
      (a) The Secretary is authorized to establish performance
    standards for activities under this chapter which shall take into
    account the differences in priorities reflected in State plans.
      (b)(1) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the
    referral of any applicant to private agencies as long as the
    applicant is not charged a fee.
      (2) No funds paid under this chapter may be used by any State for
    advertising in newspapers for high paying jobs unless such State
    submits an annual report to the Secretary beginning in December
    1984 concerning such advertising and the justifications therefor,
    and the justification may include that such jobs are part of a
    State industrial development effort.

                             PRIOR PROVISIONS                         
      A prior section 49l, act June 6, 1933, ch. 49, Sec. 13, 48 Stat.
    117, relating to mail franking privileges to employment systems,
    was transferred to section 338 of former Title 39, The Postal
    Service. Section 338 of former Title 39 was repealed and reenacted
    as section 4152 of former Title 39, The Postal Service by Pub. L.
    86-682, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 578. Section 4152 of former Title
    39 was repealed and reenacted as section 3202 of Title 39, Postal
    Service, by Pub. L. 91-375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 719.
                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1982 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97-404 designated existing provisions
    as par. (1) and added par. (2).
                              EFFECTIVE DATE                          
      Section effective Oct. 1, 1983, but with Secretary authorized to
    use funds appropriated for fiscal 1983 to plan for orderly
    implementation of section, see section 181(i) of Pub. L. 97-300,
    which was formerly classified to section 1591(i) of this title.

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