Federal Programs

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AGRICULTURE HANDBOOK No. 312

OFFICE OF INFORMATION

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULfURE

PREFACE

This booklet lists Federal programs that you

can use to help yourself and others by improving your community.

Its objective is to help people who live in this

nation's towns and small cities create, in their

locality, the same broad range of job opportunities, public services, and cultural facilities

that are available to people in urban centers.

For example, it identifies programs that were

enacted to help you, your local development

organization, or your elected public officials to :

• finance industrial plants and business expansions to create more jobs

• build water and sewer systems

• improve schools

• expand health services

• construct libraries and community centers

• develop outdoor recreation facilities

• plan for orderly community growth.

'Tederal Programs for Individual and Community Advancement'' also lists some of the

major programs that individuals can use to

better prepare themselves for the new jobs and

improved living conditions that are generated

by community development activities. These include programs of job training, education,

home construction, youth activities, etc.

By expanding the range of opportunity in

our towns and small cities, people who prefer

to live and work in our smaller communities

can do so profitably and pleasantly. This will

slow the flood of people moving from country

to city in search of jobs and a better way of

life, and thereby help relieve over-crowding

and mounting social problems in our metropolitan centers.

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FOREWORD

Economic growth in the United States in recent years has been phenomenal.

In the 1960's, the annual increase in our

gross national product exceeded the total économie output of all but seven other countries

in the world combined.

But there has been one problem.

Most of this economic growth and prosperity

has been concentrated in our cities. Our metropolitant centers have grown tremendously in

the past 25 years. Our towns and small cities

have lost people and business to our urban

centers.

As a result, there has been a gradually

widening gap in job opportunities, in public

services, in housing, in education and in other

fields between our small towns and our large

cities.

Since 1961, the Department of Agriculture

has been working with private citizens in

hundreds of towns and small cities to help them

expand their economy and develop public and

private services.

These private citizens, working together on

Rural Areas Development committees, have organized and promoted 18,000 projects, ranging

from industrial parks that brought new industry and hundreds of new jobs to their community to forming a cooperative to sell local

handicraft items.

President Johnson has directed all Federal

agencies to provide the financial and technical

assistance these local leaders need to expand

their economic development work. He also instructed the Department of Agriculture to coordinate Federal assistance to the nation's

smaller communities.

We are doing this through Rural Areas Development (RAD).

If you would like to start a RAD committee

in your area, see your local county agent. He

will help you organize a RAD committee and

get others interested in working with you.

Then he, and other USDA employees in your

county, will organize a Technical Action Panel

to work with you and to help you gain full and

equal access to Federal economic development,

education, training, public works, and health

service programs.

The Technical Panel will help you survey

your community's total resources—from the

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number of schools and teachers to the quantity

and quality of any natural resources. This will

let you know exactly what you have to work

with, what areas hold potential for further development, what the weak spots are that need

to be strengthened.

They can tell you what other communities

have done.

They can tell you what Federal assistance is

available, and how to get it.

Through the State Technical Action Panel,

they can help you gain access to State programs

for coordinated use of local, State, and Federal

resources.

We believe economic development of our

small towns and cities is in the national interest. It will reduce the influx of people into our

urban centers and help reduce the smog, the

transit tie-ups, the water shortages and other

problems caused by overcrowding.

If you want to make your town live and

grow, we stand ready to do all we can to help.

s/ Orville L. Freeman

Secretary of Agriculture
CONTENTS

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Preface ni

Foreword ^ iv

How To Use This Publication vii

Checklist of Programs IX

Addresses of Federal Agencies 47

This publication supersedes Agriculture

Handbook No. 245. "PTn^J AVPSIQ IWo1r.prv.^r.f

•'H^nkbook—Pegs for Rural Progress/'

Issued May 1966

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HOW TO USE THIS PUBLICATION

See the "Checklist of Programs" on page 1.

It describes the assistance available in each

field, such as Airports, Housing, and Water and

Sewer Systems.

When you check on the programs in one

field, it is advisable to also see related categories that might contain other programs of

interest. For example, when you check on Education, you also might refer to the sections on

Job Training, Vocational Education, and Youth

Programs.

An asterisk (*) after a program description

means that particular assistance is available

only in certain limited areas. For example,

some kinds of help might be available only in

the Appalachian region, or only in an area

that has been designated as a major disaster

area by the President, or only in a Department

of Commerce-designated redevelopment area.

If you are uncertain whether you qualify for

program with an asterisk, check the administering agency.

Where possible, we have started the description of the assistance with the name of the

program, like *Tublic Facility Loan Program*'

or ''Grazing Association Loans.'' It will help

if you use the name of the program if you need

to ask for more information.

Interest rates, where given, were in effect as

of April 1, 1966. They are subject to change

without notice.

HOW TO GET MORE INFORMATION

The program descriptions in this booklet are

brief. You can get more details at the nearest

office of the agency that administers the program. If that agency has an office in. your

community, it will be listed in the telephone

book under "U. S. Government."

If the agency does not have a local office in

your community:

1) write the national headquarters of the

agency. For headquarters address of all Federal agencies listed in this booklet See p. 47.

or

2) contact a local office of any U. S. Department of Agriculture agency or your local

county agent (see the telephone book). They

can give you more information about the program, or tell you where you can get it.

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In most cases, you will have to submit your

application for assistance to the local or regional office of the administering agency.

Federal grants, loans, and technical assistance to States are listed in this booklet because

the States, in turn, make this assistance available to individuals and communities. To get

help under these programs, you should apply

to the State, rather than to the administering

Federal agency,

SPECIAL ASSISTANCE IN APPALACHIA

AND EDA AREAS

Residents of the Appalachian region and of

redevelopment areas that are eligible for assistance from the Commerce Department's

Economic Development Administration, can—

under certain conditions — qualify for additional Federal cost sharing on public works

projects, such as airports, highways, hospitals,

water and sewer systems, etc. For example, if

you live in Appalachia or a redevelopment area,

and your community has qualified for a Federal

Aviation Agency grant that will pay 50 percent

of the cost of building an airport, you may

apply to the Appalachian Regional Commission

or to the Economic Development Administration for additional funds to increase the Federal payment to a maximum of 80 percent of

the project cost.

PRIVATE CREDIT AND STATE AID

This booklet lists Federal programs only.

There are many State and private programs

that might be better suited to your particular

needs, or which might complement the assistance available from the Federal government.

Many development projects are financed entirely by private credit or through local fund

raising efforts. In only a very few cases does

the Federal government pay the entire cost of

a project.

Sources of private credit include: banks,

savings and loan associations, credit unions,

local bond issues, fraternal organizations, individuals, investment clubs, pension funds, insurance companies, labor unions, local industrial or community development corporations,

and endowment institutions and foundations.

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CHECKLIST OF PROGRAMS

Page

Agriculture 1

Airports 3

Business and Industrial Development 4

Community Development 7

Cooperatives H

Disaster Aids 12

Education 14

Fishing-Commercial 17

Flood Prevention 18

Forestry 19

Health Facilities and Services 20

Highway Development 24

Housing 25

Job Training 27

Libraries 29

Marketing-Farm 29

Migrants -^0

Mineral Development 31

Planning Assistance 32

Recreation 34

Vocational Education 38

Water and Sewer Systems 39

Water Use and Development 41

Welfare 42

Youth Programs 44

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FEDERAL PROGRAMS FOR

INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY

ADVANCEMENT

AGRICULTURE

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Research Service

Conducts research and provides information

on agricultural production, marketing, processing, and utilization.

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service

Appalachian Program—Grants (up to 80

percent of the cost) to owners, operators, or

occupiers of land in Appalachia for land stabilization, erosion, and sediment control, and

land use changes.*

Cropland Conversion Program—Adjustment

payments to farmers who convert cropland to

other income producing conservation uses, including recreation, grass, forestry or water

storage. Pilot program available in designated

counties only.*

Agricultural Conservation Program. — Costshares (usually 50-50) with individual farmers

and ranchers on installing needed soil, water,

and woodland conservation; establishing grass

and tree cover; water developments for livestock, irrigation, recreation, and wildlife; and

land treatments in small watersheds. Programs

differ by locality.

Cotton, Feed Grain, and Wheat Programs—

Diversion and price-support payments to farmers who shift land from cotton, feed grain, and

wheat production to conservation uses.

Cropland Adjustment Program — Contracts

with landowners, farmers, and local governments for 5 to 10-year periods to convert cropland to grass, trees, and other non-agricultural

uses to conserve soil, water, and forest resources, or to establish open spaces, natural

beauty, wildlife, or recreation areas.

Price-Support Program—Price support loans,

purchases, and payments to maintain prices of

and income from certain dairy products, cotton,

grain, honey, oilseed crops, peanuts, tobacco,

tungnuts, sugar, and wool for the producer.
storage Facility Loans—Loans to farmers

for storage facilities and drying equipment for

certain crops (maximum term 5 years, 4 percent interest).

Cooperative Extension Service

Helps farmers identify and solve problems,

and apply the best scientific and economic information to improve farms; provides advice

and training concerning crops, soils, livestock

production, and farm management.

Farmers Home Administration

Farm Ownership Loans—Loans to enlarge,

improve, develop, refinance, or buy farms

(maximum term 40 years, 5 percent interest).

