[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: 25CFR27.5]

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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 B--Administrative Procedures
 
Sec. 27.5  Selection of applicants.

    (a) Applicants must be adult Indians residing on or near Indian 
reservations.
    (b) Eligible individuals shall be at least eighteen (18) years of 
age, except that high school graduates shall be eligible at the age of 
seventeen (17) years. Also, while the program is designed primarily for 
persons between the ages of eighteen (18) and thirty-five (35), persons 
over the age of thirty-five (35) shall be eligible, assuming training 
and permanent employment to be otherwise feasible in terms of health and 
physical capability.
    (c) An applicant must be in need of training in order to obtain 
reasonable and satisfactory employment or is underemployed and without 
additional training would result in extreme hardship for the applicant, 
and is in need of financial assistance in order to obtain such training. 
It must also be feasible for the applicant to pursue training.
    (d) Selection of applicants shall be made without regard to sex or 
marital status, providing they meet the requirements of paragraphs (a), 
(b), and (c) of this section. Non-Indian spouses shall not be eligible 
for training.
    (e) No more than two (2) repeat training services will be allowed. 
Repeat training services will be on a lower priority than the initial 
service and will be determined on an individual basis, considering need, 
ability, prior performance and present motivation of the applicant. In 
order to be in need of repeat institutional training, an applicant must 
be unemployed, underemployed, or unable to work in his/her primary 
occupation due to physical or other disabilities. Time spent in on-the-
job training programs will be deducted from the maximum of institutional 
training eligibility.
    (f) Only those applicants who willingly declare intent to accept 
full time employment as soon as possible after completion of training 
shall be selected. Plans may subsequently

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change, but the intent of the training program is preparation for 
employment, and this must be the initial intent of program participants. 
The program is not meant to serve as a preliminary to immediate further 
education.