[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1508 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1508

   To amend the definition of a rural community for eligibility for 
            economic recovery funds, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 30 (legislative day, September 27), 1993

  Mrs. Murray (for herself and Mr. Hatfield) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the definition of a rural community for eligibility for 
            economic recovery funds, and for other purposes.

    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 economic 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 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.''.

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