RURAL AREAS see also Agriculture

Addresses

Future of Rural Areas: Representative Skelton, 19814 [14JY]

How My Organization Promotes Good Community Living: Steven Johnson, 22040 [3AU]

Louis Gorin Award to Russell F. Lewis: Earl R. Thayer, Annual National Conference on Rural Health, 14629 [4JN]

Amendments

Housing: community development programs (S.J. Res. 209), 30297, 30353 [30OC]

Analyses

Rural Health Care Viability Act (S. 1390), 16648 [18JN]

Rural Recovery and Revitalization Act (S. 1403), 17009-17011 [23JN]

Articles and editorials

Alternatives to Key Currencies (1963), 34281-34285 [7DE]

Country Blues—Deregulation Raises Prices, Cuts Services in Many Rural Areas, 26944

Determination Helped Snatch This Town From the Jaws of Economic Death, 8788 [9AP]

Farmland Fading Under City Sprawl—Agriculture Dept. Says Change ``May Have an Enormous Effect at Local Level'', 22151 [3AU]

Future Is Calling, 27723-27725 [13OC]

Geographic Variations in Mortality From Motor Vehicle Crashes, 16571 [17JN]

Hello at Last! Isolated Rural Families Call Costly Wireless Phone a Bargain, 3143 [5FE]

Keeping Up With Jones, 24579-24581 [21SE]

Keeping Rural Hospitals Open and Affordable, 8993, 8994 [10AP]

Missouri Town That's Bouncing Back, 8790 [9AP]

Mutual Trust Still Thrives in Small Towns, 24013 [15SE]

Navigation Debated—U.S. Plumbs Monetary Reefs (1963), 34285 [7DE]

Rural Closures Go Beyond Payment and Into the Troubles of Rural Life, 34411 [8DE]

Shrinking of Small Town America, Senator Simon, 24014 [15SE]

Thundering Skies—Military Pilot Training Stirs Uprising in West Against Noisy Flights, 19085 [8JY]

Bills and resolutions

Aged: increase services to individuals in rural areas (see H.R. 2073)

Airlines: extension of small community air service program (see S. 876; H.R. 2217, 2318)

Appropriations: rural development, agriculture, and related agencies programs (see H.R. 3520)

Banks and banking: prevent interagency disputes with Federal Financing Bank from disrupting REA loan guarantee programs (see H.R. 3723)

Dept. of Agriculture and Rural Development: designate (see H.R. 2026)

Economic conditions: development (see H.R. 2028)

———revitalization through economic diversification and provision of community facilities to meet basic needs (see H.R. 1800)

Families: counseling and outreach programs to assist farmers and other rural residents (see H.R. 2398)

Federal aid programs: fiscal safety net for needy communities (see S. 660)

Health care (see H.R. 1829, 1830, 2113)

Housing: community development programs (see S.J. Res. 209)

———displacement of low-income or elderly rentors (see H.R. 1070)

Interstate Highway System: State authority over speed limits in rural portions (see S. 337)

Job Training Partnership Act: improve delivery of services to rural areas, particularly to dislocated farmers and ranchers (see H.R. 1853)

Medicare: assist rural hospitals in cost-effective services (see S. 732; H. Con. Res. 108)

———costs for inpatient services at rural hospitals (see S. 1768; H.R. 2708)

———Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund grants to small rural hospitals for cost-effective services (see S. 1207)

———hospital reimbursement policy (see S. 1548)

Medicare Rural Hospital Payment Equity Act: enact (see S. 1438)

Motor bus lines: abandonment (see H.R. 934)

National Advisory Commission on the Future of Rural America: establish (see H.R. 726)

National Rural Crisis Response Center: recognize, encourage, and support (see S.J. Res. 207; H.J. Res. 361)

REA: allow electric and telephone borrowers to prepay and refinance loans held by Federal financing bank (see S. 912)

———prepayment of Federal financing bank loans (see S. 681; H.R. 2045)

———loan guarantee programs (see S. 1933)

———promote economic vitality by directing resources to consumers (see S. 505)

Roads and highways: increase speed limit to 65 miles per hour (see H.R. 820)

———repeal 55-mile-per-hour speed limit (see H.R. 670)

———State's speed limit authority over rural portions of Interstate Highway System (see H.R. 665)

Rural Area Revitalization Act: enact (see S. 845)

Rural Areas Mental Health Services Act: enact (see S. 1311)

Rural Crisis Recovery Program: establish (see H.R. 3492)

Rural Development Improvements Act: enact (see S. 1500)

Rural Economy Act: enact (see S. 1729; H.R. 3371)

Rural Educational Opportunities Act: enact (see S. 1778)

Rural Enterprise Zone Act: enact (see S. 983; H.R. 1973)

Rural Health Care Viability Act: enact (see S. 1390)

Rural Health Services Transition Act: enact (see S. 732)

