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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

20 CFR Part 638

 

Job Corps; Allowances and Allotments

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: Job Corps proposes to amend its regulations on student 
allowances and allotments. The objectives are: to increase the length 
of enrollment requirements for readjustment allowance eligibility, in 
order to encourage students to lengthen their enrollment and maximize 
Job Corps offerings and benefits; and to amend the allotment section to 
coincide with revisions in readjustment allowance accrual.

DATES: All comments and information should be submitted by December 1, 
1994.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the Assistant Secretary for Employment and 
Training, Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor, 
200 Constitution Avenue NW., room N-4510, Washington, DC 20210, 
Attention: Peter E. Rell, Director, Office of Job Corps.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dana Davidson Johnson, Office of Job Corps, Division of Program 
Management and Review. Telephone: (202) 219-6568 (this is not a toll-
free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Job Corps is devising a new pay and 
allotment system which will provide students with enough money to meet 
their basic needs, while adding greater incentives than are available 
in the current system to encourage student retention, performance, 
program completion, and length of enrollment. The proposed rule enables 
the Job Corps Director to increase the number of paid days for 
eligibility for readjustment allowances. This will encourage students 
to stay in the program longer. Students thus can be better prepared for 
employment, particularly because this added time will encourage 
students to acquire social skills along with vocational and academic 
training.
    Payroll will be conducted on a biweekly schedule versus the current 
twice-monthly procedure. The proposed rule ties into the implementation 
of the new Student Pay, Allowance and Management Information System 
(SPAMIS) utilized by Job Corps. The new pay system will be much more 
responsive than the current system, with individual student pay levels 
and leave status maintained on a current basis and status changes made 
by the Job Corps Centers as they occur. The proposed rule will allow 
the accrual of readjustment allowances to be set for each paid day and 
allotments to be processed on a biweekly basis.
    This rule applies only to allowances and allotments for Job Corps 
students. The proposed rule is not classified as a ``significant 
regulatory action'' under Executive Order 12866, ``Regulatory Planning 
and Review.'' It does not (1) materially alter the budgetary impact of 
entitlements or the rights and obligations of recipients thereof; or 
(2) raise novel legal or policy issues arising out of legal mandates in 
the President's priorities. It is not likely (3) to result in having an 
annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more; or (4) to create 
a serious inconsistency or interfere with action taken or planned by 
another agency. As required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act, the 
Department of Labor has notified the Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small 
Business Administration, and made the certification pursuant to 5 
U.S.C. 605(b) that this rule will not have a significant economic 
impact on a substantial number of small entities.

List of Subjects in 20 CFR Part 638

    Contract programs, Labor, Training and employment programs.

Proposed Rule

    Accordingly, 20 CFR part 638 is proposed to be amended as follows:

PART 638--[AMENDED]

    1. The authority for part 638 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 29 U.S.C. 1579(a).

    2. In Sec. 638.524, paragraphs (b) and (c) are revised to read as 
follows:


Sec. 638.524  Allowances and allotments.

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    (b) The Job Corps Director shall ensure that each student receives 
a readjustment allowance for each paid day of satisfactory 
participation in Job Corps after termination from the program if he/she 
terminates after 210 days in pay status or after 180 days if he/she is 
a maximum benefits or vocational completer. In the event that a student 
receives a medical termination, he/she shall be eligible for the 
accrued readjustment allowance, regardless of length of stay or other 
considerations. See also paragraph (d) of this section. (Section 
429(c)).
    (c) The Job Corps Director shall establish procedures to allow 
students to authorize deductions from their readjustment allowance, 
which shall be matched by an equal amount from Job Corps funds and sent 
biweekly as an allotment by the SPAMIS Data Center to the student's 
spouse, child(ren) or other dependent, if such spouse, child(ren) or 
other dependent resides in any State in the United States.
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    Signed at Washington, DC, this 25th day of October 1994.
Robert B. Reich,
Secretary of Labor.
[FR Doc. 94-26928 Filed 10-31-94; 8:45 am]
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