To authorize grants for local workforce investment boards for the provision of services to spouses of certain members of the Armed Forces.

1. Adds SEC. __. GRANTS FOR LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARDS FOR SERVICES FOR CERTAIN SPOUSES OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES at the end of subtitle C of title III

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   (b) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the effects of windmill farms on military readiness, including an assessment of the effects on the operations of military radar installations of the proximity of windmill farms to such installations and of technologies that could mitigate any adverse effects on military operations identified.

   Inserted: SEC. __. GRANTS FOR LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARDS FOR SERVICES FOR CERTAIN SPOUSES OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.

   Inserted: (a) Grants Authorized.--The Secretary of Defense may, from any funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense, and in consultation with the Department of Labor, make grants to local workforce investments boards established under section 117 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2832), or consortia of such boards, in order to permit such boards or consortia of boards to provide services to spouses of members of the Armed Forces described in subsection (b).

   Inserted: (b) Covered Spouses.--Spouses of members of the Armed Forces described in this subsection are spouses of members of the Armed Forces on active duty, which spouses--

   Inserted: (1) have experienced a loss of employment as a direct result of relocation of such members to accommodate a permanent change in duty station; or

   Inserted: (2) are in a family whose income is significantly reduced due to--

   Inserted: (A) the deployment of such members;

   Inserted: (B) the call or order of such members to active duty in support of a contingency operation pursuant to a provision of law referred to in section 101(a)(13)(B) of title 10, United States Code;

   Inserted: (C) a permanent change in duty station of such members; or

   Inserted: (D) the incurral by such members of a service-connected disability (as that term is defined in section 101(16) of title 38, United States Code).

   Inserted: (c) Regulations.--Any grants made under this section shall be made pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary in consultation with the Department of Labor. Such regulation shall set forth--

   Inserted: (1) criteria for eligibility of workforce investment boards for grants under this section;

   Inserted: (2) requirements for applications for such grants; and

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   Inserted: (3) the nature of services to be provided using such grants.

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   At the end of subtitle C of title III, add the following:

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