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PUBLIC LAW 103-82—SEPT. 21, 1993 107 STAT. 793 "(D) providing training in basic health, nutrition, and life skills necessary to alleviate hunger in communities and rural areas. (15) Such other national service programs addressing unmet human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs as the Corporation may designate.

    • (b) QUALIFICATION CRITERIA TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY.—

" (1) ESTABLISHMENT BY CORPORATION. —The Corporation shall establish qualification criteria for different types of national service programs for the purpose of determining whether a particular national service program should be considered to be a national service program eligible to receive assistance or approved national service positions under this subtitle. " (2) CONSULTATION.— In establishing qualification criteria under paragraph (1), the Corporation shall consult with organizations and individuals with extensive experience in developing and administering effective national service programs or regarding the delivery of human, educational, environmental, or public safety services to communities or persons. "(3) APPLICATION TO SUBGRANTS. — The qualification criteria established by the Corporation under paragraph (1) shall also be used by each recipient of assistance under section 121(a) that uses any portion of the assistance to conduct a grant program to support other national service programs. "(4) ENCOURAGEMENT OF INTERGENERATIONAL COMPONENTS OF PROGRAMS.—The Corporation shall encourage national service programs eligible to receive assistance or approved national service positions under this subtitle to establish, if consistent with the purposes of the program, an intergenerational component of the program that combines students, out-of-school youths, and older adults as participants to provide services to address unmet himian, educational, environmental, or public safety needs. "(c) NATIONAL SERVICE PRIORITIES. — " (1) ESTABLISHMENT.— "(A) BY CORPORATION.—In order to concentrate national efforts on meeting certain unmet human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs and to achieve the other purposes of this Act, the Corporation shall establish, and after reviewing the strategic plan approved under section 192A(g)(l), periodically alter priorities as appropriate regarding the types of national service programs to be assisted under subsection (b) or (d) of section 129 and the purposes for which such assistance may be used. "(B) BY STATES.—Consistent with paragraph (4), States shall esteblish, and through the national service plan process described in section 178(e)(l), periodically alter priorities as appropriate regarding the national service programs to be assisted under section 129(a)(l). The State priorities shall be subject to Corporation review as part of the application process under section 130. "(2) NOTICE TO APPLICANTS.—The Corporation shall provide advance notice to potential applicants of any national service priorities to be in effect under this subsection for a fiscal year. The notice shall specifically include—