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[CITE: 42USC4958]

 
                 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. 4958. Limitation on funds appropriated for grants and 
        contracts for direct cost of supporting volunteers in programs 
        or projects
        
    (a) Of funds appropriated for the purpose of this part under section 
5081 of this title, not more than 30 percent for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1984, and for each fiscal year thereafter, may be 
obligated for the direct cost of supporting volunteers in programs or 
projects carried out pursuant to grants and contracts made under section 
5042(12) \1\ of this title.
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    (b) No funds shall be obligated under this part pursuant to grants 
or contracts made after December 13, 1979, for new projects for the 
direct cost of supporting volunteers unless the recipient of each such 
grant or contract has been selected through a competitive process which 
includes--
        (1) public announcements of the availability of funds for such 
    grants or contracts, general criteria for the selection of new 
    recipients, and a description of the application process and the 
    application review process; and
        (2) a requirement that each applicant for any such grant or 
    contract identify, with sufficient particularity to assure that the 
    assignments of volunteers under such grants and contracts will carry 
    out the purpose of this part, the particular poverty or poverty-
    related problems on which the grant or contract will focus, and any 
    such grant or contract shall specifically so identify such problems.

(Pub. L. 93-113, title I, Sec. 108, as added Pub. L. 94-293, 
Sec. 4(a)(1), May 27, 1976, 90 Stat. 525; amended Pub. L. 96-143, 
Sec. 4, Dec. 13, 1979, 93 Stat. 1075; Pub. L. 98-288, Sec. 8, May 21, 
1984, 98 Stat. 191; Pub. L. 101-204, title VII, Sec. 703, Dec. 7, 1989, 
103 Stat. 1821.)

                       References in Text

    Section 5042 of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was repealed 
by Pub. L. 103-82, title II, Sec. 203(b), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 892.


                               Amendments

    1989--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-204 substituted ``30 percent'' for 
``16 per centum''.
    1984--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98-288, Sec. 8(1), (2), substituted 
``1984'' for ``1977'', and struck out ``During the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1980--(1) in no event may in excess of $5,800,000 be used 
pursuant to grants and contracts under this part for the direct cost of 
supporting such volunteers; and (2) funds obligated pursuant to such 
grants and contracts for such cost may be used to support no greater 
number of years of volunteer service than the number of such years 
supported during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, pursuant to 
grants and contracts for such cost.''
    Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 98-288, Sec. 8(3), struck out ``human, 
social, or environmental'' after ``poverty-related''.
    1979--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96-143, Sec. 4, designated existing 
provisions as subsec. (a) and, in subsec. (a) as so designated, 
substituted ``16'' for ``20'', inserted ``During the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1980'', and added pars. (1) and (2).
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96-143, Sec. 4(b), added subsec. (b).


                             Effective Date

    Section 4(c) of Pub. L. 94-293 provided that: ``The amendments made 
by subsection (a) and subsection (b) of this section [enacting this 
section and amending section 5042 of this title] shall be effective on 
October 1, 1976, and shall not apply to any agreement for the assignment 
of volunteers entered into before such date during the period of any 
such agreement.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 4954, 12651b of this title.
