[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: 20CFR654.4]

[Page 447-448]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 654--SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE SYSTEM--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart A--Responsibilities Under Executive Order 12073
 
Sec. 654.4  Definitions.

    (a) Assistant Secretary shall mean Assistant Secretary for 
Employment and Training, U.S. Department of Labor.
    (b) Civil jurisdiction shall mean:
    (1) Cities of 25,000 or more population on the basis of the most 
recently available Bureau of the Census estimates; or
    (2) Towns and townships in the States of New Jersey, New York, 
Michigan, and Pennsylvania of 25,000 or more population and which 
possess powers and functions similar to cities; or
    (3) All counties, except those counties which contain any of the 
types of political jurisdictions defined in paragraphs (b) (1) and (2) 
of this section; or
    (4) All other counties are defined as ``balance of county'' (i.e., 
total county

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less component cities and townships identified in paragraphs (b) (1) and 
(2) of this section); or
    (5) County equivalents which are towns in the States of 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
    (c) Labor surplus area shall mean a civil jurisdiction that, in 
accordance with the criteria specified in Sec. 654.5, has been 
classified as a labor surplus area.
    (d) Reference period shall mean the two year period ending December 
31 of the year prior to the October 1 annual date of eligibility 
determination.

[44 FR 1689, Jan. 5, 1979, as amended at 44 FR 26071, May 5, 1979; 48 FR 
15616, Apr. 12, 1983; 53 FR 23347, June 21, 1988]