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Title 20 — Education

Part G · Chapter 28 — Higher Education Resources and Student Assistance

§ 1068c. Cooperative arrangements

Statutory text

(a)

General authority

The Secretary may make grants to encourage cooperative arrangements—

(1)

with funds available to carry out part A, between institutions eligible for assistance under part A and between such institutions and institutions not receiving assistance under this subchapter; or

(2)

with funds available to carry out part B, between institutions eligible for assistance under part B and institutions not receiving assistance under this subchapter;

for the activities described in section 1057(b) of this title or section 1062 of this title, as the case may be, so that the resources of the cooperating institutions might be combined and shared to achieve the purposes of such parts and avoid costly duplicative efforts and to enhance the development of part A and part B eligible institutions.

(b)

Priority

The Secretary shall give priority to grants for the purposes described under subsection (a) whenever the Secretary determines that the cooperative arrangement is geographically and economically sound or will benefit the applicant institution.

(c)

Duration

Grants to institutions having a cooperative arrangement may be made under this section for a period as determined under section 1059 of this title or section 1062 of this title.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Higher Education Act of 1965

    Pub. L. 89–329 title III § 394 · 79 Stat. 1219

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 1068c

    Pub. L. 89–329, title III, § 394, formerly § 354, as added Pub. L. 99–498, title III, § 301(a), Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1305

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 89–329, title III, § 394, formerly § 354, as added Pub. L. 99–498, title III, § 301(a), Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1305

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1069 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 105–244.

Credits

1986–1998 · 2 acts
  1. 1986Pub. L. 89–329, title III, § 394, formerly § 354, as added Pub. L. 99–498, title III, § 301(a), , 100 Stat. 1305
  2. 1998renumbered § 394, Pub. L. 105–244, title III, § 301(a)(2), , 112 Stat. 1636.
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(Pub. L. 89–329, title III, § 394, formerly § 354, as added Pub. L. 99–498, title III, § 301(a), , 100 Stat. 1305; renumbered § 394, Pub. L. 105–244, title III, § 301(a)(2), , 112 Stat. 1636.)

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