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definitions Sec. 601. (a) As used in this Act, the term— (1) Community-based organizations” means organizations which are representative of communities or significant segments of the communities and which provide manpower services (for example, Opportunities Industrialization Centers, Jobs for Progress. Mainstream, and Community Action Agencies). (2) “Governor’ means the chief executive of any State. (3) “Health care” includes, but is no’t limited to, preventive and clinical medical treatment, family planning services, nutrition services, and appropriate psychiatric, psychological, and prosthetic services, to the extent any such treatment or services are necessary to enable the recipient of manpower services to obtain or retain employment. (4) “Low-income level” means $7,000 with respect to income in 1969, and for any later year means that amount which bears the same relationship to $7,000 as the Consumer Price Index for that year bears to the Consumer Price Index for 1969, rounded to the nearest $1,000. (5) “Manpower allotment” means sums received by a State or area under title I of this Act for any fiscal year (or, where applicable, under title II of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, and part. B of title I of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964). (6) “Offender” means any adult or juvenile who is confined in any type of correctional institution and also includes any individual or juvenile assigned to a community based facility or subject to pretrial, probationary, or parole or other stages of the judicial correctional or probationary process where manpower training arid services may be beneficial, as determined by the Secretary, after consultation with judicial, correctional, probationary, or other appropriate authorities. (7) “Public service” includes, but is not limited to, work in such fields as environmental quality, health care, education, public safety, crime prevention and control, prison rehabilitation, transportation, recreation, maintenance of parks, streets, and other public facilities, solid waste removal, pollution control, housing and neighborhood improvements, rural development, conservation, beautification, veterans outreach, and other fields of human betterment and community improvement. (8) “Secretary” means the Secretary of Labor. (9) “State” includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. (10) “Unit of general local government” means any city, municipality, county, town, township, parish, village or other general purpose political subdivision which has the power to levy taxes 87 Stat. 877and spend funds, as wed as general corporate and police powers. (11) “underemployed persons” means— (A) persons who are working part-time but Seeking full-time work: (B) persons who are working full-time but receiving wages below the poverty level determined in accordance with criteria as established by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. (12) “Unemployed persons” means— (A) persons who are without jobs and who want and are available for work; and (B) except for purposes of sections 103 and 202, adults who or whose families receive supplemental security income or money payments pursuant to a State plan approved under title I, IV, X, or XVI of the Social Security Act or would, as defined in regulations to lie issued by the Secretary, be eligible for such payments but for the fact that both parents are present in the home (1) who are determined by the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to be available for work, and (2) who are either (i) persons without jobs, or (ii) persons working in jobs providing insufficient income to enable such persons and their families to be self-supporting without welfare assistance: and Hie determination of whether persons are without jobs shall be made in accordance with the criteria used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor in defining persons as unemployed, bur such criteria shall not be applied differently on account of a person’s previous employment. (13) “Wagner-Peyser Act” means “An Act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes”, approved June ft, 1033 (48 Stat. 113), as amended (29 L.S.C. 49 et Seq.). (b) As used in section 208(c) of this Act, the term “area” means— (1) where the applicant is an eligible unit of government or an Indian tribe, that geographical area over which the applicant exercises general political jurisdiction, or (2) where the applicant is a public agency or institution which is a subdivision of an eligible unit of government, that geographical area over which such unit of government exercises general political jurisdiction.