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 1320 Regulations. Facilities, availability to educational institutions.

Cost responsibility.

Unoccupied Federal facilities and surplus equipment, use.

Contract authority.

PUBLIC LAW 92-597-OCT. 27, 1972

[86 STAT.

"(4) promulgate regulations to insure the safety, health, and welfare of the Corps members; and "'(5) provide, to the extent possible, that permanent or semipermanent facilities used as Corps camps be made available to local schools, school districts. State junior colleges and universities, and other educational institutions for use as environmental/ ecological education camps during periods of nonuse by the Corps program. Costs for operations, maintenance, and staffing of Corps camp facilities during periods of use by non-Corps programs as well as any liability for personal injury or property damage stemming from such use shall be the responsibility of the entity or organization using the facility and shall not be a responsibility of the Secretaries or the Corps. " (b) Whenever economically feasible, existing but unoccupied Federal facilities and surplus or unused equipment (or both), of all types, including military facilities and equipment, shall be utilized for the purposes of the Corps, where appropriate and with the approval of the Federal agency involved. To minimize transpoitation costs, Corps members shall be employed on conservation projects as near to their places of residence as is feasible. '' (c) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may contract with any public agency or organization or any private nonprofit agency or organization which has been in existence for at least five years for the operation of any Youth Conservation Corps project. "PILOT GRANT PROGRAM FOR STATK PROJEC^TS

'States.

Application requirements.

Approval,

"SEC. 4. (a) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall jointly establish a pilot grant program under which grants shall be made to States to assist them in meeting the cost of projects for the employment of young men and women to develop, preserve, and maintain non-Federal public lands and waters within the States. For purposes of this section, the term 'States' includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and American Samoa. "(b)(1) Xo grant may be made under this section unless an application therefor has been submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture. Such application shall be in such form, and submitted in such manner, as the Secretaries shall jointly by regulation prescribe, and shall contain— " (A) assurances satisfactory to the Secretaries that individuals employed under the project for which the application is submitted shall (i) have attained the age of fifteen but not attained the age of nineteen, (ii) be permanent residents of the Ignited States or its territories, possessions, or- the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, (iii) be employed without regard to the personnel laws, rules, and regulations applicable to full-time employees of the applicant, (iv) be employed for a period of not more than ninety days in any calendar year, and (v) be emploved without regard to their sex or social, economic, or* racial classification; and " (B) such other information as the Secretaries may jointly by regulation prescribe. "(2) The Secretaries may approve applications which they determine (A) meet the requirements of paragraph (1), and (B) are for projects which will further the development, preservation, or mainte,nem lo • - 'Et •, o

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