[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR648.33]

[Page 336]
 
                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
 CHAPTER VI--OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 648_GRADUATE ASSISTANCE IN AREAS OF NATIONAL NEED--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart C_How Does the Secretary Make an Award?
 
Sec. 648.33  What priorities and absolute preferences does the Secretary 
establish?

    (a) For each application period, the Secretary establishes as an 
area of national need and gives absolute preference to one or more of 
the general disciplines and sub-disciplines listed as priorities in the 
appendix to this part or the resulting interdisciplines.
    (b) The Secretary announces the absolute preferences in a notice 
published in the Federal Register.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1135, 1135a)