Economic Opportunity Loans to Cooperatives—Loans to start or expand cooperatives

composed mainly of low-income rural residents

to provide services, supplies, or facilities not

otherwise available to raise the income and

living standards of the co-op members (maximum term 30 years, 41/8 percent interest).

Economic Opportunity Loans to Individuals

—Loans up to $2,500 to low-income farm families to help them improve their farms. Little

or no security required (maximum term 15

years, 4^/^ percent interest).

Grazing Association Loans—Loans to help

groups of farmers and ranchers buy or lease

tracts of land for grazing purposes (maximum

term 40 years, 5 percent interest).

Operating Loans—Loans for equipment, livestock, feed, seed, fertilizer, and other farm and

home operating needs; loans to refinance farm

debts, except those involving real estate or

buildings (maximum term 7 years, 5 percent

interest).

Rural Housing Loans—Loans to construct,

purchase, repair, or modernize homes and farm

buildings and to provide water for farmstead

and household use (maximum term 33 years, 4

to 5 percent interest in most cases).

Water Development and Soil Conservation

Loans—Loans to develop, conserve, and make

better use of soil and water resources on farms

(maximum term 40 years, 5 percent interest).

Rural Electrification Administration

Makes loans to rural electric coperatives for

reloan to members, to enable members to finance

wiring and buy and install electrical and plumbing appliances and equipment (reloan terms

generally 10 years, 4 percent interest).
Soil Conservation Service

Great Plains Conservation Program—Technical assistance and cost-sharing (maximum 80

percent) with landowners in designated areas

of the Great Plains States to help them plan

and apply special conservation measures needed

to meet drought hazards.

Soil and Water Conservation District Program—Technical assistance to rural landowners, operators, and groups to help them plan

and apply sound conservation practices.

Statistical Reporting Service

Provides reports and forecasts of crop and

livestock production; makes estimates of livestock and poultry numbers and products, including prices received and paid by farmers;

makes parity computations; provides reports

of farm labor and wage rates and other statistics on agriculture.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Employment Security

Helps farmers obtain year-round, part-time,

or seasonal farmworkers.

FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION

Federal Land Bank Associations

Makes loans to purchase and improve farms

(5 to 40 years, 5 to 6 percent interest).

Production Credit Associations

Makes short-term (year or less) loans to

farmers for farming and family living expenses ; and makes loans up to 7 years for farm

equipment and improvements (514 to 71/2 Percent interest).

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION

Guarantees and insures loans made by private

lenders to eligible veterans to buy a farm,

farmland, stock, feed, seed, farm machinery,

and other farm supplies and equipment.

AIRPORTS

FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY

Makes grants to communities, usually on a

50-50 matching basis, to help them acquire the

land, prepare the site, and construct airports.
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Community Facilities Administration

Advances for Public Works Planning—Interest-free advances for airport planning when

other planning funds are not available.

Public Facuity Loans—Long-term, low-interest loans when local matching funds for Federal

Aviation Agency grants are not available on

reasonable terms.

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Business Loans—Loans to finance construction, expansion, or modernization of aircraft

storage, sales, and maintenance facilities ; loans

to purchase equipment and supplies (maximum

10 years) ; loans for working capital (usually

limited to 6 years).

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL

DEVELOPMENT

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Research Service

Provides technical information to help establish and operate agricultural processing plants

—particularly those using new products or

processes developed by USDA research.

Consumer and Marketing Service

Provides matching funds to State Departments of Agriculture for State and local projects to: maintain or improve the quality of

agricultural products in marketing channels;

expand outlets for farm products ; help marketing agencies reduce costs and improve efficiency ;

collect and disseminate marketing information ;

and improve the organizational structure of the

marketing system.

Cooperative Extension Service

Provides educational and organizational assistance to groups and individuals for planning

and implementing business and industrial development. Includes technical assistance in

conducting feasability studies and preparing

resource development programs.

Farmers Home Administration

Economic Opportunity Loans to Cooperatives—Loans to organize or expand cooperatives
composed mainly of low-income rural families

(maximum term 30 years, 41/3 percent interest).

Economic Oportunity Loans to Individuals—

Loans to low-income rural families to start or

improve a small business (maximum loan

$2,500, 15 years, 4Vè percent interest).

Forest Service

Provides information on timber availability,

and technical guidance to help start, improve,

or expand a forest products industry.

Rural Electrification Administration

Makes loans to eligible rural electric cooperatives for reloan to firms in their service area to

buy and install electrical equipment (recommended terms for reloan—10 years, 4 percent

interest).

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census

Provides statistics on population, housing,

manufacturing, mineral industries, retail and

wholesale trade, selected service trades, agriculture, transportation, governments, and foreign trade. Statistics on most subjects are

available for cities and counties, as well as

larger areas.

Business and Defense Services Administration

Furnishes up-to-date economic data to manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, service trade

firms, and development organizations.

Economic Development Administration

Commercial and Industrial Loans—Loans of

up to 65 percent of the total cost to start or

expand a business in a redevelopment area

(maximum term 25 years, about 4l^ percent

interest).*

Working Capital Loans—Insures up to 90

percent of the unpaid balance of a working

capital loan made by private investors to firms

receiving an Economic Development Administration commercial or industrial loan.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Directorate for Small Business and Labor

Utilization Policy

Helps small businesses and labor surplus

areas obtain information about selling to the

military or subcontracting with firms that have

Department of Defense contracts.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Employment Security

Provides information on: employment trends

and outlook; farm labor supply and demand;

current shortages or surpluses of labor (by

occupation); facilities, labor, and other resources of jobmarket areas. Provides aptitude

testing of job applicants and placement service

to match workers with jobs. Determines training needs and arranges for appropriate training under the Manpower Development and

training Act.

Smaller Communities Program. — Surveys

labor resources of an area to aid industrial and

business development.

Office of Manpower, Automation, and

Training

Evaluates effects of automation, technological

progress, and other factors on demand for

labor, and develops retraining and other programs to help business, industry, and labor

adjust to these changes.

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Provides guidance and advice on management, research, and development for small

businesses; conducts clinics, seminars, cooperative administrative management courses, and

aids small firms selling to and buying from the

U. S. Government.

Licenses, regulates, and helps finance Small

Business Investment Companies, which in turn

provide long-term loans and equity financing to

small firms.

Economic Opportunity Loans — Loans and

management counseling to persons with very

low incomes and to others who will provide

jobs for unemployed persons to start or

strengthen small businesses not qualified under

other loan programs (limit $25,000, up to 15

years).*

Business Loans—Guarantees loans to small

firms or individuals: to construct, expand, or

modernize facilities ; to purchase land or buildmgs, equipment, machinery, supplies or material (maximum 10 years) ; or for working

capital (usually limited to 6 years).

Community Development Loans—Loans to

local development corporations for re-loan to

small business firms for plant construction,

conversion or expansion, and for equipment.
Displaced Small Businesses—Loans, management, and technical assistance for small firms

suffering economic injury because of displacement by a Federally-aided urban renewal, highway, or other construction program.*

Service Corps of Retired Executives — Retired business executives are available to provide counseling services to small businesses

with management problems.

Small Loan Program—Financial assistance

to very small retail, service, and other businesses, including new enterprises unable to

meet the usual collateral and other requirements

(limit $15,000, up to 6 years).

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

Tributary Area Development Program—Information on resources for industrial and business development in the TVA area.*

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION

Guarantees and insures loans by private

lenders to enable veterans to undertake or

expand business ventures.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

Provides financial and technical assistance

to develop the natural resources, public facilities and the economy of the 12-state Appalachian

region. This assistance includes construction of

highways and local access roads ; grants to build

and equip demonstration health facilities, including hospitals; contracts with individuals

or groups of landowners to control erosion and

change land use; grants to establish regional

economic development or planning commission;

grants and technical assistance to restore mined

areas ; help in preparing a comprehensive plan

for flood control and water resource development; grants to build vocational education

facilities ; and grants to construct sewage treatment facilities.

In addition, because many Appalachian communities are unable to raise their share of

matching funds for Federally aided projects,

they may apply to the Appalachian Regional

Commission for an additional grant that will

increase the amount of Federal cost sharing

to a maximum of 80 percent. For details, see

page VIII.*
U. s. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service

Provides cost-sharing assistance at higher

than normal rates (up to 80 percent) to aid

community-wide efforts in meeting specific conservation and economic problems in an area.

Provisions are ñexible as to practices and payments in order to provide broad-scale assistance

in carrying out needed conservation practices,

such as land treatment to reduce siltation of

city water reservoirs, a series of water impoundments to prevent ñoods, a concerted effort

to raise economic level of farmers by widespread pasture improvement within an area,

etc.

Farmers Home Administration

Rural Renewal—Pilot program operating in

a limited number of areas designated by the

Secretary of Agriculture. Provides technical

and financial help to public agencies in lowincome rural areas to develop and carry out

plans for rural renewal. Help includes loans,

grants, and technical assistance needed to acquire blocks of land that can be subdivided into

family-size farms, or for development of community facilities, improvement of timber resources, and similar measures required for

economic development and improved income

opportunities.*

Rural Areas Development

Offers rural people an opportunity to work

together in an organized fashion to improve

the communities in which they live. Its aim is

to create new jobs and improve living conditions through locally developed projects ranging from non-farm recreation for pay to new

industry; from improved housing to modern

community water systems; from new ways to

use what the land produces to more adequate

supplies of water for industry, recreation, and

agriculture; and from beautification of the

countryside to the training and re-training of

unemployed and underemployed workers. The

Department of Agriculture helps local people

organize and survey their resources. Local

people on the RAD committees decide what will

be done, when, and how. USDA field personnel

form Technical Action Panels to work with

local organizations in an aivisory capacity and

to help bring to communities the services of

other Federal and State agencies.

