Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 93.djvu/1107

 PUBLIC LAW 96-143—DEC. 13, 1979

93 STAT. 1075

LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR CERTAIN GRANTS

SEC. 4. (a) Section 108 of the Act is amended by— 42 USC 4958. (1) striking out "20" and inserting in lieu thereof "16"; and (2) adding at the end the following new sentence: "During the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980— "(1) in no event may in excess of $5,800,000 be used pursuant to grants and contracts under this part for the direct cost of supporting such volunteers; and "(2) funds obligated pursuant to such grants and contracts for such cost may be used to support no greater number of years of volunteer service than the number of such years supported during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, pursuant to grants and contracts for such cost.'. Ob) Section 108 of the Act, as amended in subsection (a), is further amended by inserting "(a)" after "SEC. 108." and by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(b) No funds shall be obligated under this part pursuant to grants or contracts made after the date of the enactment of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act Amendments of 1979 for new projects for the Ante, p. 1074. direct cost of supporting volunteers unless the recipient of each such grant or contract has been selected through a competitive process which includes— "(1) public announcements of the availability of funds for such Public grants or contracts, general criteria for the selection of new announcements. recipients, and a description of the application process and the application review process; and "(2) a requirement that each applicant for any such grant or Grant or contract identify, with sufficient particularity to assure that the contract focus, assignments of volunteers under such grants and contracts will identification. carry out the purpose of this part, the particular poverty or poverty-related human, social, or environmental problems on which the grant or contract will focus, and any such grant or contract shall specifically so identify such problems.". SERVICE IN UNIVERSITY YEAR FOR ACTION PROGRAMS

SEC. 5. Section 113(a) of the Act is amended by striking out "and" 42 USC 4973. and inserting in lieu thereof "except that volunteers serving in the University Year for ACTION program may be enrolled for periods of service of not less than the duration of an academic year, but volunteers enrolled for less than 12 months shall not receive stipends under section 105(a)(1). Volunteers serving under this part". 42 USC 4955. SPECIAL SERVICE-LEARNING PROGRAMS

SEC. 6. Section 114(a) of the Act is amended by— (1) striking out in the first sentence "10" and inserting in lieu thereof "22"; and (2) striking out in the last sentence "$6,700,000" both places it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "$4,000,000".

42 USC 4974.

SPECIAL VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS

SEC. 7. (a) Section 122(a) of the Act is amended by— (1) inserting "in urban and rural areas" after "programs" the first place it appears; (2) striking out "and" the first place it appears, and by inserting after "abusers" a comma and "a program of assistance

42 USC 4992.

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