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 90 STAT. 2198

29 USC 801 note.

National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee. Establishment.

PUBLIC LAW 94-482—OCT. 12, 1976

This system shall include information resulting from the evaluations required to be conducted by section 112 (as such section will be in effect on October 1, 1977) and other information on vocational— "(A) students (including information on their race and sex), "(B) programs, "(C) program completers and leavers, "(D) staff, " (E) facilities, and " (F) expenditures. "(2) In developing this system, the Commissioner and the Administrator shall endeavor as much as possible to make the system compatible with the occupational information data system developed pursuant to subsection (b) and other information systems involving data on programs assisted under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. "(3)(A) After the completion of the development of these information elements and uniform definitions pursuant to paragraph (1), the Administrator shall immediately begin to design, implement,, and operate this information system which shall be in full operation for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1977. "(B) Any State receiving assistance under this Act shall cooperate with the Administrator in supplying the information required to be submitted by the Administrator and shall comply in its reports with the information elements and definitions developed jointly by the Administrator and the Commissioner pursuant to paragraph (1). Each State shall submit this data to the Administrator in whatever form he requires; and, whenever possible, this reporting shall include reporting of data by labor market areas within the State. "(4) The Administrator shall have the responsibility for updating this national vocational education information and accounting system and for preparing annual acquisition plans of data for operating this system. These plans shall be submitted to the Commissioner for his review and comment. "(b)(1) There is hereby established a National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee which shall consist of the Commissioner, the Administrator, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, and the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training. This Committee, with funds available to it under section 103(a) (as such section will be in effect on October 1, 1977), shall— "(A) in the use of program data and employment data, improve coordination between, and communication among, administrators and planners of programs authorized by this Act and by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973, employment security agency administrators, research personnel, and employment and training planning and administering agencies at the Federal, State, and local levels; "(B) develop and implement, by September 30, 1977, an occupational information system to meet the common occupational information needs of vocational education programs and employment and training programs at the national. State, and local levels, which system shall include data on occupational demand and supply based on uniform definitions, standardized estimating procedures, and standardized occupational classifications; and "(C) assist State occupational information coordinating committees established pursuant to paragraph (2). "(2) By September 30, 1977, each State receiving assistance under this Act and under the Comprehensive Employment and Training

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