[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 43CFR26.4]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
PART 26--GRANTS TO STATES FOR ESTABLISHING YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 26.4  Legislation.

    State programs must meet all of the requirements of section 4 of the 
act. Section 4 of the act which applies to the grant program reads as 
follows:

    Sec. 4(a). The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall jointly establish a program under which grants shall 
be made to States to assist them in meeting the cost of projects for the 
employment of young men and women to develop, preserve, and maintain 
non-Federal public lands and waters within the States. For purposes of 
this section, the term ``States'' includes the District of Columbia, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Trust 
Territory of the Pacific Islands, and American Samoa.
    (b)(1) No grant may be made under this section unless an application 
therefor has been submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture. Such application shall be in 
such form, and submitted in such manner, as the Secretaries shall 
jointly by regulation prescribe, and shall contain--
    (A) Assurances satisfactory to the Secretaries that individuals 
employed under the project for which the application is submitted shall: 
(i) Have attained the age of 15 but not attained the age of 19, (ii) be 
permanent residents of the United States or its territories, 
possessions, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, (iii) be 
employed without regard to the personnel laws, rules, and regulations 
applicable to full-time employees of the applicant, (iv) be employed for 
a period of not more than 90 days in any calendar year, and (v) be 
employed without regard to their sex or social, economic, or racial 
classification; and
    (B) Such other information as the Secretaries may jointly by 
regulation prescribe.
    (2) The Secretaries may approve applications which they determine 
(A) meet the requirements of paragraph (1), and (B) are for projects 
which will further the development, preservation, or maintenance of non-
Federal public lands or waters within the jurisdiction of the applicant.
    (c)(1) The amount of any grant under this section shall be 
determined jointly by the Secretaries, except that no grant for any 
project may exceed 80 per centum of the cost (as determined by the 
Secretaries) of such project.
    (2) Payments under grants under this section may be made in advance 
or by way of reimbursement and at such intervals and on such conditions 
as the Secretaries find necessary.
    (d) Thirty per centum of the sum appropriated under section 6 for 
any fiscal year shall be made available for grants under this section 
for such fiscal year.