Rural Recovery and Revitalization Act: enact (see S. 1403)

Small Community Air Service Improvement Act: enact (see S. 582)

Social Security: amend relative to treatment of small rural hospitals and sole community hospitals (see H.R. 1787)

———extended care through swing-beds in certain rural hospitals (see H.R. 2115)

———payment for inpatient services in rural hospitals (see H.R. 2114)

———provision of clinical psychological services under medicare and medicaid (see S. 93)

———services of psychologist in rural health clinic (see H.R. 3038)

Targeted Fiscal Assistance Act: enact (see S. 660)

Taxation: permit rural telephone cooperatives to have qualified cash or deferred arrangements (see H.R. 3045)

———treatment of rural electric or telephone cooperatives (see S. 1622; H.R. 3044)

———treatment of rural telephone cooperatives (see S. 1623)

White House Conference on Rural Development and the Family Farm: permanent authorization (see S. 1484)

Booklets

Better Country—A Strategy for Rural Development in the 1980's: Dept. of Agriculture, 28784 [21OC]

Broadcasts

True picture of problems in rural America?, 4118 [25FE]

Factsheets

Effects of a Sequester on Rural Programs, 27809 [14OC]

Rural Area Revitalization Act (H.R. 1800), 6919 [25MR]

Hearings

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: rural problems and rural revitalization in the U.S. (testimony), D236 [7AP]

Committee on Appropriations (House): rural development, agriculture, and related agencies appropriations (testimony), D235 [6AP], D240 [7AP], D247 [8AP]

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: FmHA prepayment of rural rental housing loans (testimony), D176 [19MR]

Committee on Small Business (Senate): rural and urban economies, focusing on performance (testimony), D115 [5MR]

Letters

Rural communities opposed to gasoline tax increase: Jeffrey H. Schiff, 19277 [9JY]

Trailways' request to abandon bus routes in Kansas: Senator Dole, 9405 [23AP]

Lists

Michigan's sesquicentennial families, 34995 [10DE]

Rural hospitals affected by medicare reimbursement policy, 21130 [24JY]

Memorials of legislature

Maine, 9737 [24AP]

Virginia, 9737 [24AP]

Wyoming, 9737 [24AP]

Remarks in House

Aged: increase services to citizens of rural areas (H.R. 2073), 10856 [30AP]

Airlines: essential air service program reauthorization (H.R. 808), 2197 [29JA]

———extension of small community air service program (H.R. 2318), 11861 [8MY]

———improve service to small communities (H.R. 2217), 10623 [29AP], 25994 [1OC]

Banks and banking: prevent interagency disputes with Federal Financing Bank from disrupting REA loan guarantee programs (H.R. 3723), 34986 [10DE]

Community Adjustment Act: enact (H.R. 681), 1813 [21JA]

Cultural centers: grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, Institute of Museum Services, and Historic Preservation Fund, 11740 [7MY]

Communities: development, 19814 [14JY]

Danville, VA: tribute, 22700 [5AU]

Dept. of Agriculture and Rural Development: designate (H.R. 2026), 8650-8653 [9AP], 36678 [19DE]

Dooly County, GA: tribute, 26248 [1OC]

Economic conditions: development (H.R. 2028), 29517 [27OC]

———revitalization through economic diversification and provision of community facilities to meet basic needs (H.R. 1800), 6919 [25MR], 29517 [27OC]

Education: need for improved opportunities for the poor, 34412 [8DE]

First Electric Cooperative Corp.: tribute, 28450 [20OC]

4-H Program: tribute, 31723 [10NO]

Gasoline: rural communities opposed to tax increase, 19277 [9JY]

House Rural Health Care Coalition: program, 9673 [23AP]

Housing: community development programs (S.J. Res. 209), 30596

Job Training Partnership Act: improve delivery of services to rural areas, particularly to dislocated farmers and ranchers (H.R. 1853), 7315 [30MR]

Medical care (H.R. 2113), 9356 [22AP], 9673 [23AP], 17607 [25JN]

———hospital service, 9681 [23AP]

———improvement, 34411 [8DE]

———stabilize rural care provisions (H.R. 1829), 6959 [26MR]

———stabilize rural care provisions (H.R. 1830), 6959 [26MR]

Medicare: reform prospective payment system in rural hospitals, 17050 [23JN]

———rural hospitals (H. Con. Res. 108), 9670, 9673 [23AP]

Motor vehicles: mortality rates in rural areas, 16571 [17JN]

National Community Education Day: designate (H.J. Res. 24), 888 [7JA]

National Rural Crisis Response Center: recognize, encourage, and support (H.J. Res. 361), 24255 [16SE]

Oregon: free community telephone service, 34351 [8DE]

Preventive medicine: immunization of children, 34651 [9DE]

REA: funding, 12236 [12MY]

