[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: 20CFR665.300]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 665--STATEWIDE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES UNDER TITLE I OF THE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart C--Rapid Response Activities
 
Sec. 665.300  What are rapid response activities and who is responsible for providing them?


    (a) Rapid response activities are described in Secs. 665.310 through 
665.330. They encompass the activities necessary to plan and deliver 
services to enable dislocated workers to transition to new employment as 
quickly as possible, following either a permanent closure or mass 
layoff, or a natural or other disaster resulting in a mass job 
dislocation.
    (b) The State is responsible for providing rapid response 
activities. Rapid response is a required activity carried out in local 
areas by the State, or an entity designated by the State, in conjunction 
with the Local Board and chief elected officials. The State must 
establish methods by which to provide additional assistance to local 
areas that experience disasters, mass layoffs, plant closings, or other 
dislocation events when such events substantially increase the number of 
unemployed individuals.
    (c) States must establish a rapid response dislocated worker unit to 
carry out Statewide rapid response activities. (WIA secs. 101(38), 
112(b)(17)(A)(ii) and 134(a)(2)(A).)