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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§1727 National Service Educational Awards

Title 16 › Chapter 37— YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS AND PUBLIC LANDS CORPS › Subchapter II— PUBLIC LANDS CORPS › § 1727

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

People who serve in the Public Lands Corps or work as resource assistants and who also hold an approved national service position under the National and Community Service Act can get a national service education award if they meet the award rules. How long the award lasts, what it can pay for, and how much it is are set by the national service rules. If a Corps participant or resource assistant has federal student loans, a lender must give a loan forbearance while they are serving if the borrower asks in writing. The forbearance must follow the Education Secretary’s rules.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §1727

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(a)If a participant in the Public Lands Corps or a resource assistant also serves in an approved national service position designated under subtitle C of title I of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 [42 U.S.C. 12571 et seq.], the participant or resource assistant shall be eligible for a national service educational award in the manner prescribed in subtitle D of such title [42 U.S.C. 12601 et seq.] upon successfully complying with the requirements for the award. The period during which the national service educational award may be used, the purposes for which the award may be used, and the amount of the award shall be determined as provided under such subtitle.
(b)For purposes of section 1078 of title 20, in the case of borrowers who are either participants in the Corps or resource assistants, upon written request, a lender shall grant a borrower forbearance on such terms as are otherwise consistent with the regulations of the Secretary of Education, during periods in which the borrower is serving as such a participant or a resource assistant.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

The National and Community Service Act of 1990, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 101–610, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3127. Subtitles C and D of title I of the Act are classified generally to divisions C (§ 12571 et seq.) and D (§ 12601 et seq.), respectively, of subchapter I of chapter 129 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 12501 of Title 42 and Tables.

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.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 1727

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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