16 U.S.C. 1725, Resource Assistants

16 USC 1725: Resource assistants
Text contains those laws in effect on April 4, 2022
From Title 16-CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 37-YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS AND PUBLIC LANDS CORPS
SUBCHAPTER II-PUBLIC LANDS CORPS
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§1725. Resource assistants
(a) Authorization
The Secretary may provide individual placements of resource assistants to carry out research or resource protection
activities on behalf of the Secretary. To be eligible for selection as a resource assistant, an individual must be at least
17 years of age. The Secretary may select resource assistants without regard to the civil service and classification
laws, rules, or regulations of the United States. The Secretary shall give a preference to the selection of individuals
who are enrolled in an institution of higher education or are recent graduates from an institution of higher education,
with particular attention given to ensure full representation of women and participants from historically black, Hispanic,
and Native American schools.
(b) Use of existing nonprofit organizations
Whenever one or more existing nonprofit organizations can provide, in the judgment of the the 1 Secretary,
appropriate recruitment and placement services to fulfill the requirements of this section, the Secretary may implement
this section through such existing organizations. Participating nonprofit organizations shall contribute to the expenses
of providing and supporting the resource assistants, through private sources of funding, at a level equal to 25 percent
of the total costs of each participant in the Resource Assistant program who has been recruited and placed through
that organization. Any such participating nonprofit conservation service organization shall be required, by the
respective land managing agency, to submit an annual report evaluating the scope, size, and quality of the program,
including the value of work contributed by the Resource Assistants, to the mission of the agency.
(Pub. L. 91–378, title II, §206, as added Pub. L. 103–82, title I, §105(6), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 852
; amended Pub.
L. 109–154, §2(g)(3), Dec. 30, 2005, 119 Stat. 2893
; Pub. L. 116–9, title IX, §9003(d)(1), Mar. 12, 2019, 133 Stat. 833
.)
Editorial Notes

Amendments
2019-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–9 substituted "The Secretary may provide individual placements of
resource assistants to carry out research or resource protection activities on behalf of the Secretary." for
"The Secretary is authorized to provide individual placements of resource assistants with any Federal
land managing agency under the jurisdiction of the Secretary to carry out research or resource protection
activities on behalf of the agency."
2005-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–154, §2(g)(3)(A), substituted "Secretary is" for "Secretary of the Interior
and the Secretary of Agriculture are each", "the Secretary to carry out" for "such Secretary to carry out",
"Secretary may" for "Secretaries may", and "Secretary shall" for "Secretaries shall".
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–154, §2(g)(3)(B), substituted "the Secretary, appropriate" for "Secretary of the
Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture, appropriate".
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date
Section effective Oct. 1, 1993, see section 123 of Pub. L. 103–82, set out as an Effective Date of 1993
Amendment note under section 1701 of this title.
1 So in original.