[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR26.3]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
PART 26--GRANTS TO STATES FOR ESTABLISHING YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 26.3  Program purpose and objectives.

    (a) The purpose of the Act is to further the development and 
maintenance of the natural resources of the United States by American 
youth and in so doing prepare them for the ultimate responsibility of 
maintaining and managing these resources for the American people. The 
Departments of Agriculture and the Interior have stressed the following 
three equally important objectives of the Youth Conservation Corps as 
reflected in the law:
    (1) Accomplish needed conservation work on public lands.
    (2) Provide gainful employment for 15- through 18-year-old males and 
females from all social, economic, and racial backgrounds.
    (3) Develop an understanding and appreciation of the Nation's 
environment and heritage in participating youth.
    (b) These objectives will be accomplished in a manner that will 
provide the youth with an opportunity to acquire increased self-dignity 
and self-discipline, better work and relate with peers and supervisors, 
and build lasting cultural bridges between youth from various social, 
ethnic, racial and economic backgrounds.
    (c) Each YCC project will have, to the maximum extent possible as 
determined by the Secretaries' representatives, the following 
characteristics:
    (1) A properly balanced and integrated environmental work-learning 
program in which environmental knowledge and awareness derives 
principally from meaningful work activities on public lands.
    (2) A mixture of youth of both sexes from various social, economic, 
ethnic, and racial backgrounds which is representative of the youth 
residing within the recruiting area.
    (3) A group-living component, both in residential and nonresidential 
programs, wherein enrollees have an opportunity to relate to each other 
and to staff during nonworking hours in activities which promote social 
interaction and group learning (e.g., evening cookouts, overnight or 
weekend camping).
    (4) An enrollment of sufficient size (not less than 10 enrollees) 
that will permit social interaction and group learning. The program 
encourages

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projects of a size of 20 to 50 enrollees as the most desirable size.