Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 59 — Rural Fire Protection, Development, and Small Farm Research and Education
§ 2666. Definitions
Statutory text
For the purposes of this subchapter—
“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;
“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
“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.
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.
Rural Development Act of 1972
Pub. L. 92–419 title V § 506 · 86 Stat. 657
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2666
(Pub. L. 92–419, title V, § 506, as added Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1444(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1326.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 92–419, title V, § 506, as added Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1444(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1326.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 506. Withholding Funds.— When the Secretary determines that a State is not eligible to receive part or all of tire funds to which it is otherwise entitled because of a failure to satisfy conditions specified in this title, or because of a failure to comply with regulations Report to President. issued by the Secretary under this title, 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 a 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 lie paid, it shall be covered into the Treasury. If any portion of the moneys received by the designated officers of any State for the support and maintenance of programs authorized by this title shall by any action or contingency be diminished or lost, or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by said State.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 2666, Pub. L. 92–419, title V, § 506, , 86 Stat. 674, related to withholding of funds, the keeping of a separate account in the Treasury, appeal by a State to Congress, covering of moneys into the Treasury, and State money replacement, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1444(a), , 95 Stat. 1326.
Provisions similar to those comprising this section were contained in former section 2667 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–98.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , see section 1801 of Pub. L. 97–98, set out as a note under section 4301 of this title.
Credits
(Pub. L. 92–419, title V, § 506, as added Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1444(a), , 95 Stat. 1326.)