[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR691.17]

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                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
 CHAPTER VI--OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 691_ACADEMIC COMPETITIVENESS GRANT (ACG) AND NATIONAL SCIENCE AND 
 
                    Subpart B_Application Procedures
 
Sec. 691.17  Determination of eligible majors.

    (a) Eligible major. For each award year, the Secretary identifies 
the eligible majors in the physical, life, or computer sciences, 
mathematics, technology, engineering, or, as determined under paragraph 
(b) of this section, critical foreign languages.

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    (b) Critical foreign languages. For each award year, the Secretary 
identifies the foreign languages that are critical to the national 
security of the United States after consulting with the Director of 
National Intelligence.
    (c) Duration of eligible major. A major that ceases to be listed as 
an eligible major under paragraph (a) of this section for an award year 
remains an eligible major in subsequent award years for a student who 
pursues that major and receives a National SMART Grant in the award year 
in which the major was an eligible major.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070a-1)

Subparts C-E [Reserved]