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PUBLIC LAW 87-128-AUG. 8, 1961

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equal to a rate of one-half of 1 per centum per annum on the outstanding principal obligations and the remainder of such charge shall be available for administrative expenses of the Farmers Home Administration, to be transferred annually and become merged with any appropriation for administrative expenses, (f) The Secretary may utilize the fund— (1) to make loans which could be insured under this subtitle whenever the Secretary has reasonable assurance that they can be sold without undue delaj, and may sell and insure such loans. The aggregate of the principal of such loans made and not disposed of shall not exceed $10,000,000 at any one time; (2) to pay the interest to which the holder of the note is entitled on loans heretofore or hereafter insured accruing between the date of any prepayments made by the borrower and the date of transmittal of any such prepayments to the lender. I n the discretion of the Secretary, prepayments other than final payments need not be remitted to the holder until the due date of the annual installment; (3) to pay to the holder of the notes any defaulted installment or, upon assignment of the note to the Secretary at the Secretary's request, the entire balance due on the loan; (4) to purchase notes in accordance with agreements previously entered into; and (5) to pay taxes, insurance, prior liens, expenses necessary to make fiscal adjustments in connection with the application and transmittal of collections and other expenses and advances authorized in section 335(a) in connection with insured loans. SUBTITLE B—OPERATING LOANS

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SEC. 311. The Secretary is authorized to make loans under this subtitle to farmers and ranchers in the United States and in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands who (1) are citizens of the United States, (2) have a farm background and training or farming experience which the Secretary determines is sufficient to assure reasonable prospects of success in the proposed farming operation, (3) are or will become operators of not larger than family farms, and (4) are 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. SEC. 312. Loans may be made under this subtitle for (1) paying costs incident to reorganizing the farming system for more profitable operation, (2) purchasing livestock, poultry, and farm equipment, (3) purchasing feed, seed, fertilizer, insecticides, and farm supplies and to meet other essential farm operating expenses including cash rent, (4) financing land and water development, use, and conservation, (5) refinancing existing indebtedness, (6) other farm and home needs including but not limited to family subsistence, and (7) for loan closing costs. SEC. 313. The Secretary shall make no loan under this subtitle (1) which would cause the total principal indebtedness outstanding at any one time for loans made under this subtitle and under section 21 of the Bankhead-Jones F a r m Tenant Act, as amended, to exceed $35,000: Provided, however, That not more than 25 per centum of the sums made available for loans under this subtitle may be used for loans which would cause such indebtedness of any borrower under said Acts to exceed $15,000, (2) for the purchasing or leasing of land

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