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PUBLIC LAW 89-769-NOV. 6, 1966

[80 STAT.

(b) Section 306 of the Consolidated Farmers Home Administra^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^' ^ amended (7 U.S.C. 1926), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(c) I n areas which have suffered major disasters the Secretary is authorized, without regard to the annual grant limitation in subsection (a)(2), to make or insure loans to associations, including corporations not operated for profit and public and quasi-public agencies, for the acquisition, construction, improvement, replacement, or extension of waste disposal systems and other public facilities damaged or destroyed as a result of a major disaster providing for community services in rural areas, when the Secretary determines that such action is necessary for the rebuilding of a community or a portion thereof damaged by a disaster, and to make grants not to exceed 50 per centum of the cost of repair, reconstruction, or replacement of waste disposal systems, water systems, and other public facilities damaged or destroyed as a result of a major disaster providing for community services in these areas in any case in which repayment of a loan for such purposes from income would require a charge for such service which the Secretary determines to be beyond the ability of a majority of the users who might be served thereby to pay such charges and if such charge would exceed cost of such services in comparable communities in the State." H I G H E R EDUCATION F A C I L I T I E S ASSISTANCE I N DISASTER AREAS

77 Stat. 363.

SEC. 7. (a) The Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 (20 XJ.S.C. 701-757) Is amended by inserting immediately after the last section of such Act the following new section: " H I G H E R EDUCATION F A C I L I T I E S CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE I N DISASTER AREAS

64 Stat. 1109.

MAJOR

"SEC. 408. (a) If the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning determines that a public institution of higher education is located in whole or in part within an area which, before July 1, 1967, has suffered a disaster which is a 'major disaster' as defined in section 2(a) of the Act of September 30, 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1855a(a)), and if the Commissioner determines with respect to such public institution of higher education that— "(1) the academic facilities of the institution have been destroyed or seriously damaged as a result of the disaster; "(2) the institution is exercising due diligence in availing itself of State and other financial assistance available for the restoration or replacement of the facilities; and "(3) the institution does not have sufficient funds available to it from other sources, including the proceeds of insurance on the facilities, to provide for the restoration or replacement of the academic facilities so destroyed or seriously damaged, the Commissioner may provide the additional assistance necessary to enable the institution to carry out construction necessary to restore or replace the facilities, upon such terms and in such amounts (subject to the provisions of this section) as the Commissioner may consider to be in the public interest; but such additional assistance, plus the amount which he determines to be available to the institution from other sources, including the proceeds of insurance on the facilities, may not exceed the cost of construction incident to the restoration or

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