42 U.S.C. § 12655c — Focus of programs

(a) In general: A program that gets this money can do the following kinds of work. (1) Conservation corps programs can focus on: (A) protecting, restoring, or improving wildlife habitat, rangelands, parks, and recreation areas; (B) revitalizing cities and rural areas, preserving historic or cultural sites, and replanting forests; (C) raising fish, maintaining wildlife habitat, and other fishery help; (D) maintaining roads and trails; (E) fighting and repairing erosion, flood, drought, and storm damage; (F) improving streams, lakes, waterfronts, harbors, and ports; (G) protecting wetlands and controlling pollution; (H) preventing and controlling insects, disease, rodents, and fire; (I) improving old, abandoned railroad beds and the land around them; (J) conserving energy, boosting renewable resources, and recovering biomass; (K) reclaiming land damaged by strip mining; (L) forestry, plant nurseries, and similar farming work; and (M) making public buildings accessible to people with disabilities. (2) Youth service corps programs can have participants serve at: (A) state, local, and regional government agencies; (B) nursing homes, hospices, senior centers, hospitals, libraries, parks, recreation centers, child and adult day care, disability-services programs, and schools; (C) law enforcement agencies and penal or probation systems; (D) private nonprofits focused on social services, like community action agencies; (E) work fixing up public buildings, improving neighborhoods, teaching literacy to people who need it, weatherizing and repairing low-income housing (including housing for older adults), conserving energy, removing physical barriers that block people with disabilities, teaching about and preventing drug and alcohol abuse, and maintaining or restoring natural resources on public land; and (F) any other nonpartisan civic activity the Corporation decides gives real social benefit -- especially for poverty-related needs -- in the place where the service happens. (3) A program may combine both types of work described in (1) and (2). (b) Limitation on service: No participant can do the same specific activity for more than six months. No participant can stay enrolled in these programs for more than 24 months total.