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PUBLIC LA\V 92-318-JUNE 23, 1972

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"CONSUMERS' EDUCATION PROGRAMS

"Sec. 811. (a) There shall be within the Office of Education, a Director of Consumers' Education (hereafter in this section referred to as the 'Director') who, subject to the management of the Commissioner, shall have primary responsibility for carrying out the provisions of this section. " (b)(1)(A) The Director shall carry out a program of making grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education, State and local educational agencies, and other public and private agencies, organizations, and institutions (including libraries) to support research, demonstration, and pilot projects designed to provide consumer education to the public except that no grant may be made other than to a nonprofit agency, organization, or institution. " (B) Funds appropriated for grants and contracts under this section shall be available for such activities as— "(i) the development of curricula (including interdisciplinary curricula) in consumer education; "(ii) dissemination of information relating to such curricula; "(iii) in the case of grants to State and local educational agencies and institutions of higher education, for the support of education programs at the elementary and secondary and higher education levels; and "(iv) preservice and inservice training programs and projects (including fellowship programs, institutes, workshops, symposiums, and seminars) for educational personnel to prepare them to teach in subject matter areas associated with consumer education. I n addition to the activities specified in the first sentence of this paragraph, such funds may be used for projects designed to demonstrate, test, and evaluate the effectiveness of any such activities, whether or not assisted under this section. Activities pursuant to this section shall provide bilingual assistance when appropriate. " (C) Financial assistance under this subsection may be made available only upon application to the Director. Applications under this subsection shall be submitted at such time, in such form, and containing such information as the Director shall prescribe by regulation and shall be approved only if it— " (i) provides that the activities and service for which assistance is sou8:ht will be administered by, or under the supervision of, the applicant; "(ii) describes a pro.QTam for carrying out one or more of the purposes set forth in the first sentence of paragraph (2) which holds promise of making a substantial contribution toward attaining the purposes of this section; "(iii) sets forth such policies and procedures as will insure adequate evaluation of the activities intended to be carried out under the application; " (iv) sets forth policies and procedures which assure that Federal funds made available under this section for any fiscal year will be so used as to supplement and, to the extent practical, increase the level of funds that would, in the absence of such Federal funds, be made available by the applicant for the purposes described in this section, and in no case supplant such funds; "(v) provides for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of an accounting for Federal funds paid to the applicant under this section: and

Director of Consumers' Education.

Grants, contract authority.

Prohibition. Funds, use.

Bilingual assistance. Applications.

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