costs were calculated using CBO spendout rates for ACTION programs. This estimate assumes full appropriation.

7. Estimate comparison: None.

8. Previous CBÓ estimate: A previous CBO estimate was done for S. 2617 on May 10, 1978. No specific authorization was assumed for urban neighborhood volunteer programs at that time.

9. Estimate prepared by: Cy Karr.

10. Estimate approved by:

JAMES L. BLUM,

Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

REGULATORY IMPACT STATEMENT

In accordance with paragraph V of rule XXIX of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the committee makes the following evaluation of the regulatory impact which will be incurred in carrying out S. 2617.

A. ESTIMATED NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES REGULATED AND THEIR GROUPS OR CLASSIFICATIONS

The basic purpose of the bill is to extend the authorization of appropriations for programs under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 for a period of 3 years. The Domestic Volunteer Service Act authorizes federally supported full and part-time volunteer programs, and does not require the regulation of any individual, business, or organization.

B. ECONOMIC IMPACT ON INDIVIDUALS OR BUSINESSES

There is no economic impact of this act on individuals or businesses.

C. IMPACT OF THE ACT ON PERSONAL PRIVACY

The bill will not have any impact on the personal privacy of the volunteers and volunteer applicants under the act, since persons desiring to serve in the authorized programs do so on a purely voluntary basis. New applicants and volunteers will, however, be required to submit the same types of information as is now required of volunteers providing comparable services under the act.

D. ADDITIONAL PAPERWORK, TIME, AND COSTS

The bill also expands the antidiscrimination provisions of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act to include appropriate coverage under the nondiscrimination policies of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Director of the ACTION Agency is required to establish regulations providing appropriate procedures for the application of these policies.

The paperwork and recordkeeping which will be required of applicants for assistance under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, as amended by the bill, will not be increased over that which is presently required except that regulations issued by the Director to comply with the new antidiscrimination requirements may require new assurances and recordkeeping by applicants for assistance.

Another purpose of the bill is to provide for a new part D of title I of the act, which authorizes urban neighborhood volunteer programs. The purpose of the programs is to encourage individuals, local governments, and organizations to increase their involvement in volunteer activities in distressed urban neighborhoods to reverse deterioration of and improve the quality of life in such neighborhoods. The bill also authorizes resource banks listing locally recruited persons willing to serve as volunteers on a part-time basis.

Development resources banks of volunteers at the urban area and regional levels will result in increased recordkeeping by recipients of assistance. Development of these resource banks is a major purpose of, and will be paid for from funds authorized by the bill.

Applicants for assistance for new programs authorized by the bill will be required to submit applications containing a number of specific assurances and stipulations, and to comply with agency regulations to the same extent as applicants under present program authorities contained in the act.

Individuals seeking to serve as volunteers in programs supported by the act will also, in most cases, be required to submit an application form and to perform their service in accordance with statutory requirements of the act, and agency regulations.

The information required to be submitted by applicants for volunteer service will not be greater than that which is presently required under the act.

TABULATION OF VOTES CAST IN COMMITTEE

Pursuant to section 133 (b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended, the committee reports that there were no tabulations of votes on S. 2617. The committee unanimously adopted the amendments, and unanimously ordered the bill, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, reported favorably.

SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS OF S. 2617 AS REPORTED

Section 1 establishes the short title of the bill as the "Domestic Volunteer Service Act Amendments of 1978".

Section 2(1) amends section 103 (b) of the act to modify the career provisions for low-income VISTA volunteers by requiring that a plan for each such volunteer designed to provide opportunity for job advancement or for transition to a situation leading to gainful employment be developed within 30 days after the assignment of the volunteer, rather than prior to such volunteer's assignment. Section 103 (b) is also amended to provide that such career development assistance be provided to any other volunteer (enrolled for at least 1 year of fulltime service under title I) who requests such assistance.

