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[CITE: 25USC3732]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
      CHAPTER 39--AMERICAN INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
 
           SUBCHAPTER II--EDUCATION IN AGRICULTURE MANAGEMENT
 
Sec. 3732. Postgraduation recruitment, education and training 
        programs
        

(a) Assumption of loans

    The Secretary shall establish and maintain a program to attract 
Indian professionals who are graduates of a course of postsecondary or 
graduate education for employment in either the Bureau agriculture or 
related programs or, subject to the approval of the tribe, in tribal 
agriculture or related programs. According to such regulations as the 
Secretary may prescribe, such program shall provide for the employment 
of Indian professionals in exchange for the assumption by the Secretary 
of the outstanding student loans of the employee. The period of 
employment shall be determined by the amount of the loan that is 
assumed.

(b) Postgraduate intergovernmental internships

    For the purposes of training, skill development and orientation of 
Indian and Federal agricultural management personnel, and the 
enhancement of tribal and Bureau agricultural resource programs, the 
Secretary shall establish and actively conduct a program for the 
cooperative internship of Federal and Indian agricultural resource 
personnel. Such program shall--
        (1) for agencies within the Department of the Interior--
            (A) provide for the internship of Bureau and Indian 
        agricultural resource employees in the agricultural resource 
        related programs of other agencies of the Department of the 
        Interior, and
            (B) provide for the internship of agricultural resource 
        personnel from the other Department of the Interior agencies 
        within the Bureau, and, with the consent of the tribe, within 
        tribal agricultural resource programs;

        (2) for agencies not within the Department of the Interior, 
    provide, pursuant to an interagency agreement, internships within 
    the Bureau and, with the consent of the tribe, within a tribal 
    agricultural resource program of other agricultural resource 
    personnel of such agencies who are above their sixth year of Federal 
    service;
        (3) provide for the continuation of salary and benefits for 
    participating Federal employees by their originating agency;
        (4) provide for salaries and benefits of participating Indian 
    agricultural resource employees by the host agency; and
        (5) provide for a bonus pay incentive at the conclusion of the 
    internship for any participant.

(c) Continuing education and training

    The Secretary shall maintain a program within the Trust Services 
Division of the Bureau for Indian agricultural resource personnel which 
shall provide for--
        (1) orientation training for Bureau agricultural resource 
    personnel in tribal-Federal relations and responsibilities;
        (2) continuing technical agricultural resource education for 
    Bureau and Indian agricultural resource personnel; and
        (3) development training of Indian agricultural resource 
    personnel in agricultural resource based enterprises and marketing.

(Pub. L. 103-177, title II, Sec. 202, Dec. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 2020.)
