PUBLIC LAW 104-208—SEPT. 30, 1996 110 STAT. 3009-236
$1,653,000 which may be used for amortization payments to States
which had independent retirement plans in their State employment
service agencies prior to 1980, and including not to exceed
$2,000,000 which may be obligated in contracts with non-State
entities for activities such as occupational and test research activities which benefit the Federal-State Employment Service System),
which may be expended from the Employment Security Administration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund including the cost
of administering section 1201 of the Small Business Job Protection
Act of 1996, section 7(d) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended,
the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, the Immigration Act of 1990,
and the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, and of
which the sums available in the allocation for activities authorized
by title III of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U.S.C.
502-504), and the sums available in the allocation for necessary
administrative expenses for carrying out 5 U.S.C. 8501-8523, shall
be available for obligation by the States through December 31,
1997, except that funds used for automation acquisitions shall
be available for obligation by States through September 30, 1999;
and of which $23,452,000, together with not to exceed $738,283,000
of the amount which may be expended from said trust fund, shall
be available for obligation for the period July 1, 1997 through
June 30, 1998, to fund activities under the Act of June 6, 1933,
as amended, including the cost of penalty mail authorized under
39 U.S.C. 3202(a)(1)(E) made available to States in lieu of allotments for such purpose, and of which $216,333,000 shall be available only to the extent necessary for additional State allocations
to administer unemployment compensation laws to finance
increases in the number of unemployment insurance claims filed
and claims paid or changes in a State law: Provided, That to
the extent that the Average Weekly Insured Unemployment (AWIU)
for fiscal year 1997 is projected by the Department of Labor to
exceed 2,828,000 an additional $28,600,000 shall be available for
obligation for every 100,000 increase in the AWIU level (including
a pro rata amount for any increment less than 100,000) from
the Employment Security Administration Account of the Unemploy-
ment Trust Fund: Provided further. That funds appropriated in
this Act which are used to establish a national one-stop career
center network may be obligated in contracts, grants or agreements
with non-State entities: Provided further. That funds appropriated
under this Act for activities authorized under the Wagner-Peyser
Act, as amended, and title III of the Social Security Act, may
be used by the States to fund integrated Employment Service and
Unemployment Insurance automation efforts, notwithstanding cost
allocation principles prescribed under Office of Management and
Budget Circular A-87.
ADVANCES TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND AND OTHER FUNDS
For repayable advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund as
authorized by sections 905(d) and 1203 of the Social Security Act,
as amended, and to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund as
authorized by section 9501(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1954, as amended; and for nonrepayable advances to the Unemploy-
ment Trust Fund as authorized by section 8509 of title 5, United
States Code, section 104(d) of Public Law 102-164, and section
5 of Public Law 103-6, and to the "Federal unemployment benefits
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