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PUBLIC LAW 90-77-AUG. 31, 1967

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FLIGHT TRAINING

SEC. 302. (a) Section 1673(b) of title 38, United States Code, is ^o Stat. le. amended to read as follows: "(b) Except as provided in section 1677 of this title, the Admin- ^"''^• istrator shall not approve the enrollment of an eligible veteran in any course of flight training other than one given by an educational institution of higher learning for credit toward a standard college degree the eligible veteran is seeking." (b) Subchapter III of chapter 34, United States Code, is amended ^^ s*^*- 12. by adding at the end thereof a new section as follows: 1576. "§ 1677. Flight training " (a) The Administrator may approve the pursuit by an eligible veteran of flight training generally accepted as necessary for the attainment of a recognized vocational objective in the field of aviation, subject to the following conditions: "(1) the eligible veteran must possess a valid private pilot's license or must have satisfactorily completed the number of hours of flight training instruction required for a private pilot's license, and meet the medical requirements necessary for a commercial pilot's license; and "(2) the flight school courses must meet the Federal Aviation Administration standards and be approved both by that Agency and the appropriate State approving agency. "(b) Each eligible veteran who is pursuing a program of education consisting exclusively of flight training approved as meeting the requirements of subsection (a) hereof, shall be paid an educational assistance allowance to be computed at the rate of 90 per centum of the established charges for tuition and fees which similarly circumstanced non-veterans enrolled in the same flight course are required to pay. Such allowance shall be paid quarterly upon receipt of a certification from the eligible veteran and the institution as to actual flight training received by, and the cost thereof to, the veteran during such quarter. I n each such case the eligible veteran's period of entitlement shall be charged with one month for each $130 which is paid to the veteran as an educational assistance allowance for such course." (c) The analysis of subchapter III of chapter 34 is amended by inserting immediately after "1676. Education outside the United States."

the following: "1677. Flight training." FARM COOPERATIVE TRAINING

SEC. 303. (a) Section 1673(c) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking out "of apprentice or other training on the job, any course of institutional on-farm training, or any course". (b) Section 1682 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: " (d) An eligible veteran enrolled in an educational institution for a 'farm cooperative' program consisting of institutional agricultural courses for a minimum of 12 clock hours per week, shall be eligible to receive an educational assistance allowance at the appropriate rate provided in the table in subsection (a)(1) of this section opposite the word 'Cooperative' under Column I of such table, if such eligible veteran is concurrently engaged in agricultural employment which is relevant to such institutional agricultural courses as determined under standards prescribed by the Administrator."

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