Collapse to view only § 2661. Statement of purposes and goals
- § 2661. Statement of purposes and goals
- § 2662. Programs authorized
- § 2662a. Repealed.
- § 2663. Funding
- § 2664. Cooperating colleges and universities
- § 2665. Withholding funds
- § 2666. Definitions
- § 2667. Regulations
- § 2668. Omitted
- § 2669. Pilot projects for production and marketing of industrial hydrocarbons and alcohols from agricultural commodities and forest products
- § 2670. Repealed.
- § 2671. Establishment of technical assistance program
§ 2661. Statement of purposes and goals
(a) The overall purpose of this subchapter is to foster a balanced national development that provides opportunities for increased numbers of the people of the United States to work and enjoy a high quality of life dispersed throughout our Nation by providing the essential knowledge necessary for successful programs of rural development. It is further the purpose of this subchapter to—
(1) provide multistate regional agencies, States, counties, cities, multicounty planning and development districts, businesses, industries, Indian tribes on Federal and State reservations or other federally recognized Indian tribal groups and others involved with public services and investments in rural areas or that provide or may provide employment in these areas the best available scientific, technical, economic, organizational, environmental, and management information and knowledge useful to them, and to assist and encourage them in the interpretation and application of this information to practical problems and needs in rural development;
(2) provide research and investigations in all fields that have as their purpose the development of useful knowledge and information to assist those planning, carrying out, managing, or investing in facilities, services, businesses, or other enterprises, public and private, that may contribute to rural development;
(3) increase the capabilities of, and encourage, colleges and universities to perform the vital public service roles of research, and the transfer and practical application of knowledge, in support of rural development;
(4) expand small farm research and extend training and technical assistance to small farm families in assessing their needs and opportunities and in using the best available knowledge on sound economic approaches to small farm operations and on existing services offered by the Department of Agriculture and other public and private agencies and organizations to improve their income and to gain access to essential facilities and services; and
(5) support activities to supplement and extend programs that address special research and education needs in States experiencing rapid social and economic adjustments or unique problems caused by rural isolation and that address national and regional rural development policies, strategies, issues, and programs.
(b) the 1
1 So in original. Should be capitalized.
goals of this subchapter are to—(1) encourage and support rural United States, in order to help make it a better place to live, work, and enjoy life;
(2) increase income and improve employment for persons in rural areas, including the owners or operators of small farms, small businesses, and rural youth;
(3) improve the quality and availability of essential community services and facilities in rural areas;
(4) improve the quantity and quality of rural housing;
(5) improve the rural management of natural resources so that the growth and development of rural communities needed to support the family farm may be accommodated with minimum effect on the natural environment and the agricultural land base;
(6) improve the data base for rural development decisionmaking at local, State, and national levels; and
(7) improve the problem solving and development capacities and effectiveness of rural governments, officials, institutions, communities, community leaders, and citizen groups in—
(A) improving access to Federal programs;
(B) improving targeting and delivery of technical assistance;
(C) improving coordination among Federal agencies, other levels of government, and institutions and private organizations in rural areas; and
(D) developing and disseminating better information about rural conditions.
(Pub. L. 92–419, title V, § 501, as added Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1444(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1322.)
§ 2662. Programs authorized
The Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this subchapter as the “Secretary”) may conduct, in cooperation and coordination with colleges and universities, the following programs to carry out the purposes and achieve the goals of this subchapter.
(a) Rural development extension programs
(b) Rural development research
(c) Small farm research programs
(d) Small farm extension programs
(e) Special grants programs
(f), (g) Repealed. Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 792(a), title VIII, § 871, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1152, 1175
(h) Rural development extension work
(1) National program
The Secretary shall establish a national program, to be administered by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, to provide rural citizens with training in, technical and management assistance regarding, and educational opportunities to enhance their knowledge of—
(A) beginning businesses through entrepreneurship;
(B) the procedures necessary to establish new businesses in rural areas;
(C) self-employment opportunities in rural areas;
(D) the uses of modern telecommunications and computer technologies;
(E) business and financial planning; and
(F) such other training, assistance, and educational opportunities as the Secretary determines are necessary to carry out the program established under this subsection.
