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 104 STAT. 4050 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 as the Secretary may request to enable the Clearinghouse to carry out subsection (b). (d) STATE AND LOCAL AGENCIES AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. — The Secretary shall request State and local governments and private nonprofit organizations and institutions to provide to the Clearinghouse such information as such agencies and organizations may have about any program or service of such agencies, organizations, and institutions under which individuals residing in a rural area may be eligible for any kind of assistance, including job training, educational, health care, and economic development assistance, and emotional and financial counseling. (e) LIMITATION ON AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. — To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $500,000 for each of the fiscal years 1991 through 1995. 13 USC 141 note. SEC. 2382. MONITORING THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF RURAL AMERICA. (a) BUREAU OF THE CENSUS.— The Director of the Bureau of the Census shall expand the data collection efforts of the Bureau to enable the Bureau to collect statistically significant data concerning the changing economic condition of rural counties and communities in the United States, including data on rural employment, poverty, income, and other information concerning the rural labor force. Q)) LIMITATION ON AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— To carry out subsection (a), there are authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for each fiscal year. SEC. 2383. LOAN RATES APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN LOANS UNDER THE CONSOLIDATED FARM AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT ACT. Section 307(a)(3) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1927(a)(3)) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking "guranteed" and inserting "guaranteed"; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: "(C) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall establish loan rates for health care and related facilities based solely on the income of the area to be served, and such rates shall be otherwise consistent with such subparagraph.". SEC. 2384. ASSISTANCE FOR CERTAIN DISTRESSED COMMUNITY FACILITY PROGRAM BORROWERS. (a) AMENDMENT.— The Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act is amended by inserting after section 353 (7 U.S.C. 2001) the following new section: "SEC. 353A. DEBT RESTRUCTURING AND LOAN SERVICING FOR COMMU- NITY FACILITY LOANS. "The Secretary shall establish and implement a program that is similar to the program established under section 353, except that the debt restructuring and loan servicing procedures shall apply to delinquent community facility program loans (rather than delinquent farmer program loans) made by the Farmers Home Administration to a hospital or health care facility under section 306(a).". (b) REGULATIONS. — Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall promulgate regulations, modeled after those promulgated under such section 353, that implement the program established under section 353A of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act. Health care. 7 USC 2001a. 7 USC 2001a note.

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