———population density of customers per mile, 18308-18310 [30JN]

———prepayment of loans (H.R. 2045), 9008, 9022, 9035 [10AP], 22685 [5AU]

Roads and highways: State authority over certain speed limits, 1688, 1694 [21JA], 2681 [4FE]

Rural Crisis Recovery Program: establish (H.R. 3492), 28319 [19OC], 29004, 29015 [22OC]

Rural Economy Act: enact (H.R. 3371), 25928 [30SE], 29517 [27OC]

Rural Letter Carriers Tax Simplification Act: enact, 9652 [23AP]

Rural Newspaper Preservation Act: enact (H.R. 1423), 4793 [4MR]

Small business: Federal aid, 3207 [5FE]

Social Security: extended care through swing beds in certain rural hospitals (H.R. 2115), 9356 [22AP], 9670, 9673 [23AP], 17607 [25JN]

———payment for inpatient services in rural hospitals (H.R. 2114), 9356 [22AP], 9670, 9673 [23AP], 17607 [25JN]

———treatment of small rural hospitals and sole community hospitals (H.R. 1787), 14242 [2JN]

Taxation: permit rural telephone cooperatives to have qualified cash or deferred arrangements (H.R. 3045), 21568 [29JY]

———treatment of rural electric or telephone cooperatives (H.R. 3044), 21568 [29JY]

Television: local franchising for residential consumers (H.R. 3624), 31446 [9NO]

Texas: social conditions, 34277-34286 [7DE]

Verdigre, NE: economic recovery, 36679 [19DE]

White House Conference on Rural Development and the Family Farm: convene, 36082 [17DE]

Remarks in Senate

Aeronautics: small community air service (S. 876), 7185 [27MR]

Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations (S. 1800), 35239 [11DE]

Cooperative Extension Service: budget proposal, 1613 [21JA]

De Kalb County, IL: anniversary, 16984 [23JN]

Electric and telephone companies: borrowers to prepay and refinance loans held by Federal financing bank (S. 912), 12289 [13MY]

Housing: community development programs (S.J. Res. 209), 29456 [27OC], 30296 [30OC]

———community development programs (S.J. Res. 209), unanimous-consent agreement, 30288 [30OC]

Kansas: Trailways request for abandonment of bus routes, 9404 [23AP]

Local government: role in effectuating Federal policy, 23579 [9SE]

Medical care: hospital service, 8993 [10AP]

Medicare: costs for inpatient services at rural hospitals (S. 1768), 26911 [7OC]

———hospital reimbursement policy (S. 1548), 21130 [24JY]

———rural hospitals' cost-effective services (S. 732), 5612-5615 [12MR]

Medicare Rural Hospital Payment Equity Act: enact (S. 1438), 17830-17835 [26JN], 22975 [6AU]

Motor bus lines: deterioration of service, 2787, 2790 [4FE]

National Association of Towns and Townships: annual meeting, 23579 [9SE]

National Rural Crisis Response Center: tribute (S.J. Res. 207), 28985 [22OC]

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association: economic development with TVA, 17350 [24JN]

Oklahoma: funding for Rural Industrialization Technology Center in Pontotoc County, 35253 [11DE]

Public utilities: prepayment of Federal bank loans made to rural electrification and telephone systems (S. 681), 5005 [6MR]

REA: budget proposal, 1616 [21JA]

———criteria for refinancing, 13905 [28MY]

———direct loans toward rural consumers (S. 505), 3089 [5FE]

———loan guarantee programs (S. 1933), 34339 [8DE]

Roads and highways: maximum speed limit change, 2537-2545 [3FE]

———speed limit on rural portions of Interstate Highway System (S. 337), 1510 [20JA]

———speed limit on rural portions of Interstate Highway System (S. 371), 1645 [21JA]

Rural Area Revitalization Act: enact (S. 845), 6896 [25MR]

Rural Areas Mental Health Services Act: enact (S. 1311), 14484 [3JN]

Rural Crisis Recovery Program: establish (H.R. 3492), 36569 [19DE]

Rural Development Improvements Act: enact (S. 1500), 20043

Rural Economy Act: enact (S. 1729), 25628 [29SE]

Rural Educational Opportunities Act: enact (S. 1778), 27114 [8OC]

REA: electric and telephone companies prepayment of loans (S. 912), 7977, 7978 [3AP], 12289 [13MY]

———electric and telephone companies prepayment of loans (S. 681), 8049 [6AP]

Rural Enterprise Zone Act: enact (S. 983), 8783, 8790 [9AP]

Rural Health Care Viability Act: enact (S. 1390), 16633, 16646-16651 [18JN]

Rural Health Services Transition Act: enact (S. 732), 5612-5615 [12MR]

Rural Hospital Payment Equity Act: enact, 16633 [18JN]

Rural Industrialization Technology Center in Pontotoc County, OK; funding, 35253 [11DE]

