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(f) GRANTEE REPORTING.-Upon completion of the grant or contract period under this section, the grantee institution or consortium of such institutions shall file a performance report with the Secretary explaining the activities carried out together with an assessment of the effectiveness of those activities in achieving the purposes of this section. The Secretary shall suspend funding for an approved application if an applicant fails to submit an annual performance report.

(g) DEFINITIONS.-For purposes of this part, the term "sexual offenses educational and prevention" includes programs that provide education seminars, peer-to-peer counseling, operation of hotlines, self-defense courses, the preparation of informational materials, and any other effort to increase campus awareness of the facts about, or to help prevent, sexual offenses.

(h) GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

(1) REGULATIONS.-Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall publish proposed regulations implementing this section. Not later than 150 days after such date, the Secretary shall publish final regulations implementing this section.

(2) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.-Not later than 180 days after the end of each fiscal year for which grants or contracts are awarded under this section, the Secretary shall submit to the committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate responsible for issues relating to higher education and to crime, a report that includes—

(A) the amount of grants or contracts awarded under this section;

(B) a summary of the purposes for which those grants or contracts were awarded and an evaluation of their progress; and

(C) a copy of each grantee report filed pursuant to subsection (f) of this section.

(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.-For the purpose of carrying out this part, there are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for the fiscal year 1993 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years.

PART E-OLYMPIC SCHOLARSHIPS

SEC. 1543. [20 U.S.C. 1070 note] OLYMPIC SCHOLARSHIPS. (a) SCHOLARSHIPS AUTHORIZED.—

(1) IN GENERAL.-The Secretary of Education is authorized to provide financial assistance to the United States Olympic Education Center or the United States Olympic Training Center to enable such centers to provide financial assistance to athletes who are training at such centers and are pursuing postsecondary education at institutions of higher education (as such term is defined in section 481(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965).

(2) AWARD DETERMINATION.-The amount of financial assistance provided to athletes described in paragraph (1) shall be determined in accordance with such athlete's financial need

as determined in accordance with part F of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965.

(b) ELIGIBILITY.-The Secretary of Education shall ensure that financial assistance provided under this part is available to both full-time and part-time students who are athletes at centers described in subsection (a).

(c) APPLICATION.-Each center desiring financial assistance under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary of Education at such time, in such manner and accompanied by such information as the Secretary may reasonably require.

(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.-There are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1993 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years to carry out this section.

[Part F (including section 1544) was repealed by section 568(e)(2) of P.L. 103-382, 108 Stat. 4061.]

PART G-ADVANCED PLACEMENT FEE
PAYMENT PROGRAM

SEC. 1545. [20 U.S.C. 1070a-11 note] ADVANCED PLACEMENT FEE PAYMENT PROGRAM.

(a) PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.-The Secretary of Education is authorized to make grants to States to enable the States to reimburse individuals to cover part or all of the cost of advance placement test fees, to low-income individuals who

(1) are enrolled in an advanced placement class; and

(2) plan to take an advanced placement test.

(b) INFORMATION DISSEMINATION.-The State educational agency shall disseminate information on the availability of test fee payments under this section to eligible individuals through secondary school teachers and guidance counselors.

(c) REQUIREMENTS FOR APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS.—In approving applications for grants the Secretary of Education shall

(1) require that each such application contain a description of the advance placement test fees the State will pay on behalf of individual students;

(2) require an assurance that any funds received under this section shall only be used to pay advanced placement test fees; and

(3) contain such information as the Secretary may require to demonstrate that the State will ensure that the student is eligible for payments under this section, including the documentation required by chapter 1 of subpart 2 of part A of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965.

(d) SUPPLEMENTATION OF FUNDING.-Funds provided under this section shall be used to supplement and not supplant other Federal, State, and local or private funds available to assist lowincome individuals in paying for advanced placement testing.

(e) REGULATIONS.-The Secretary of Education shall prescribe such regulations as are necessary to carry out this section.

(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.-There are authorized to be appropriated $3,600,000 for fiscal year 1993 and such sums

as may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years to carry out the provisions of this section.

(g) DEFINITION.-As used in this section:

(1) ADVANCED PLACEMENT TEST.-The term "advanced placement test" includes only an advanced placement test approved by the Secretary of Education for the purposes of this section.

(2) LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUAL.-The term "low-income individual" has the meaning given the term in section 402A(g)(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965.

PART H-AMENDMENTS TO OTHER LAWS

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[Text as amended printed elsewhere in this and other volumes of this compilation.]

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PART I-BUY AMERICA

SEC. 1561. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

It is the sense of the Congress that a recipient (including a nation, individual, group, or organization) of any form of student assistance or other Federal assistance under the Act should, in expanding that assistance, purchase American-made equipment and products.

LAND-GRANT COLLEGES

Act of July 2, 1862 (7 U.S.C. 301 et. seq.), Commonly Known as the First Morrill Act

AN ACT Donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, [7 U.S.C. 301] That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each senator and representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 2. [7 U.S.C. 302] And be it further enacted, That the land aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than one quarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a State, subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State, and the Secretary of Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the States in which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to which said State may be entitled under the provisions of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share: said scrip to be sold by said States and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for no other use or purposes whatsoever: Provided, That in no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State, or of any Territory of the United States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, per acre: And provided, further, That not more than one million acres shall be located by such assignees any one of the States: And provided, further, That no such location shall be made before one year from the passage of this act.

SEC. 3. [7 U.S.C. 303] And be it further enacted, That all the expenses of management, superintendence, and taxes from date of selection of said lands, previous to their sales, and all expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they may belong, out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire

proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.

SEC. 4. [7 U.S.C. 304] That all moneys derived from the sale of lands aforesaid by the States to which lands are apportioned and from the sale of land scrip hereinbefore provided for shall be invested in bonds of the United States or of the States or some other safe bonds; or the same may be invested by the States having no State bonds in any manner after the legislatures of such States shall have assented thereto and engaged that such funds shall yield a fair and reasonable rate of return, to be fixed by the State legislatures, and that the principal thereof shall forever remain unimpaired: Provided, That the moneys so invested or loaned shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section 5 of this Act), and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this Act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.

SEC. 5. [7 U.S.C. 305] And be it further enacted, That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following conditions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the previous assent of the several States shall be signified by legislative acts:

First. If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished; and the annual interest shall be regularly applied without diminution to the purposes mentioned in the fourth section of this act, except that a sum, not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this act, may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said States.

Second. No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretence whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.

Third. Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shall cease; and said State shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State shall be valid.

Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results, and such other matters, includ

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