[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3172 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3172

 To amend the definition of rural community to expand eligibility for 
                        economic recovery funds.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 1993

    Mr. DeFazio (for himself, Mr. Inslee, and Mr. Smith of Oregon) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                              Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the definition of rural community to expand eligibility for 
                        economic recovery funds.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2374(3) of 
the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 
6612 (3)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(3) The term `rural community' means--
                    ``(A) any town, township, municipality, or other 
                similar unit of general purpose local government, or 
                any area represented by a not-for-profit corporation or 
                institution organized under state or federal law to 
                promote broad based development, or unit of general 
                purpose local government, as approved by the Secretary, 
                that has a population of not more than 10,000 
                individuals, is located within a county in which at 
                least 15 percent of the total primary and secondary 
                labor and proprietor income is derived from forestry, 
                wood products, and forest related industries such as 
                recreation, forage production, and tourism and that is 
                located within the boundary, or within 100 miles of the 
                boundary, of a national forest; or
                    ``(B) any county that is not contained within a 
                Metropolitan Statistical Area as defined by the United 
                States Office of Management and Budget, in which at 
                least 15 percent of the total primary and secondary 
                labor and proprietor income is derived from forestry, 
                wood products, and forest-related production, and 
                tourism and that is located within the boundary, or 
                within 100 miles of the boundary, of a national 
                forest.''.

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