TRAINING.

SEC. 236. TRAINING. (a) If the Secretary determines that there is no suitable employment available for an adversely affected worker covered by a certification under subchapter A of this chapter, but that suitable employment (which may include technical and professional employment) would be available if the worker received appropriate training, he may approve such training. Insofar as possible, the Secretary shall provide or assure the provision of such training on the job. (b) The Secretary may, where appropriate, authorize supplemental assistance necessary to defray transportation and subsistence expenses for separate maintenance when training is provided in facilities which are not within commuting distance of a worker’s regular place of residence. The Secretary shall not authorize payments for subsistence exceeding $15 per day; nor shall he authorize payments for transportation expenses exceeding 12 cents per mile. (c) Any adversely affected worker who, without good cause, refuses to accept or continue, or fails to make satisfactory progress in, suitable training to which he has been referred by the Secretary sir all not thereafter be entitled to payments under this chapter until he enters or resumes the training to which he has been so referred.