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PUBLIC LAW 93-113-OCT. 1, 1973

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to perform meaningful and constructive volunteer service in agencies, institutions, and situations where the application of human talent and dedication may help to meet such needs. AUTHORITY

TO E S T A B L I S H

A X D OPERATE

PROGRAMS

SEC. 122. (a) The Director is authorized to conduct or make grants or contracts, or both, for special volunteer programs or demonstration programs (such as but not limited to a program to provide alternatives to the incarceration of youthful offenders; a program to projnote educational opportunities for veterans; and a program to provide community-based peer group outreach and counseling for drug abusers) designed to stimulate and initiate improved methods of providing volunteer services, to encourage wider volunteer participation on a full-time, part-time, or short-term basis to further the purpose of this part, and to identify particular segments of the poverty community which could benefit from volunteer and other antipoverty efforts. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, assignment of volunteers under this section shall be on such terms and conditions as the Director shall determine, pursuant to regulations which he shall prescribe. (c) The Director, in accordance with regulations he shall prescribe, may provide to persons serving as full-time volunteers in a program of at least one year's duration under this part such allowances and stipends, to the extent and in amounts not in excess of those authorized to be provided under part A of this title; as he determines are necessary to carry out the purpose of this part. TITLE II—NATIONAL OLDER AMERICAN VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS PART A—RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM GRANTS A N D CONTRACTS FOR VOLUNTEER SERVICE PROJECTS

SEC. 201. (a) I n order to help retired persons to avail themselves of opportunities for volunteer service in their community, the Director is authorized to make grants to State agencies (established or designated pursuant to section 304(a)(1) of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended (42 U.S.C. 3024(a)(1))) or grants to or contracts with other public and nonprofit private agencies and organizations to pay part or all of the costs for the development or operation, or both, of A'olunteer service programs under this section, if he determines, in accordance with regulations he shall prescribe, that— (1) volunteers will not be reimbursed for other than transportation, meals, and other out-of-pocket expenses incident to the provision of services under this part; (2) only individuals aged sixty or over will be enrolled as volunteers to provide services under this part (except for administrative purposes), and such services will be performed in the community where such individuals reside or in nearby communities either (A) on publicly owned and operated facilities or projects, or (B) on local projects sponsored by private nonprofit organizations (other than political parties), other than projects involving the construction, operation, or maintenance of so much of any facility used or to be used for sectarian instruction or as a place for religious worship;

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