Alaska Administrative Code
Title 8 - Labor and Workforce Development
Part 7 - Employment Security Division and Alaska Workforce Investment Board
Chapter 84 - Alaska Workforce Investment Board
Article 3 - Definitions
8 AAC 84.900 - Definitions

(1) "average annual wage" has the meaning given in AS 23.20.520;

(2) "board" means the Alaska Workforce Investment Board;

(3) "cost per participant" means the total amount of grant money expended, divided by the total number of participants served within a fiscal year by a training grant recipient, including a state agency;

(4) "department" means the Department of Labor and Workforce Development;

(5) "program" means a training program identified in AS 23.15.580(f);

(6) "state training and employment program" or "STEP" means the state training and employment program established under AS 23.15.620-23.15.660;

(7) "training" means an activity designed to instruct a participant; "training" includes classroom training, customized training, registered apprenticeship training, on-the-job training, skill- or industry-specific training, vocational training, literacy training, adult basic education, post-secondary training, and graduate training;

(8) "workforce development system" includes the board, the department, and each program awarded a grant under AS 23.15;

(9) "commissioner" means the commissioner of labor and workforce development;

(10) "working day" means a day other than Saturday, Sunday, or a state holiday.