(2) Leadership abilities
The program established under this subsection shall provide assistance designed to increase the leadership abilities of residents in rural areas. Such assistance shall include—
(A) information relevant to the development of community goals;
(B) instruction regarding the methods by which State or Federal funding for rural development projects might be obtained;
(C) instruction regarding the successful writing of applications for loan or grant funds from government and private sources;
(D) an updated listing of State, Federal, and other economic development programs available to rural areas; and
(E) such other training, information, and assistance as the Secretary determines necessary to increase the leadership abilities of residents in rural areas.
(3) Catalog of programs
The National Rural Information Center Clearinghouse of the National Agricultural Library, in cooperation with the Extension Service in each State, should develop, maintain, and provide to each community, and make accessible to any other interested party, a catalog of available State, Federal, or private programs that provide leadership training or other information or services similar or complementary to the training or services required by this subsection. Such catalog should include, at a minimum, the following entities within the State that provide such training or services:
(A) Any rural electric cooperative.
(B) Any nonprofit company development corporation.
(C) Any economic development district that serves a rural community.
(D) Any nonprofit subsidiary of any private entity.
(E) Any nonprofit organization whose principal purpose is to promote economic development in rural areas.
(F) Any investor or publicly owned electric utility.
(G) Any small business development center or small business investment company.
(H) Any regional development organization.
(I) Any vocational or technical school.
(J) Any Federal, State, or local government agency or department.
(K) Any other entity that the Secretary deems appropriate.
The extension service in each State should include in the catalog information on the specific training or services provided by each entity in the catalog.
(4) Employee training
(5) Coordination of assistance
(i) Rural health and safety education programs
(1) Programs authorized
(A) Individual and family health education
The Secretary may make grants for the establishment of individual and family health education programs that shall provide individuals and families with—
(i) information concerning the value of good health;
(ii) information to increase the individual or families motivation to take more responsibility for their own health;
(iii) access to health promotion activities; and
(iv) training for volunteers and health services providers concerning health promotion and health care services, in cooperation with the Department of Health and Human Services.
(B) Farm safety education
The Secretary may make grants for the establishment of farm safety education programs that shall provide information and training to farm workers, timber harvesters, and farm families concerning safety in the work place, including information and training concerning—
(i) the reduction of occupational injury and death rates;
(ii) the reduction and prevention of exposure to farm chemicals;
(iii) the reduction of agricultural respiratory diseases and dermititis; 1
1 So in original. Probably should be “dermatitis;”.
(iv) the reduction and prevention of noise induced hearing loss;
(v) the occupational rehabilitation of farmers and timber harvesters with physical disabilities; and
(vi) farm accident rescue procedures.
(C) Rural health leadership development
The Secretary, in consultation with the Office of Rural Health Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services, may make grants to academic medical centers or land grant colleges and universities, or any combination thereof, for the establishment of rural health leadership development education programs that shall assist rural communities in developing health care services and facilities that will provide the maximum benefit for the resources invested and assist community leaders and public officials in understanding their roles and responsibilities relative to rural health services and facilities, including—
(i) community decisions regarding funding for and retention of rural hospitals;
(ii) rural physician and allied health professionals recruitment and retention;
(iii) the aging rural population and senior services required to care for the population;
(iv) the establishment and maintenance of rural emergency medical services systems; and
(v) the application of computer-assisted capital budgeting decision aids for rural health services and facilities.
(2) Coordination of programs
(3) Dissemination of information
(4) Procedures and limitations
(5) Limitations on authorization of appropriations
(Pub. L. 92–419, title V, § 502, as added Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1444(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1323; amended Pub. L. 99–198, title XIV, § 1440(a), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1560; Pub. L. 100–219, § 2, Dec. 29, 1987, 101 Stat. 1456; Pub. L. 101–624, title XXIII, §§ 2346, 2349, 2389(a)–(c)(1), 2390(b)(1), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4032, 4037, 4053–4055; Pub. L. 102–237, title IV, § 403(a), title VII, § 704, Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1863, 1881; Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 792(a), title VIII, §§ 871, 886, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1152, 1175, 1180; Pub. L. 110–234, title VII, § 7511(c)(6), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1267; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title VII, § 7511(c)(6), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2029; Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6101(a)(3), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4727.)
