[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3745 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3745

To amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to require the 
  Secretary of Agriculture in the case of low-income States to use 95 
   percent of the national average nonmetropolitan median income for 
 purposes of determining the eligibility of communities in the States 
                 for certain rural development funding.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 5, 2010

 Mrs. Lincoln introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to require the 
  Secretary of Agriculture in the case of low-income States to use 95 
   percent of the national average nonmetropolitan median income for 
 purposes of determining the eligibility of communities in the States 
                 for certain rural development funding.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rural Infrastructure Improvement Act 
of 2010''.

SEC. 2. MEDIAN INCOME REQUIREMENT ADJUSTMENT.

    Section 306 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 
U.S.C. 1926) is amended by inserting after subsection (b) the 
following:
    ``(c) Median Income Requirement Adjustment.--
            ``(1) In general.--If the Secretary applies a median income 
        requirement to communities for purposes of determining 
        eligibility for the community facilities programs and water, 
        waste disposal, and wastewater programs authorized under this 
        section and sections 306A, 306C, 306D, and 306E, in the case of 
        a State for which the State nonmetropolitan median income is 
        equal to or less than 90 percent of the national average 
        nonmetropolitan median income, the Secretary shall use an 
        amount equal to 95 percent of the national average 
        nonmetropolitan median income in applying the median income 
        requirement for any community in the State.
            ``(2) Termination of authority.--The authority provided by 
        paragraph (1) terminates on September 30, 2012''.
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