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STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW 93-203-DEC. 28, 1973

program for each enro]]ee sluill incUide uctivitios designed to assist him in choosing realistic career goals, coping with problems he may encounter in his home comnumity or in adjusting to a new community, and planning and managing his daily affairs in a manner that will best contribute to a long-term upward mobility. Center programs shall include required participation in center maintenance support and related work activity as appropriate to assist enrollees in increasing their sense of contribution, responsibility, and discipline. (b) To the extent practicable, the Secretary may arrange for enrollee education and vocational training through local public or private educational agencies, vocational educational institutions, or technical institutes Avhere such institutions or institutes can provide training comparable in cost and substantially equivalent in quality to that which he could provide through other means. (c) Arrangements for education shall, to the extent feasible, provide opportunities for qualified enrollees to obtain the equivalent of a certificate of graduation from high school. The Secretary, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, shall develop certificates to be issued to enrollees who have satisfactorily completed their services in the Job Corps and which will reflect the enrollee's level of educational attainment. (d) The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to assure that Job Corps work-experience programs or activities do not displace presently employed workers or impair existing contracts for service and will be (Coordinated with other work-experience programs in the community.

Education and vocational training.

Certificates,

Coordination with community work-experience programs. Regulations.

ALLOWANCES A N D SUPPORT

SEC. -1:09. (a) The Secretary may provide enrollees with such personal, travel and leave allowances, and such quarters, subsistence, transportation, equipment, clothing, recreational services, and other expenses as he may deem necessary or aj^propriate to their needs. Personal allowances shall be established at a rate not to exceed $35 per jnonth during the first six months of an enrollee's participation in the program and not to exceed $50 per month thereafter, except that allowances in excess of $35 per month, but not exceeding $50 per month, may be provided from the beginning of an enrollee's participation if it is expected to be of less than six months' duration and the Secretary is authorized to pay personal allowances in excess of the rates specified herein in unusual circumstances as determined by him. Such allowances shall be graduated up to the maximum so as to encourage continued participation in the program, achievement and the best use by the enrollee of the funds so provided and shall be subject to reduction in appropriate cases as a disciplinary measure. To the degree reasonable, enrollees shall be required to meet or contribute to costs associated with their individual comfort and enjoyment from their personal allowances. (b) The Secretary shall prescribe specific rules governing the accrual of leave by enrollees. Except in the case of emeroency, he shall in no event assume transportation costs connected with leave of any enrollee Avho has not completed at least six months service in the Job Corps. (c) The Secretary may provide each former enrollee upon termination, a readjustment allowance at a rate not to exceed $50 for each month of satisfactory participation in the Job Corps. No enrollee shall be entitled to a readjustment allowance, however, unless he has remained in the program at least ninety days, except in unusual circumstances as deteimined by the Secretary. The Secretary may, from time to time, advance to or on behalf of an enrollee such portions of his

Limitations.

Enrollee contributions.

L e a v e accrual rules.

Readjustment allowance.

Advancement or reduction.

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