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Effective February 2, 2015, areas with populations greater than 35,000 no longer qualify for Rural Housing Program assistance. Any area classified as "rural" or a "rural area" prior to October 1, 1990, and determined not to be "rural" or a "rural area" as a result of data received from or after the 1990, 2000, or 2010 decennial census, and any ...
Approximately 7,200 rural communities are served through financial assistance received from water and waste loans and grants. [ 3 ] In 2023, RUS was in charge of the ReConnect Program; this Biden administration program is overseen by the Agriculture Department [ 4 ] to expand broadband Internet access to rural parts of America, including the ...
The Rural Development Administration (RDA) was a USDA agency established by the 1990 farm bill (P.L. 101-624, Sec. 2302), amending the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1972 (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.), to administer FmHA community and business programs and other USDA rural development programs.
The Fifth Amendment's Takings clause does not provide for the compensation of relocation expenses if the government takes a citizen's property. [1] Therefore, until 1962, citizens displaced by a federal project were guaranteed just compensation for the property taken by the government, but had no legal right or benefit for the expenses they paid to relocate.
Feb. 24—A measure to give the state Department of Agriculture authority over rural broadband internet expansion was approved Tuesday by a committee of state lawmakers in Frankfort. House Bill ...
The National Rural Transit Assistance Program (National RTAP) is a program of the Federal Transit Administration [1] administered by the Neponset Valley Transportation Management Association and serves as the national arm for the Rural Transit Assistance Program. The mission of National RTAP is to improve mobility in all rural, small urban, and ...
California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. (CRLA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit legal service organization created to help California's low-income individuals and communities. CRLA represents all types of individuals and communities, including farmworkers, disabled people, immigrant populations, school children, LGBT populations ( sexual minorities ...
FmHA mission and programs involved extending credit for agriculture and rural development. Direct and guaranteed credit went to individual farmers, low-income families, and seniors in rural areas. Loans were authorized for housing, farm improvement, water systems, and emergency relief. FmHA also gave loans and grants for rural development.