[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR15a.2]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
PART 15a_EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING OR BENEFITTING 
FROM FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart A_Introduction
 
Sec. 15a.2  Definitions.

    As used in this part, the term:
    (a) Title IX means title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 
Public Law 92-318, as amended by section 3 of Public Law 93-568, 88 
Stat. 1855 and section 412 of Public Law 94-482, 90 Stat. 2234 (except 
sections 904 and 906 thereof); 20 U.S.C. 1681, 1682, 1683, 1685, 1686.
    (b) Department means the Department of Agriculture, and includes 
each of its operating agencies and other organizational units.
    (c) Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture or any officer or 
employees of the Department to whom the Secretary has heretofore 
delegated, or to whom the Secretary may hereafter delegate, the 
authority to act for the Secretary under the regulations in this part.
    (d) Federal financial assistance means any of the following, when 
authorized or extended under a law administered by the Department:
    (1) A grant or loan of Federal financial assistance, including
    (i) The acquisition, construction, renovation, restoration, or 
repair of a building or facility or any portion thereof; and
    (ii) Scholarships, loans, grants, wages or other funds extended to 
any entity for payment to or on behalf of students admitted to that 
entity, or extended directly to such students for payment to that 
entity.
    (2) A grant of Federal real or personal property or any interest 
therein, including surplus property, and the proceeds of the sale or 
transfer of such property, if the Federal share of the fair market value 
of the property is not, upon such sale or transfer, properly accounted 
for to the Federal Government.
    (3) Provision of the services of Federal personnel.
    (4) Sale or lease of Federal property of any interest therein at 
nominal consideration, or at consideration reduced for the purpose of 
assisting the recipient, or in recognition of public interest to served 
thereby, or permission to use Federal property or any interest therein 
without consideration.
    (5) Any other contract, agreement, or arrangement which has as one 
of its purposes the provision of assistance to any education program or 
activity, except a contract of insurance or guaranty.
    (e) Recipient means the State or political subdivision thereof, of 
any instrumentality of a State or political subdivision thereof, any 
public or private agency, institution, or organization, or other entity, 
or any person, to whom

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Federal financial assistance is extended directly or through another 
recipient and which operates an education program or activity which 
receives or benefits from such assistance, including any subunit, 
successor, assignee, or transferee thereof.
    (f) Applicant means one who submits an application, request, or plan 
required to be approved by a Department official, or by a recipient, as 
a condition to becoming a recipient.
    (g) Educational institution means a local educational agency 
(L.E.A.) as defined by section 801(f) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 881), a preschool, a private elementary 
or secondary school, or an applicant or recipient of the type defined by 
paragraph (h), (i), (j), or (k) of this section.
    (h) Institution of graduate higher education means an institution 
which:
    (1) Offers academic study beyond the bachelor of arts or bachelor of 
science degree, whether or not leading to a certificate of any higher 
degree in the liberal arts and sciences; or
    (2) Awards any degree in a professional field beyond the first 
professional degree (regardless of whether the first professional degree 
in such field is awarded by an institution of undergraduate higher 
education or professional education); or
    (3) Awards no degree and offers no further academic study, but 
operates ordinarily for the purpose of facilitating research by persons 
who have received the highest graduate degree in any field of study.
    (i) Institution of undergraduate higher education means:
    (1) An institution offering at least two but less than four years of 
college level study beyond the high school level, leading to a diploma 
or an associate degree, or wholly or principally creditable toward a 
baccalaureate degree; or
    (2) An institution offering academic study leading to a 
baccalaureate degree; or
    (3) An agency or body which certifies credentials or offers degrees, 
but which may or may not offer academic study.
    (j) Institution of professional education means an institution 
(except any institution of undergraduate higher education) which offers 
a program of academic study that leads to a first professional degree in 
a field for which there is a national specialized accrediting agency 
recognized by the United States Commissioner of Education.
    (k) Institution of vocational education means a school or 
institution (except an institution of professional or graduate or 
undergraduate higher education) which has as its primary purpose 
preparation of students to pursue a technical, skilled, or semiskilled 
occupation or trade, or to pursue study in a technical field, whether or 
not the school or institution offers certificates, diplomas, or degrees 
and whether or not it offers fulltime study.
    (l) Administratively separate unit means a school, department or 
college of an educational institution (other than a local educational 
agency) admission to which is independent of admission to any other 
component of such institution.
    (m) Admission means selection for part-time, full-time, special, 
associate, transfer, exchange, or any other enrollment, membership, 
participation, or matriculation in or at an education program or 
activity operated by a recipient.
    (n) Student means a person who has gained admission.
    (o) Transition plan means a plan subject to the approval of the 
United States Commissioner of Education pursuant to section 901(a) of 
the Education Amendments of 1972, under which an educational institution 
operates in making the transition from being an educational institution 
which admits only students of one sex to being one which admits students 
of both sexes without discrimination.
    (p) Educational recipient means an educational institution as 
defined in Sec. 15a.2(g) and every other recipient which has education 
as a significant purpose.
    (q) Education program or activity means:
    (1) Every program or activity operated by an educational recipient; 
and
    (2) Every program or activity operated by other recipients where a 
significant purpose of the finanical assistance is education,

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    (r) United States means the States of the United States, the 
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, 
Guam, Wake Island, the Canal Zone, and the territories and possessions 
of the United States, and the term State means any one of the foregoing.