§ 1649. — Forestry Student Grant Program.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC1649]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 36--FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES PLANNING
SUBCHAPTER II--RESEARCH
Sec. 1649. Forestry Student Grant Program
(a) Establishment
The Secretary shall establish a program, to be known as the
``Forestry Student Grant Program'' (hereafter referred to in this
section as the ``Program''), to provide assistance to expand the
professional education of forestry, natural resources, and environmental
scientists.
(b) Student grants
Under the Program the Secretary shall provide assistance for the
establishment of a competitive grant fellowship program to assist
graduate, and undergraduate minority and female, students attending
institutions having programs in forestry and natural resources.
(c) Eligibility
The Secretary shall ensure that students concentrating in the
following studies shall be eligible for assistance under subsection (b)
of this section:
(1) Forestry.
(2) Biology and forest organisms.
(3) Ecosystem function and management.
(4) Human-forest interaction.
(5) International trade, competition, and cooperation.
(6) Wood as a raw material.
(7) Economics and policy.
(d) Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be
necessary to carry out this section.
(Pub. L. 95-307, Sec. 10, as added Pub. L. 101-624, title XII,
Sec. 1252, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3553.)