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Soil Conservation Service

Resource Conservation and Development Projects—Pilot program to provide technical and

financial assistance to sponsors of comprehensive areawide (multi-county) projects for economic growth through accelerated conservation, development, and utilization of natural resources. Loans, grants, and additional costsharing available for project measures through

other Federal agencies.*

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Economic Development Administration

To help create new or expanded industry and

increase employment in areas of high unemployment or low family income, provides ; grants

for public works and development facilities (up

to 50 percent in all eligible redevelopment areas ;

up to 80 percent in severely distressed areas) ;

loans for industrial and commercial expansion

(up to 65 percent of total project cost, 25 years)

plus guarantees (up to 90 percent) for associated working capital loans made by private

lenders ; technical assistance and research ; and

planning grants to cover part of the cost (up

to 75 percent) of planning and administering

local economic development programs. Requires local initiative to design and implement

community redevelopment in partnership with

the Government. An overall economic development plan must be submitted and approved before benefits are granted. For details of public

works grants, see page VIII.*

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Army Corps of Engineers

Plans and builds local flood protection projects; makes flood-plain land-use studies as

basis for local zoning, building, and other regulations ; studies beach erosion and shore protection problems; and plans and builds needed

projects. Closely coordinates such activities

with community recreation, beautification, and

other development programs. Some local participation usually required, depending on program and circumstances.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,

AND WELFARE

Welfare Administration

Organization Aids—Financial and technical

assistance to help communities develop their
own comprehensive welfare service programs,

including employment of community organization specialist to work with citizens' groups and

staffs of related agencies.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Community Facilities Administration

Provides grants (up to two thirds of project

cost—or 75 percent in redevelopment areas designated by EDA) to finance neighborhood or

community centers, youth centers, health

stations, and other public buildings to provide

health, recreation, or similar social services.

Public Facility Loans—Long-term loans to

help communities finance a wide variety of

public works, such as airports, highways, hospitals, and sewage treatment facilities ; loans to

help communities finance their share of the cost

of public works partially financed by other

Federal agencies.

Urban Renewal Administration

Provides loans, grants, and technical assistance to communities, both large and small, to

help them elimate and/or prevent blight. These

grants include planning grants; grants to redevelop slum or blighted areas; and grants to

acquire, preserve, or develop park, recreation,

conservation, scenic, and historic areas.

OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Community Action

Provides grants (ranging from 90 to 100

percent of the cost) to help private non-profit

or public agencies develop and implement local

programs to combat poverty. Grants may cover

planning and carrying out a comprehensive

anti-poverty program, or single projects, such

as remedial reading, literacy instruction, job

training, employment counseling, homemaker

services, job development, vocational rehabiliattion, health services, etc.

VISTA

Provides volunteers (in most cases without

cost to the local sponsor) to help carry out local

community development programs.

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Community Development Loans—Loans to

local development corporations or foundations

to help small firms expand and modernize, and

to help establish new small concerns. Funds

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may be used for plant construction, conversion

or expansion or land purchase, private hospitals, clinics, shopping centers and other approved community projects (limit, 80 percent

of cost, up to $350,000 for each small business,

25 years).

COOPERATIVES

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service

Makes price-support loans on certain commodities to producer-owned marketing cooperatives on behalf of their producer members.

Cooperative Extension Service

Helps production, marketing, supply, and

service cooperatives organize and solve organizational and operational problems.

Farmer Cooperative Service

Helps rural people organize, operate, manage, and improve member relations of cooperatives that market agricultural and forest products, buy and sell farm supplies, and provide

farm business services.

Farmers Home Administration

Makes loans to organize or expand cooperatives composed predominantly of low-income

rural families (maximum term 30 years, 4V8

percent interest).

Rural Electrification Administration

Makes loans to cooperatives to initiate, expand, or improve electrical or telephone service

to rural areas (maximum term 35 years, 2

percent interest).

FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION

Banks for Cooperatives

Makes loans to farmers cooperatives for operating capital, buildings, and facilities (41/2

to 5% percent interest).

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,

AND WELFARE

Social Security Administration

Charters and supervises credit unions.

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DISASTER AIDS

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service

Provides disaster relief to farmers and

ranchers. This may include: granting of haying or grazing privileges on diverted acres;

donation or sale (at reduced prices) of Commodity Credit Corporation-owned grain; and

emergency cost-sharing for conservation and

restoration measures.*

Consumer and Marketing Service

Distributes surplus food through local disaster relief organizations or agencies (such as

National Guard, Red Cross) to victims of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and other natural

disasters.*

Farmers Home Administration

Provides emergency loans for farmers and

ranchers in natural disaster areas to buy feed,

seed, fertilizer, replacement equipment, and

livestock, and to pay for other essential farm

and home operating expenses; and to replace

or repair buildings, fences, drainage, and irrigation systems damaged or destroyed by disaster (varying repayment periods, 3 percent

interest). Loans may not be made to refinance

existing debts or to compensate applicants for

their losses.*

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation

Insures farm crops against damage by

weather, disease, or insects.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Army Corps of Engineers

Provides: technical advice to help prepare

for flood emergencies ; organization, equipment,

and assistance in flood fighting and rescue

work; repair or restoration of flood control

works such as dikes and levies, including modifications not constituting major improvements;

technical and construction capability for disaster prevention or relief by other agencies.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,

AND WELFARE

OflSce of Education

Provides grants to local schools districts to

help them replace or repair school facilities

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destroyed or seriously damaged by a disaster.

Available only in areas declared by the President to be a major disaster area.*

Public Heatlh Service

Medical Self-Help—Instructors' kits, containing all materials needed to teach a free,

16-hour course to prepare citizens to meet their

own and othersVhealth needs in a disaster when

a physician is not available.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Community Facilities Administration

Provides technical aid in determining damage to community facilities and restoring

emergency service.*

Federal Housing Administration

Insures loans made by approved private

lenders for property repair and improvement.

Provides for lenders holding FHA-insured

mortgages to extend forbearance to eligible

home owners to avoid default and foreclosure.*

Public Housing Administration

Permits local public housing authorities to

waive eligibility requirements, and thus permit

disaster victims to use public housing.*

Urban Renewal Administration

Provides financial aid to communities in

designated disaster areas for urban renewal

under special eligibility provisions.*

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Employment Security

Jobless workers in a disaster area may find

work or file for unemployment compensation

through local public employment offices or

special emergency offices that also will help

provide workers to help in cleaning up, maintaining needed services, and rebuilding.*

OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PLANNING

Coordinates major disaster assistance from

all Federal agencies. Provides Federal grants

to State and local governments for protective

health and sanitation measures, debris clearance, and emergency repair of essential public

facilities when an area is designated a disaster

area by the President.*

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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Disaster Loans—Loans available to individuals, homeowners, businesses (large or small),

and privately-owned eleemosynary institutions,

to replace or restore properties or items damaged or destroyed in storms, floods or other

natural disasters. In areas of drought or excessive rainfall, small. firms are eligible for

loans if they have suffered economic injury resulting from the disasters (maximum term 30

years, 3 percent interest).*

EDUCATION

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Consumer and Marketing Service

National School Lunch Program—Food and

technical and financial assistance provided

through State educational agencies to enable

public and nonprofit private schools to serve

balanced lunches to elementary and secondary

children at below-cost prices. Federal assistance permits lunches to be further reduced in

price—or donated—to needy pupils.

Special Milk Program—F^ys part of the cost

of locally purchased fresh milk to encourage

milk-drinking in schools, nonprofit child-care

centers, summer camps, and similar institutions.

Cooperative Extension Service

Provides informal educational programs to

youth and adults on subjects related to agriculture, home economics, public policy and resource development; helps organize training

programs.

Rural Electrification Administration

Provides loans to telephone companies that

borrow from the Rural Electrification Administration to enable them to finance educational

television facilities.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,

AND WELFARE

Administration on Aging

Grants that States can make available to

local governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations for educational services and programs for older people.

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Grants to public and nonprofit private agencies for research and demonstration projects

having national or regional implications— for

example, a project for the education and training of persons to serve as volunteer or subprofessional staff providing services for the

elderly.

Office of Education

Provides grants to local schools districts to

finance the entire cost of innovative programs

that lead to the development of supplementary

education centers and services. Almost any

type of education service is eligible if it supplements existing educational programs and is

innovative in nature. A program might involve

the providing of a simple after-school study

area or it might be as complex as establishing

a model school to serve a group of communities.

Provides grants to States for allocation to

local school districts for special programs that

meet the needs of educationally deprived children from low-income families. Programs may

include supplementary and remedial instruction, guidance and counseling services, and

health and welfare services. Funds may be

used to buy equipment and to construct school

facilities where necessary to carry out approved

programs. Grants are based in part on the

number of school-age children (5 to 17) from

low-income families in the school district.

Provides grants to States to help public and

private elementary and secondary schools buy

textbooks and other instructional material

that will improve the quality of instruction in

individual schools.

Provides grants (up to 100 percent of cost)

to State educational agencies to help support

special training programs for teachers of

handicapped children.

