Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 1.djvu/1527

 PUBLIC LAW 94-444—OCT. 1, 1976

90 STAT. 1477

SEC. 4. (a)(1) W i t h respect to appropriations made by the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-266, enacted April 15, 1976) for the purpose of carrying out activities authorized by title II of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973— (A) notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds made available under section 202(b) of the Comprehensive Employment and T r a i n i n g Act of 1973 may be used in any areas qualifying under title VI of such Act to provide a continuation of public service employment activities under both title II and title VI of such Act; and (B) in order to enable persons employed in public service jobs financially assisted under title VI of such Act to be transferred to jobs financially assisted under title II of such Act, the Secretary of Labor is authorized to waive the provision of section 205(a) of such Act requiring a thirty-day period of unemployment. (2) The provisions of paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be deemed to have taken effect on the date of enactment of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1976. Persons transferred after such date from jobs financially assisted under title VT of the Comprehensive Employment and T r a i n i n g Act of 1973 to jobs financially assisted under title II of such Act, using funds made available under the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1976, shall after the date of enactment of this Act be considered to be public service jobholders financially assisted under such title VI. (b) Subsection (b) of section 603 of the Comprehensive Employment and T r a i n i n g Act of 1973 is amended by adding at the end of such subsection the following new sentences: " I n distributing funds available for the discretionary use of the Secretary of Labor under this subsection, the Secretary is authorized to utilize such funds to assure a continuation of public service employment activities supported under this Act. I n distributing such funds under this subsection to prime sponsors, the Secretary shall base allocations upon the public service employment activities sustained within the jurisdicton of each unit of general local government within the area served by each such prime sponsor in accordance with subsection (c) of this section.". SEC. 5. (a) Title VI of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 is further amended by adding at the end thereof the followinir new sections:

29 USC 842 note.

"RESERVATION or

Ante, p. 362. 29 USC 841. 29 USC 842. 29 USC 861. Waiver.

29 USC 845. Effective date.

29 USC 963.

F U N D S; EMPLOYMENT or LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED, LOW-INCOME PERSONS

" SEC. 607. (a) E a c h prime sponsor, in accordance with regulations 29 USC 967. which the Secretary shall prescribe, shall reserve out of any allocation which it receives under this title from appropriations for fiscal year 1977 such amount as will be sufficient, when added to funds available for use under title II of this Act during such fiscal year, 29 USC 841. to enable the prime sponsor to sustain throughout such fiscal year the number of public service jobholders supported under this title and title II of this Act on June 30,' 1976. " (b) The amount of each prime sponsor's allocation under this title remaining after funds are reserved for the purpose described in subsection (a) of this section shall be used to provide public service jobs for eligible unemployed persons (as described in section 608) in proj- Post, p. 1478.

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