                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 12--TRADE ACT OF 1974
 
     SUBCHAPTER II--RELIEF FROM INJURY CAUSED BY IMPORT COMPETITION
 
                Part 2--Adjustment Assistance for Workers
 
                 subpart a--petitions and determinations
 
Sec. 2275. Benefit information for workers

    (a) The Secretary shall provide full information to workers about 
the benefit allowances, training, and other employment services 
available under this part and about the petition and application 
procedures, and the appropriate filing dates, for such allowances, 
training and services. The Secretary shall provide whatever assistance 
is necessary to enable groups of workers to prepare petitions or 
applications for program benefits. The Secretary shall make every effort 
to insure that cooperating State agencies fully comply with the 
agreements entered into under section 2311(a) of this title and shall 
periodically review such compliance. The Secretary shall inform the 
State Board for Vocational Education or equivalent agency and other 
public or private agencies, institutions, and employers, as appropriate, 
of each certification issued under section 2273 of this title and of 
projections, if available, of the needs for training under section 2296 
of this title as a result of such certification.
    (b)(1) The Secretary shall provide written notice through the mail 
of the benefits available under this part to each worker whom the 
Secretary has reason to believe is covered by a certification made under 
this subpart or subpart D of this part--
        (A) at the time such certification is made, if the worker was 
    partially or totally separated from the adversely affected 
    employment before such certification, or
        (B) at the time of the total or partial separation of the worker 
    from the adversely affected employment, if subparagraph (A) does not 
    apply.

    (2) The Secretary shall publish notice of the benefits available 
under this part to workers covered by each certification made under this 
subpart or subpart D of this part in newspapers of general circulation 
in the areas in which such workers reside.

(Pub. L. 93-618, title II, Sec. 225, as added Pub. L. 97-35, title XXV, 
Sec. 2502, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 881; amended Pub. L. 100-418, title 
I, Sec. 1422, Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1244; Pub. L. 103-182, title V, 
Sec. 503(b), Dec. 8, 1993, 107 Stat. 2151.)


                               Amendments

    1993--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-182 inserted reference to subpart D 
in pars. (1) and (2).
    1988--Pub. L. 100-418 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsec. (b).


                    Effective Date of 1993 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 103-182 effective on the date the North 
American Free Trade Agreement enters into force with respect to the 
United States [Jan. 1, 1994], see section 506(a) of Pub. L. 103-182, set 
out as an Effective Date note under section 2331 of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1988 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 100-418 effective on date that is 30 days after 
Aug. 23, 1988, see section 1430(e) of Pub. L. 100-418, set out as an 
Effective Date note under section 2397 of this title.


                Effective Date and Transition Provisions

    Section effective Aug. 13, 1981, with transition provisions 
applicable, see section 2514 of Pub. L. 97-35, set out as an Effective 
Date of 1981 Amendment note under section 2291 of this title.


                            Termination Date

    No assistance, vouchers, allowances, or other payments may be 
provided under subparts A to C of this part after Sept. 30, 2001, see 
section 285 of Pub. L. 93-618, as amended, set out as a note preceding 
section 2271 of this title.