Adult Basic Education—Financial and technical assistance to local educational agencies

that offer special basic education programs to

teach adults to read and write. (Federal government pays 90 percent of cost.)

College Work-Study Program — Part-time

employment for college students from low-income families to help them stay in school.

(Federal government pays 90 percent of cost.)

Higher Education Act—Grants to needy

students of up to $800 per year for 4 years.

(Students in upper half of their class may receive an additional $200 per year.) Insurance

on college student loans of up to $1,000 per

year for undergraduates and $1,500 per year

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for graduate students; maximum total insurable loan is $5,000 for undergraduates and

$7,500 for graduate students.

Higher Education Facilities Act—Grants

and loans to public and nonprofit institutions

of higher education (such as community colleges and technical institutes) to construct, rehabilitate, or improve buildings, classrooms,

libraries, and laboratories needed to expand

enrollment. (Grants for public community

colleges and technical institutes may not exceed 40 percent of the cost; grants for other

undergraduate and graduate facilities may not

exceed 1/3 of the cost. Loans 50 years, 3 percent interest).

National Defense Student Loan Program

Loans of up to $1,000 to undergraduates ($2,-

500 to graduates) per academic year to help

finance college educations. (Maximum total

loan: $5,000 for undergraduates, $10,000 for

graduates; 10 years, 3 percent interest).

Welfare Administration, Bureau of Family

Services

Provides grants to States to help support

older children (18 to 21 years) from families

receiving Aid to Families v^ith Dependent

Children while the older children are regularly

attending a school, college, or university.

Provides grants to welfare agencies for programs assisting older teenagers of low-income

families to evaluate their interests and potentials for self-support, and to secure necessary

training and education.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Community Facilities Administration

Advances for Public Works Planning—Longterm, interest-free advances to States, municipalities, and other public agencies for planning

specific public works projects, including

schools. Advances repayable when construction

begins.

College Housing—Long-term loans to colleges, universities, and teaching hospitals for

construction of housing and related facilities

for students and faculty (maximum term 50

years, 3 percent interest).

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Neighborhood Youth Corps

.Provides part-time work for unemployed

low-income youths (16 through 21) to help

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them stay in school and to help drop-outs return to school. Stresses remedial education,

work habits, and attitudes for regular employment. Enrollees paid $1.25 per hour for work

on community service projects, with 15 hours

a week maximum for enrollees in school; 32

hours for out-of-school youths. Public or private non-profit groups may sponsor local community service projects (Federal government

pays up to 90 percent of the cost).

OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Community Action

Proposals may include provisions for special

remedial and other non-curricular educational

assistance, including Head Start projects to

prepare children of low-income families—or

from a predominantly poor neighborhood—for

school (Federal government pays 90 percent

of the cost).

Job Corps

Sets up Conservation Centers to provide

basic education and work experience on conservation projects for young men, 16 to 21 ;

sets up Urban Centers to provide basic education and job training for young men and

women, 16 to 21.

VISTA

Provides volunteers (in most cases without

cost to local sponsor) to assist in tutoring, preschool experience, counseling, literacy, and

other educational programs.

FISHING—COMMERCIAL

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Farmers Home Administration

Operating or Farm Ownership Loans—

Loans to farmers that raise fish for commercial purposes (maximum term Operating loan 7

years. Farm Ownership loan 40 years, both 5

percent interest).

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Army Corps of Engineers

Builds harbors and channels for use of shipping, including commercial fishing vessels, subject to regular authorization and appropriation procedures for civil works.

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U. s. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Commercial Fisheries

Provides biological, technological, and economic research information and services (including marketing services, home economics

demonstration, statistical and market news

services).

Helps interested groups of commercial

fishermen to form cooperative fish marketing

associations; supervises certain aspects of the

operations of such associations.

Fisheries Loan Fund—Loans to purchase,

construct, equip, maintain, repair, or operate

new or used commercial fishing vessels or

gear (maximum term 10 years, 51/2 percent

interest).

Fishing Vessel Construction Differential

Subsidy—Pays a construction subsidy equal to

difference between the estimated foreign cost

and the lowest competitive domestic bid for

the construction of fishing vessels of advanced

design.

Fishing Vessel Mortgage Insurance—Insures

loans made to construct, reconstruct, or recondition fishing vessels (maximum term 15

years, 1/2 to 1 percent premiums).

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

Division of Forestry Development

Conducts research on methods and prospects

for commercial utilization of fish and other

aquatic resources of TVA reservoirs and works

toward fuller use of these research findings.*

FLOOD PREVENTION

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service

Shares cost of land treatment needed before

construction of water storage facilities.

Farmers Home Administration

Watershed Loans—Loans to local sponsors

of watershed protection and flood prevention

projects to help finance their share of project

costs (maximum term 60 years, 3.22 percent

interest).

Soil Conservation Service

Small Watershed Program—Planning, technical, and financial help to local sponsors of

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watershed projects for flood prevention (Federal government will pay all construction costs

applicable to flood prevention).

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Army Corps of Engineers

Plans and builds flood prevention and control projects of all sizes (from multiple-purpose river-basin water resource programs to

local community protection projects) ; provides

maintenance on major projects; makes floodplain studies to help communities plan land-use,

building, recreation, and other development

programs; studies, plans, and builds hurricane

flood protection projects; cooperates with State

and local bodies in incorporating flood control

works into overall resource-development programs (generally local interests must relocate

utilities, provide rights-of-way or other assistance) .

Water Resources Survey and Flood Control

Plan—Coordinates a comprehensive water resource survey and flood control plan for Appalachian *

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

Local Flood Relations Branch

Furnishes technical assistance and data to

States and communities in the TVA area to help

reduce flood damage, and shares cost of construction of economically feasible physical

works.*

FORESTRY

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service

Shares cost (usually 50 to 80 percent) of

planting trees and shrubs, and improving existing stands of trees for timber, windbreaks,

shelterbelts, wildlife habitat, and erosion control. Programs differ by locality.

Cooperative Extension Service

Provides landowners with educational assistance on woodland management and marketing;

provides processors with forest product manufacturing and utilization information.

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Farmers Home Administration

Farm Ownership, Operating, Water Development, and Soil Conservation Loans—Loans to

farmers to clear and prepare land for tree planting, to purchase seedlings, to buy land for

forestry purposes, and to pay other costs ( maximum term 7 to 40 years, 3 percent interest).

Forestry Area Loans—Loans to groups of

farmers and ranchers to help them buy tracts

of land to shift them to forestry (maximum

term 40 years, 5 percent interest).

Forest Service

Provides technical assistance in marketing

and utilization of forest products, and shares

costs with States (up to 50 percent) to help

States provide planting, protecting, and multiple-use management services to private forest

landowners.

Soil Conservation Service

Helps landowners and operators* to determine suitability of their lands for wood crops

and to plan and apply needed conservation

practices.

Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention

Projects—Technical assistance for woodland

use and cost-sharing help to establish woodland

conservation measures on critical sediment

source areas.

TENNESSEE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT

Division of Forestry Development

Cooperates with public forestry agencies,

industry, and landowners in seven Tennessee

Valley States in projects to improve, expand,

and use forest and related resources.*

HEALTH FACILITIES AND

SERVICES

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,

AND WELFARE

Administration on Aging

Provides grants that States can make available to local governmental agencies and nonprofit voluntary organizations to plan, develop,

and coordinate the providing of health services

for older people.

Provides grants to public and private nonprofit agencies for demonstration and research

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projects having national or regional implications for older people.

Foster Grandparents Program—Payments to

needy persons 60 years and older for nonprofessional care of infants and children in hospitals

and similar institutions. Assistance available

to approved institutions includes financing and

training.

Appalachian Program—Grants to build, equip

and operate multicounty medical, dental, and

mental health facilities for demonstration purposes—including hospitals and diagnostic and

treatment centers (construction grants, up to

80 percent of total construction cost; operating grants, up to 100 percent for the first two

years and up to 50 percent for the next three

years).*

Public Health Service

Provides matching funds to States to help

construct comprehensive community health

centers, plan for mental health needs, and improve therapeutic services in mental health

institutions.

Provides grants to States and communities to

conduct immunization programs against measles, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, and

tetanus.

Provides formula grants to States, and special

project grants to State and local agencies and

local nonprofit organizations to increase the

availability and quality of out-of-hospital medical and dental service to the chronically ill and

aged—for example, home nursing and homemaker services.

Provides financial and technical assistance to

State and local agencies and organizations to

support medical and mental health programs, to

stimulate development of new programs, and

to improve the administration of community

health programs.

Provides grants to States, growers' associations, and other nonprofit organizations to help

establish and operate clinics and other health

improvement services for migrant workers and

their families.

Provides financial, technical, and training assistance to State, local, and regional agencies

for prevention or abatement of air pollution

and disposal of solid wastes.

Publishes recommended sanitary standards

and model codes for milk, food, drinking water,

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food service, and vending machines; provides

technical assistance, information, and training

in food and environmental sanitation ; these programs cover problems such as those related to

recreational areas, insect and rodent control,

and septic tanks.

Provides technical assistance and training to

State and local governments and industry to

help detect and prevent occupational diseases, to

maintain a healthy work environment, and to

provide employee health services.

Public Health Service

Provides grants to States (up to 50 percent of

the cost) to develop, supervise, and carry out

comprehensive regional, metropolitan, area, or

other local area plans for coordinating health

facilities and services.

