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PUBLIC LAW 90-2i2-DEC. 23, 1967 "SPECIAL
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CONDITIONS
"SEC. 124. (a) The Director shall not provide financial assistance for any program under this part unless he determines, in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, that— "(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 the 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) the rates of pay for time spent in work-training and education, and other conditions of employment, will be appropriate and reasonable in the light of such factors as the type of work, geographical region, and proficiency of the participant; and "(4) the program will, to the maximum extent feasible, contribute to the occupational development or upward mobility of individual participants, " (b) The Director shall terminate financial assistance for any program under this part in any case in which he determines that any person charged, in whole or part, with the responsibility for the administration of the program is a member of the Communist Party. "(c) For programs which provide work and training related to physical improvements, preference shall be given to those improvements which will be substantially used by low-income persons and families or which will contribute substantially to amenities or facilities in urban or rural areas having high concentrations or proportions of low-income persons and families. " (d) Programs approved under this part shall, to the maximum extent feasible, contribute to the elimination of artificial barriers to employment and occupational advancement. "(e) Projects under this part shall provide for maximum feasible use of resources under other Federal programs for work and training and the resources of the private sector. U PROGRAM
PARTICIPANTS
Low income. Criteria.
"SEC. 125. (a) Participants in programs under this part must be unemployed or low-income persons. The Director, in consultation with the Social Security Administrator, shall establish criteria for low income, taking into consideration family size, urban-rural and farmnonfarm differences, and other relevant factors. Any individual shall be deemed to be from a low-income family if the family receives cash welfare payments. "(b) Participants must be permanent residents of the United States or of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Federal employ- a/^,\ Participants shall not be deemed Federal employees and shall
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not be sub]ect to the provisions oi law relating to r ederal employment, including those relating to hours of work, rates of compensation, leave, unemployment compensation, and Federal employment benefits. "ELDERLY
"SEC. 126. The Director shall provide that programs under this part shall be designed to deal with the incidence of long-term unemployment among persons fifty-five years and older. I n the conduct of such programs, the Director shall encourage the employment of such persons as regular, part-time, and short-term staff in component programs.
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