[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
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[CITE: 20CFR638.401]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 638--JOB CORPS PROGRAM UNDER TITLE IV-B OF THE JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ACT--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart D--Enrollment, Transfers, Terminations, and Placements in the 
                                Job Corps
 
Sec. 638.401  Outreach and screening of participants.

    In accordance with procedures issued by the Job Corps Director:
    (a) The Regional Director, as contracting officer, shall contract 
with screening agencies, which shall perform Job Corps outreach and 
screening functions.
    (b) Screening agencies shall develop outreach and referral sources, 
actively seek out potential applicants, conduct personal interviews with 
all applicants, and determine who are interested and likely Job Corps 
participants. See also Sec. 638.541 of this part.
    (c) Screening agencies shall complete all Job Corps application 
forms.
    (1) Except as provided in paragraph (c)(2) of this section, 
screening agencies shall determine whether applicants meet the 
eligibility criteria in Sec. 638.400 of this part for participation in 
the Job Corps.
    (2) The Job Corps Director may provide that determinations with 
respect to one or more of the eligibility criteria set forth in 
Sec. 638.400 of this part shall be made by the Regional Director on the 
basis of information and recommendations supplied by the screening 
agency.
    (3) An applicant for participation in the Job Corps who has been 
determined ineligible may appeal that determination pursuant to 
Sec. 638.539 of this part. (Sections 423, 424, 425, and 144(a))
    (d) In enrolling individuals who are to be nonresidential 
participants, priority shall be given to those eligible individuals who 
are single parents with dependent children.

[55 FR 12996, Apr. 6, 1990, as amended at 58 FR 69100, Dec. 29, 1993]