Provides funds to construct Indian health

facilities and to help construct community hospitals that will serve Indians and non-Indians.

Hill-Burton Program—Grants and/or longterm, low-interest loans to States to help them

provide adequate hospital and medical facilities.

Funds may be used to construct, expand, modernize, and equip public and nonprofit health

facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes,

diagnostic and treatment centers, rehabilitation

facilities, public health centers, and State

health laboratories.

Facilities for the Mentally Retarded—Grants

to States to construct public and nonprofit

facilities specially designed for the diagnosis,

treatment, education, training, or custodial and

day care of the mentally retarded, including

facilities for sheltered workshop training

specialists.

Social Security Administration

Provides, for persons over 65: 1) basic hospital insurance benefits to cover part of the

cost of hospital bills; and 2) voluntary medical

insurance (costing $3 per month) to cover part

of the cost of physician and other medical services.

Surgeon General

Provides grants to States (up to 50 percent

of the cost) to develop, supervise, and carry out

coordinated planning for regional or area

health and related facilities.

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Vocational Rehabilitation Administration

Provides matching funds and other assistance

to State vocational rehabilitation agencies to

help pay costs of diagnosis, treatment, training, guidance, and placement services for

physically or mentally disabled persons.

Provides grants to States and other public or

nonprofit organizations to help construct, expand, remodel, alter, or renovate rehabilitation

facilities and sheltered workshops, and to provide their initial equipment.

Provides grants to States for innovation of

vocational rehabilitation services, planning of

comprehensive services, and expansion of services.

Welfare Administration

Provides matching grants to States to extend

and improve services for promoting the health

of mothers and children.

Provides matching grants to States to extend

and improve services and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and aftercare for crippled

children and children who suffer from conditions which lead to crippling.

Provides project grants (up to 75 percent of

the cost) to State and local health agencies to

provide necessary health care to expectant

mothers and mothers and infants unable to

afford private care.

Provides grants (up to 75 percent of the

cost) to State and local health agencies or

other institutions to provide comprehensive

health care and services for pre-school and

school age children in low-income families.

Projects may provide screening, diagnosis and

preventive service, treatment, correction of

defects, and aftercare (both medical and

dental).

Medical Assistance for the Aged—Grants to

States for medical services to citizens who are

65 or over and unable to meet the cost of necessary medical services (hospital and nursinghome care, physician's and dentist's services,

and drugs).

Medical Assistance Program—Grants to help

States develop or expand health and medical

care programs for individuals and families who

cannot otherwise afford needed care.

Public Assistance Medical Care—Grants to

public welfare agencies to help provide needy

people with medical care through staff physicians, referral to community health facilities,

and assistance payments for medical care.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Community Facilities Administration

Provides long-term loans (up to 40 years) to

communities to help build hospitals and to

finance the local share of the cost of a project

partially financed by another Federal agency.

Federal Housing Administration

Mortgage Insurance for Nursing Homes —

Insures mortgage loans to individuals, corporations, or associations to help build or rehabilitate nursing homes of at least 20-bed capacity.

OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Community Action

Finances 90 percent of the cost of local Community Action Programs, which may include

comprehensive community health proposals.

Project Head Start

Basic health screening programs, as well as

provisions for corrective treatment, may be included in Head Start projects for pre-school

children (Federal government pays 90 percent

of the cost).

VISTA

Provides volunteers (in most cases without

cost to the local sponsor) to assist in community

or public health programs, to help mentally ill

or retarded, etc.

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Makes loans to small, privately-owned hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes when private

financing is not available on reasonable terms.

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION

Provides medical, surgical, and neuropsychiatrie care and related medical and dental service for veterans, based on priorities involving

medical emergency, relationship of disability

or disease to military service, financial need,

etc.

HIGHWAY DEVELOPMENT

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Public Roads

Appalachian Program — Grants (up to 70

percent) to State Highway Departments for

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construction of interstate highways and local

access roads. Access roads must serve specific

industrial, commercial, recreational, and residential sites, or facilitate school consolidation

programs.*

Federal Hightvay Aid Program—Financial

assistance to State highway departments to

help construct or improve interstate highways

and secondary roads, including rural mail and

public school bus routes, and farm-to-market

roads. Costs may inculde expenditures for

roadside and landscape development. Assistance also available for roads that cross, or are

associated with public lands, (Federal share of

cost of interstate improvements, 90 percent ; for

other roads, 50 percent).

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Community Facilities Administration

Makes long-term loans (up to 40 years) to

communities to help finance highways. This

includes loans to finance the local share of the

cost of a project partially financed by another

Federal agency.

HOUSING

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Cooperative Extension Service

Provides educational assistance and information on home management and planning, including interior decorating, landscaping, and soil

conditions affecting sewage disposal and water

supplies. Also provides detailed plans for lowcost housing.

Farmers Home Administration

Farm Labor Hoicsing Loans—Loans to individual farmowners, associations of farmers.

States or political subdivisions, and nonprofit

organizations to finance housing facilities for

domestic farm laborers (maximum term 33

years, 5 percent interest). In addition, grants

for part of development costs may be made to

State or political subdivisions or to broadly

based private nonprofit organizations.

Rural Housing Loans—Loans to rural residents (people in towns up to 5,500 population)

to buy, build, repair, or modernize homes

(maximum term 33 years, 4 to 5 percent inter25
est in most cases). Special provisions on loans

to senior citizens, aged 62 or over.

Rural Rental Housing Loans—Loans to individuals, private nonprofit corporations, consumer cooperatives, and others to build, buy,

improve, or repair rental housing for senior

citizens in rural areas (maximum term 40

to 50 years, 3 to 5% percent interest).

Soil Conservatian Service

Advises on suitability of soil for foundations,

septic tanks, and drainage.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Community Facilities Administration

Senior Citizens Housing—Loans to private

nonprofit corporations, consumer cooperatives,

and public bodies to provide new or rehabilitated rental housing for moderate and lowincome elderly and handicapped persons or

families (maximum term 50 years, 3 percent

interest).

Federal Housing Administration

Home Mortgage Insurance—Mortgage insurance to finance the purchase of individual homes

and multifamily dwelling units (maximum

mortgage for single-family homes is $30,000,

for homes in outlying areas, $12,500; 30 years,

51/2 percent interest, plus i/^ percent mortgage

insurance premium).

Rental Housing for Low and Moderate Income Families—Mortgage insurance for new

or rehabilitated rental and cooperative housing

for families of low or moderate income. Projects may be developed by public agencies (except local public housing authorities), cooperatives, private nonprofit corporations, limited

distribution corporations, or other mortgagors

approved by FHA.

Property Improvement — Insures discount

loans to alter, repair, improve, or convert existing homes and other structures, and to build

certain types of new, nonresidental structures.

For most home improvements, the maximum

loan is $3,500 for 5 years. For loans to build

new service structures on farms, the minimum

loan is $3,500 for 7 years ; if secured by a first

lien on the improved property the loan may be

15 years; financing charge may not exceed $5

per $100 per year on the first $2,500, $4 per

$100 per year on amounts above $2,500.

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Public Housing Administration

Low-Rent Public Housing—Loans and annual

contributions to local housing authorities established under State law to plan, build, buy, lease,

rehabilitate, own, and operate low-rent public

housing for low-income families, the elderly,

and the handicapped. (Loans up to 90 percent

of the development cost; annual contributions,

or subsidies, help local housing authorities keep

rents within the means of low-income families.)

Urban Renewal Administration

Urban Reneival Program—Advances, loans,

grants to communities to eliminate or prevent

blight and slums (grants generally pay up to

two-thirds of project cost; local share may be

cash or non-cash grants-in-aids). Also includes

loans and cash grants to help rehabilitate housing, enforce housing codes, and demolish substandard buildings.

OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Provides grants (up to 100 percent of the

cost) to public and private nonprofit organizations to provide housing for migrant and seasonal farm labor.

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION

Makes direct loans to eligible veterans in

designated "housing credit shortage areas" to

purchase or construct homes. These are generally rural areas, small cities, and towns not

near metropolitan areas where GI loans from

private lenders have not been available to

veterans. Guarantees and insures loans made

by private lenders to eligible veterans to buy,

build, or improve a home.*

JOB TRAINING

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Cooperative Extension Service

Provides informal job training in work related to agriculture and home economics ; helps

resource development groups secure needed job

training programs.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,

AND WELFARE

Administration on Aging

Grants to States which they can make available to local governmental agencies and non27
profit voluntary organizations for employment

counseling and training for both full-time and

part-time work for older persons, as well as

vocational education of persons to serve the

elderly in many different capacities.

Welfare Administration

Work Experience Program—Grants (up to

100 percent of the cost) to communities for

work experience and training projects that

help potential wage earners acquire job skills.

Includes payments to trainees to meet their

families' needs. Communities may qualify by

developing project plans in cooperation with

community action agencies or State departments of public welfare.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training

Develops on-the-job training programs for

unemployed or underemployed workers and

these whose jobs are threatened by automation.

Local employers, labor unions, State, and community agencies sponsor on-the-job training,

and in most cases pay the trainee's salary.

Federal government reimburses sponsors for

training costs.

Bureau of Employment Security

Manpower Development and Training —

Helps in determining employer and worker job

training needs and arranging for appropriate

training of unemployed or underemployed

workers and youth; pays training allowances

(under certain circumstances this includes subsistence and transportation allowances during

training) ; provides counseling, job placement,

and related services.

