(a) The State may require Local Boards within a designated region
(as defined at 20 CFR 660.300) to:
(1) Participate in a regional planning process that results in
regional performance measures for workforce investment activities under
title I of WIA. Regions that meet or exceed the regional performance
measures may receive regional incentive grants;
(2) Share, where feasible, employment and other types of
information that will assist in improving the performance of all local
areas in the designated region on local performance measures; and
(3) Coordinate the provision of WIA title I services, including
supportive services such as transportation, across the boundaries of
local areas within the designated region.
(b) Two or more States may designate a labor market area, economic
development region, or other appropriate contiguous subarea of the
States as an interstate region. In such cases, the States may jointly
exercise the State's functions described in this section.
(c) Designation of intrastate regions and interstate regions and
their corresponding performance measures must be described in the
respective State Plan(s). For interstate regions, the roles of the
respective governors, State Boards and Local Boards must be described
in the respective State Plans.
(d) Unless agreed to by all affected chief elected officials and
the Governor, these regional planning activities may not substitute for
or replace the requirements applicable to each local area under other
provisions of the WIA. (WIA section 116(a).)
