Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1976: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, Part 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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Acres activities additional agencies ANDREWS applications Appropriation Act authorized borrowers Budget Estimate BURLISON Chairman committee community facilities Congress Conservation Program cooperative coordination crop Dakota decrease Department of Agriculture districts Dollars economic Education ELLIOTT erosion EVANS Extension Service Farmers Home Administration Federal financing fiscal year 1975 flood prevention FmHA FmHA/USDA food stamp food stamp program Grants GUNTHARP housing loans improvement increase industrial Initial installation interest Irrigation June 30 KIRBY land livestock ment million North Carolina North Dakota Number Amount nutrition obligated Office of Audit operating loans percent personnel problems recreation requested Resource Conservation responsibility rural areas Rural Development Act Rural Development Service Rural Housing Secretary Smith-Lever Act soil and water Soil Conservation Service soil surveys staff tion Total TRELOGAN USDA Virginia waste disposal water and waste watershed watershed planning watershed projects WHITTEN
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Page 438 - Such loans shall bear interest at a rate not less than (i) a rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury taking into consideration the current average market yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States with remaining periods to maturity comparable to the average maturities of such loans, adjusted to the nearest one-eighth of 1 per centum, plus (ii) an allowance adequate in the judgment of the administering agency to cover administrative costs and probable losses under the...
Page 383 - ... unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere to finance their actual needs at reasonable rates and terms, taking into consideration prevailing private and cooperative rates and terms in the community in or near which the applicant resides for loans for similar purposes and periods of time.
Page 405 - Indian tribal groups, or to individuals for the purpose of improving, developing, or financing business, industry, and employment and improving the economic and environmental climate in rural communities, including pollution...
Page 46 - Section 6 of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public Law 566, 83rd Congress), as amended...
Page 322 - Act authorized loans for shift in land use to outdoor recreational facilities built primarily to benefit rural people. The agency began to make loans to family farmers to set up farm-based recreation and other nonagricultural enterprises that would add to .family income, and for association grazing ranges where family farmers and ranchers share the use of more grazing land for livestock production. A pilot program for Rural Renewal, delegated to FmHA, launched experiments in several states...
Page 177 - Crop and livestock estimates, including estimates of production, supply, price, and other aspects of the agricultural economy ; conduct of enumerative and objective measurement surveys; preparation and issuance of the official National and State estimates and reports of the Department relating to acreages, types, and production of farm crops, number of livestock on farms, livestock products, stocks of agricultural commodities, value and utilization of farm products, prices received and paid by farmers,...
Page 9 - This program provides for cooperation with local sponsors, State, and other public agencies in the installation of planned works of improvement in approved watershed projects. Such works of improvement reduce erosion, floodwater, and sediment damage. They also further the conservation, development, utilization, and disposal of water, including the development of...
Page 80 - The Corps of Engineers of the Department of the Army, and the Soil Conservation Service of the Department of Agriculture...
Page 322 - Raised limits on farmer loans to $60,000 for farm ownership, replacing a formula whereby each county's limit had been the average value of its family farms and from $20,000 to $35,000 for farm operating purposes . * Opened up the water system program to the general rural population, including incorporated towns of up to 2,500. The loan limit on a project (previously $250,000) was raised to $500,000 for a direct FmHA loan and to $1 million for an insured loan.
Page 324 - It enables some low-income families to pay as little as 1 percent interest, and provides for subsidized loans to developers of low-priced rental housing for low-income families and senior citizens. New programs also were enacted in 1968 for rural homesite development loans and for grants toward support of "self-help