Section 2(2) amends section 103(d) of the act which presently prohibits the assignment of volunteers to a State unless the Governor has been given 45 days advance notice of the project and has not disapproved it, and provides that if a Governor requests the Director to terminate the assignment of a volunteer within a State, the Director must do so within 30 days. The amendment requires a Governor to state, in writing, the reasons for disapproval of a project or the assignment of a volunteer, or of a request for termination of a project or a volunteer. In either case-an initial disapproval or a later request for

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termination-the Director of the ACTION Agency may disagree, after reviewing the statement of reasons given by the Governor, based on a determination that the project or the assignment of a volunteer is fully consistent with the provisions and in furtherance of the purpose of the VISTA program. Any such determination must be in writing. This authority is derived from that contained in section 242 of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended, (42 U.S.C. § 2834), with respect to community action programs.

Section 3 amends section 105 (a) (2) of the act, relating to the payment of volunteers' end-of-service stipends, to make it consistent with a similar provision in the Peace Corps Act. The purpose of the amendment is to authorize advances of the end-of-service stipend under such conditions as the Director of the ACTION Agency shall determine, rather than only in "extraordinary circumstances," as is the case at present. Under the new provision, the Director could, for instance, authorize the advance of part of the end-of-service stipend for purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds, as has been done with respect to the readjustment allowances of Peace Corps volunteers.

Section 4 amends section 114(a) of the act, which currently prohibits the expenditure of more than 10 percent of the first $6,700,000 of the service-learning program appropriation for programs other than UYA. The amendments would raise the 10 percent to 15 percent, and reduce the $6,700,000 to $4,600,000, so that if the full $4.6 million is appropriated, the requisite amount to continue current commitments to UYA would be provided (approximately $3.9 million) in addition to allowing expenditure of the amount in the administration's budget request for non-UYA service-learning activities ($605,000). The administration requested no funds for UYA for fiscal year 1979.

Section 5(1) amends section 122 (a) of the act-the Director's discretionary special volunteer and demonstration project authority-to include specific mention of a program to provide assistance to victims of domestic violence and the "Helping Hand" and fixed-income counseling programs authorized by new section 134 (1) and (2) as added by section 6 of the committee bill as among the special volunteer or demonstration programs that the Director is authorized to conduct under part C of title I of the act. The Congress is currently considering legislation to assist victims of domestic violence which recognizes the important role of volunteers in mounting successful programs (S. 2759 (section 14(a)) also being reported from this committee on May 15). This modification in the act should encourage further programing by the ACTION Agency in this critical area. Section 122(a) is also amended to make clear that all these special programs should be carried out in both urban and rural areas, and to clarify the authority provided in the 1975 amendments to part C of title I for the Director to recruit, select, and train volunteers for part C special volunteer programs (the provision is moved from subsection (c) to subsection (a) of section 122).

Section 5 (2) revises subsection (c) of section 122 to allow the Director, for the first time, to provide, except for stipends (end-of-service allowances), support for short-term, part-time volunteers provided they are enrolled for periods of service of 20 hours or more per week for 26 or more consecutive weeks. The amendment also (1) requires that full-time volunteers serving in part C programs take the same

oath required for VISTA volunteers by section 104 (c), that the Director insure that they have sufficient support to carry out their assignments (as required for VISTA volunteers by section 105 (b)), and that the Governor's aproval provisions in section 103 (b)-as revised by section 2 of the committee bill-would also apply to their service; (2) provides the Director with discretionary authority to provide stipends, in amounts not to exceed the stipends for VISTA volunteers, to fulltime, full-year volunteers enrolled under part C programs (such as the National Youth Service demonstration program); and, with respect to those full-time, full-year volunteers whose service under part Ĉ is of similar character to VISTA service under part A, requires application of the provisions of section 103 (b) (relating to employment counseling and services to low-income community volunteers), section 104 (d) (relating to grievance procedures), and section 105(a) (relating to the payment of stipends) to the extent those provisions are applied to part A volunteer service.

