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PUBLIC LAW 93-508-DEC. 3, 1974

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and (2) by amending section 1784(b) to read as follows: ^^ ^^'^ ^^^'* " (b) The Administrator may pay to any educational institution, or Reporting fee. to any joint apprenticeship training committee acting as a training establishment, furnishing education or training under either this chapter or chapter 34 or 35 of this title, a reporting fee which will i/oo"^*^ ^^^^' be in lieu of any other compensation or reimbursement for reports or certifications which such educational institution or joint apprenticeship training committee is required to submit to him by law or regulation. Such reporting fee shall be computed for each calendar year by multiplying $3 by the number of eligible ^•eterans or eligible persons enrolled under this chapter or chapter 34 or 35 of this title, or $4 in the case of those eligible veterans and eligible persons whose educational assistance checks are directed in care of each institution for temporary custody and delivery and are deliveied at the time of registration as provided under section 1780(d)(5) of this title, on October 31 38 USC 17so. of that year; except that the Administrator may, where it is established by such educational institution or joint apprenticeship training committee that eligible veteran plus eligible person enrollment on such date varies more than 15 per centum from the peak eligible veteran enrollment plus eligible person enrollment in such educational institution or joint apprenticeship training committee during such calendar year, establish such other date as representative of the peak enrollment as may be justified for such educational institution or joint apprenticeship training committee. The reporting fee shall be paid to such educational institution or joint apprenticeship training committee as soon as feasible after the end of the calendar year for which it is applicable.". SEC. 211. Section 1788(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended as T Hows: O (1) by striking out in clause (1) "below the college level" and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and "not leading to a standard college degree,"; (2) by striking out in clause (2) "below the college level" and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and "not leading to a standard college degree,"; (3) by striking out in clause (6) "below the college level" and inserting in lieu thereof "not leading to a standard college degree"; and (4) by adding at the end of such subsection the following: "Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (1) or (2) of this subsection, an educational institution offering courses not leading to a standard college degree may measure such courses on a quarter- or semester-hour basis (with full time measured on the same basis as provided by clause (4) of this subsection); but (A) the academic portions of such courses must require outside preparation and be measured on not less than one quarter or one semester hour for each fifty minutes net of instruction per week or quarter or semester; (B) the laboratory portions of such courses must be measured on not less than one quarter or one semester hour for each two hours of attendance per week per quarter or semester; and (C) the shop portions of such courses must be measured on not less than one quarter or one semester hour for each three hours of attendance per week per quarter or semester. In no event shall such course be considered a full-time course when less than twenty-two hours per week of attendance is required.". SEC. 212. (a) Chapter 36 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following new section:

Measurement of courses.

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