Neighbarhood Youth Corps

Helps unemployed low-income youths (16

through 21) gain job experience and develop

work habits and attitudes necessary for regular employment while earning $1.25 an hour for

work on community service projects. Enrollees

in school may work up to 15 hours a week;

those out of school, 32 hours. Public or private

nonprofit groups can sponsor local projects

where enrollees perform community services

not otherwise provided. (Federal government

pays up to 90 percent of the cost.)

Smaller Communities Program

Helps small communities and rural areas

survey their labor force and determine poten28
tial skills that can be developed by vocational

training.

OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Jobs Corps Urban Centers

Provide job training for young men and

women—age 16 to 21—from low-income families. Members receive a small income while in

training.

LIBRARIES

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,

AND WELFARE

Office of Education

Provides grants to States for allocation to

communities to help them build a new library

or expand, remodel, or alter an existing building. The cost of land acquisition and initial

equipment is also included.

Provides grants and loans to public and nonprofit institutions of higher education to build

or improve school libraries needed to expand

enrollment (Federal grant may not exceed 40

percent of the cost; loans 50 years, 3 percent

interest).

Provides formula grants to States for school

library construction or for expansion of library

services (including books, equipment, salaries,

and other operating expenses).

Provides grants (100 percent of cost) to

local public education agencies to establish

mobile library service in communities where

such service is not now available. Project must

be recommended by the State educational

agency.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Community Facilities Administration

Advances for Public Works Planning—

Interest-free advances for planning libraries.

Public Facility Loans—Long-term low-interest loans to smaller communities to help construct libraries when private financing at

reasonable terms is not available.

MARKETING—FARM

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service

Price-Stipport Program — Price support

loans, purchases, and payments to maintain

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prices of and income from certain dairy products, cotton, grain, honey, oilseed crops, peanuts, tobacco, tungnuts, sugar, and wool from

the producer.

Storage Facility Loans—Loans to farmers

for storage facilities and drying equipment for

certain crops (maximum term 5 years, 4 percent interest).

Consumer and Marketing Service

Provides inspection, grading, market news,

and other marketing services, often in cooperation with States.

Cooperative Extension Service

Provides advice and counsel on prices,

marketing schedules, grading, packaging,

marketing cooperatives, and other aspects of

distribution.

Farmer Cooperative Service

Conducts research on cooperative marketing

of farm and forest products. Provides advisory

assistance to farmer cooperatives that supply

marketing services.

Farmers Home Administration

Economic Opportunity Loans to Cooperatives

—Loans to start or expand cooperatives composed mainly of low-income farmers to provide

marketing services not otherwise available

(maximum term 30 years, 41/3 percent interest).

MIGRANTS

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,

AND WELFARE

Public Health Service

Provides grants to help public agencies or

nonprofit organizations supply health services

to migrant families.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Employment Security

Provides placement service and information

on farm labor supply and demand ; recruits migrant farmworkers to meet employer needs,

and registers interstate farm labor contractors.

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OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Provides loans, loan guarantees, and grants

(up to 90 percent of the cost) to help State

and local agencies, private nonprofit institutions, and cooperatives to establish, administer,

and operate programs to provide more adequate

housing, sanitation, education, and day care of

children for migratory and seasonal farm

workers and their families.

VISTA

Provides volunteers (in most cases without

cost to the local sponsor) to help provide day

care for children of migrants, to assist in migrant housing centers, etc.

MINERAL DEVELOPMENT

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census

Provides statistics on mineral industries for

nation, regions. States, and counties (except

when data on an individual enterprise might be

revealed).

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Mines

Conducts research, provides advice, and

training on: health and safety practices and

devices in mineral extractive industries; extraction, processing, and utilization of minerals, metals, and fuels.

Appalachia Program—Grants (up to 75 percent of the cost) to States, their political subdivisions, or local development districts within

the Appalachian region to seal and fill voids

in abandoned coal mines and to reclaim and

rehabilitate existing strip- and surface-mined

areas on lands owned by Federal, State, or

local bodies of government ; grants to plan and

execute underground and outcrop mine firefighting operations.*

Geological Survey

Publishes topographic maps and reports on

geologic, mineral, and water resources.

Office of Minerals Exploration

Makes loans to firms and individuals for

exploration of mineral claims. Conducts technological, statistical, and economic studies of

mineral resources.

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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

Geologic Branch

Provides detailed information on mineral

resources and possible plant sites in the Tennessee Valley area to private individuals and

businesses.*

PLANNING ASSISTANCE

APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

Provides cost-share assistance (up to 75 percent of administrative costs) to help several

communities or counties combine into one

planning unit for economic development.*

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Cooperative Extension Service

Provides educational materials and guidance

to help citizens organize planning groups; to

gather, analyze, and interpret data; and to

determine the advisability of creating or

amending local zoning ordinances.

Rural Community Development Service

Helps all Federal agencies to make their

services fully available and effective in meeting

the needs of eligible rural people, and helps

USDA agencies plan and coordinate their rural

areas development activities.

Soil Conservation Service

Provides technical information and planning

assistance to soil conservation districts, farmers, ranchers, local and regional planning

boards, and others. Information and assistance

offered on soils and their capabilities, stabilizing cuts and fills, control erosion, flooding, and

drainage, etc.

Watershed Projects—Planning help (as well

as technical and financial aid) to local sponsors

of v^atershed projects for flood control, v^ater

storage and disposal, and recreational use; land

use capability information; and technical assistance on land and w^ater use within the

watershed.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Economic Development Administration

Provides technical assistance for economic

development, and grants (up to 75 percent) to

defray the planning and administrative ex32
penses of public or private nonprofit economic

development organizations.*

Bureau of the Census

Provides statistics—on present situations

and trends— that local leaders can use in preparing community development plans. Facts

available on population (age, race, sex, education, occupation, income, etc.), housing, industry, business, agriculture, local government,

etc.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Army Corps of Engineers

Provides technical assistance and builds or

participates in construction of authorized projects to help solve ñood, shore erosion, and navigational problems in river basins, waterv^ays,

and harbors.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,

AND WELFARE

Public Health Service

Provides planning guidelines and consultative services for local studies to determine a

community's long-range environmental health

needs and to develop local programs to meet

them; technical assistance to aid local or regional programs of air pollution control and

solid waste disposal; technical assistance and

training in developing or modifying regulations

on environmental health problems.

Hospitals and Medical Facilities—Grants to

States to help plan, develop, and carry out

comprehensive and coordinated area health facilities and services.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Community Facilities Administration

Advances for Public Works Planning—Interest-free advances to help States, municipalities, and other public agencies plan individual

local public v^orks and/or area-wide and longrange projects that help communities deal with

their total needs. All types of public works,

except public housing, are eligible. Proposed

public works must conform to existing overall

State, regional, or metropolitan plan to insure

orderly future growth and development.

Grants for Advance Acquisition of Land—

Grants to help communities acquire land for

future construction of public works and facili33
ties. Construction must start within five years

after the grant is approved.

Urban Renewal Administration

Urban Planning Assistance (701) Program

—Grants to help communities prepare comprehensive development plans, including provisions for public facilities and long-range

financing.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Employment Security

Smaller Communities Program—Surveys the

natural and labor resources of an area.

OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Community Action

Provides grants (up to 100 percent of the

cost—including employment of a program development staff) to help communities develop

comprehensive plans to combat poverty.

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

Government Relations and Economics Staff

Provides technical assistance to States and

local agencies to plan the use and development

of TVA reservoirs and related lands, and the

development of resources and the general

community.*

RECREATION

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service

Appalachian Program—Grants (up to 80

percent of the cost) to landowners, operators,

and occupiers of land in Appalachia for conservation treatment, including development of

recreation areas.*

Cropland Conversion Program—Adjustment

payments to farmers who convert land from

crop production to recreation.*

Agricultural Conservation Program — Cost

shares (usually 50-50) with farmers and ranchers for qualified conservation practices that improve fish, wildlife, and recreation resources.

Programs differ by locality.

Cropland Adjustment Program — Adjustment payments and cost sharing on measures

needed to shift land from surplus crops to conservation uses, including recreation. Local

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government units as well as individuals are

eligible for this assistance. Contracts are for

5 to 10 years.

Cooperative Extension Service

Helps individuals and groups evaluate the

feasibility of proposed rural recreation enterprises; provides educational and organizational assistance for management and operation of public and private recreation areas;

offers group training for recreation leaders.

Farmer Cooperative Service

Provides organizational and advisory assistance to farmer-owned recreation cooperatives.

Farmers Home Administration

Association Loans—Insures loans to rural

g^^-oups to develop nonprofit community recreation enterprises (40 years, 5 percent interest).

Economic Opportunity Loans—Loans to lowincome rural families or groups to help them

start or improve recreation ventures, such as

a guide service, fishing boat rental, or a cooperative to market handicraft items in a tourist area (maximum term 15 years, 4l^ percent

interest).

Individual Loans—Loans to farmers to develop on-farm, income-producing recreation

facilities (maximum term 40 years, 5 percent

interest). Loans for recreation equipment and

operating expenses (maximum term 7 years, 5

percent interest).

Watershed Loans—Loans to local sponsors

of watershed projects, to help finance recreation developments in or adjacent to reservoirs,

lakes, and streams (maximum term 50 years,

3.22 percent interest).

