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[CITE: 7USC2666]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
CHAPTER 59--RURAL FIRE PROTECTION, DEVELOPMENT, AND SMALL FARM RESEARCH 
                              AND EDUCATION
 
 SUBCHAPTER II--RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL FARM RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
 
Sec. 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, Sec. 506, as added Pub. L. 97-98, title XIV, 
Sec. 1444(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1326.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 2666, Pub. L. 92-419, title V, Sec. 506, Aug. 30, 
1972, 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, Sec. 1444(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 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.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Dec. 22, 1981, see section 1801 of Pub. L. 97-98, 
set out as a note under section 4301 of this title.
