PUBLIC LAW 99-498—OCT. 17, 1986
100 STAT. 1337
"(B) in the case of any individual who regularly resided with and received support from only one parent, an individual whose only such parent did not complete a baccalaureate degree; "(2) the term 'low-income individual' means an individual from a family whose taxable income for the preceding year did not exceed 150 percent of an amount equal to the poverty level determined by using criteria of poverty established by the Bureau of the Census; and "(3) no veteran shall be deemed ineligible to participate in any program under this subpart by reason of such individual's age who— "(A) served on active duty for a period of more than 180 b days, any part of which occurred after January 31, 1955, and was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable; or "(B) served on active duty after January 31, 1955, and was discharged or released therefrom because of a service ' connected disability.
Veterans.
"TALENT SEARCH
417B. (a) PROGRAM AUTHORITY.—The Secretary shall carry out a program to be known as talent search which shall be designed— "(1) to identify qualified youths with potential for education at the postsecondary level and to encourage such youths to complete secondary school and to undertake a program of postsecondary education; "(2) to publicize the availability of student financial assistance available to persons who pursue a program of postsecondary education; and "(3) to encourage persons who have not completed programs of education at the secondary or postsecondary level, but who have the ability to complete such programs, to reenter such programs. "(b) TUTORIAL SERVICES.—A talent search project assisted under this subpart may include, in addition to the services described in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (a), tutorial services for youths being encouraged to undertake or reenter programs of postsecondary education if such tutorial services are not otherwise available to such youths through a project assisted under this subpart. "SEC.
20 USC I070d-i.
"(c) REQUIREMENTS FOR APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS.—In approving
applications for talent search projects under this subpart for any fiscal year the Secretary shall— "(1) require an assurance that not less than two-thirds of the youths participating in the project proposed to be carried out under any application be low-income individuals who are first generation college students; "(2) require that such participants be persons who either have completed 6 years of elementary education or are at least 12 years of age but not more than 27 years of age, unless the imposition of any such limitation with respect to any person would defeat the purposes of this section or the purposes of section 417E;
Disadvantaged persons,
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