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[CITE: 16USC1649]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 36--FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES PLANNING
 
                         SUBCHAPTER II--RESEARCH
 
Sec. 1649. Forestry Student Grant Program


(a) Establishment

    The Secretary shall establish a program, to be known as the 
``Forestry Student Grant Program'' (hereafter referred to in this 
section as the ``Program''), to provide assistance to expand the 
professional education of forestry, natural resources, and environmental 
scientists.

(b) Student grants

    Under the Program the Secretary shall provide assistance for the 
establishment of a competitive grant fellowship program to assist 
graduate, and undergraduate minority and female, students attending 
institutions having programs in forestry and natural resources.

(c) Eligibility

    The Secretary shall ensure that students concentrating in the 
following studies shall be eligible for assistance under subsection (b) 
of this section:
        (1) Forestry.
        (2) Biology and forest organisms.
        (3) Ecosystem function and management.
        (4) Human-forest interaction.
        (5) International trade, competition, and cooperation.
        (6) Wood as a raw material.
        (7) Economics and policy.

(d) Authorization of appropriations

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this section.

(Pub. L. 95-307, Sec. 10, as added Pub. L. 101-624, title XII, 
Sec. 1252, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3553.)
