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PUBLIC LAW 93-203-DEC. 28, 1973

(f) Funds available for this section shall be expended for programs and activities consistent with the purposes of this part, including but not limited to such programs and activities carried out by eligible applicants under other provisions of this Act. (g) For the purpose of carrying out this section, the Secretary shall reserve from funds available for this title an amount equal to not less than 4 percent of the amount allocated pursuant to section 103(a)(1). (h) No provision of this section shall abrogate in any way the trust responsibilities of the Federal Government to Indian bands or tribes. M I G R A N T AND SEASONAL F A R M W O R K E R M A N P O W E R PROGRAMS

SEC. 303. (a) The Congress finds and declares that— (1) chronic seasonal unemployment and underemployment in the agricultural industry, substantially affected by recent advances in technology and mechanization, constitute a substantial portion of the Nation's rural manpower problem and substantially affects the entire national economy; (2) because of the special nature of certain farmworker manpower problems such programs can best be administered at the national level. (b)(1) Funds available for this section shall be expended for programs and activities consistent with the purposes of this section, including but not limited to progiams and activities carried out b}' eligible applicants under other provisions of this Act. (2) For the purpose of carrying out this section, the Secretary shall T-eserve from funds available for this title an amount equal to not less than 5 percent of the amount allocated pursuant to section 103(a)(1). Y O U T H PROGRAMS AND OTHER SPECIAL PROGRAMS

SEC. 304. (a) The Secretary may provide financial assistance in urban and rural areas, including areas having large concentrations or proportions of low-income, unemployed persons, and rural areas having substantial outnrigration to urban areas, for comprehensive work and training programs, and necessary supportive and follow-up services, irrcluding the following: (1) programs to provide part-time employment, on-the-job training, and useful wor-k exper-ience for students from low-income families who are in the nirrth through twelfth grades of school (or are of an age equivalent to that of students in such grades) and who are in need of the earnings to permit them to r-esume or maintain attendance in school; (2) programs to provide imemployed. underemployed, or lowincome per-sons (aged sixteen and over) with useful work and training (which must include sufficient basic education and institutional or on-the-job training) designed to assist those persons to develop their maximum occupational potential and to obtain regular competitive employment; (3) jobs, including those in recreation and related programs, for economically disadA'antaged youths during the summer months; (4) special programs which involve work activities directed to the needs of those chronically unemployed poor who have poor employment prospects and are unable, because of age, lack of employment opportunit}-, or otherwise, to secure appr-opr-iate employment or tr-aining assistance under other progranrs, and which, in addition to other services provided, will enable such persons to participate in projects for the betterment, physical

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