and
(G) other dislocations that result from spe-
cial circumstances or that State and local re-
sources are insufficient to address.
(2) COMMUNITY
PROJECTS.—The Secretary
may award grants under this section for projects
that provide comprehensive planning services to as-
sist communities in addressing and reducing the im-
pact of an economic dislocation.
(3) ON-SITE TRANSITION CENTERS.—The Sec-
retary may award grants under this section to
projects that establish on-site transition centers
meeting the requirements described in section
115(c)(2).
(c) ADMINISTRATION.—
(1) APPLICATION.—To receive a grant under
this section, an eligible entity shall submit an appli-
cation to the Secretary at such time, in such man-
ner, and accompanied by such information as the
secretary determines is appropriate.
(2) ELIGIBLE
ENTITIES.—Grants under this
section may be awarded to—
(A) the State;
(B) the substate grantee;
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(C) employers and employer associations;
(D) worker-management transition assist-
ance committees and other employer-employee
entities;
(E) representatives of employees;
(F) community development corporations
and community-based organizations; and
(G) industry consortia.
SEC. 132. DISASTER RELIEF EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.
(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—
(1) QUALIFICATION
FOR
FUNDS.—Funds ap-
propriated to carry out this section shall be made
available in a timely manner by the Secretary to the
Governor of any State within which is located an
area that has suffered an emergency or a major dis-
aster as defined in paragraphs (1) and (2), respec-
tively, of section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Dis-
aster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (referred
to in this section as the ‘‘disaster area’’).
(2) SUBSTATE ALLOCATION.—Not less than 80
percent of the funds made available to any Governor
under paragraph (1) shall be allocated by the Gov-
ernor to units of general local government located,
in whole or in part, within such disaster areas. The
remainder of such funds may be reserved by the
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Governor for use, in concert with State agencies, in
cleanup, rescue, repair, renovation, and rebuilding
activities associated with such major disaster.
(3) COORDINATION.—Funds made available
under this section to Governors and units of general
local government shall be expended in consultation
with—
(A) agencies administering programs for
disaster relief provided under the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist-
ance Act; and
(B) the administrative entity and the pri-
vate industry council in each service delivery
area within which disaster employment pro-
grams will be conducted under this part.
(b) USE OF FUNDS.—
(1) 
PROJECTS
RESTRICTED
TO
DISASTER
AREAS.—Funds made available under this section to
any unit of general local government in a disaster
area—
(A) shall be used exclusively to provide em-
ployment on projects to provide food, clothing,
shelter, and other humanitarian assistance for
disaster victims and on projects regarding dem-
olition, cleanup, repair, renovation, and recon-
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struction of damaged and destroyed structures,
facilities, and lands located within the disaster
area; and
(B) may be expended through public and
private agencies and organizations engaged in
such projects.
(2) 
ELIGIBILITY
REQUIREMENTS.—Notwith-
standing section 103, an individual shall be eligible
to be offered disaster employment under this section
if such individual is temporarily or permanently laid
off as a consequence of the disaster.
(3) LIMITATIONS
ON
DISASTER
RELIEF
EM-
PLOYMENT.—No individual shall be employed under
this part for more than 6 months for work related
to recovery from a single natural disaster.
(c) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term
‘‘unit of general local government’’ includes—
(1) in the case of a community conducting a
project in an Indian reservation or Alaska Native
village, the grantee designated under subsection (c)
or (d) or of section 401 of the Job Training Part-
nership Act, or a consortium of such grantees and
the State; and
(2) in the case of a community conducting a
project in a migrant or seasonal farmworker commu-
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nity, the grantee designated under section 402(c) of
the Job Training Partnership Act, or a consortium
of such grantees and the State.
SEC. 133. EVALUATION, RESEARCH, AND DEMONSTRA-
TIONS.
(A) EVALUATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide
for the continuing evaluation of programs conducted
under this title, including the cost-effectiveness of
programs in achieving the purposes of this title.
(2) TECHNIQUES.—
(A) 
METHODS.—Evaluations 
conducted
under paragraph (1) shall utilize recognized
statistical methods and techniques of the behav-
ioral and social sciences, including methodolo-
gies that control for self-selection, where fea-
sible.
(B) ANALYSIS.—Such evaluations may in-
clude cost benefit analyses of programs, and
analyses of the impact of the programs on par-
ticipants and the community, the extent to
which programs meet the needs of various de-
mographic groups, and the effectiveness of the
delivery systems used by the various programs.
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(C) EFFECTIVENESS.—The Secretary shall
evaluate the effectiveness of programs author-
ized under this title with respect to—
(i) the statutory goals;
(ii) the performance standards estab-
lished by the Secretary; and
(iii) the extent to which such pro-
grams enhance the employment and earn-
ings of participants, reduce income support
costs, 
improve 
the 
employment 
com-
petencies of participants in comparison to
comparable persons who did not partici-
pate in such programs, and, to the extent
feasible, increase the level of total employ-
ment over the level that would have existed
in the absence of such programs.
(b) RESEARCH.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish
a program of research relating to addressing eco-
nomic dislocation, facilitating the transition of per-
manently laid off workers to reemployment, and up-
grading the skills of employed workers.
(2) MASS
LAYOFF
REPORT.—The Secretary
shall develop and maintain statistical data relating
to permanent layoffs and plant closings. The Sec-