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 PUBLIC LAW 98-524—OCT. 19, 1984 "(b)(1) In maintaining and updating such system, the Secretary shall endeavor to the fullest extent feasible to make the system compatible with the occupational information system (established pursuant to section 422), with the vocational education data system authorized under section 161(a) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963, and with other systems developed or assisted under the Job Training Partnership Act and with information collected pursuant to the Education of the Handicapped Act. "(2) Any State receiving assistance under this Act shall cooperate with the Secretary in supplying the information required to be submitted by the Secretary and shall comply in its reports with the vocational education data system developed by the Secretary pursuant to subsection (a). Each State shall submit the data required to carry out this subsection to the Secretary in whatever form the Secretary requires. "(3) The Secretary shall every 2 years update the national vocational education information and accounting system and prepare acquisition plans of data for operating the system. In carrying out the requirements under this paragraph, the Secretary shall use scientific sample surveys for the information required, except that the information required with respect to handicapped students shall be furnished in accordance with section 423 of this Act. "(4) The Secretary may conduct special studies on enrollment of disadvantaged students in vocational education programs, on the participation of handicapped students in vocational education programs, and any other similar subjects which the Secretary deems appropriate. '(c) In carrying out the responsibilities imposed by this section, the Secretary shall cooperate with the Secretary of Labor in implementing section 463 of the Job Training Partnership Act to ensure that the data system operated under this section is compatible with and complementary to other occupational supply and demand information systems developed or maintained with Federal assistance.

STAT. 2473

Infra. 20 USC 2391. 29 USC 1501 note. 20 USC 1400.

Post, p. 2474.

29 USC 1753.

OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

"SEC. 422, (a) There is established a National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee which shall consist of the Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, the Commissioner of the Rehabilitative Services Administration, the Director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs, and the Administrator of the National Center for Education Statistics of the Department of Education, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics and the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training of the Department of Labor, the Undersecretary for Small Community and Rural Development of the Department of Agriculture, the Assistant Secretary for Economic Development of the Department of Commerce, and the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Logistics). The Committee, with funds available to it under section 451, shall provide funds, on an annual basis, to State occupational information coordinating committees and to eligible recipients and shall— "(1) in the use of program data and employment data, improve coordination and communication among administrators and planners of programs authorized by this Act and by the Job Training Partnership Act, employment security agency administrators, research personnel, and personnel of employment and

National Occupational Information eoordinating eommittee, establishment. 20 USC 2422.

Post, p. 2479.

Ante, p. 2435. 29 USC 1501 note.

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