Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 2.djvu/727

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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

PUBLIC LAW 95-524—OCT. 27, 1978

92 STAT. 2007

teaching experience who are certified by the State in which that prime sponsor is located and who are otherwise eligible under the provisions of this title and such positions with local educational agencies shall be filled through subcontracting with the appropriate local educational agency. "ALLOCATION OF FUNDS

"SEC. 604. (a)(1) The Secretary shall reserve an amount equal to not 29 USC 964. less than 2 percent of the amounts made available for this title for any fiscal year to enable Native American entities which are eligible entities under section 606(a)(2) to carry out public service employment programs. "(2) Not less than 85 percent of the amounts made available pursuant to section 602 for any fiscal year shall be allocated among prime sponsors by the Secretary in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (3). "(3)(A) Fifty percent of the amount allocated under this subsection shall be allocated among prime sponsors in proportion to the relative number of unemployed persons who reside within the jurisdiction of each such prime sponsor as compared to the number of unemployed persons who reside in all the States. "(B) Twenty-five percent of the amount allocated under this subsection shall be allocated among prime sponsors in accordance with the number of unemployed persons residing in areas of substantial unemployment within the jurisdiction of the prime sponsor compared to the number of unemployed persons residing in all areas of substantial unemployment. "(C) Twenty-five percent of the amount allocated under this subsection shall be allocated among prime sponsors on the basis of the relative excess number of unemployed persons who reside within the jurisdiction of the prime sponsor as compared to the total excess number of unemployed persons who reside within the jurisdiction of all prime sponsors. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term 'excess ,, number' means (i) the number of unemployed persons, residing in the jurisdiction of the prime sponsor, in excess of 4i/^ percent of the labor force residing in such jurisdiction or (ii) in the case of a prime sponsor which is a State, the greater of the number determined under clause (i) or the number of unemployed persons in excess of 4i/^ percent of the labor force in areas of substantial unemployment located in the jurisdiction of such prime sponsor. "(b)(1) The Secretary shall, from the remainder of the funds made available under this title, first use such remainder— "(A) to provide continued support for concentrated employment program grantees serving rural areas having high levels of unemployment, and "(B) to allocate among the prime sponsors serving areas within those standard metropolitan statistical areas and central cities for which current population surveys were used to determine annual unemployment data prior to January 1, 1978, in proportion to the extent to which such prime sponsors allocations under this section and title IV are reduced as a result of termination of the use of such surveys, but in no event shall such a prime sponsor receive an amount in excess of the amount of such reduction. The allocations required under clause (B) of this paragraph shall not be made for any fiscal year beginning on or after October 1, 1980, or until such time as the Secretary determines that current population