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NASULGC's Farm Bill Provisions |
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441. Extensi=
on of
Agricultural Telecommunications Program to Rural Development |
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Summary |
Adds rural development as a permissible purpose for
activities and funding under the program, and makes other technical chang=
es. |
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Legislative
Language |
SEC. 441. EXTENSION OF AGRICULTURAL TELECOMMUNICATIO=
NS
PROGRAM TO RURAL DEVELOPMENT. Section 1673 =
of the
Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5926) is
amended – (1) by inserting “AND=
RURAL
DEVELOPMENT” after “AGRICULTURAL” in the heading; (2) in subsection (a) ̵=
1; (A) by striking
“agricultural communications” and inserting “agricultur=
al
and rural development communications”; (B) by inserting after R=
20;and
products” the following: “, and to facilitate and enhance rur=
al
development programs and activities”; and (C) by striking
“agricultural research” and inserting “agricultural and
rural development research”; (3) in subsec=
tion
(b)(1), by striking “and research” and inserting “resea=
rch,
and rural development”; (4) in subsec=
tion
(b)(3), by striking “industries” and inserting “industr=
ies,
and rural development”; (5) in subsection (b)(4), by
inserting “and rural development” after
“agricultural”; (6) in subsection (c), by=
8212; (A) striking paragraph (1);=
and (B) re=
designating
paragraphs (2) through (7) as paragraphs (1) through (6), respectively; (7) in subsection (d), by
amending paragraph (1) to read as follows: “(1) The
Secretary of Agriculture shall establish a program, to be administered
through the Higher Education Program of the Cooperative State Research,
Education, and Extension Service (or its successor organization), under w=
hich
financial and technical assistance may be provided to eligible institutio=
ns
that participate in a network that distributes programs consistent with t=
he
objectives described in subsection (b) of this section.”; (8) in subsection (f)(1), by
inserting “rural development,” after “research,”;=
and (9) in subsection (f)(2), by striking from
“applications” through “Applications”, and insert=
ing
“applications that”. |