cer shall promptly notify the applicant of the reasons 
for the rejection of the application. 
‘‘(4) RESUBMISSION AND RECONSIDERATION.— 
The Chief Executive Officer shall provide an appli-
cant notified of rejection with a reasonable oppor-
tunity to revise and resubmit the application. At the 
request of the applicant, the Chief Executive Officer 
shall provide technical assistance to the applicant as 
part of the resubmission process. The Chief Execu-
tive Officer shall promptly reconsider an application 
resubmitted under this paragraph. 
‘‘(d) STATE-LEVEL ACTIVITIES.—A State that re-
ceives a grant under this section may reserve up to 5 per-
cent of the grant funds for State-level activities, which 
may include— 
‘‘(1) hiring staff to administer the program car-
ried out under this part in the State; 
‘‘(2) providing technical assistance, including 
technical assistance concerning the professional de-
velopment and training of personnel, to eligible enti-
ties that receive subgrants under section 162A; 
‘‘(3) conducting outreach and dissemination of 
program-related information to ensure the broadest 
possible involvement of eligible entities and local eli-
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gible youth in the program carried out under this 
part; and 
‘‘(4)(A) conducting an evaluation of the 
projects carried out by eligible entities under this 
part; 
‘‘(B) using the results of the evaluation to col-
lect and compile information on best practices and 
models for such projects; and 
‘‘(C) disseminating widely the results of the 
evaluation. 
‘‘SEC. 162A. SUBGRANTS TO ELIGIBLE ENTITIES. 
‘‘(a) SUBGRANTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—A State that receives a 
grant under section 162 shall use the grant funds to 
award subgrants on a competitive basis to eligible 
entities to pay for the Federal share of the cost of 
carrying out community service projects. 
‘‘(2) PERIODS OF SUBGRANTS.—The State shall 
award the subgrants for periods of 3 years. 
‘‘(3) AMOUNTS
OF
SUBGRANTS.—The State 
shall award such a subgrant to an eligible entity for 
a project in a sum equal to— 
‘‘(A) the amount obtained by multiplying 
$500 and the number of youth who will partici-
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pate in the project (to be used for project ex-
penses); and 
‘‘(B) unless the Chief Executive Officer de-
cides to deposit funds for educational awards in 
the National Service Trust, as described in sec-
tion 162(a)(2)(B), an additional amount equal 
to the amount described in subparagraph (A) 
(to be used for educational awards). 
‘‘(b) APPLICATIONS.—To be eligible to receive a 
subgrant under this section for a project, an entity shall 
submit an application to the State Commission at such 
time, in such manner, and containing such information as 
the State Commission may require, including information 
that— 
‘‘(1) designates the community in which the en-
tity will carry out the project, which community may 
be the service area of an elementary school or sec-
ondary school, a school district, a city, town, village, 
or other locality, a county, the area in which a pub-
lic housing project is located, a neighborhood, or an-
other geographically or politically designated area; 
‘‘(2) describes the manner in which the entity 
will— 
‘‘(A) engage a substantial portion of the 
youth in the designated community; 
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‘‘(B) engage a variety of entities and indi-
viduals, such as youth organizations, elemen-
tary schools or secondary schools, elected offi-
cials, organizations offering summer camps, 
civic groups, nonprofit organizations, and other 
entities within the designated community to 
offer a variety of summer service opportunities 
as part of the project; 
‘‘(C) ensure that the youth participating in 
the project engage in service-learning; 
‘‘(D) engage as volunteers in the project 
business, civic, or community organizations or 
individuals, which may include older individuals, 
volunteers in the National Senior Volunteer 
Corps established under title II of the Domestic 
Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 5000 
et seq.), participants in the school-based and 
community-based service-learning programs car-
ried out under parts I and II of subtitle B, par-
ticipants in the AmeriCorps program carried 
out under subtitle C, or students enrolled in 
secondary schools or institutions of higher edu-
cation; 
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