H. R. 2401—255
SEC. 1334. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM.
(a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with
the Secretary of Energy and the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency, may establish a scholarship program in order
to enable eligible individuals described in subsection (d) to under-
take the educational training or activities relating to environmental
engineering, environmental sciences, or environmental project
management in fields related to hazardous waste management and
cleanup described in subsection (b) at the institutions of higher
education described in subsection (c).
(b) EDUCATIONAL TRAINING OR ACTIVITIES.—(1) The program
established under subsection (a) shall be limited to educational
training or activities related to—
(A) site remediation;
(B) site characterization;
(C) hazardous waste management;
(D) hazardous waste reduction;
(E) recycling;
(F) process and materials engineering;
(G) training for positions related to environmental
engineering, environmental sciences, or environmental project
management (including training for management positions);
and
(H) environmental engineering with respect to the construc-
tion of facilities to address the items described in subpara-
graphs (A) through (G).
(2) The program established under subsection (a) shall be lim-
ited to educational training or activities designed to enable individ-
uals to achieve specialization in the following fields:
(A) Earth sciences.
(B) Chemistry.
(C) Chemical Engineering.
(D) Environmental engineering.
(E) Statistics.
(F) Toxicology.
(G) Industrial hygiene.
(H) Health physics.
(I) Environmental project management.
(c) ELIGIBLE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.—Scholarship
funds awarded under this section shall be used by individuals
awarded scholarships to enable such individuals to attend institu-
tions of higher education associated with hazardous substance
research centers to enable such individuals to undertake a program
of educational training or activities described in subsection (b) that
leads to an undergraduate degree, a graduate degree, or a degree
or certificate that is supplemental to an academic degree.
(d) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS.—Individuals eligible for scholarships
under the program established under subsection (a) are the follow-
ing:
(1) Any member of the Armed Forces who—
(A) was on active duty or full-time National Guard
duty on September 30, 1990;
(B) during the 5-year period beginning on that date—
(i) is involuntarily separated (as defined in section
1141 of title 10, United States Code) from active duty
or full-time National Guard duty; or
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(ii) is separated from active duty or full-time
National Guard duty pursuant to a special separation
benefits program under section 1174a of title 10,
United States Code, or the voluntary separation incen-
tive program under section 1175 of that title; and
(C) is not entitled to retired or retainer pay incident
to that separation.
(2) Any civilian employee of the Department of Energy
or the Department of Defense (other than an employee referred
to in paragraph (3)) who—
(A) is terminated or laid off from such employment
during the five-year period beginning on September 30,
1990, as a result of reductions in defense-related spending
(as determined by the appropriate Secretary); and
(B) is not entitled to retired or retainer pay incident
to that termination or lay off.
(3) Any civilian employee of the Department of Defense
whose employment at a military installation approved for clo-
sure or realignment under a base closure law is terminated
as a result of such closure or realignment.
(e) AWARD OF SCHOLARSHIP.—(1)(A) The Secretary of Defense
shall award scholarships under this section to such eligible individ-
uals as the Secretary determines appropriate pursuant to regula-
tions or policies promulgated by the Secretary.
(B) In awarding a scholarship under this section, the Secretary
shall—
(i) take into consideration the extent to which the qualifica-
tions and experience of the individual applying for the scholar-
ship prepared such individual for the educational training or
activities to be undertaken; and
(ii) award a scholarship only to an eligible individual who
has been accepted for enrollment in the institution of higher
education described in subsection (c) and providing the edu-
cational training or activities for which the scholarship assist-
ance is sought.
(2) The Secretary of Defense shall determine the amount of
the scholarships awarded under this section, except that the amount
of scholarship assistance awarded to any individual under this
section may not exceed—
(A) $10,000 in any 12-month period; and
(B) a total of $20,000.
(f) APPLICATION; PERIOD FOR SUBMISSION.—(1) Each individual
desiring a scholarship under this section shall submit an application
to the Secretary of Defense in such manner and containing or
accompanied by such information as the Secretary may reasonably
require.
(2) A member of the Armed Forces described in subsection
(d)(1) who desires to apply for a scholarship under this section
shall submit an application under this subsection not later than
180 days after the date of the separation of the member. In the
case of members described in subsection (d)(1) who were separated
before the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall
accept applications from these members submitted during the 180-
day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.
(3) A civilian employee described in paragraph (2) or (3) of
subsection (d) who desires to apply for a scholarship under this
section, but who receives no prior notice of such termination or
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lay off, may submit an application under this subsection at any
time after such termination or lay off. A civilian employee described
in paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (d) who receives a notice
of termination or lay off shall submit an application not later
than 180 days before the effective date of the termination or lay
off. In the case of employees described in such paragraphs who
were terminated or laid off before the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary shall accept applications from these employ-
ees submitted during the 180-day period beginning on the date
of the enactment of this Act.
