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[CITE: 42USC4956]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                 CHAPTER 66--DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICES
 
          SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL VOLUNTEER ANTIPOVERTY PROGRAMS
 
                Part A--Volunteers in Service to America
 
Sec. 4956. Participation of program beneficiaries

    To the maximum extent practicable, the people of the communities to 
be served by volunteers under this subchapter shall participate in 
planning, developing, and implementing programs thereunder, and the 
Director, after consultation with sponsoring agencies (including 
volunteers assigned to them) and the people served by such agencies, 
shall establish in regulations, a continuing mechanism for the 
meaningful participation of such program beneficiaries.

(Pub. L. 93-113, title I, Sec. 106, Oct. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 398; Pub. L. 
98-288, Sec. 7, May 21, 1984, 98 Stat. 191.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Pub. L. 98-288 substituted ``establish in regulations'' for 
``take all necessary steps to establish, in regulations he shall 
prescribe''.
