[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR632.17]

[Page 285]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 632--INDIAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart C--Program Planning, Application and Modification Procedures
 
Sec. 632.17  Planning process.


    (a) Each Native American grantee shall establish a planning process 
for the development of its Master Plan and Comprehensive Annual Plan. 
This planning process shall involve consideration of the need for job 
training and employment services, appropriate means of providing needed 
services and methods of monitoring and assessing the services provided. 
Recognizing the importance of employer involvement in designing and 
implementing programs, each Native American grantee shall involve 
employers in program planning.
    (b) (1) Each Native American grantee's planning process shall 
involve consultation with major employers or organizations representing 
employers inside the grantee's designated service or surrounding labor 
market area. Such consultation shall include consideration of the 
opportunities for placement of program participants and the design of 
training activities and related services.
    (2) A description of the procedures used for this consultation shall 
be included in the grantee's Master Plan. The results of the 
consultation shall be described in the grantee's Comprehensive Annual 
Plan.
    (3) Native American grantees are encouraged to establish or to use 
existing formal advisory councils, such as Private Industry Councils, as 
vehicles for such consultation. Grantees are also encouraged to use all 
appropriate mechanisms, including Tribal Employment Rights Offices 
(TEROs), to insure maximum opportunity for the placement of participants 
in unsubsidized employment.
    (4) A Native American grantee will not be held responsible for the 
refusal of any employer or organization representing employers to engage 
in the consultation process described in this section.
    (c) In addition to the requirement in paragraph (b) of this section, 
the planning process shall provide the opportunity for the involvement 
of the client community, service providers (such as appropriate 
community-based organizations) and educational agencies, tribal agencies 
or other Indian and Native American organizations whose programs are 
relevant to the provision of job training services within the grantee's 
service area.