[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: 20CFR661.290]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 661--STATEWIDE AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE OF THE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT SYSTEM UNDER TITLE I OF THE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart B--State Governance Provisions
 
Sec. 661.290  Under what circumstances may States require Local Boards to take part in regional planning activities?

    (a) The State may require Local Boards within a designated region 
(as defined at 20 CFR 660.300) to:
    (1) Participate in a regional planning process that results in 
regional performance measures for workforce investment activities under 
title I of WIA. Regions that meet or exceed the regional performance 
measures may receive regional incentive grants;
    (2) Share, where feasible, employment and other types of information 
that will assist in improving the performance of all local areas in the 
designated region on local performance measures; and
    (3) Coordinate the provision of WIA title I services, including 
supportive services such as transportation, across the boundaries of 
local areas within the designated region.
    (b) Two or more States may designate a labor market area, economic 
development region, or other appropriate contiguous subarea of the 
States as an interstate region. In such cases, the States may jointly 
exercise the State's functions described in this section.
    (c) Designation of intrastate regions and interstate regions and 
their corresponding performance measures must be described in the 
respective State Plan(s). For interstate regions, the roles of the 
respective Governors, State Boards and Local Boards must be described in 
the respective State Plans.
    (d) Unless agreed to by all affected chief elected officials and the 
Governor, these regional planning activities may not substitute for or 
replace the requirements applicable to each local area under other 
provisions of the WIA. (WIA sec. 116(a).)