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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 7609 (Introduced in House) — To harmonize the population threshold for rural communities under programs carried out by the Department of Agricultu... · Sec. 5

Sec. 5. Clarifications regarding United States territories and freely associated states

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Section 601(c)(3)(D)(ii) of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 ( 7 U.S.C. 950bb(c)(3)(D)(ii) ) is amended by inserting , including any such communities in a territory or possession of the United States before the period. Section 601(d)(4) of such Act ( 7 U.S.C. 950bb(d)(4) ) is amended— in the subsection heading, by inserting before , territorial, ; and and local in the text, by inserting , territorial, before or local . Section 604(a)(3)(A)(i)(III) of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 ( 7 U.S.C. 950bb–3(a)(3)(A)(i)(III) ) is amended by inserting or territory of the United States before the semicolon.
Section 310B(e)(1)(B) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act ( 7 U.S.C. 1932(e)(1)(B) ) is amended by inserting the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, before and the . Each of sections 343(a)(6) and 381A(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act ( 7 U.S.C. 1991(a)(6) and 2009(1)) is amended by striking Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and inserting the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau, pursuant to the terms of the applicable Compact of Free Association with the United States .
Title V of the Housing Act of 1949 ( 42 U.S.C. 1471 et seq. ) is amended— in section 501 ( 42 U.S.C. 1471 )— in subsection (a), by striking and in the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii and in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the territories and possessions of the United States, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and inserting , including any territory or other possession of the United States ; and in subsection (b)(4), by striking the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and inserting and the Northern Mariana Islands ; in section 502(h)(16)(D) ( 42 U.S.C. 1472(h)(16)(D) ), by striking the Trust Territories of the Pacific, ; in section 520, by striking but not in excess of 20,000 ; and in section 533(d)(3)(C), by striking below 10,000 and inserting below 25,000 .
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Clarifications regarding United States territories and freely associated states
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