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(6) the wage or salary to be paid at the beginning

of the course of training, at each successive step in the

course of training and at the completion of training;

(7) the entrance wage or salary paid to employees already trained in the kind of work for which the participants are to be trained;

(8) the number of hours of supplemental related in

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(9) information respecting the cost of usual training and other usual services provided employees other than those who are eligible participants under this Act in order to make such employees fully productive; and (10) a commitment to meet the requirements and special conditions of part C of this Act.

SAFEGUARDS

SEC. 204. The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to 17 safeguard against abuses of any incentives provided under 18 this title, including, but not limited to, safeguards against 19 the use of such incentives in order to transfer any enterprise 20 from one area to another and safeguards designed to prevent 21 such incentives from being used as a subsidy for normal 22 operations.

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to be eligible for assistance under part A and from which 7 participants may be recruited under part B of this Act. Such 8 areas may be defined without regard to political boundaries 9 and shall contain high concentrations or proportions of low10 income families and individuals and shall have severe prob11 lems of unemployment and underemployment or, with re12 spect to rural areas, problems of out migration.

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EIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS

SEC. 302. Participants in programs under this Act must 15 be unemployed or low-income persons who reside in eligible 16 areas and who meet other criteria prescribed by the Secre17 tary. Low income shall be defined as provided by section 125 18 of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.

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(1) no participant will be employed on projects involving political parties, or the construction, operation, or maintenance of so much of any facility as is used or to be used for sectarian instruction or as a place for religious worship;

(2) the program will not result in displacement of employed workers or impair existing contracts for services, or result in the substitution of Federal for other funds in connection with work that would otherwise be

performed;

(3) wages paid a participant shall not be lower than, whichever is the highest (A) the minimum wage which would be applicable to the employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 if section 6 of

such Act applied to the participant and he was not exempt under section 13 thereof, (B) the State or local minimum wage for the most nearly comparable covered employment, or (C) the prevailing rate of wages in the area for similar work; and

(4) the program will, to the maximum extent feasible, contribute to the occupational development or up

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4 (c) The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to assure 5 that programs under this part have adequate internal admin6 istrative controls, accounting requirements, personnel stand7 ards, evaluation procedures, and other policies as may be 8 necessary to promote the effective use of funds.

9 (d) Programs approved under this part shall, to the 10 maximum extent feasible, contribute to the elimination of 11 artificial barriers to employment and occupational advance12 ment, including civil service requirements which restrict em13 ployment opportunities for the disadvantaged.

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EVALUATION

SEC. 304. The Secretary shall provide for the continuing evaluation of programs under this Act. He shall require spon

sors of programs under part A and employers assisted by part 18 B to provide such data as may be necessary to evaluate pro19 gram effectiveness, and he shall arrange for obtaining the 20 opinions of participants about the strengths and weaknesses 21 of the programs. He may contract for independent evalu22 ations of programs and of selected, individual projects. The 23 results of such evaluation shall be included in the report re24 quired by section 305.

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REPORTS

SEC. 305. Not later than the 1st day of March of each

year, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the President

4 for transmittal to the Congress a full and complete report on

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DURATION OF PROGRAMS

SEC. 306. The Secretary shall carry out the programs 9 provided for in this Act during the fiscal year ending June

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DISTRIBUTION OF ASSISTANCE

SEC. 307. The Secretary shall establish criteria to 13 achieve an equitable distribution among the States of pay14 ments made from funds appropriated under this Act, but not 15 more than 12.5 per centum of such funds for any fiscal year 16 shall be used within any one State.

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AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 308. (a) For the purpose of carrying out the pro19 visions of title I of this Act there are hereby authorized to 20 be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and 21 for each succeeding fiscal year such sums as may be necessary 22 to assure the employment of not less than

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