PUBLIC LAW 99-498—OCT. 17, 1986
100 STAT. 1555
individual is making satisfactory progress in, and is devoting essentially full time to the program for which the fellowship was awarded. "PART D—GRADUATE ASSISTANCE IN AREAS OF NATIONAL NEED "PURPOSE
"SEC. 941. In order to sustain and enhance the capacity for 20 USC 1134/. teaching and research in areas of national need, it is the purpose of this part to provide, through academic departments and programs of institutions of higher education, a fellowship program to assist graduate students of superior ability who demonstrate financial need. ,., - . "GRANTS TO ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS OF INSTITUTIONS
942. (a) GRANT AUTHORITY.—(1) The Secretary shall make 20 USC ii34m. grants to academic departments and programs and other academic units of institutions of higher education that provide courses of study leading to a graduate degree in order to enable such institutions to provide assistance to graduate students in accordance with this part. "(2) The Secretary may also make grants to such departments and programs and to other units of institutions of higher education granting graduate degrees which submit joint proposals involving nondegree granting institutions which have formal arrangements for the support of doctoral dissertation research with degree-granting institutions. Nondegree granting institutions eligible for awards as part of such joint proposals include any organization which— "(A) is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, and is exempt from tax under section 501(a) of such Code; "(B) is organized and operated substantially to conduct scientific and cultural research and graduate training programs; "(C) is not a private foundation; "(D) has academic personnel for instruction and counseling .;-;: who meet the standards of the institution of higher education in which the students are enrolled; and "(E) has necessary research resources not otherwise readily available in such institutions to such students. "(b) AWARD AND DURATION OF GRANTS.—(1) The principal criterion for the allocation of awards shall be the relative quality of the graduate programs presented in competing applications. Consistent with an allocation of awards based on quality of competing applications, the Secretary shall, in making such grants, promote an equitable geographic distribution among eligible public and private institutions of higher education. "(2) The Secretary shall approve a grant recipient under this part for a 3-year period. From the sums appropriated under this part for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall not make a grant to any academic department or program of an institution of higher education of less than $100,00(3 or greater than $500,000 per fiscal year "(3) Whenever the Secretary determines that an academic department or program of an institution of higher education is unable to use all of the amounts available to it under this part, the Secretary shall, on such dates during each fiscal year as the Secretary may fix. "SEC.
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