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 92 STAT. 1958

PUBLIC LAW 95-524—OCT. 27, 1978 uF I N A N C I A L A S S I S T A N C E

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"SEC, 232. (a) The Secretary shall provide financial assistance to prime sponsors for transitional public service employment for economically disadvantaged persons who are unemployed. Such employment— n " (1) shall be entry level; "(2) shall be combined with training and supportive services if such training and services are reasonably available in the area; and "(3) shall be designed to enable participants to move into unsubsidized employment. "(b)(1) Not more than 10 percent of the funds allocated to a prime sponsor in accordance with the provisions of this part may be used for administrative and other allowable costs (such as supplies, materials, and equipment) incurred by the prime sponsor, program agents, project applicants, or subgrantees or contractors, in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe. "(2) Not less than— ^ "(A) 10 percent of the funds so allocated for fiscal year 1979 "(B) 15 percent of the funds so allocated for fiscal year 1980 "(C) 20 percent of the funds so allocated for fiscal year 1981 "(D) 22 percent of the funds so allocated for fiscal year 1982 shall be used only for training. "(3) The remainder of the funds so allocated may be expended only for wages, employment benefits, training, and supportive services, to persons employed in public service employment under this part. uA L L O C A T I O N
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" S E C 233. (a) Funds made available for carrying out this part shall be allocated among prime sponsors by the Secretary in accordance with subsection (b). "(b) The Secretary shall reserve an amount equal to not less than 2 percent of the amounts made available pursuant to section 232 for any fiscal year to enable Native American entities which are described in section 302(c)(1)^A) to carry out public service employment programs under this part. Eighty-five percent of the amounts made available for this part for any fiscal year shall be allocated in accordance with subsection (c). " (c)(1) Twenty-five percent of the amount allocated under this subsection shall be allocated among prime sponsors in proportion to the relative number of unemployed persons who reside in areas within the jurisdiction of each such prime sponsor as compared to the number of unemployed persons who reside in all such areas in all the States. "(2) Twenty-five percent of the amount allocated under this subsection shall be allocated among prime sponsors on the basis of the relative excess number of unemployed persons who reside within the jurisdiction of the prime sponsor as compared to the total excess number of unemployed persons who reside within the jurisdiction of all prime sponsors. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term 'excess number' means (i) the number which represent unemployed persons in excess of 41^ percent of the labor force in the jurisdiction of the prime sponsor in whose jurisdiction such persons reside, or (ii) in the case of a prime sponsor which is a State, the term 'excess number' means such number as defined in clause (i) or the number which represents unemployed persons in excess of 4^/^ percent of the labor force in areas of substantial unemployment.

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