§ 8-95.210

Correspondence courses.

Contracts with institutions for correspondence courses will provide that: (a) Major changes in courses or course material will not be binding on the Veterans Administration until such time as a supplemental agreement is negotiated to the contract.

(b) Minor changes in course or course material not affecting the length of the course or number of lessons and not lowering the educational value of the course or the quality of the course material such as revision of text, the substitution of a newer lesson for an older one or the substitution of equipment of equal or greater value are permitted without supplemental agreements. Such minor changes and revisions shall be placed on file with the Contracting Officer at the time of the change or revision.

(c) Trainees be provided with prompt and adequate lesson service and, unless otherwise specified in the contract, be furnished the same texts, lessons service, diplomas, and other services as are normally provided for regularly enrolled nonveteran students.

(d) All lessons be adequately serviced on an individual basis. Grouping of lessons into units or partial servicing does not meet this requirement.

(e) Each lesson must have a separate examination adequate in terms of lesson content.

(f) The training of persons under a Veterans Administration contract or the fact that the United States is utilizing the facilities of the institution for training veterans shall not be used in any way to advertise the institution. References in the advertising media or correspondence of the institution shall be limited to a list of courses under chapter 31, title 38, United States Code, and shall not be directed or pointed specifically to veterans.

(g) The rates, fees, and charges are not in excess of those charged nonveterans.

(h) That payment will be made on a lesson completed basis in areas for assignments sent in by trainees and serviced during a pay period as established by the contract.

(i) Payment will be made only once for each lesson even though it is necessary to service a lesson more than once. § 8-95.211 Information concerning correspondence courses.

(a) Specific questions on correspondence courses as to the content of courses, academic credit, and entrance requirements for courses included in Veterans Administration contracts may be directed to the institutions offering the courses.

(b) When a correspondence course is desired for which no contract exists, requests for inclusion of such course will be directed to the Director, Compensation, Pension and Education Service.

This subpart describes the Atomic Energy Commission Procurement Regulations in terms of establishment, authority, applicability, issuance, arrangement, implementation and supplementation of FPR, exclusions, deviations, and other AEC Procurement Instructions. § 9-1.102

Establishment of AEC Procurement Regulations.

(a) The AEC Procurement Regulations (AECPR) are hereby established.

(b) These regulations implement and supplement the Federal Procurement Regulations (FPR) and are a part of the Federal Procurement Regulations System.

(c) The effective date of FPR issuances throughout AEC will be the date indicated in the respective issuances, unless otherwise provided in the AEC Procurement Regulations.

(d) The effective date of AECPR issuances throughout AEC will be the date indicated in the respective issuances. § 9-1.103 Authority.

The AEC Procurement Regulations are prescribed by the General Manager, Assistant General Manager for Operations, or the Director, Division of Contracts of the AEC, pursuant to the authority of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949.

§ 9-1.104 Applicability.

(a) The AEC Procurement Regulations and the Federal Procurement Regulations, which together form that part of the Federal Procurement Regulations System which governs AEC procurement, apply to all procurement of personal property and nonpersonal services (including construction).

(b) The AECPR and FPR also contain provisions which pertain to procurements by AEC cost-type contractors. (See Part 9-59, Administration of Cost-Type Contractor Procurement Activities.)

The AEC Procurement Regulations appear in the Code of Federal Regulations as Chapter 9 of Title 41, Public Contracts and Property Management, and are published in the daily issues of the FEDERAL REGISTER, in cumulative form in the Code of Federal Regulations, and in separate looseleaf volume form.

§ 9-1.105-2 Copies.

Copies of the AEC Procurement Regulations in the FEDERAL REGISTER and the Code of Federal Regulations form may be purchased by Federal agencies and the public, at nominal cost, from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. § 9-1.106 Arrangement. § 9-1.106-1

General plan.

(a) The numbering system permits identification of every unit. The first digit, followed by a dash, represents the chapter number (AEC has been assigned Chapter 9). The dash is followed by the part number which may be one or more digits followed by a decimal point. The numbers after the decimal point represent, respectively, the subpart, section (in two digits) and, after a second dash, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, and additional subdivisions. For example, this division is called "§ 9-1.106-2,” in which the first digit denotes the chapter, the second the part, the third the subpart, the fourth and fifth the section, and the sixth the subsection.

(b) Where the AECPR implements a part, subpart, section, or subsection of the FPR, the implementing part, subpart, section, or subsection of the AECPR will be numbered (and captioned) to correspond to the FPR part, subpart, section, or subsection.

(c) Where the AECPR supplements the FPR, the numbers 50 and up will be assigned to the parts, subparts, or sections involved.

(d) Where the subject matter contained in a part, subpart, section, or subsection of the FPR requires no imple

AEC Procurement Regulations will be cited in accordance with Federal Register standards approved for the FPR. Thus, this section, when referred to in divisions of the AEC Procurement Regulations, should be cited as "§ 9-1.1063 of this chapter." When this section is referred to formally in official documents, such as legal briefs, it should be cited as "41 CFR 9-1.106-3." Any section of the AEC Procurement Regulations may be informally identified, for purposes of brevity, as AECPR followed by the section number, i.e., "AECPR 9-1.106-3."

§ 9-1.107 Implementation and supplementation of FPR.

The AEC Procurement Regulations “implement” and “supplement” the FPR. The meaning of these terms includes the following:

(a) Implementation may have either of the following meanings:

(1) A part, subpart, section, etc., which treats a similarly numbered portion of the FPR in greater detail or indicates the manner of compliance, including any deviations.

(2) The absence of a corresponding part, subpart, section, etc., in the AECPR indicates that the FPR is applicable as written. Policies and procedures in the FPR are not repeated in the AECPR.

(b) Supplementation means AECPR coverage of matters which have no counterpart in the FPR.

Certain policies and procedures which come within the scope of this chapter nevertheless may be excluded from AECPR. AEC Manual, Volume 9, Procurement, will contain these exclusions (AEC Procurement InstructionsAECPI) which include the following categories:

(a) Subject matter which bears a security classification, is "official use only," or is of a purely internal nature.

(b) Policy or procedure which is expected to be effective for a period of less than 6 months.

(c) Policy or procedure which is being instituted on an experimental basis for a reasonable period.