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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§1727 National Service Educational Awards

Title 16 › CHAPTER 37 — YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS AND PUBLIC LANDS CORPS › SUBCHAPTER II — PUBLIC LANDS CORPS › § 1727

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

If you serve in the Public Lands Corps or work as a resource assistant and also hold an approved national service position, you can get a national service education award after you meet the award rules. How much the award is, what it can pay for, and how long you can use it are set by the rules in the National and Community Service Act. If you have a Stafford student loan and are serving as a Corps participant or resource assistant, you can ask your lender in writing to pause your loan payments while you serve. The lender must grant the pause under the Education Department’s rules.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §1727

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(a)Educational benefits and awards
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)Forbearance in collection of Stafford loans
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

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110