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 PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985

99 STAT. 1575

household members to which the application of such participation requirement is impracticable as applied to such categories due to factors such as the availability of work opportunities and the costeffectiveness of the employment requirements. In making such a determination, the State agency may designate a category consisting of all such household members residing in a specific area of the State. Each State may exempt, with the approval of the Secretary, members of households that have participated in the food stamp program 30 days or less. "(ii) Each State agency may exempt from any requirement for participation individual household members not included in any category designated as exempt under clause (i) but with respect to whom such participation is impracticable because of personal circumstances such as lack of job readiness and employability, the remote location of work opportunities, and unavailability of child care. "(iii) Any exemption of a category or individual under this subparagraph shall be periodically evaluated to determine whether, on the basis of the factors used to make a determination under clauses (i) or (ii), the exemption continues to be valid. Such evaluations shall occur no less often than at each certification or recertiflcation in the case of exemptions under clause (ii). "(E) Each State agency shall establish requirements for participation by individuals not exempt under subparagraph (D) in one or more emplo3ment and training programs under this paragraph, including the extent to which any individual is required to participate. Such requirements may vary among participants. "(F)(i) The total hours of work in an employment and training program carried out under this paragraph required of members of a household, together with the hours of work of such members in any program carried out under section 20, in any month collectively may not exceed a number of hours equal to the household's allotment for such month divided by the higher of the applicable State minimum wage or Federal minimum hourly rate under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. "(ii) The total hours of participation in such program required of any member of a household, individually, in any month, together with any hours worked in another program carried out under section 20 and any hours worked for compensation (in cash or in kind) in any other capacity, shall not exceed one hundred and twenty hours per month. "(G)(i) The State agency may operate any program component under this paragraph in which individuals elect to participate. "(ii) The State agency shall permit, to the extent it determines practicable, individuals not subject to requirements imposed under subparagraph (E) or who have complied, or are in the process of complying, with such requirements to participate in any program under this paragraph. "(H) The State agency shall reimburse participants in programs carried out under this paragraph, including those participating under subparagraph (G), for the actual costs of transportation, and other actual costs, that are reasonably necessary and directly related to participation in the program, except that the State agency may limit such reimbursement to each participant to $25 per month. "(I) The Secretary shall promulgate guidelines that (i) enable State, agencies, to the maximum extent practicable, to design and operate an employment and training program that is compatible

Prohibition, 7 USC 2029.

29 USC 201. Prohibition.

Transportation.

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