[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR1213.1-1]

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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
       CHAPTER XII--CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
 
PART 1213--ACTION COOPERATIVE VOLUNTEER PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 1213.1-1  Introduction.


    (a) Section 122(a), part C, of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 
1973 (the Act), Pub. L. 93-113, 87 Stat. 401, authorizes the Director of 
ACTION to conduct and to make contracts for special volunteer programs 
to encourage wider volunteer participation on a full-time basis to 
strengthen and supplement efforts to meet a broad range of human, 
social, and environmental needs, particularly those related to poverty. 
The ACTION Cooperative Volunteer Program (ACV) is one of these special 
volunteer programs. It provides full-time volunteer service 
opportunities for individuals in assignments with nonprofit and public 
agency sponsors involving a broad range of human, social, and 
environmental needs, particularly those related to poverty. 
Organizations wishing to become sponsors enter into an agreement with 
ACTION to share expenses associated with ACV volunteer assignments. The 
sponsor's share consists of reimbursing ACTION for the direct costs of 
volunteer support, i.e. allowances, stipend and other direct benefits.
    (b) Section 122(b) requires that the assignment of ACV volunteers be 
on such terms and conditions as the Director shall determine.
    (c) Section 122(c) provides that the Director may provide to persons 
serving as full-time volunteers in a program of at least one year's 
duration such allowances and stipends as he determines are necessary. 
The kinds and amount of such allowances and stipends may not exceed 
those authorized to be provided to VISTA volunteers (part A, title I, 
Pub. L. 93-113).

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