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62 Stat. 749. Assignment to contiguous a r e a s.

Assignment to remote a r e a s.

Male e n r o l l e e s.

PUBLIC LAW 93-203-DEC. 28, 1973

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to the United States of America and will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States against all its enemies foreign and domestic.'* The provisions of section 1001 of title 18, United States Code, shall be applicable to this oath or affirmation. (d) After the Secretary has determined whether an enrollee is to be assigned to a men's training center, a conservation center, or a women's training center, the enrollee, shall be assigned to the center of the appropriate type in which a vacancy exists which is closest to the enrollee's home, except that the Secretary, on an individual basis, may waive this requirement when overriding considerations justify such action. Assignments to centers in areas more remote from the enrollee's home shall be carefully limited to situations in which such action is necessary in order to insure an equitable opportunity for disadvantaged youth from various sections of the country to participate in the program, to prevent undue delays in the assignment of individual enrollees, to provide an assignment which adequately meets the educational or other needs of the enrollee or is necessary for efficiency and economy in the operation of the program. (e) Assignments of male enrollees shall be made so that, at any one time, at least 40 per centum of those enrollees are assigned to conservation centers as described in section 407, or to other centers or projects where their work activity is primarily directed to the conservation, development, or management of public natural resources or recreational areas and is performed under the direction of personnel of agencies regularly responsible for the functions relating to such r-esources or areas. ,)1'. CORPS CENTKKS

Civilian Conservation Center s.

SKC. 407. (a) The Secretary may make agreements with Federal, State, oi- local agencies, or private organizations for the establishment and operation of Job Corps centers. Job Corps centers may be residential or nonresidential in character, or both, and shall be designed and operated so as to provide enrollees, in a well-supervised setting, with education, vocational training, work experience (either in direct program activities or through arrangemeiits with employers), counseling, and other services appropriate to their needs. The centers shall include conservation centers, to be known as Civilian Conservation Centers, to be located primarily in rural areas and to provide, in addition to other training and assistance, programs of work experience focused upon activities to conserve, develop, oi' manage public natural resources or public recreational areas or to assist in developing community projects in the public interest. The centers shall also include men's and women's training centers to be located in either urban or rural areas and to provide activities which shall include training and other services appro{)riate for enrollees who can be expected to participate successfully in training for specific types of skilled or semiskilled employment. (b) To the extent feasible, men's and women's training centers shall oll'er education and vocational training opportunities, together with supportive services, on a nonresidential basis to participants in programs described in title I of this Act. Such opportunities may be offered on a reimbursable basis or through such other arrangements as the Secretary niay specify. 'lUXJRAil -VCTIVITIKS

SEC. 408. (a) Each Job Corps center shall be operated so as to provide enrollees with an intensive, well-organized and fully supervised program of education, vocational training, work experience, planned avocational and recreational activities, physical rehabilitation and development, and counseling. To the fullest extent feasible, the required

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