enrollment and assignment

enrollment and assignment Sec. 406. (a) No individual may be enrolled in the Job Corps for more than two years, except as the Secretary may authorize in special cases. (b) Enrollment in the Job Corps shall not relieve any individual of obligations under the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App, 451 et seq.). (c) Each enrollee (other than a native and citizen of Cuba described in section 60!)(3) of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 or a permanent resident of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands) must rake and subscribe to an oath or affirmation in the following form: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I bear true faith and allegiance87 Stat. 866 to the United Slates of America and will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States against all its enemies foreign and domestic. The provisions of section 1001 of ti the 18, United States Code, shall be applicable to this oath or affirmation. (d) After the Secretary has determined whether an enrollee is to be assigned to a men’s training center, a conservation center, or a women’s training center, the enrollee, shall be assigned to the center of the appropriate type in which a vacancy exists which is closest to the enrollee’s home, except that the Secretary, on an individual basis, may waive this requirement when overriding considerations justify such action. Assignments to centers in areas more remote, from the enrollee’s home shall lie carefully limited to situations in which such action is necessary in order to insure an equitable opportunity for disadvantaged youth from various sections of the country to participate in the program, to prevent undue delays in the assignment of individual enrollees, to provide an assignment which adequately meets the educational or other needs of the enrollee or is necessary for efficiency and economy in the operation of the program. (e) Assignments of male enrollees shall be made so that, at any one time, at least 40 per centum of those enrollees are assigned to conservation centers as described in section 407, or to other centers or projects where their work activity is primarily directed to the conservation, development, or management of public natural resources or recreational areas and is performed under the direction of personnel of agencies regularly responsible for the functions relating to such resources or areas.