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PUBLIC LAW 103-160—NOV. 30, 1993 107 STAT. 1819 a defense program, the contractor shall provide notice of such termination or substantial reduction to— "(I)(A) each representative of employees whose work is directly related to the defense contract under such program and who are employed by.the defense contractor; or "(B) if there is no such representative at that time, each such employee; and "(2) the State dislocated worker unit or office described in section 311(b)(2) of the Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1661(b)(2)) and the chief elected official of the unit of general local government within which the adverse effect may occur. "(e) CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE.—The notice of termination of, or substantial reduction in, a major defense program provided under subsection (d)(1) to an employee of a contractor shall have the same effect as a notice of termination to such employee for the purposes of determining whether such employee is eligible for training, adjustment assistance, and employment services under section 325 or 325A of the Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1662d, 1662d-l), except where the employer has specified that the termination of, or substantial reduction in, the program is not likely to result in plant closure or mass layoff. Any employee considered to have received such notice under the preceding sentence shall only be eligible to receive services under section 314(b) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1661c(b)) and under paragraphs (1) through (14), (16), and (18) of section 314(c) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1661c(c)). " (f) WITHDRAWAL OF NOTIFICATION UPON SUFFICIENT FUNDING FOR PROGRAM TO CONTINUE. — " (1) NOTICE TO PRIME CONTRACTOR.— If the Secretary of Defense provides a notification under subsection (a) for a fiscal year with respect to a major defense program and the Secretary subsequently determines, upon enactment of an Act appropriating funds for the military functions of the Department of Defense for that fiscal year that due to a sufficient level of funding for the program having been provided in that Act there will not be a termination of, or substantial reduction in, that program, then the Secretary shall provide notice of withdrawal of the notification provided under subsection (a) to each prime contractor that received that notice under such subsection. Any such notice of withdrawal shall be provided as soon as reasonably practicable after the date of the enactment of the appropriations Act concerned. In any such case. Federal the Secretary shall at the same time provide general notice ^^uj?*^^!' of such withdrawal by publication in the Federal Register. ^" ^^^ ^°" "(2) NOTICE TO SUBCONTRACTORS. —- AS soon as reasonably practicable after the date on which the prime contractor for a m^or defense program receives notice under paragraph (1) of the withdrawal of a notification previously provided to the contractor under subsection (a), and not more than 45 days after that date, the prime contractor shall provide notice of such withdrawal to each person that is a first-tier subcontractor for the program under a contract in an amount not less than $500,000 for the program and shall require that each such subcontractor provide such notice to each subcontractor for the program under a contract in an amount not less than $100,000 at any tier.