25 Cfr 46.20

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior

§ 46.30

for fiscal accountability and appropriate direct services documentation.
Response to this request is necessary
to obtain or retain a benefit. Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 4 hours per response
including time for reviewing instructions, gathering, maintaining data,
completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding the burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
form to the BIA Information Collection
Clearance Officer, 1849 C Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20240.
[67 FR 13570, Mar. 25, 2002]

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§ 46.10 Eligible activities.
(a) Subject to availability of funds,
funds appropriated for the BIA’s Adult
Education Program may be used to
support local projects or programs designed to:
(1) Enable Indian adults to acquire
basic educational skills, including literacy;
(2) Enable Indian adults to continue
their education through the secondary
school level;
(3)
Establish
career
education
projects intended to improve employment opportunities;
(4) Provide educational services or
instruction for elderly, disabled, or incarcerated Indian adults;
(5) Prepare individuals to benefit
from occupational training; and
(6) Teach employment-related skills.
(b) Funds should not be used to support programs designed solely to prepare Indian adults to enter a specific
occupation or cluster of closely related
occupations.
(c) The Adult Education Program
must be implemented in accordance
with a plan established by the tribe(s)
affected by the program. The tribe(s)
may determine to set standards in addition to those established in this part.
§ 46.20 Program requirements.
(a) The Adult Education Office will
implement the program or project that
is designed to address the needs of the
Indian adults in the service area. To
determine the needs of Indian adults in
the area, the Adult Education Office
must consider:
(1)
Elementary/secondary
school
dropout or absentee rates;

(2) Average grade level completed;
(3) Unemployment rates; and
(4) Other appropriate measures.
(b) The Adult Education Office, to ensure efforts that no duplication of services exists, will identify other services
in the area, including those offered by
Federal, State and Tribal entities, that
are designed to meet the same needs as
those to be addressed by the project,
and the number of Indian adults who
receive those services.
(c) The Adult Education Office must
establish and maintain an evaluation
plan.
(1) The plan must be designed to
measure the project’s effectiveness in
meeting each objective and the impact
of the project on the adults involved;
and
(2) The plan must provide procedures
for periodic assessment of the progress
of the project and, if necessary, modification of the project as a result of
that assessment.
(d) Subject to the availability of
funds, the project is to be supported
under the funding level established for
Adult Education in the formulation of
the budget under the TPA process.
§ 46.30 Records and reporting requirements.
(a) The Adult Education Office will
annually submit a report on the previous project year’s activities to the
Director, Office of Indian Education
Programs. The report must include the
following information:
(1) The type of eligible activity,
under § 46.10, conducted under the
project(s);
(2) The number of participants acquiring the GED, high school diploma,
and other certificates of performance;
and
(3) A narrative summary of the activities conducted under the project.
(b) Each Adult Education Office
must:
(1) Submit any records and information that the Director requires in connection with the administration of the
program; and
(2) Comply with any requirements
that the Director may impose to ensure the accuracy of the reports required by this part.

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