§ 2662a. Repealed. Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 706, title VIII, § 867, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1112, 1174
§ 2663. Funding
(a) Authorization of appropriations
(b) Distributions
Such sums as are appropriated to carry out the provisions of section 2662(a) and (b) of this title shall be distributed by the Secretary as follows:
(1) 4 per centum shall be retained by the Secretary for program administration and national coordination of State programs, and program assistance to the States;
(2) 10 per centum shall be used to finance work serving two or more States in which colleges or universities in two or more States cooperate or that is conducted by one college or university to serve two or more States;
(3) 20 per centum shall be allocated equally among the States; and
(4) 66 per centum shall be allocated to each State as follows: One-half in an amount that bears the same ratio to the total amount to be allotted as the rural population of the State bears to the total rural population of all the States, as determined by the last preceding decennial census current at that time; and one-half in an amount that bears the same ratio to the total amount to be allotted as the farm population of the State bears to the total farm population of all the States, as determined by the last preceding decennial census current at that time:
(c) Additional distributions
(d) Administration of programs
(e) Development of plans of work and budgets by eligible institutions
(f) Availability; budgets and accounts
(g) Financing of programs at other than cooperating institutions
(Pub. L. 92–419, title V, § 503, as added Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1444(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1324; amended Pub. L. 99–198, title XIV, § 1440(b), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1560; Pub. L. 101–624, title XXIII, §§ 2389(c)(2), 2390(b)(2), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4055, 4056; Pub. L. 102–237, title IV, § 403(b), Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1863; Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 792(b)(2), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1152; Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6101(a)(3)(B), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4727.)
§ 2664. Cooperating colleges and universities
(a) Program administration
(b) Eligibility for participation
(c) Designation of official for program coordination
(d) Appointment of advisory council for program administration; eligibility, membership, etc.
(Pub. L. 92–419, title V, § 504, as added Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1444(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1325; amended Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6101(a)(3)(B), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4727.)
§ 2665. Withholding funds
If the Secretary determines that a State is not eligible to receive part or all of the funds to which it is otherwise entitled for programs under section 2662(a) and (b) of this title because of a failure to comply with regulations issued by the Secretary under this subchapter, the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the President, and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the expiration of the Congress next succeeding the session of the legislature of the State from which funds have been withheld in order that the State may, if it should so desire, appeal to Congress from the determination of the Secretary. If the next Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid, it shall be covered into the Treasury. If any portion of the moneys that are received by the designated officers of any State for the support and maintenance of programs authorized under this subchapter shall by any action or contingency be diminished or lost, or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by the State.
(Pub. L. 92–419, title V, § 505, as added Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1444(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1326; amended Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6101(a)(3)(B), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4727.)
§ 2666. Definitions
For the purposes of this subchapter—
(a) “rural development” means the planning, financing, and development of facilities and services in rural areas that contribute to making those areas desirable places in which to live and make private and business investments; the planning, development, and expansion of business and industry in rural areas to provide increased employment and income; the planning, development, conservation, and use of land, water, and other natural resources of rural areas to maintain or improve the quality of the environment for people and business in rural areas; and the building or improvement of institutional, organizational, and leadership capacities of rural citizens and leaders to define and resolve their own community problems;
(b) “State” means the several States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; and
(c) “small farm” means any farm (1) producing family net income from all sources (farm and nonfarm) below the median nonmetropolitan income of the State; (2) operated by a family dependent on farming for a significant though not necessarily a majority of its income; and (3) on which family members provide most of the labor and management.
(Pub. L. 92–419, title V, § 506, as added Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1444(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1326.)
§ 2667. Regulations
The Secretary may issue such regulations as the Secretary determines necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.
(Pub. L. 92–419, title V, § 507, as added Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1444(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1326; amended Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6101(a)(3)(B), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4727.)
§ 2668. Omitted
§ 2669. Pilot projects for production and marketing of industrial hydrocarbons and alcohols from agricultural commodities and forest products
(a) Formulation and execution of program
(b) Loan guarantees
(c) Conditions
(d) Long-term contracts to supply agricultural commodities to loan recipients
(e) Commodity Credit Corporation stocks as supply sources; outside purchases
(f) Commodity Credit Corporation
(Pub. L. 92–419, title V, § 508, formerly § 509, as added Pub. L. 95–113, title XIV, § 1420, Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 998; renumbered Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1444(b), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1326.)
§ 2670. Repealed. Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1444(b), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1326
§ 2671. Establishment of technical assistance program
(a) Definition
(b) In general
(c) Technical assistance
(Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6302, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4748.)