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PUBLIC LAW 91-524-NOV. 30, 1970

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interest for periods not exceeding ten years, and on such other terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe. SEC. 806. (a) Section 306 of the Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1926), is amended by add- ^° Stat. isisj inff at the end thereof a new subsection as follows: ^^ ^*^** ^^°* "(d) Any amounts appropriated under this section shall remain available until expended, and any amounts authorized for any fiscal year under this section but not appropriated may be appropriated for any succeeding fiscal year." (b) Subtitle A of the Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1921-1929), is amended by adding 75 Stat. 307., at the end thereof a new section as follows: "SEC. 310. Funds appropriated for the purpose of making direct real estate loans to farmers and ranchers under this subtitle shall remain available until expended." TITLE IX—RURAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITMENT OF CONGRESS

SEC. 901. (a) The Congress commits itself to a sound balance between rural and urban America. The Congress considers this balance so essential to the peace, prosperity, and welfare of all our citizens that the highest priority must be given to the revitalization and development of rural areas. LOCATION OF FEDERAL FACILITIES

(b) Congress hereby directs the heads of all executive departments and agencies of the Government to establish and maintain, insofar as practicable, departmental policies and procedures with respect to the location of new offices and other facilities in areas or communities of lower population density in preference to areas or communities of high population densities. The President is hereby requested to submit to Report to com the Congress not later than September 1 of each fiscal year a report ^''*^^* reflecting the efforts during the immediately preceding fiscal year of all executive departments and agencies in carrying out the provisions of this section, citing the location of all new facilities, and including a statement covering the basic reasons for the selection of all new locations. PLANNING ASSISTANCE

(c) The Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Devel- Report to conopment and the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the Congress ^'•^^^* a joint progress report as to their efforts during the immediately preceding fiscal year to provide assistance to States planning for the development of rural multicounty areas not included in economically depressed areas under authority of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968. The first such annual report shall be submitted not 82 Stat. 476. later than December 1, 1970, and shall cover the period beginning ^^{^^^^ ^^°^* August 1, 1968, the date of enactment of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and ending June 30, 1970. INFORMATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

(d) The Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the Congress a Report to conreport not later than September 1 of each fiscal year reflecting the ^*^^^* efforts of the Department of Agriculture to provide information and technical assistance to small communities and less populated areas in regard to rural development during the immediately preceding fiscal year. The first such annual report shall be submitted not later than 47-348 O - 72 - 92 (Pt. 1)

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