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[CITE: 42USC4744]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
             CHAPTER 62--INTERGOVERNMENTAL PERSONNEL PROGRAM
 
    SUBCHAPTER III--TRAINING AND DEVELOPING STATE AND LOCAL EMPLOYEES
 
Sec. 4744. Grants to other organizations


(a) Amount of grants; conditions

    The Office is authorized to make grants to other organizations to 
pay up to 75 per centum (or, with respect to fiscal years commencing 
after the expiration of three years following the effective date of the 
grant provisions of this chapter, up to 50 per centum) of the costs of 
providing training to professional, administrative, or technical 
employees and officials of State or local governments if the Office--
        (1) finds that State or local governments have requested the 
    proposed program;
        (2) determines that the capability to provide such training does 
    not exist, or is not readily available, within the Federal or the 
    State or local governments requesting such program or within 
    associations of State or local governments, or if such capability 
    does exist that such government or association is not disposed to 
    provide such training; and
        (3) approves the program as meeting such requirements as may be 
    prescribed by the Office in its regulations pursuant to this 
    chapter.

(b) ``Other organization'' defined

    For the purpose of this section ``other organization'' means--
        (1) a national, regional, statewide, areawide, or metropolitan 
    organization, representing member State or local governments;
        (2) an association of State or local public officials; or
        (3) a nonprofit organization one of whose principal functions is 
    to offer professional advisory, research, development, educational 
    or related services to governments.

(Pub. L. 91-648, title III, Sec. 304, Jan. 5, 1971, 84 Stat. 1919; 1978 
Reorg. Plan No. 2, Sec. 102, eff. Jan. 1, 1979, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 
3783.)

                       References in Text

    For effective date of the grant provisions of this chapter, referred 
to in subsec. (a), as being 180 days after Jan. 5, 1971, see section 
4772 of this title.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Office'', meaning Office of Personnel Management, substituted for 
``Commission'', meaning Civil Service Commission, in subsec. (a) 
pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1978, Sec. 102, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 
3783, set out under section 1101 of Title 5, Government Organization and 
Employees, which transferred functions vested by statute in Civil 
Service Commission and Chairman thereof to Director of Office of 
Personnel Management (except as otherwise specified), effective Jan. 1, 
1979, as provided by section 1-102 of Ex. Ord. No. 12107, Dec. 28, 1978, 
44 F.R. 1055, set out under section 1101 of Title 5.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 4764 of this title.
