102 STAT. 1540
PUBLIC LAW 100-418—AUG. 23, 1988
program years, except to the extent necessary to provide for an orderly transition to and implementation of the amendments made by this subtitle. The Secretary and Governors may, for such purposes, use funds appropriated for fiscal year 1989 or any preceding fiscal year to carry out appropriate transition and implementation activities. Such activities may include— (1) activities to prevent disruption in the delivery of services to program participants; and (2) planning for and implementation of such amendments. (c) STATE J O B TRAINING COORDINATING COUNCIL,—A State job training coordinating council shall comply with the changes in membership required by the amendment made by section 6304(b) not later than January 1, 1989. Upon certification by the Governor to the Secretary that such changes in membership have been accomplished, such council shall begin to perform the functions specified by section 317 of the Job Training Partnership Act (as amended by this subtitle). (d) SuBSTATE AREAS AND GRANTEES.—The designation of substate
areas and substate grantees required by the amendment to title III of such Act shall be completed not later than March 1, 1989. (e) LIMITATION ON CARRY-OVER OF FUNDS.—The provisions of section 303 of such Act (as amended) shall apply to the program year beginning July 1, 1988, except that, for such program year— (1) subsection (b)(1) of such section shall be applied by substituting "30 percent" for "20 percent"; and (2) subsection (e) of such section shall be applied by substituting "70 percent" for "80 percent". (0 REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Labor shall prescribe such regulations as may be required to implement the amendments made by this subtitle not later than November 1, 1988. SEC. 6306. STUDIES. (a) DATA ON DISPLACED FARMERS AND RANCHERS.—Section 462 of
29 USC 1752.
Reports.
such Act is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(fKD The Secretary shall develop, in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture, statistical data relating to permanent dislocation of farmers and ranchers due to farm and ranch failures. Among the data to be included are— "(A) the number of such farm and ranch failures; "(B) the number of farmers and ranchers displaced; "(C) the location of the affected farms and ranches; "(D) the types of farms and ranches involved; and "(E) the identification of farm family members, including spouses, and farm workers working the equivalent of a full-time job on the farm who are dislocated by such farm and ranch failures. "(2) The Secretary shall publish a report based upon such data as soon as practicable after the end of each calendar year. Such report shall include a comparison of data contained therein with data currently used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in determining the Nation's annual employment and unemployment rates and an analysis of whether farmers and ranchers are being adequately counted in such employment statistics. Such report shall also include an analysis of alternative methods for reducing the adverse effects of displacements of farmers and ranchers, not only on the individual farmer or rancher, but on the surrounding community ".
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