§ 3732. — Postgraduation recruitment, education and training programs.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC3732]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 39--AMERICAN INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER II--EDUCATION IN AGRICULTURE MANAGEMENT
Sec. 3732. Postgraduation recruitment, education and training
programs
(a) Assumption of loans
The Secretary shall establish and maintain a program to attract
Indian professionals who are graduates of a course of postsecondary or
graduate education for employment in either the Bureau agriculture or
related programs or, subject to the approval of the tribe, in tribal
agriculture or related programs. According to such regulations as the
Secretary may prescribe, such program shall provide for the employment
of Indian professionals in exchange for the assumption by the Secretary
of the outstanding student loans of the employee. The period of
employment shall be determined by the amount of the loan that is
assumed.
(b) Postgraduate intergovernmental internships
For the purposes of training, skill development and orientation of
Indian and Federal agricultural management personnel, and the
enhancement of tribal and Bureau agricultural resource programs, the
Secretary shall establish and actively conduct a program for the
cooperative internship of Federal and Indian agricultural resource
personnel. Such program shall--
(1) for agencies within the Department of the Interior--
(A) provide for the internship of Bureau and Indian
agricultural resource employees in the agricultural resource
related programs of other agencies of the Department of the
Interior, and
(B) provide for the internship of agricultural resource
personnel from the other Department of the Interior agencies
within the Bureau, and, with the consent of the tribe, within
tribal agricultural resource programs;
(2) for agencies not within the Department of the Interior,
provide, pursuant to an interagency agreement, internships within
the Bureau and, with the consent of the tribe, within a tribal
agricultural resource program of other agricultural resource
personnel of such agencies who are above their sixth year of Federal
service;
(3) provide for the continuation of salary and benefits for
participating Federal employees by their originating agency;
(4) provide for salaries and benefits of participating Indian
agricultural resource employees by the host agency; and
(5) provide for a bonus pay incentive at the conclusion of the
internship for any participant.
(c) Continuing education and training
The Secretary shall maintain a program within the Trust Services
Division of the Bureau for Indian agricultural resource personnel which
shall provide for--
(1) orientation training for Bureau agricultural resource
personnel in tribal-Federal relations and responsibilities;
(2) continuing technical agricultural resource education for
Bureau and Indian agricultural resource personnel; and
(3) development training of Indian agricultural resource
personnel in agricultural resource based enterprises and marketing.
(Pub. L. 103-177, title II, Sec. 202, Dec. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 2020.)