(g) REPAYMENT.—(1) Any individual receiving scholarship
assistance from the Secretary of Defense under this section shall
enter into an agreement with the Secretary under which the individ-
ual agrees to pay to the United States the total amount of the
scholarship assistance provided to the individual by the Secretary
under this section, plus interest at the rate prescribed in paragraph
(4), if the individual does not complete the educational training
or activities for which such assistance is provided.
(2) If an individual fails to pay to the United States the total
amount required pursuant to paragraph (1), including the interest,
at the rate prescribed in paragraph (4), the unpaid amount shall
be recoverable by the United States from the individual or such
individual’s estate by—
(A) in the case of an individual who is an employee of
the United States, set off against accrued pay, compensation,
amount of retirement credit, or other amount due the employee
from the United States; and
(B) such other method as is provided by law for the recovery
of amounts owing to the United States.
(3) The Secretary of Defense may waive in whole or in part
a required repayment under this subsection if the Secretary deter-
mines that the recovery would be against equity and good conscience
or would be contrary to the best interests of the United States.
(4) The total amount of scholarship assistance provided to an
individual under this section, for purposes of repayment under
this subsection, shall bear interest at the applicable rate of interest
under section 427A(c) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 1077a(c)).
(h) COORDINATION OF BENEFITS.—Any scholarship assistance
provided to an individual under this section shall be taken into
account in determining the eligibility of the individual for Federal
student financial assistance provided under title IV of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.).
(i) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than January 1, 1995,
the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of
Energy and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency, shall submit to the Congress a report describing the activi-
ties undertaken under the program authorized by subsection (a)
and containing recommendations for future activities under the
program.
(j) FUNDING.—(1) To carry out the scholarship program author-
ized by subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense may use the unobli-
gated balance of funds made available pursuant to section 4451(k)
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993
(Public Law 102–484; 10 U.S.C. 2701 note) for fiscal year 1993
for environmental scholarship and fellowship programs for the
Department of Defense.
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(2) The cost of carrying out the program authorized by sub-
section (a) may not exceed $8,000,000 in any fiscal year.
(k) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section:
(1) The term ‘‘base closure law’’ means the following:
(A) Title II of the Defense Authorization Amendments
and Base Closure and Realignment Act (Public Law 100–
526; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note).
(B) The Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act
of 1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101–510;
10 U.S.C. 2687 note).
(2) The term ‘‘hazardous substance research centers’’ means
the hazardous substance research centers described in section
311(d) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9660(d)). Such
term includes the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain Hazardous
Substance Research Center, the Northeast Hazardous Sub-
stance Research Center, the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic
Hazardous Substance Research Center, the South and South-
west Hazardous Substance Research Center, and the Western
Region Hazardous Substance Research Center.
(3) The term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the same
meaning given such term in section 1201(a) of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1141(a)).
SEC. 1335. 
TRAINING 
AND 
EMPLOYMENT 
OF 
DEPARTMENT 
OF
DEFENSE EMPLOYEES TO CARRY OUT ENVIRONMENTAL
RESTORATION AT MILITARY INSTALLATIONS TO BE
CLOSED.
(a) TRAINING PROGRAM.—The Secretary of Defense may estab-
lish a program to provide such training to eligible civilian employees
of the Department of Defense as the Secretary considers to be
necessary to qualify such employees to carry out environmental
assessment, remediation, and restoration activities (including asbes-
tos abatement) at military installations closed or to be closed.
(b) EMPLOYMENT OF GRADUATES.—In the case of eligible civilian
employees of the Department of Defense who successfully complete
the training program established pursuant to subsection (a), the
Secretary may—
(1) employ such employees to carry out environmental
assessment, remediation, and restoration activities at military
installations referred to in subsection (a); or
(2) require, as a condition of a contract for the private
performance of such activities at such an installation, the con-
tractor to be engaged in carrying out such activities to employ
such employees.
(c) ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES.—Eligibility for selection to participate
in the training program under subsection (a) shall be limited to
those civilian employees of the Department of Defense whose
employment would be terminated by reason of the closure of a
military installation if not for the selection of the employees to
participate in the training program.
(d) PRIORITY IN TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT.—The Secretary
shall give priority in providing training and employment under
this section to eligible civilian employees employed at a military
installation the closure of which will directly result in the termi-
nation of the employment of at least 1,000 civilian employees of
the Department of Defense.
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