---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 2532.10"
title: "45"
number: "2532.10"
heading: "Military Installation Conversion Demonstration programs."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/2532.10"
---

# §2532.10. Military Installation Conversion Demonstration programs.

- (a) **Purposes.** The purposes of this section are to: (1) Provide direct and demonstrable service opportunities for economically disadvantaged youth;
  - (2) Fully utilize military installations affected by closures or realignments;
  - (3) Encourage communities affected by such closures or realignments to convert the installations to community use; and
  - (4) **Foster a sense of community pride in the youth in the community.**
- (b) **Definitions.** As used in this section: (1) Affected military installation. The term affected military installation means a military installation described in section 325(e)(1) of the Job Training Partnership Act ([29 U.S.C. 1662d(e)(1)](/usc/29/1662d.md?p=e-1)).
  - (2) **Community.** The term community includes a county.
  - (3) **Convert to community use.** The term convert to community use, used with respect to an affected military installation, includes—
    - (i) **Conversion of the installation or a part of the installation to—**
      - (A) A park;
      - (B) A community center;
      - (C) A recreational facility; or
      - (D) A facility for a Head Start program under the Head Start Act ([42 U.S.C. 9831](/usc/42/9831.md) et seq.); and
    - (ii) Carrying out, at the installation, a construction or economic development project that is of substantial benefit, as determined by the Chief Executive Officer, to—
      - (A) The community in which the installation is located; or
      - (B) A community located within 50 miles of the installation or such further distance as the Chief Executive Officer may deem appropriate on a case-by-case basis.
  - (4) **Demonstration program.** The term demonstration program means a program described in [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section.
- (c) **Demonstration programs—**
  - (1) **Grants—** The Corporation may make grants to communities and community-based agencies to pay for the Federal share of establishing and carrying out military installation conversion demonstration programs, to assist in converting to community use affected military installations located—
    - (i) Within the community; or
    - (ii) **Within 50 miles of the community.**
  - (2) **Duration.** In carrying out such a demonstration program, the community or community-based agency may carry out—
    - (i) A program of not less than 6 months in duration; or
    - (ii) **A full-time summer program.**
- (d) **Use of Funds—**
  - (1) **Stipend.** A community or community-based agency that receives a grant under [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section to establish and carry out a project through a demonstration program may use the funds made available through such grant to pay for a portion of a stipend for the participants in the project.
  - (2) **Limitation on amount of stipend.** The amount of the stipend provided to a participant under [paragraph (d)(1)](#d-1) of this section that may be paid using assistance provided under this section and using any other Federal funds may not exceed the lesser of—
    - (i) 85 percent of the total average annual subsistence allowance provided to VISTA volunteers under section 105 of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 ([42 U.S.C. 4955](/usc/42/4955.md)); and
    - (ii) 85 percent of the stipend established by the demonstration program involved.
- (e) **Participants—**
  - (1) **Eligibility.** A person will be eligible to be selected as a participant in a project carried out through a demonstration program if the person is—
    - (i) Economically disadvantaged and between the ages of 16 and 24, inclusive;
    - (ii) In the case of a full-time summer program, economically disadvantaged and between the ages of 14 and 24; or
    - (iii) An eligible youth as described in section 423 of the Job Training Partnership Act ([29 U.S.C. 1693](/usc/29/1693.md)).
  - (2) **Participation.** Persons desiring to participate in such a project must enter into an agreement with the sponsor of the project to participate—
    - (i) On a full-time or a part-time basis; and
    - (ii) **For the duration referred to in paragraph (f)(2)(iii) of this section.**
- (f) **Application—**
  - (1) **In general.** To be eligible to receive a grant under [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section, a community or community-based agency must submit an application to the Chief Executive Officer at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Chief Executive Officer may require.
  - (2) **Contents.** At a minimum, such application must contain—
    - (i) A description of the demonstration program proposed to be conducted by the applicant;
    - (ii) **A proposal for carrying out the program that describes the manner in which the applicant will—**
      - (A) Provide preservice and inservice training, for supervisors and participants, that will be conducted by qualified individuals or qualified organizations;
      - (B) Conduct an appropriate evaluation of the program; and
      - (C) Provide for appropriate community involvement in the program;
    - (iii) Information indicating the duration of the program; and
    - (iv) An assurance that the applicant will comply with the nonduplication, nondisplacement and grievance procedure provisions of [part 2540](/cfr/45/part2540.md) of this chapter.
- (g) **Limitation on Grant.** In making a grant under [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section with respect to a demonstration program to assist in converting an affected military installation, the Corporation will not make a grant for more than 25 percent of the total cost of the conversion.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 12501 et seq.

### Source

Source: 59 FR 13806, Mar. 23, 1994, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 75 FR 51413, Aug. 20, 2010