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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 309. Vocational training program; eligibility; contracts or agreements
In order to help adult Indians who reside on or near Indian
reservations to obtain reasonable and satisfactory employment, the
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to undertake a program of
vocational training that provides for vocational counseling or
guidance, institutional training in any recognized vocation or
trade, apprenticeship, and on the job training, for periods that do
not exceed twenty-four months, and, for nurses' training, for
periods that do not exceed thirty-six months, transportation to the
place of training, and subsistence during the course of training.
The program shall be available primarily to Indians who are not
less than eighteen and not more than thirty-five years of age and
who reside on or near an Indian reservation, and the program shall
be conducted under such rules and regulations as the Secretary may
prescribe. For the purposes of this program the Secretary is
authorized to enter into contracts or agreements with any Federal,
State, or local governmental agency, or with any private school
which has a recognized reputation in the field of vocational
education and has successfully obtained employment for its
graduates in their respective fields of training, or with any
corporation or association which has an existing apprenticeship or
on-the-job training program which is recognized by industry and
labor as leading to skilled employment, or with any school of
nursing offering a three-year course of study leading to a diploma
in nursing which is accredited by a recognized body or bodies
approved for such purpose by the Secretary.
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