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<PRE>        S.1508
                       One Hundred Third Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
  the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three


                                 An Act

  
 
  To amend the definition of a rural community for eligibility for 
economic recovery

                     funds, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2374(3) of 
the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 
6612(3)) is amended to read as follows:
        ``(3) The term `rural community' means--
            ``(A) any town, township, municipality, or other similar 
        unit of general purpose local government, or any area 
        represented by a not-for-profit corporation or institution 
        organized under State or Federal law to promote broad based 
        economic development, or unit of general purpose local 
        government, as approved by the Secretary, that has a population 
        of not more than 10,000 individuals, is located within a county 
        in which at least 15 percent of the total primary and secondary 
        labor and proprietor income is derived from forestry, wood 
        products, and forest-related industries such as recreation, 
        forage production, and tourism and that is located within the 
        boundary, or within 100 miles of the boundary, of a national 
        forest; or
            ``(B) any county that is not contained within a Metropolitan 
        Statistical Area as defined by the United States Office of 
        Management and Budget, in which at least 15 percent of the total 
        primary and secondary labor and proprietor income is derived 
        from forestry, wood products, and forest-related industries such 
        as recreation, forage production, and tourism and that is 
        located within the boundary, or within 100 miles of the 
        boundary, of a national forest.''.







                                Speaker of the House of Representatives.







                             Vice President of the United States and    
                                                President of the Senate.

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