PUBLIC LAW 102-325—JULY 23, 1992 106 STAT. 769 "(D) has academic personnel for instruction and counseling who meet the standards of the institution of higher education in which the students are enrolled; and "(E) has necessary research resources not otherwise readily available in such institutions to such students. "(b) AWARD AND DURATION OF GRANTS.— "(1) AWARDS. — The principal criterion for the allocation of awards shall be the relative quality of the graduate programs presented in competing applications. Consistent with an allocation of awards based on qucdity of competing applications, the Secretary shall, in making such grants, promote an equitable geographic distribution among eligible public and private institutions of higher education. "(2) DURATION.— The Secretary shall approve a grant recipient under tiiis part for a 3-year period. From the sums appropriated under tiiis part for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall not make a grant to any academic department or program of an institution of higher education of less than $100,000 or greater tiian $750,000 per fiscal year. "(3) REALLOTMENT.—Whenever the Secretary determines that an academic department or program of an institution of higher education is unable to use all of the amounts available to it under this part, the Secretary shall, on such dates during each fiscal year as the Secretary may fix, reallot the amounts not needed to academic departments and programs of institutions which can use the grants authorized by tWs part. "(c) PREFERENCE TO CONTINUING GRANT RECIPIENTS. — "(1) IN GENERAL.— The Secretary shall make new grant awards under this part only to the extent that each previous grant recipient has received continued funding in accordance with subsection (b)(2). "(2) RATABLE REDUCTION.— TO the extent that appropriations under this part are insufiicient to comply with paragraph (1), available funds shall be distributed by ratably reducing the amounts required to be awarded by subsection (b)(2). ««£€. 943. INSTITUnONAL ELIGIBILITY. 20 USC 1134n. "(a) ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA.— Any academic department or program of an institution of higher education that offers a program of postbaccalaureate study leading to a graduate degree in an area of national need (as designated under subsection (b)) may apply for a grant under this part. No department or program shall be eligible for a grant unless the program of postbaccalaureate study has been in existence for at least 4 years at the time of application for assistance under this part. "(b) DESIGNATION OF AREAS OF NATIONAL NEED. —After consultation with the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, and other appropriate Federal and nonprofit agencies and organizations, the Secretary shall designate areas of national need, such as mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, computer science, or foreign languages or area studies. In making such designations, the Secretary shall take into account the extent to which the interest is compelling and the extent to which other Federal programs support postbaccalaureate study in the area concerned. -194 O—93 26:QL3(Pt.1)
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