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 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 4003 "(5) within thirty days after the date of the enactment of any Act providing appropriations for any designated rural development program for any fiscal year, notify each State of the amounts to be made available to such State under such program for such fiscal year, and the aggregate for such fiscal year of such amounts under all the designated rural development programs; "(6) pay per diem or otherwise reimburse each full-time officer or employee of the United States who is a member of a State rural economic development review panel for expenses incurred each day (including travel time) during which the officer or employee is engaged in the actual performance of a duty of the panel; "(7) from amounts appropriated for grants under any provision of section 306(a), msdce grants not to exceed $100,000 annually to each eligible State for the administrative costs associated with the State rural economic development review panel meeting the requirements of section 366; and "(8) appoint a member to the State rural economic development review panel as provided under section 366(c)(l)(P). "(d) OFFICIAL INFORMATION.— The Secretary may appoint as nonvoting members, temporarily and for specific purposes, personnel from any department or agency of the United States, with the consent of the head of such department or £^ency, with expertise not available among the members of any State rural economic development review panel as may be necessary to enable the panel to perform a duty described in section 366(b). (e) ALLOCATION OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS.— "(1) INITIAL ALLOCATION.—The Secretary shall allocate the sums appropriated for direct loans, loan guarsintees, or grants for any designated rural development program made available to any eligible State under such program for any fiscal year to the projects specified in subsection (c)(4) giving great weight to the order in which the applications for such projects are ranked on the list specified in subsection (c)(D- "(2) EQUITABLE REALLOCATION OF UNOBLIGATED FUNDS. —Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Secretary shall, on July 15 of. each year, and from time to time thereafter during the fiscal year as the Secretary determines appropriate, pool from among the eligible States any unobligated funds appropriated for direct loans, loan guarantees, or grants for each designated rural development program and reallocate such funds among the eligible States according to need, as determined by the Secretary. "(f) INAPPUCABILTTY OF FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACT. — The Federal Advisory Committee Act shall not apply to any State rural economic development review panel. "(g) No LIABILITY OF MEMBERS OF STATE RURAL ECONOMIC DEVEL- OPMENT REVIEW PANELS. —The members of a State rurtd economic development review panel shall not be liable to any person with respect to any determination made by the panel. (h) ELIGIBILITY FOR WATER AND WASTE FACILITY LOANS. — "(1) RURAL ELECTRIFICATION PROGRAM BORROWERS. — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a borrower under title III of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 shall be eligible to receive loans and grante under section 306 on an equal basis with any other applicant for such assistance, and the terms and condi-

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