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 92 STAT. 2012

PUBLIC LAW 95-524—OCT. 27, 1978 "PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

29 USC 985. Ante, p. 1950.

Procedures and regulations.

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"SEC. 705. (a) Prime sponsors receiving financial assistance under this title shall, consistent with section 702(b), carry out private sector initiatives to demonstrate the purposes of this title. Such activities shall augment private sector-related activities under title II, including arrangements for on-the-job training with private employers, and may include— "(1) coordinating programs of jobs and training and education enabling individuals to work for a private employer while attending an education or training program; "(2) developing a small business intern program to provide a practical training enabling youths and other individuals to work in small business firms to acquire first-hand knowledge and management experience about small business; "(3) developing relationships between employment and training programs, educational institutions, and the private sector; "(4) developing useful methods for collecting information about Federal Government procurement contracts with private employers, new and planned publicly supported projects such as public works, economic development and community development programs, transportation revitalization, alternative energy technology development, demonstration, and utilization projects, energy conservation projects, and rehabilitation of low income housing as part of a community revitalization or stabilization effort, which provide work through private sector contractors; "(5) conducting innovative cooperative education programs for youths in secondary and postsecondary schools designed to coordinate educational programs with work in the private sector; "(6) developing and marketing model contracts designed to reduce the administrative burden on the employer and model contracts to meet the needs of specific occupations and industries; "(7) coordinating programs under this title with other job development, placement, and employment and training activities carried out by public and private agencies; "(8) providing on-the-job training subsidies on a declining ratio to wages over the period of training; "(9) providing followup services with employees placed in private employment and employers who hire recipients of services under this Act; "(10) encouraging employers to develop job skill requirement forecasts and to coordinate such forecasts with prime sponsors; "(11) using direct contracts for training and employment programs with private for profit and private nonprofit organizations; "(12) developing apprenticeship or comparable high-skill training programs for workers regardless of age in occupations where such programs do not exist presently in the area; "(13) increasing opportunities for upgrading from entry level jobs by providing counseling and other services to employees and employers beyond initial training periods; "(14) providing technical assistance to private employers to reduce the administrative burden of employment and training programs; and "(15) disseminating information to private employers so that they may more fully utilize programs under this Act. "(b)(1) The Secretary shall establish such procedures and regulations as may be necessary to assure that the total amount of administrative costs incurred by all prime sponsors in carrying out programs

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