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 97 STAT. 30 PUBLIC LAW 98-8—MAR. 24, 1983 Unemployment list, publication. Unemployment criteria, modification. Funding. as determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics using the latest comparable data available from Departmental, State or local sources, the civil jurisdiction has had an average unadjusted unem- plo3rment rate over the previous twelve months of not less than ninety percent of the unadjusted average unemployment rate for all States during the same period. The Assistant Secretary, upon peti- tion submitted by the appropriate State agency, may classify a civil jurisdiction as having high unemployment whenever the civil juris- diction has experienced or is about to experience a sudden economic dislocation resulting in job loss that is significant both in terms of the number of jobs eliminated and the effect upon the employment rate of the area. The Assistant Secretary shall publish a list of civil jurisdictions with high imemployment, together with geographic descriptions thereof, as soon as practicable, but not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act. This list shall be updated on a monthly basis thereafter, by adding civil jurisdictions that the Assistant Secretary of Labor deems to meet the above criteria. (4) In classifying civil jurisdictions with high unemployment, the Assistant Secretary, in order to include those individusds actually unemployed, should consider modification of the criteria which counts as fully employed persons who worked at all as paid em- ployees in their own business, profession or farm, or who worked fifteen hours or more in an enterprise operated by a member of the family. (5) The provisions of this subsection shall apply only to funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this title to: GSA—Repairing Federal Buildings; Mass Transit Grants; Amtrak Grants; Repairing VA Hospitals; Economic Development Administration; SBA Business loan and investment fund; SBA Natural Resources Development; Repairing Urban Parks; Improving and Maintaining National Parks; Preserving National Forests; Fish and Wildlife Facilities; Rural Water and Waste Disposal Grants; Resource Conservation and Development; Soil Conservation Service Activities; Family Housing for the Military; School Facilities: Provided, That Corps of Engineers funds shall also be subject to the provisions of this subsection to the extent practicable. (6) For projects encompassing a civil jurisdiction with Ya^ unem- ployment, labor surplus areas, or political units or pockets of poverty that are currently or should meet the criteria to be eligible under the Urban Development Action Grant wogram administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, as defined in subsections (a)(D, (a)(2), and (a)(3), and a noneli^le area, such project shall be eligible for funds under this subsection. (b)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and subject to the provisions of subsection (b)(5), the head of each Federal agency to which funds are appropriated or otherwise made available under this title, with respect to any program distributed according to a formula grant by State, shall allot me funds as follows:

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