Rural Newspaper Preservation Act: enact (S. 700), 5117 [10MR]

Rural Recovery and Revitalization Act: enact (S. 1403), 17008-17012 [23JN]

Small Community Air Service Improvement Act: enact (S. 582), 4265

Social Security: ambulatory mental health services for those in supplementary medical insurance program (S. 1209), 12585 [15MY]

Telephone: development of ultraphone, 3143 [5FE]

Wisconsin: rural health care, 25060 [24SE]

Reports

Assessment of Bus Regular Route Entry and Exit: ICC, 2787-2790 [4FE]

Evaluation of Rural Hospital Policy: Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, Dept. of HHS (excerpts), 16649 [18JN]

Financial Difficulties of Rural Hospitals: Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, 17835 [26JN]

Long-Term Financing for North Dakota Businesses—A Planning Conference for Public and Private Officials: Columbia Institute, 34638-34640 [9DE]

Task Force on Small Rural Hospitals: Minnesota Hospital Association, 11447-11456 [6MY]

Who Is Watching Our Children's Health: Children's Defense Fund, 34651 [9DE]

Reports filed

Rural Crisis Recovery Program: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 3492) (H. Rept. 100-379), 28346 [19OC]

Resolutions by organizations

REA funding: Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc., 12237 [12MY]

———Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, Inc., 12236 [12MY]

Ruling

Rural mail carrier mileage factors: IRS, 9553 [23AP]

Statements

Appalachian Regional Development Commission: Tilda Kemplen, 17168 [24JN]

Urban, Suburban, and Rural Interests: Kenneth A. Gibson, 15491 [11JN]

Studies

Averting a Crisis in Rural Health Care: Minnesota Medical Association, 11456 [6MY]

Summaries

Medicare Rural Hospital Payment Equity Act (S. 1438), 17832 [26JN]

Rural Development Improvements Act (S. 1500), 20046 [15JY]

Rural Economy Act (H.R. 3371), 25928 [30SE]

Rural Enterprise Zone Act (S. 983), 8788 [9AP]

Rural Health Care Improvement Act, 14243 [2JN]

Rural Recovery and Revitalization Act (S. 1403), 17011 [23JN]

Small Community Air Service Program Extension (H.R. 2318), 11862 [8MY]

Surveys

Task Force on Rural Health Readership Response: Minnesota Medical Association, 11458 [6MY]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 108, rural hospitals medicare coverage, 9674 [23AP]

H.R. 2045, Rural Electrification Act amendments, 9009 [10AP]

H.R. 2113, Rural Health Care Preservation Act, 9675 [23AP]

H.R. 2114, Rural Hospital Act amendments, 9675 [23AP]

H.R. 2115, Rural Nursing Care Access Act amendments, 9675 [23AP]

H.R. 2183, Rural Letter Carriers Tax Simplification Act, 9653 [23AP]

H.R. 3481, Rural Development Reorganization Act, 28785-28788 [21OC]

H.R. 3492, establish Rural Crisis Recovery Program, 28319 [19OC]

H.R. 3723, prevent interagency disputes with Federal Financing Bank from disrupting REA loan guarantee programs, 34986 [10DE]

S. 371, speed limit on rural portions of Interstate Highway System, 1646 [21JA]

S. 505, direct REA loans toward rural consumers, 3090 [5FE]

S. 582, Small Community Air Service Improvement Act, 4265 [26FE]

S. 681, prepayment of Federal bank loans made to rural electrification and telephone systems, 5006 [6MR]

S. 700, Rural Newspaper Preservation Act, 5117 [10MR]

S. 732, Rural Health Services Transition Act, 5613 [12MR]

S. 845, Rural Area Revitalization Act, 6897 [25MR]

S. 876, small community air service, 7186 [27MR]

S. 912, Rural Electrification Act amendments, 7978 [3AP]

S. 983, Rural Enterprise Zone Act, 8783-8788 [9AP]

S. 1207, Medicare Rural Health Services Transition Act, 12501 [14MY]

S. 1209, Medicare Ambulatory Mental Health Services Access Act, 12586 [15MY]

S. 1311, Rural Areas Mental Health Services Act, 14485 [3JN]

S. 1390, Rural Health Care Viability Act, 16647 [18JN]

S. 1438, Medicare Rural Hospital Payment Equity Act, 17831 [26JN]

S. 1500, Rural Development Improvements Act, 20044 [15JY]

S. 1548, medicare's hospital reimbursement policy, 21131 [24JY]

S. 1729, Rural Economy Act, 25630-25636 [29SE]

S. 1768, medicare costs for inpatient services at rural hospitals, 26912 [7OC]

S. 1933, REA loan guarantee programs, 34339 [8DE]

S.J. Res. 209, community housing development programs, 30302 [30OC], 30597 [3NO]