PUBLIC LAW 103-82—SEPT. 21, 1993 107 STAT. 853 <«EC. a08. NATIONAL SERVICE EDUCATIONAL AWARDS. 16 USC 1727. "(a) EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS AND AWARDS. —I f a participant in the Public Lands Corps or a resource assistant also serves in an approved national service position designated under subtitle C of title I of the National and Community Service Act of 1990, the participant or resource assistant shall be eligible for a national service educational award in the manner prescribed in subtitle D of such title upon successfully complving with the requirements for the award. The period during which the national service educational award may be used, the purposes for which the award may be used, and the amount of the award shall be determined as provided under such subtitle. "(b) FORBEARANCE IN THE COLLECTION OF STAFFORD LOANS. — For purposes of section 428 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, in the case of borrowers who are either participants in the Corps or resource assistants, upon written request, a lender shall grant a borrower forbearance on such terms as are otherwise consistent with the regulations of the Secretary of Education, during periods in which the borrower is serving as such a participant or a resource assistant. '*SEC. 209. NONDISPLACEMENT. 16 USC 1728. "The nondisplacement re(][uirements of section 177 of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 shall be applicable to all activities carried out by the Public Lcuids Corps, to all activities carried out under this title by a qualified youth or conservation corps, and to the selection and service of resource assistants. "SEC 210. FUNDING. 16 USC 1729.
- (a) COST SHARING.—
"(1) PROJECTS BY QUALIFIED YOUTH OR CONSERVATION CORPS.—The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are each authorized to pay not more than 75 percent of the costs of any appropriate conservation project carried out pursuant to this title on public lands by a qualified youth or conservation corps. The remaining 25 percent of the costs of such a project may be provided from nonfederal sources in the form of funds, services, facilities, materials, equipment, or any combination of the foregoing. No cost sharing shall be required in the case of any appropriate conservation project carried out on Indian lands or Hawaiian home lands under this title. "(2) PUBLIC LANDS CORPS PROJECTS.— The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are each authorized to accept donations of funds, services, facilities, materials, or equipment for the purposes of operating the Public Lands Corps and carrying out appropriate conservation projects by the Corps. However, nothing m this title shall be construed to reqmre any cost sharing for any project carried out directly by the Corps. "(b) FUNDS AVAILABLE UNDER NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERV- ICE ACT.—In order to carry out the Public Lands Corps or to support resource assistants and qualified youth or conservation corps under this title, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriciliture shall be eligible to apply for and receive assistance under section 121(b) of the National and Community Service Act of 1990.".
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