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 100 STAT. 3072



42 USC 5047.

42 USC 4953.

42 USC 4958.

PUBLIC LAW 99-551—OCT. 27, 1986

with nationally recruited specialist volunteers. The Director shall make efforts to assign volunteers to serve in their home or nearby communities and shall make national efforts to attract other volunteers to serve in the VISTA program. The Director shall also, in the assignment of volunteers, recognize that the community identified needs which cannot be met in the local area, and the individual desires of VISTA volunteers in regard to placement in various geographic areas of the Nation, should be taken into consideration.". (b) REPORTS.—Section 407 of the Act is amended— (1) by inserting "(a)" after "407."; and (2) by adding the following subsection: "(b) Not later than 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, the Director shall prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a report describing activities under section 1030)).". SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF VISTA LITERACY CORPS. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF LITERACY CORPS.—The Act is amended by inserting after section 108 the following new section: VISTA LITERACY CORPS

State and local governments. Education. Disadvantaged persons.

42 USC 4959.

Libraries. Employment and unemployment.

29 USC 1501 note.

"SEC. 109. (a) As part of the Volunteers in Service to America program established under this part, the Director shall establish a VISTA Literacy Corps for the purpose of developing, strengthening, supplementing, and expanding efforts of both public and nonprofit organizations at the local. State, and Federal level to mobilize local, State, Federal, and private sector financial and volunteer resources to address the problem of illiteracy throughout the United States. "(b) The Director shall assign volunteers to projects and programs that meet the antipoverty criteria of part A that provide assistance to functionally illiterate and illiterate individuals who are unserved or underserved by literacy education programs, with special emphasis upon disadvantaged individuals having the highest risk of illiteracy, and individuals with the lowest reading and educational level of competence. "(c)(1) The Director shall assign volunteers under this subsection to projects and programs that utilize volunteers to address the needs of illiterate individuals. "(2) Programs and projects under this subsection may be administered by public or private nonprofit agencies and organizations including local. State, and national literacy councils and organizations; community-based nonprofit organizations; local and State education agencies; local and State agencies administering adult basic education programs; educational institutions; libraries; antipoverty organizations; local, municipal, and State governmental entities, and administrative entities designated to administer job training plans under the Job Training Partnership Act. "(3) In the assignment of volunteers under this subsection the Director shall give priority consideration to— "(A) programs and projects that assist illiterate individuals in greatest need of assistance residing in unserved or underserved areas with the highest concentrations of illiteracy and of low income individuals and families; "(B) projects and programs serving individuals reading at the zero to fourth grade levels; "(C) projects and programs focusing on providing literacy services to high risk populations;

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