training programs

training programs Sec. 110. Section 140 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by inserting “(a)” immediately before “Prior” and by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(b) The Secretary, in cooperation with any other department or agency of the Government, State agency, authority, association, institution, corporation (profit or nonprofit), or any other organization or person, is authorized to develop, conduct, and administer highway construction training, including skill improvement programs. Whenever an apportionment is made under subsections 104 (b)(1), (b)(2), (b) (3), (b) (5), and (b) (6) of this title of the sums authorized to be appropriated for expenditure upon the Federal-aid primary and secondary systems, and their extensions within urban areas, the Interstate System, and the Federal-aid urban system for the fiscal years 1972 and 1973 the Secretary shall deduct such sums as he may deem necessary not to exceed $5,000,000 per fiscal year, for administering the provisions of this subsection to be financed from the appropriation for the Federal-aid systems. Such sums so deducted shall remain available until expended. The provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 U.S.C. 5), shall not be applicable to contracts and agreements made under the authority herein granted to the Secretary.”