123STA T . 1 497PUBLIC LA W 111 – 13 — AP R .21 , 2 0 09 whet he rap art icul ar n ati o nal s er v ice pro g ra m shoul db e consid - ered to be a national service program eligible to receive assist- ance or approved national service positions under this subtitle .‘ ‘ (2)CONSULTA T I ON. —I n establishing q uali f ication criteria under paragraph ( 1 ) , the Corporation shall consult with organi z ations and individuals with e x tensive experience in developing and administering effective national service pro- grams or regarding the deliver y of veteran services, and other human, educational, environmental, or public safety services, to communities or persons. ‘‘( 3 ) AP PLI C ATION TO SU BGR ANTS.— T he 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 ) E NCOURAG EM ENT O F 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 intergenera- tional component of the program that combines students, out- of-school youths, disadvantaged youth, and older adults as participants to provide services to address unmet human, edu- cational, environmental, or public safety needs. ‘‘(e) P RIORITIES FOR CERTAIN CORPS.—In awarding financial assistance and approved national service positions to eligible enti- ties proposed to carry out the corps described in subsection (a)— ‘‘(1) in the case of a corps described in subsection (a)(2)— ‘‘(A) the Corporation may give priority to eligible enti- ties that propose to provide support for participants who, after completing service under this section, will underta k e careers to improve performance on health indicators described in subsection (a)(2)(C)
and ‘‘( B ) the Corporation shall give priority to eligible enti- ties that propose to carry out national service programs in medically underserved areas (as designated individually, by the S ecretary of H ealth and Human Services as an area with a shortage of personal health services); and ‘‘(2) in the case of a corps described in subsection (a)(3), the Corporation shall give priority to eligible entities that pro- pose to recruit individuals for the Clean Energy Service Corps so that significant percentages of participants in the Corps are economically disadvantaged individuals, and provide to such individuals support services and education and training to develop skills needed for clean energy j obs for which there is current demand or projected future demand. ‘‘(f) N ATIONAL SER V ICE PRIORITIES.— ‘‘(1) ESTABLIS H MENT.— ‘‘(A) B Y CORPORATION.—In order to concentrate national efforts on meeting human, educational, environ- mental, or public safety needs and to achieve the other purposes of this Act, the Corporation, after reviewing the strategic plan approved under section 1 9 2A(g)(1,) shall establish, and may periodically alter, priorities regarding the types of national service programs and corps to be assisted under section 129 and the purposes for which such assistance may be used.
