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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

PUBLIC LAW 95-524—OCT. 27, 1978 1963 which operates or wishes to develop area vocational education school facilities or residential vocational schools (or both) as authorized by such Act, or private organizations for the establishment and operation of Job Corps centers. Job Corps centers may be residential or nonresidential in character, or both, and shall be designed and operated so as to provide enrollees, in a well-supervised setting, with education, vocational training, work experience (either in direct program activities or through arrangements with employers), counseling, and other services appropriate to their needs. The centers shall include Civilian Conservation Centers, located primarily in rural areas, which shall provide, in addition to other training and assistance, programs of work experience to conserve, develop, or manage public natural resources or public recreational areas or to develop community projects in the public interest. The centers shall also include training centers located in either urban or rural areas which shall provide activities including training and other services for specific types of skilled or semi-skilled employment. "(b) To the extent feasible, Job Corps centers shall offer education and vocational training opportunities, together with supportive services, on a nonresidential basis to participants in other programs under this Act. Such opportunities may be offered on a reimbursable basis or through such other arrangements as the Secretary may specify.

92 STAT. 1995 20 USC 2304, 2392.

Civilian Conservation Centers.

a PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

"SEC. 457. (a) Each Job Corps center shall provide enrollees with 29 USC 930. an intensive, well-organized, and fully supervised program of education, vocational training, work experience, planned vocational and recreational activities, physical rehabilitation and development, and counseling. To the fullest extent feasible, the required program shall include activities to assist enrollees in choosing realistic career goals, coping with problems they may encounter in home communities, or in adjusting to new communities, and planning and managing daily affairs in a manner that will best contribute to long-term upward mobility. Center programs shall include required participation in center maintenance work to assist enrollees in increasing their sense of contribution, responsibility, and discipline. "(b) The Secretary may arrange for enrollee education and voca- Arrangements tional training through local public or private educational agencies, with local vocational educational institutions, or technical institutes, whenever educational such institutions provide training substantially equivalent in cost and agencies and technical quality to that which the Secretary could provide through other means. institutes. " (c) To the extent feasible, arrangements for education, both at the Graduation center and at other locations, shall provide opportunities for qualified certificate. enrollees to obtain the equivalent of a certificate of graduation from high school. The Secretary, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Concurrence with Health, Education, and Welfare, shall develop certificates to be issued Secretary of to each enrollee who satisfactorily completes service in the Job Corps HEW. and which will reflect the enrollee's level of educational attainment. a ALLOWANCES AND SUPPORT

"SEC. 458 (a) The Secretary is authorized to provide enrollees with 29 USC 931. such personal, travel, and leave allowances, and such quarters, subsistence, transportation, equipment, clothing, recreational services, and other expenses as he may deem necessary or appropriate to their needs. For the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, personal allowances