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out under this section, the Secretaries shall give a
preference to those projects which—
(A) will provide long-term benefits to the
public;
(B) will instill in the participant a work
ethic and a sense of public service;
(C) will be labor intensive;
(D) can be planned and initiated promptly;
and
(E) will provide academic, experiential, or
community education opportunities.
(5) CONSISTENCY.—Each appropriate service
project carried out under this section in any public
housing project or public works resource or facility
shall be consistent with the provisions of law and
policies relating to the management and administra-
tion of such projects, facilities, or resources, with all
other applicable provisions of law, and with all man-
agement, operational, and other plans and docu-
ments which govern the administration of such
projects, facilities, or resources.
(e) LIVING ALLOWANCES.—The Secretaries shall
provide each participant in the Urban Youth Corps with
a living allowance in an amount not to exceed the maxi-
mum living allowance authorized by section 140(a)(3) of
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the National and Community Service Act of 1990 for par-
ticipants in a national service program assisted under sub-
title C of title I of such Act.
(f) TERMS OF SERVICE.—Each participant in the
Urban Youth Corps shall agree to participate in the Corps
for a term of service established by the Secretary involved,
consistent with the terms of service required under section
139(b) of the National and Community Service Act of
1990 for participants in a national service program as-
sisted under subtitle C of title I of such Act.
(g) EDUCATIONAL AWARDS.—
(1) ELIGIBILITY.—Each participant in the
Urban Youth Corps shall be eligible for a national
service educational award in the manner prescribed
in subtitle D of title I of the National and Commu-
nity Service Act of 1990 if such participant complies
with such requirements as may be established under
this subtitle by the Secretary involved respecting eli-
gibility for the award. The period during which the
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.
(2) FORBEARANCE
IN
THE
COLLECTION
OF
STAFFORD LOANS.—For purposes of section 428 of
the Higher Education Act of 1965, in the case of
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borrowers who are participants in the Urban Youth
Corps, 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 and eligible for a na-
tional service educational award under paragraph
(1).
(h) NONDISPLACEMENT.—The nondisplacement re-
quirements of section 177 of the National and Community
Service Act of 1990 shall be applicable to all activities car-
ried out by the Urban Youth Corps and to all activities
carried out under this section by a qualified urban youth
corps.
(i) COST SHARING.—
(1) PROJECTS
BY
QUALIFIED
URBAN
YOUTH
CORPS.—The Secretaries are each authorized to pay
not more than 75 percent of the costs of any appro-
priate service project carried out pursuant to this
section by a qualified urban youth corps. The re-
maining 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.
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(2) DONATIONS.—The Secretaries are each au-
thorized to accept donations of funds, services, facili-
ties, materials, or equipment for the purposes of op-
erating the Urban Youth Corps and carrying out ap-
propriate service projects by the Corps. However,
nothing in this section shall be construed to require
any cost sharing for any project carried out directly
by the Corps.
(3) FUNDS AVAILABLE UNDER NATIONAL AND
COMMUNITY SERVICE ACT.—In order to carry out
the Urban Youth Corps or to support qualified
urban youth corps under this section, the Secretaries
shall be eligible to apply for and receive assistance
under section 121(b) of the National and Commu-
nity Service Act of 1990.
Subtitle B—Related Provisions
SEC. 111. DEFINITIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 101 of the National and
Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12511) is
amended to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 101. DEFINITIONS.
‘‘For purposes of this title:
‘‘(1) ADULT VOLUNTEER.—The term ‘adult vol-
unteer’ means an individual, such as an older adult,
an individual with a disability, a parent, or an em-
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ployee of a business or public or private nonprofit
agency, who—
‘‘(A) works without financial remuneration
in an educational institution to assist students
or out-of-school youth; and
‘‘(B) is beyond the age of compulsory
school attendance in the State in which the edu-
cational institution is located.
‘‘(2) APPROVED
NATIONAL
SERVICE
POSI-
TION.—The term ‘approved national service position’
means a national service position designated by the
Corporation as a position that includes a national
service educational award described in section 147
as one of the benefits to be provided for successful
service in the position.
‘‘(3) CARRY OUT.—The term ‘carry out’, when
used in connection with a national service program
described in section 122, means the planning, estab-
lishment, operation, expansion, or replication of the
program.
‘‘(4) CHAIRPERSON.—The term ‘Chairperson’
means the Chairperson and Director of the Corpora-
tion appointed under section 193.
‘‘(5) COMMUNITY-BASED
AGENCY.—The term
‘community-based agency’ means a private nonprofit
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organization (including a church or other religious
entity) that—
‘‘(A) is representative of a community or a
significant segment of a community; and
‘‘(B) is engaged in meeting human, edu-
cational, environmental, or public safety com-
munity needs.
‘‘(6) CORPORATION.—The term ‘Corporation’
means the Corporation for National Service estab-
lished under section 191.
‘‘(7) ECONOMICALLY
DISADVANTAGED.—The
term ‘economically disadvantaged’ means, with re-
spect to an individual, an individual who is deter-
mined by the Chairperson to be low-income accord-
ing to the latest available data from the Department
of Commerce.
‘‘(8) ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL.—The term ‘ele-
mentary school’ has the same meaning given such
term in section 1471(8) of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 2891(8)).
‘‘(9) INDIAN.—The term ‘Indian’ means a per-
son who is a member of an Indian tribe.
‘‘(10) INDIAN LANDS.—The term ‘Indian lands’
means—
‘‘(A) any Indian reservation;