Sec. 312. Allotment of funds for adult worker training services and activities
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From the amount appropriated under section 311 for each fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve not more than 3.3 percent to make national emergency grants under this subsection. The Secretary shall use the reserved funds to make, on a competitive basis, national emergency grants— to a State board or local board to provide adult training services to workers affected by major economic dislocations, such as plant closures, mass layoffs, or closures and realignments of military installations; and to provide assistance to the Governor of any State within the boundaries of which is an area that has suffered an emergency or a major disaster as defined in paragraphs
(1)and (2), respectively, of section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5122 ) to provide disaster relief employment in the area. To be eligible to receive a grant under this subsection, a State board, local board, or Governor shall submit an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require. The Secretary shall require that the application contain, at a minimum— a request for the grant, specifying the amount of the grant funds requested and the proposed uses for the funds; a description of the services that will be provided to participants, and how those services will prepare the participants for employment; and information indicating that the applicant meets any other criteria the Secretary shall establish. To the extent practicable, the Secretary shall notify each applicant, not later than 5 months after the date of receipt of the application by the Secretary, concerning whether the application is approved or not approved. The Secretary may issue regulations to carry out this subsection. From the amount appropriated under section 311 for each fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve not more than 0.215 percent to provide assistance to the outlying areas to provide adult training services. Specifically, the Secretary shall provide not more than— 0.07 percent of that amount to Guam; 0.015 percent of that amount to American Samoa; 0.033 percent of that amount to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; except as described in section 101(24), 0.007 percent of that amount to the Republic of Palau; and 0.09 percent of that amount to the United States Virgin Islands. The Secretary may issue regulations to carry out this subsection. The Secretary shall— combine— the amount appropriated under section 311 for a fiscal year, and not reserved under subsection
(a)or (b); and funds made available under section 286(s)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1356(s)(2) ) for the fiscal year; and allot the combined funds to States under paragraph (2). Subject to subparagraph (B), of the combined funds— 34 percent shall be allotted on the basis of the relative number of unemployed individuals in areas of substantial unemployment in each State, compared to the total number of unemployed individuals in areas of substantial unemployment in all States; 24 percent shall be allotted on the basis of the relative excess number of unemployed individuals in each State, compared to the total excess number of unemployed individuals in all States; 10 percent shall be allotted on the basis of the relative number of disadvantaged adults in each State, composed to the total number of disadvantaged adults in all States; 14 percent shall be allotted on the basis of the relative number of individuals who have been unemployed for 15 weeks or more in each State, compared to the total number of such individuals in all States; and 18 percent shall be allotted on the basis of the relative number of individuals in the civilian labor force in each State, compared to the total number of individuals in the civilian labor force in all States. In making allotments under this paragraph for fiscal year 2016, the Secretary shall ensure that no State receives an allotment in an amount that is less than 90 percent of the combined amount the State received for fiscal year 2015 under paragraphs (1)(B) and (2)(B) of section 132(b) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 ( 29 U.S.C. 2862(b) ), as in effect on June 30, 2015, and section 6 of the Wagner-Peyser Act ( 29 U.S.C. 49e ), as in effect on that date. In making allotments under this paragraph for fiscal year 2017 and each subsequent fiscal year, the Secretary shall ensure that no State receives an allotment for the fiscal year involved in an amount that is less than 90 percent of the allotment the State received for the prior fiscal year under this paragraph.
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- 29 USC 2862(b)
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