[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 25, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 25CFR27.1]

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                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
     CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 27--VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR ADULT INDIANS--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart A--Definitions, Scope of the Vocational Training Program and 
                         Information Collection
 
Sec. 27.1  Definitions.


    (a) Agency office means the current organization unit of the Bureau 
which

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provides direct services to the governing body or bodies and members of 
one or more specified Indian tribes.
    (b) Appeal means a written request for correction of an action or 
decision claimed to violate a person's legal rights or privileges as 
provided in part 2 of this chapter.
    (c) Applicant means an individual applying under this part.
    (d) Application means the process through which a request is made 
for assistance or services.
    (e) Area Director means the Bureau official in charge of an Area 
Office or his/her authorized representative.
    (f) Assistant Secretary means the Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Indian Affairs or his/her authorized representative.
    (g) Contract office means the office established by a tribe or 
tribes who have a contract to administer the adult vocational training 
program.
    (h) Full time institutional training is:
    (1) An institutional trade or technical course offered on a clock-
hour basis below the college level, involving shop practices as an 
integral part thereof when a minimum of thirty (30) hours per week of 
attendance is required with not more than 2\1/2\ hours of rest periods 
per week allowed.
    (2) An institutional vocational course offered on a clock-hour basis 
below the college level in which theoretical or classroom instruction 
predominates when a minimum of twenty-five (25) hours per week net of 
instruction is required, or
    (3) An institutional undergraduate vocational course offered by a 
college or university on a quarter or semester-hour basis when a minimum 
of twelve (12) semester credit hours or its equivalent is required.
    (i) Indian means any person of Indian or Alaska native descent who 
is an enrolled member of any of those tribes listed or eligible to be 
listed in the Federal Register pursuant to 25 CFR 83.6 as recognized by 
and receiving services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs or a descendant 
of one-fourth degree or more Indian blood of an enrolled member and any 
person not a member of one of the listed or eligible to be listed tribes 
who possesses at least one-half degree of Indian blood which is not 
derived from a tribe whose relationship is terminated by an Act of 
Congress.
    (j) Indian tribe means any Indian tribe, band, nation or other 
organized group or community, including any Alaska native village, which 
is recognized by the Secretary of the Interior as having special rights 
and responsibilities and is recognized as eligible for the services 
provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as 
Indians.
    (k) Near reservation means those areas or communities adjacent or 
contiguous to reservations which are designated by the Assistant 
Secretary upon recommendation of the local Bureau superintendent, which 
recommendation shall be based upon agreement with the tribal governing 
body of those reservations, as locales appropriate for the extension of 
financial assistance and/or social services, on the basis of such 
general criteria as:
    (1) Number of Indian people native to the reservation residing in 
the area,
    (2) Geographical proximity of the area to the reservation, and
    (3) Administrative feasibility of providing an adequate level of 
services to the area. The Assistant Secretary shall designate each area 
and publish the designations in the Federal Register.
    (l) Reservation means any bounded geographical area established or 
created by treaty, statute, executive order or as interpreted by court 
decision and over which a Federally recognized Indian tribal entity may 
exercise certain jurisdiction.
    (m) Superintendent means the Superintendent or Officer in Charge of 
any of the Agency offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs or his/her 
authorized representative.
    (n) Tribal governing body means the recognized entity empowered to 
exercise the governmental authority of a Federally recognized tribe.