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 92 STAT. 1946

PUBLIC LAW 95-524—OCT. 27, 1978

report on the same topics not later than March 1 of each year. The first such report submitted after the effective date of the Comprehensive Ante, p. 1909. Employment and Training Act Amendments of 1978 shall include recommendations with respect to necessary legislative or administrative changes required to simplify on-the-job training contracting procedures under this Act. "(b) The Secretary and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall report to the Congress on the extent to which social services, community colleges, area vocational and technical schools and other vocational education agencies and institutions, and vocational rehabilitation agencies are being utilized to carry out training programs supported in whole or in part under this and related Acts; the extent to which administrative steps have been taken or are being taken to encourage the use of such facilities and institutions and agencies in the carrying out of the provisions of this Act; and any further legislation that may be required to assure effective coordination and utilization of such facilities and agencies to the end that all federally supported employment and training, vocational education, and vocational rehabilitation programs can more effectively accomplish the objective of providing employment and training opportunities to all persons needing such employment and training. "(c) The Secretary shall annually transmit to the Congress a detailed report which evaluates all programs and activities conducted under this Act, including that information derived from evaluations Post, p. 1971. provided for in section 313. The Secretary shall include specific data concerning the extent to which (1) participants in such activities subsequently secure and retain public or private employment, participate in training or employability development programs, and (2) significant segments of the population of unemployed persons are provided public service employment opportunities. No later than March 1, 1980, the Secretary shall report to Congress proposals for the integration and consolidation of the programs established by part A of title IV and Post, pp. 1974, title VII with the program established by title II. 2010. "(d) In order to assist the Secretary in preparing the report required by this section, the Secretary shall require as a condition of financial assistance that annual reports and evaluations be submitted in accordance with regulations. The data derived from such reports shall be compiled on a State, regional, and national basis, and shall be included in the annual report to the Congress. Such reports shall include but not be limited to the following information: "(1) a detailed comparison of program performance with approved plan; "(2) participant characteristics (cross-tabulated); " (3) average cost per participant; and " (4) the types of outcomes that participants experience after the program. " (e)(1) In the annual report to Congress required in subsection (a), the Secretary shall make recommendations for program modification, including recommendations for the succeeding fiscal year, based upon such findings, and other legislative or administrative recommendations as the Secretary deems appropriate. "(2) In the annual report required in subsection (a), the Secretary , shall inchide a description of the actions, if any, which the Secretary undertook during the fiscal year for which the report is made to reduce the costs of compliance imposed on the prime sponsors by rules or

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