Specifications include, but are not limited to: Developing strategies for addressing future dislocation events in the local area. Identifying strategies for averting layoffs in the local area. Developing and maintaining means of exchanging information among local areas and with State about potential dislocations, available adjustment assistance and what RR strategies are effective. Collecting and analyzing information related to actual economic dislocations in the local area, potential closings and layoffs in the local area, and all the various resources that are available to benefit dislocated workers in the local area in order to provide an adequate basis for effective program management and to assist the State in reviewing and evaluating RR and layoff aversion efforts in the State.
