Comprehensive Youth Employment Act

Comprehensive Youth Employment Act - Title I: Employment and Training Opportunities - States that the purpose of this Act is to establish a year-round program to assure the availability of meaningful work and part-time employment for youth during the school year, and full-time employment in the summer. Directs the Secretary of Labor to enter into arrangements with prime sponsors to make financial assistance available for such purpose.

Title II: Youth Manpower Services - States that school year youth employment programs shall consist of part-time employment, work experience, or on-the-job training in effect not less than six months nor more than nine months during the September 15 through June 15 academic year.

Prohibits provision of financial assistance unless the prime sponsor, pursuant to the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973, submits a school year youth program meeting specified objectives. States that the plan must assure that employment of eligible youth will not result in the displacement of employed workers or impair existing contracts.

Limits eligible work experience or on-the-job training under this Act to employment on jobs providing needed community services. Specifies that no funds for employment under this Act shall be used to provide public services which were previously provided by a political subdivision or local education agency in the area served by the project.

Directs the prime sponsor to consult with community groups having a knowledge of the needs of economically disadvantaged youth in developing criteria for awarding financial assistance. Requires the prime sponsors to establish a youth advisory committee to facilitate such consultation.

Sets forth criteria governing applications for assistance, and approvals by the prime sponsor. Specifies that priority shall be given to youth employment programs involving the greatest number of disadvantaged youths. Requires financial reports from eligible applicants. Prohibits using more than five percent of funds awarded to the prime sponsor by the Secretary for administrative costs, except under special limited circumstances.

Sets forth requirements governing summer youth employment programs under this Act. States that such program shall essentially follow the same procedures established for the school year employment program.

Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary for fiscal years 1976 and 1977. Sets forth a formula for the allocation of such funds among the various programs established pursuant to this Act.

Title III: Youth Conservation Programs - States that the purpose of this title is to complement the Youth Conservation Corps and to provide employment and other benefits to young adults while reducing the inventory of public conservation work.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to jointly extend the Youth Conservation Corps so as to make possible the year-round employment of young adults. States that individuals employed as Corps members under this title shall be between the ages of 19 and 24 and shall be physically capable of carrying out the work of the Corps.

Requires that in considering appropriate locations for Corps projects, priority be given to counties having an unemployment rate equal to or in excess of six percent.

Specifies that the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall prepare jointly and submit to the President and Congress reports detailing the activities carried out under this title. States that the Secretaries will be authorized a six-month planning period for preparing to undertake the activities authorized by this Act. Specifies that priority shall be given to reforestation, timber stand improvement, fighting forest fires, and control of insects and diseases.

Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to carry out this title.

Title IV: Recreation Support Programs - States that the purpose of this title is to establish a permanent year-round recreation support program within the Department of Labor. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants to units of local government and other prime sponsors for developing programs to complement titles II and III of this Act. Stipulates that particular attention shall be given to the needs of the economically disadvantaged.

Sets forth the administrative authority of the Secretary. Prohibits utilizing more than 30 percent of the funds appropriated for this title for recreation-related supplies and equipment. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.