Forest Service

Conducts forest recreation research; provides technical assistance and information for

planning and operating woodland recreational

areas; maintains public recreational areas in

the National Forests.

Soil Conservation Service

Provides technical assistance to private landowners and operators to plan and develop outdoor recreation enterprises.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Public Roads

In cooperation with State highway departments, develops highways serving outdoor recreation areas.

Economic Development Administration

Provides loans to develop tourist recreation

facilities in low-income areas where more jobs

are needed (loans may cover up to 65 percent

of the total cost; 25 years, 4l^ percent interest).*

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Army Corps of Engineers

Helps provide recreation facilities as part of

reservoir, harbor, and waterway projects when

States or local bodies provide matching funds

for this purpose.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,

AND WELFARE

Administration on Aging

Provides grants to States which they can

make available to local governmental agencies

and nonprofit voluntary organizations to develop and maintain community-wide recreation

programs for older persons.

Public Health Service

Provides information on health and sanitation problems in recreation areas; problems

include water and waste disposal, food service

sanitation, swimming sanitation, insect control, etc.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Community Facilities Administration

Public Facility Loan Program—Loans to

small communities to construct and improve

public recreation facilities.

Public Works Planning—Interest-free advances to local public bodies and States to help

plan recreation projects. Advances repayable

when construction starts.

Urban Renewal Administration

Open Space Land Program—Grants (up to

50 percent) to help communities buy and develop land for parks, recreation, and scenic

purposes, or to preserve historic sites. Limited

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to urban areas or areas undergoing urbanization.*

701 Program—Grants to supplement State

and local funds to develop comprehensive plans

for urban areas, including provisions for public

recreation.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation

Cooperates with State, county, and other

qualified non-Federal agencies on development

and management of recreation and fish and

wildlife enhancement facilities on Bureau of

Reclamation reservoirs in the 17 Western

States.*

Bureau of Outdoor Recreation

Provides grants to States and their political

subdivisions (up to 50 percent of the cost) to

plan for, acquire, and develop outdoor recreation facilities.

Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife

In cooperation with States, provides fish for

stocking inland waters open to the public on a

nonprofit basis.

National Park Service

Park Practice Program — Information on

administration of park and recreation areas.

OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

VISTA

Provides volunteers (in most cases without

cost to the local sponsor) to help conduct or

supervise community recreation programs for

the poor.

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Loans to owner-developers of recreation

facilities through either the Community Development Loan or SEA Business Loan Programs when private financing is unavailable

at reasonable rates and the facility is in the

public interest.

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

Provides technical assistance to local agencies

and individuals in planning recreation opportunities for parks and public access to TVA

reservoirs. Helps States relate TVA reservoirs

to state-wide recreation plans. Helps local development organizations inventory and appraise

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their recreation and travel resources and plan

for their fuller use. Some TVA reservior lands

may be conveyed, leased, or licensed to States

and their political subdivisions, quasi-public

groups, private groups, and individuals for recreation purposes.*

DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE,

DEFENSE, INTERIOR, AND TREASURY

AND TENNESSEE VALLEY

AUTHORITY

Recreation and Public Purposes Act of 195Jí

— Permission granted qualified nonprofit

organizations, local governments, and States to

buy or lease certain Federal lands from the

above named Departments for recreation use.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

Provides grants to State educational agencies

in Appalachia to build vocational education

facilities. Construction to be arranged by States

and local school districts.*

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,

AND WELFARE

Administration on Aging

Provides grants to public and nonprofit

private agencies for short-term or in-service

training projects for persons to serve in programs for older people.

Office of Education

Provides matching fund grants to States to

improve or enlarge vocational education programs, to develop new programs, and to provide part-time employment for youths who

need an income to continue vocational education on a full-time basis ; also provides matching

fund grants to States for job training of people

who are out of school, but who want to upgrade

their skills. Matching funds also available for

instructors' salaries and operating expenses of

vocation training of mentally retarded children.

Public Health Service

Provides low-interest, long-term loans (up to

$100 a year) to student nurses to attract new

recruits to nursing. Available through accredited nonprofit schools of nursing (loans repay38
able over a 10-year period, beginning 1 year

after a student terminates course of study).

Welfare Administration

Provides grants to public or other nonprofit

institutions of higher learning for special projects to help train people for child welfare work.

Work Experience Program—Grants (up to

100 percent of the cost) to communities for a

work experience and training project for potential wage earners. Includes payments to

trainees sufficient to meet their families' needs.

Communities may qualify by developing project

plans in cooperation with community action

agencies or State departments of public welfare.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Community Facilities Administration

College Housing — Long-term, low-interest

loans to help public vocational and technical

institutions construct student housing and related facilities (maximum term 50 years, 3

percent interest).

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION

Provides counseling, on-the-job training, or

vocational rehabilitation (with subsistance

allowances) to veterans with service-connected

disabilities.

WATER AND SEWER SYSTEMS

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Farmers Home Administration

Provides loans and grants to nonprofit corporations and rural communities (up to 5,500

population) to plan, construct, improve, or extend water and sewer systems (maximum loan

$4 million for up to 40 years, interest up to 5

percent; grants may not exceed 50 percent of

cost).

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Economic Development Administration

Provides loans and grants to plan, construct,

improve, or extend water and sewer systems

and other facilities (such as railroad spurs,

access roads, etc.) to encourage the establishment or expansion of industry in areas of lowincome or hgh unemployment (loans up to 100

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percent of the cost ; 40 years, 3% percent interest; grants up to 50 percent in all redevelopment areas, up to 80 percent in severely distressed areas.)*

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,

AND WELFARE

Public Health Service

Construction Grants—Grants to communities

to build sewage treatment plants and certain

related facilities (30 percent of construction

costs, up to $1.2 million for a single municipality

and up to $4.8 million for a joint project serving more than one municipality).

Demonstration Grants—Grants to communities to develop and test new or improved methods for sewage treatment and methods for

handling problems resulting from combined

storm and sanitary sewers.

Technical Assistance — Technical assistance

to States and communities for investigation of

special water pollution control problems. Contact State water pollution control agency.

Training—Conducts courses for city health

officers and technical personnel in water pollution control techniques.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Community Facilities Administration

Advances for Public Works Planning—Interest-free advances to States, municipalities, and

other public agencies for planning water and

sewer systems. Repayment begins with start

of construction.

Grants for Advance Acquisition of Land —

Grants to communities to acquire land for

future construction of water and sewer systems. Construction must start within five years

after the grant is approved. Grant may not

exceed five years of interest charges on a loan

incurred to buy the land.

Grants for Basic Water and Sewer Facilities

—Grants (up to 50 percent) to communities to

help construct or improve basic water and sewer

facilities meeting certain comprehensive planning requirements.

Public Facility Loans—Long-term, low-interest loans to local units of government (or to

private non-profit corporations if there is no

appropriate public body) to finance water and

sewer facilities in communities of less than

50,000 population.

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WATER USE AND DEVELOPMENT

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Research Service

Conducts research and provides information

on water supplies and quality, irrigation, water

conservation, and efficient use of water in agriculture.

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service

Agricultural Conservation Program — Cost

shares (usually 50-50) in water development

for livestock, irrigation, wildlife, recreation,

and erosion control. Programs differ by locality.

Farmers Home Administration

Provides loans to individuals or groups in

rural areas (including towns up to 5,500) to

develop water supply systems for farm or home

use (maximum term 40 years, interest not exceeding 5 percent).

Watershed Loans—Loans to local sponsors

of small watershed projects to help finance

their part of project costs (maximum term 50

years, 3.22 percent interest).

Soil Conservation Service

Public Laiv JÍ6—Technical help to conservation district cooperators for water development for livestock, irrigation, wildlife, and

recreation.

River Basins — Participation with other

Federal and State agencies in water resource

studies in major river basins.

Snow Surveys—Snow surveys for seasonal

water supply forecasting in the Western

States.*

Watershed Projects — Planning, technical,

and financial aid for watershed projects to

prevent floods and to develop water supplies

for agricultural, municipal, wildlife, and recreational use (maximum Federal financial

aid: 100 percent of costs applicable to flood

prevention; 50 percent of costs for agriculture, wildlife, and recreation; deferred loans

for water supply storage).

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Army Corps of Engineers

Helps plan and develop flood control, navigation, harbors, waterways, and shore and beach

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protection. Participates with government

agencies and private and quasi-public bodies

in planning, justifying, and building comprehensive multiple-purpose river-basin developments and other local improvements involving

water and related land resources.

Appalachian Water Resources Survey and

Flood Control Plan—Coordinates a comprehensive water resources survey and flood control plan for Appalachia.*

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation

Develops Federal projects for irrigation,

hydro-electric power, and water supply in the

17 Western States.*

Geological Survey

Studies occurrence and movement of surface and ground water and water quality.

Publishes topographic maps and reports on

water resources.

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

Division of Water Control Planning

Develops the Tennessee River and its tributaries for flood control^ navigation, hydroelectric power, water supply, and recreation.

