Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 2.djvu/712

 90 STAT. 2180

20 USC 1233c.

Submittal to G>minis9ioner.

PUBLIC LAW 94-482—OCT. 12, 1976 the State board's decision is supported by substantial evidence, as shown in the State plan, and will best carry out the purposes of the Act. Any agency or State board dissatisfied with a final action of the Commissioner under this subsection may appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit in which the State is located in accordance with the procedure specified in section 434(d)(2) of the General Education Provisions Act. "(2) The State board shall, during the years in which it formulates any five-year plan required under this section, conduct a series of public hearings, after giving sufficient public notice, throughout all regions of the State in order to permit all segments of the population to give their views on the goals which ought to be adopted in the State plan, including the courses to be offered, the allocations of responsibility for these courses among the various levels of education and among the various institutions of the States, and the allocations of local, State, and Federal resources to meet those goals. These views shall be included in the final State plan with a description of how such views are reflected in the plan; and if particular views are not reflected, then the plan shall set out the reasons for rejecting them. "(b) The five-year State plans shall be submitted to the Commissioner by the July 1st preceding the beginning of the first fiscal year for which such plan is to take effect and shall— "(1) assess the current and future needs for job skills within the State and, where appropriate, within the pertinent region of the country, through consideration of the latest available data of present and projected employment, including the data available under section 161; "(2) set out explicitly the goals the State will seek to achieve by the end of the five-year period of the State plan in meeting the need for particular job skills identified through the assessment undertaken in accordance with paragraph (1), including (A) a description of these goals in terms of.— "(i) the courses and other training opportunities to be offered to achieve those skills, "(ii) the projected enrollments of those courses and other training opportunities, "(iii) the allocations of responsibility for the offering of those courses and training opportunities among the various levels of education and among the various institutions of the State, and "(iv) the allocations of all local. State, and Federal financial resources available in the State among these courses and training opportunities, levels of education, and institutions within the State, and (B) the reasons for choosing these courses and training opportunities, enrollments, allocations of responsibilities, and allocations of resources; "(3)(A) set out explicitly the planned uses of Federal, State, and local vocational education funds for each fiscal year of the State plan and show how these uses will enable the State to achieve these goals, including (i) a description of these uses of funds in terms of the elements listed in clauses (2)(A)(i) through (2) (A) (iv) above, and (ii) the reasons for choosing these particular uses, except that the State will continue to use approximately the same amount of its State grant under subpart 2 of this part for programs in secondary schools during fiscal years 1978 and 1979 as it had used during fiscal years 1975 and 1976 unless the State is

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