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 102 STAT. 1526

PUBLIC LAW 100-418—AUG. 23, 1988

each State as compared to the total number of such individuals in all the States. "(2) As soon as satisfactory data are available under section 462(e) of this Act, the Secretary shall allot amounts appropriated to carry out part B and this part for any fiscal year to each State so that— "(A) 25 percent of such amount shall be allotted on the basis of each of the factors described in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (1), respectively, for a total of 75 percent of the amount allotted; and "(B) 25 percent of such amount shall be allotted among the States on the basis of the relative number of dislocated workers in such State in the most recent period for which satisfactory data are available under section 462(e) and, when available, under section 462(f) of this Act. "(c) RESERVATIONS FOR STATE ACTIVITIES AND FOR SUBSTATE GRANTEES IN NEED.—(1) The Governor may reserve not more than

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40 percent of the amount allotted to the State under section 302(a)(l) for— "(A) State administration, technical assistance, and coordination of the programs authorized under this title; "(B) statewide, regional, or industrywide projects; "(C) rapid response activities as described in section 314(b); "(D) establishment of coordination between the unemployment compensation system and the worker adjustment program system; and "(E) discretionary allocation for basic readjustment and retraining services to provide additional assistance to areas that experience substantisd increases in the number of dislocated workers, to be expended in accordance with the substate plan or modification thereof. "(2) In addition, the Governor may reserve not more than 10 percent of the amount allotted to the State under section 302(a)(l) for allocation among substate grantees. The amount so reserved shall be allocated on the basis of need and distributed to such grantees not later than 9 months after the beginning of the p i x ^ a m year for which the allotment was made. "(d) WITHIN STATE DISTRIBUTION.—The Governor shall allocate the remainder of the amount allotted to the State under this part to substate areas for services authorized in this part, based on an allocation formula prescribed by the Governor. Such formula may be amended by the Governor not more than once for each p r c ^ a m year. Such formula shall utilize the most appropriate information available to the Governor to distribute amounts to address the State's worker readjustment assistance needs. Such information shall include (but is not limited to)— "(1) insured unemployment data; "(2) unemployment concentrations; "(3) plant closing and mass layoff data; "(4) declining industries data; "(5) farmer-rancher economic hardship data; and "(6) long-term unemployment data. "(e) RESERVATION FOR THE TERRITORIES.—Not more than 0.3 percent of title amounts appropriated pursuant to section 3(c) and available under subsection (a)(2) of this section for any fiscal year shall be allocated among the Commonwealth of the Northern Marir ana Islands and the other territories and possessions of the United States.

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