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 96 STAT. 1392 3 CFR, 1964-1965 Comp., p. 339.

PUBLIC LAW 97-300—OCT. 13, 1982 necessary to determine whether any violation of Executive Order 11246 has occurred. TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS AMENDMENTS TO THE WAGNER-PEYSER ACT

29 USC 49.

Definitions. 29 USC 49a. Ante., p. 1322.

29 USC 49b.

42 USC 601. 42 USC 651.

29 USC 49d.

SEC. 501. (a) The Act of June 6, 1938, known as the Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 49 et seq.), is amended by striking out all that precedes section 4 of such Act and inserting in lieu thereof the following: • "SECTION 1. In order to promote the establishment and maintenance of a national system of public employment offices, the United States Employment Service shall be established and maintained within the Department of Labor. "SEC. 2. For purposes of this Act— "(1) the term 'chief elected official or officials' has the same meaning given that term under the Job Training Partnership Act;

"(2) the term 'private industry council' has the same meaning given that term under the Job Training Partnership Act; "(3) the term 'Secretary' means the Secretary of Labor; "(4) the term 'service delivery area' has the same meaning given that term under the Job Training Partnership Act; and "(5) the term 'State' means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. "SEC. 3. (a) The United States Employment Service shall assist in coordinating the State public employment services throughout the country and in increasing their usefulness by developing and prescribing minimum standards of efficiency, assisting them in meeting problems peculiar to their localities, promoting uniformity in their administrative and statistical procedure, furnishing and publishing information as to opportunities for employment and other information of value in the operation of the system, and maintaining a system for clearing labor between the States. "(b) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Labor to assure that unemployment insurance and employment service offices in each State, as appropriate, upon request of a public agency administering or supervising the administration of a State plan approved under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act or of a public agency charged with any duty or responsibility under any program or activity authorized or required under part D of title IV of such Act, shall (and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, is authorized to) furnish to such agency making the request, from any data contained in the files of any such office, information with respect to any individual specified in the request as to (1) whether such individual is receiving, has received, or has made application for, unemployment compensation, and the amount of any such compensation being received by such individual, (2) the current (or most recent) home address of such individual, and (3) whether such individual has refused an offer of employment and, if so, a description of the employment so offered and the terms, conditions, and rate of pay therefor.". (b) Section 5 of such Act is amended by striking out subsection (b) and inserting in lieu thereof the following new subsections:

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