PUBLIC LAW 106-501—NOV. 13, 2000 114 STAT. 2287 "SEC. 516. DEFINITIONS. 42 USC 3056n. "In this title: "(1) COMMUNITY SERVICE.— The term 'community service' means social, health, welfare, and educational services (including literacy tutoring), legal and other counseling services and assistance, including tax counseling and assistance and financial counseling, and library, recreational, and other similar services; conservation, maintenance, or restoration of natural resources; community betterment or beautification; antipollution and environmental quality efforts; weatherization activities; economic development; and such other services essential and necessary to the community as the Secretary, by regulation, may prescribe. "(2) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS.— The term 'eligible individuals' means an individual who is 55 years old or older, who has a low income (including any such individual whose income is not more than 125 percent of the poverty guidelines established by the Office of Management and Budget), except that, pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary, any such individual who is 60 years old or older shall have priority for the work opportunities provided for under this title. "(3) PACIFIC ISLAND AND ASIAN AMERICANS. —The term 'Pacific Island and Asian Americans' means Americans having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands. "(4) PROGRAM.— The term 'program' means the older American community service employment program established under this title.". TITLE VI—AMENDMENTS TO TITLE VI OF THE OLDER AMERICANS ACT OF 1965 SEC. 601. ELIGIBILITY, Section 612 of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3057c) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following: "(b) An Indian tribe represented by an organization specified in subsection (a) shall be eligible for only one grant under this part for any fiscal year. Nothing in this subsection shall preclude an Indian tribe represented by an organization specified in subsection (a) from receiving a grant under section 631.". SEC. 602. APPLICATIONS. Section 614 of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3057e) is amended— (1) in subsection (b), by striking "certification" and inserting "approval"; and (2) in subsection (c)— (A) by inserting "(1)" after "(c)"; and (B) by adding at the end the following: "(2) The Assistant Secretary shall provide waivers and exemptions of the reporting requirements of subsection (a)(3) for applicants that serve Indian populations in geographically isolated 79-194O-00 -8:QL3Part4
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