PUBLIC LAW 105-220—AUG. 7, 1998 112 STAT. 991 the local boards and the chief elected officials in the local areas. (B) OTHER REQUIRED STATEWIDE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES.— ^A State shall use funds reserved as described in sections 128(a) and 133(a)(1) (regardless of whether the funds were allotted to the State under section 127(b)(1) or paragraph (1) or (2) of section 132(b)) to carry out other statewide employment and training activities, which shall include— (i) disseminating the State list of eligible providers of training services, including eligible providers of nontraditional training services, information identifying eligible providers of on-the-job training and customized training, and performance information and program cost information, as described in subsections (e) and (h) of section 122; (ii) conducting evaluations, under section 136(e), of activities authorized in this section, in coordination with the activities carried out under section 172; (iii) providing incentive grants to local areas for regional cooperation among local boards (including local boards for a designated region as described in section 116(c)), for local coordination of activities carried out under this Act, and for exemplary performance by local areas on the local performance measures; (iv) providing technical assistsuice to local areas that fail to meet local performance measures; (v) assisting in the establishment and operation of one-stop delivery systems described in subsection (c); and (vi) operating a fiscal and management accountability information system under section 136(f). (3) ALLOWABLE STATEWIDE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES. — (A) IN GENERAL.—^A State may use funds reserved as described in sections 128(a) and 133(a)(1) (regardless of whether the funds were allotted to the State under section 127(b)(1) or paragraph (1) or (2) of section 132(b)) to cany out additional statewide employment and training activities, which may include— (i) subject to subparagraph (B), administration by the State of the activities authorized under this section; (ii) provision of capacity building and technical assistance to local areas, one-stop operators, one-stop partners, and eligible providers, including the development and training of staff and the development of exemplary program activities; (iii) conduct of research and demonstrations; (iv)(I) implementation of innovative incumbent worker training programs, which may include the establishment and implementation of an employer loan program to assist in skills upgrading; and (II) the establishment and implementation of programs targeted to empowerment zones and enterprise communities; (v) support for the identification of eligible providers of training services as required under section 122;
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