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PUBLIC LAW 85-507-JULY 7, 1958

Upon request of the Commission, each department shall cooperate with and assist the Commission in such review. If the Commission finds that noncompliance exists in any department, the Commission, after consultation with such department, shall certify to the head of such department its recommendations for modification or change of actions and procedures of such department thereafter in connection with such training programs and plans. If after a reasonable time for placing such recommendations in effect the Commission finds that noncompliance continues to exist in such department, the Commission shall report such noncompliance to the President for such action as he deems appropriate, COLLECTION OF T R A I N I N G INFORMATION BY COMMISSION

SEC. 16. The Commission is authorized, to the extent it deems appropriate in the public interest, to collect information, from time to time, with respect to training programSj plans, and methods in and outside the Government. Upon appropriate request, the Commission may make such information available to any department and to the Congress. ASSISTANCE BY COMMISSION W I T H RESPECT TO T R A I N I N G PROGRAMS

SEC. 17. Upon request of any department, the Commission, to the extent of its facilities and personnel available for such purpose, shall provide advice and assistance in the establishment, operation, and maintenance of the programs and plans of such department for training under authority of this Act. REPORTS

SEC. 18. (a) Each department annually shall prepare and submit to the Commission, at such times and in such form as the Commission shall prescribe, reports on the programs and plans of such department for the training of employees by, in, and through Government facilities and non-Government facilities under authority of this Act. Each such report shall contain— (1) such information as the Commission deems appropriate with respect to the expenditures of such department in connection with such training, (2) the name of each employee of such department (other than students participating in any cooperative educational program) who, during the period covered by the report, received training by, in, or through a non-Government facility for more than one hundred and twenty days; the grade, title, and primary duties of the position held by such employee; the name of the non-Government facility from which such training was received; the nature, length, and cost to the Government of such training; and the relationship of such training to official Government duties, (3) the name of each employee of such department who, during the period covered by the report, received a contribution or award in the manner provided by section 19(a) of this Act, (4) a statement of the department with respect to the value of such training to the department, (5) estimates of the extent to which economies and improved operations have resulted from such training, and 98395-59-PT. 1-22

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