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Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement

Part E · Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement

§ 12186. Program priority for special emphasis programs

Statutory text

(a)

In general

The Secretary shall give priority in providing lines of credit under this subpart to community development corporations that propose to undertake economic development activities in distressed communities that target women, Native Americans, at risk youth, farmworkers, population-losing communities, very low-income communities, single mothers, veterans, and refugees; or that expand employee ownership of private enterprises and small businesses, and to programs providing loans of not more than $35,000 to very small business enterprises.

(b)

Reservation of funds

Not less than 5 percent of the amounts made available under section 31112(a)(2)(A) 1 may be reserved to carry out the activities described in subsection (a).

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. National Community Economic Partnership Act of 1994

    Pub. L. 103–322 title III § 31116 · 108 Stat. 1796

    Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 12186

    (Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31116, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1885.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31116, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1885.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 31116. PROGRAM PRIORITY FOR SPECIAL EMPHASIS PROGRAMS. (a) In General.— The Secretary shall give priority in providing lines of credit under this chapter to community development corporations that propose to undertake economic development activities in distressed communities that target women, Native Americans, at risk youth, farmworkers, population-losing communities, very low-income communities, single mothers, veterans, and refugees; or that expand employee ownership of private enterprises and small businesses, and to programs providing loans of not more than $35,000 to very small business enterprises. (b) Reservation of Funds.— Not less than 5 percent of the amounts made available under section 31112(a)(2)(A) may be reserved to carry out the activities described in subsection (a).

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 31112(a)(2)(A), referred to in subsec. (b), probably should be a reference to section 31132(b)(1) of Pub. L. 103–322, title III, , 108 Stat. 1888, which authorized appropriations under this part and was formerly classified to section 13852 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to being omitted from the Code as obsolete.

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13826 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Credits

(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31116, , 108 Stat. 1885.)

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