Section 6(a) amends title I of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-113) by adding a new part D-"Urban Neighborhood Volunteer Programs." The new part D combines provisions of the Javits proposals for an Urban Service Corps (S. 2740), Senator Cranston's proposals, and the Carter administration urban policy proposals (submitted on April 13, 1978) for a new partnership among governments, voluntary associations, local businesses, neighborhood groups, and individuals to work for urban social and community development. The strength of the approach in new part D lies in its recognition of the vital role which can be played by neighborhood groups through volunteer activities and through teaming volunteers and paid workers to combat urban ills, and in the opportunities it provides for residents of all ages to join together in urban areas in providing personto-person services to persons in distressed urban areas and elsewhere who need special help to overcome isolation and poverty, provertyrelated, or near-poverty conditions.

The new programs authorized by the new part D includes "Urban Neighbors Programs" and "National Urban Neighborhood Priority Programs" (which shall include a program designated "Helping Hand," a program to provide personal and group financial counseling to low- and fixed-income individuals, and another national urban neighborhood priority program to be determined by the Director each year to carry out the purpose of the new part D).

NEW PART DURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS"

New Section 131 sets forth the purpose of the new part-to strengthen and encourage the involvement of individuals, neighborhood groups, voluntary associations, labor organizations, local enterprises, local governments, and other local entities (including community action agencies) in community revitalization and persons-toperson service activities in distressed urban neighborhoods; and to build on the capacity of existing and emerging neighborhood groups, through the assistance of part-time and full-time volunteers, to assist in efforts to reverse deterioration and improve the quality of life in their neighborhoods.

Program emphasis is directed to problems associated with poverty. As part of title I, the title I 80-percent poverty/poverty-related earmark (as added by section 14(1) (B) of the committee bill) would have application to expenditures under the new part D, but only as part of the total amount expended for title I programs of which section 501 (a) (as amended by the committee bill) requires 80 percent be expended for poverty and poverty-related purposes.

Subsection (a) of new section 132 provides the Director of the ACTION Agency with the authority to establish and operate programs and projects pursuant to the new part D. In authorizing the Director to conduct programs, or to make grants to and contracts with public agencies and private nonprofit organizations, the committee is paralleling the statutory language found in sections 112 and 122(a) of the act. The committee recognizes with regard to the new section. 132, as with these other two authorities, that the most appropriate mechanism may be a cooperative agreement, as authorized by Public Law 95-244 (92 Stat. 5). It is not the committee's intention to preclude the use of these types of agreements in appropriate cases.

New Subsection (b) of new section 132 provides that volunteers working in the new part D programs would serve under the same terms, conditions, and restrictions, and would receive and accrue and be subject to the same limitations as volunteers of similar character serving in programs under the various authorities of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973. These provisions will serve to encourage-as subsection (b) also requires the working together of volunteers from various age groups and of volunteers able to commit themselves to various periods of full-time and part-time service, while insuring that volunteers serving under this part receive no more or no fewer benefits than volunteers of a similar character serving in other programs under the act, such as VISTA, Foster Grandparents, or RSVP.

Thus, all full-time volunteers would be deemed to be Federal employees to the extent provided in section 415 of the Act, except that section 415(d) relating to noncompetitive appointment to the competitive civil service would not apply to any such volunteers. To the extent that full-time volunteers are enrolled for a full year of service, they would be eligible to receive both stipends and allowances, not in excess of those paid to VISTA volunteers. Part-time volunteers would not be eligible to receive either stipends or allowances, except that volunteers enrolled for not less than 20 hours per week for at least 26 weeks could be paid appropriate allowances (but not stipends). To the extent that volunteers under this part meet the eligibility requirements of section 404 (g) of the Act, relating to income disregard for public assistance eligibility, that section would apply to them.

New subsection (c) of new section 132 provides that administrative expenses (appropriated under section 504 of the act) for carrying out the new part D may not exceed 15 percent of the amount available for carrying out part D programs.

Section (a) of the new section 133 establishes "Urban Neighbors Programs" under which the Director-with the concurrence of the mayor or other chief elected governmental authority of an urban area with distressed neighborhoods-would designate and provide financial