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 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 3979 TITLE XXIII—RURAL DEVELOPMENT KopmeT" Act of 1990. SEC. 2301. SHORT TITLE. '^ ^^ ^^^^ ^°^- This title may be cited as the "Rural Economic Development Act of 1990". Subtitle A—Reorganization of the Department of Agriculture SEC. 2302. RURAL DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION. 7 USC 2006f. (a) AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSOUDATED FARM AND RURAL DEVELOP- MENT ACT. —The Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) is gmiended— (1) by adding after the sections added thereto by subtitle A of title XVIII of this Act the following new section: "SEC. 364. RURAL DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION. "(a) ESTABLISHMENT. —T here is established in the Department of Agriculture the Rural Development Administration, which shall be headed by an Administrator appointed by the Secretary. "(\i) ADMINISTRATION.— Except as provided in subsection (c), or as otherwise provided in this section, the Secretary shall carry out this Act through the Farmers Home Administration. "(c) EXCEPTIONS.—The Secretary shall carry out section 303 (in the case of loans made for purposes specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 303(a)), section 304(b), section 306(a), section 306B, section 310A, section 310B, section 312(a) (in the case of loans made for the purposes specified in paragraphs (5) and (6) of section 312(a)), section 1323 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1932 note), title VI of the Rural Development Act of 1972, and such other rural development programs as the Secretary determines appropriate through the Rural Development Administration. "(d) REFERENCES.—Any reference in any law, regulation, or order in effect immediately before the date of enactment of this section to the Farmers Home Administration or to the Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration or of the Farmers Home Administration relating to any function, power, or duty that is, on or after such date, a function, power, or duty of the Rural Development Administration or the Administrator of the Rural Development Administration, shall be deemed to be a reference to the Rural Development Administration or to the Administrator of the Rural Development Administration, as the case may be. "(e) EFFECT ON PENDING PROCEEDINGS AND PARTIES TO SUCH PROCEEDINGS. — "(1) NoNABATEMENT OF ACTIONS. — This sectioD does not abate any proceeding commenced— "(A) by or against any entity any function of which is transferred by this section; or "(B) by or against any officer of any entity referred to in subparagraph (A) in the official capacity of such individual as such an officer. "(2) EFFECT ON PARTIES.— If an officer of the Farmers Home Administration, in the official capacity of such officer, is a party to a proceeding pending on the date of enactment of this section,

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