Works with States, counties, and cities by

providing technical assistance in the analysis

of water problems.*

WELFARE

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Consumer and Marketing Service

Food Donation Program—Donation of pricesupport and surplus-removal food to the States

and Territories for distribution to schools,

non-profit summer camps, charitable institutions, and needy families.*

Food Stamp Program—Food stamp coupons

available to qualified participants at less than

their value. Coupons serve as cash for food

purchases at authorized retail stores.*

National School Lunch Program—Food, and

technical and financial help provided through

State educational agencies to enable public and

nonprofit private schools to serve balanced

lunches to elementary and secondary children

at below-cost prices. Federal assistance enables lunches to be sold at still lower prices—or

donated—^to needy pupils.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,

AND WELFARE

Administration on Aging

Foster Grandparents Program — Payments

to needy persons 60 years and older for nonprofessional care of infants and young children

in hospitals and similar institutions.

Welfare Administration

Makes matching grants to the States to establish, extend, and strengthen child welfare

services.

Makes grants to States (from 50 to 80 percent of the cost) for basic public assistance

programs and welfare services (Federal financing up to 100 percent of the cost is also

available to stimulate States to launch demonstrations of new ways to improve public

assistance).

Aid to the Blind—Grants to States for financial, educational, medical, and social services

to help the needy blind of all ages.

Aid to Families with Dependent Children—

Grants to States to provide cash payments,

medical care, and social services to children in

families deprived by the death, desertion, disability, or unemployment of a parent. Federal

funds may be used to pay for support of older

children (18 to 21 years) while they attend

school, college, or university.

Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled—Grants to States for aid and services

to persons 18 or over who have a permanent

and total physical or mental impairment that

prevents them from supporting themselves.

Medical Assistance for the Aged—Grants to

States for medical services to citizens who are

65 or over and unable to meet the cost of necessary medical services.

Medical Assistance Program — Grants to

States to extend and develop health and medical

care programs for individuals and families

who could not otherwise afford the care they

need. (More comprehensive than public assistance medical care program, and expected to

replace it by 1970.)

Old Age Assistance—Grants to States to

help needy men and women 65 years of age or

older to remain in their own homes, participate

in the life of the community, and meet the

costs of illness and infirmity.

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Public Assistance Medical Care — Federal

cost-sharing with States of payments to doctors, hospitals, druggists, and other suppliers

of medical care for recipients of public assistance. Scope and amount of care varies from

State to State.

Work Experience Program—Grants (up to

100 percent of the cost) to communities for

work experience and training projects for potential wage earners. Includes payments to

trainees sufficient to meet their families' needs.

Communities may qualify by developing project

plans in cooperation with community action

agencies or State departments of public welfare.

OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

VISTA

Provides volunteers (in most cases without

cost to the local sponsor) to help welfare agencies, settlement houses, etc., carry .out their

programs.

YOUTH PROGRAMS

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Cooperative Extension Service

Provides educational materials, leader training, and organizational assistance for youth

development programs, such as — but not

limited to—4-H club work. Includes training

in agriculture, home economics, community, and

personal development.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training

Cooperates with labor and management

organizations to provide counseling services,

aptitude testing, and placement of apprentices

in training programs.

Bureau of Employment Security

Provides placement and related services to

all youth (including summer time recruitment

for farm work) and counseling and testing

services to youth in high schools to assist in

career planning. Helps provide needed basic

educational and/or occupational training under

the Manpower Development and Training Act.

Upon request, provides on-campus counseling

and job placement service at colleges.

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Neighborhood Youth Corps

Provides opportunities for unemployed lowincome youth (16 through 21) to learn and earn

$1.25 per hour while working on local community service projects. Program encourages

enrollees to stay in school or to resume schooling, and emphasizes work habits and attitudes

necessary for regular employment. Young

people in school may work up to 15 hours a

week; out-of-school youth may work up to 32

hours a week. Public agencies or private nonprofit groups may sponsor local community

service projects (Federal government pays up

to 90 percent of the cost).

OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Job Corps

Sets up Conservation Centers to provide basic

education and work experience on conservation

projects for young men, 16 to 21; Urban

Centers provide basic education and job training for young men and women, 16 to 21. Members receive a small income while in training.

Project Head Start

Provides grants (up to 90 percent of the

cost) to communities, schools, or any non-profit, non-political organization to develop preschool training, health, and social activities for

children in low-income communities.

VISTA

Provides volunteers (in most cases without

cost to the local sponsor) to help with youth

vocational exploration and training projects,

tutoring, remedial education, counseling, etc.

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ADDRESSES OF FEDERAL

AGENCIES

Administration on Aging

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Washington, D. C. 20201

Programs listed on pages 14, 15, 20, 21, 27,

28, 36, 38, and 43

For information on Foster Grandparents

Program, contact local office of your State's

public employment service.

Agricultural Research Service

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Programs listed on pages 1, 4, and 41

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation

Service

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Programs listed on pages 1, 8, 11, 12, 18, 19,

29, 30, 34, 35, and 41

For details, consult county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Office.

Appalachian Regional Commission

Washington, D. C. 20009

Programs listed on pages 7, 32, and 38

For details, consult Governor's Appalachian

Regional Commission representative or other

designated agency.

Army Corps of Engineers

Department of Defense

Washington, D. C. 20301

Programs listed on pages 9, 12, 17, 19, 33,

36, 41, and 42

For details, contact regional office of Army

Corps of Engineers. For information on Appalachian program, write Appalachian Unit,

Army Corps of Engineers, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Banks for Cooperatives

Farm Credit Administration

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Program listed on page 11

For details, consult the Bank for Cooperatives

in your Farm Credit District.

Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training

Department of Labor

Washington, D. C. 20210

Programs listed on pages 28 and 44

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Bureau of the Census

Department of Commerce

Suitland, Maryland 20233

Programs listed on pages 5, 31, and 33

Bureau of Commercial Fisheries

Department of the Interior

Washington, D. C. 20240

Programs listed on page 18

Bureau of Employment of Security

Department of Labor

Washington, D. C. 20210

Programs listed on pages 3, 6, 13, 28, 30, 34,

and 44

For details on most Bureau of Employment of

Security programs, consult local public employment service office.

Bureau of Family Services

Welfare Administration

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Washington, D. C. 20201

Program listed on page 16

For details on most Bureau of Family Services programs, contact State or local public

welfare departments.

Bureau of Mines

Department of the Interior

Washington, D. C. 20240

Program listed on page 31

Bureau of Outdoor Recreation

Department of the Interior

Washington, D. C. 20240

Program listed on page 37

Bureau of Public Roads

Department of Commerce

Washington, D. C. 20235

Programs listed on pages 24, 25, and 36

For details consult State on County Highway

Commission.

Bureau of Reclamation

Department of the Interior

Washington, D. C. 20240

Programs listed on pages 37 and 42

States served by the Bureau of Reclamation

include: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho,

Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New

Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon,

South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and

Wyoming. Limited in Hawaii and Alaska.

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Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife

Department of the Interior

Washington, D. C. 20240

Program listed on page 37

Business and Defense Services Administration

U. S. Department of Commerce

Washington, D. C. 20235

Program listed on page 5

Community Action

Office of Economic Opportunity

Washington, D. C. 20506

Programs listed on pages 10, 17, 24, and 34

Conrniunity Facilities Administration

Department of Housing and Urban Development

1626 K Street N.W.

Washington, D. C. 20410

Programs listed on pages 4, 10, 13, 16, 24, 25,

26, 29, 33, 34, 36, 39, and 40

Consumer and Marketing Service

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Programs listed on pages 4, 14, 30, and 42

For information on food programs contact

either regional C&MS offices or State and local

public welfare agencies. For information on

cooperative Federal-State marketing programs,

contact State Department of Agriculture.

Cooperative Extension Service

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Programs listed on pages 2, 4, 11, 14, 19, 25,

27, 30, 32, 35, and 44

For details on educational programs, contact

your county extension office, or Director of Extension at your State's Land-Grant University.

Directorate for Small Business and Labor Utilization Policy

Department of Defense

The Pentagon

Washington, D. C. 20301

Programs listed on page 5

Economic Development Administration

Department of Commerce

Washington, D. C. 20230

Programs listed on pages 5, 9, 32, 33, 36, 39,

and 40

Farmer Cooperative Service

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Programs listed on pages 11, 30, and 35

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Farmers Home Administration

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Programs listed on pages 2, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12,

17, 18, 20, 25, 26, 30, 35, 39, and 41

For details, consult county FHA supervisor.

Federal Aviation Agency

500 Independence Ave., S. W.

Washington, D. C. 20553

Program listed on page 3

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Program listed on page 12

Federal Housing Administration

Department of Housing and Urban Development

811 Vermont Avenue N. W.

Washington, D.C. 20411

Programs listed on pages 13, 24, and 26

For details on insured loans, contact local

FHA-insured lender.

Federal Land Banks

Farm Credit Administration

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Wsahington, D. C. 20250

Program listed on page 3

For details, consult your local Federal Land

Bank Association.

Forest Service

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Programs listed on pages 5, 20, and 35

Geological Survey

Department of the Interior

Washington, D. C. 20405

Programs listed on pages 31 and 42

Job Corps

Office of Economic Opportunity

Washington, D. C. 20506

Programs listed on pages 17, 29, and 45

For information, contact county agent, social

workers, or high school counselors. Prospective

enrollees must register in order to be considered.

National Park Service

Department of the Interior

Washington, D. C. 20240

Program listed on page 37

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Neighborhood Youth Corps

Department of Labor

Washington, D. C. 20210

Programs listed on pages 16, 17, 28, and/45

Office of Economic Opportunity

Washington, D. C. 20506

Programs listed on pages 27 and 31

Office of Education

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Washington, D. C. 20202

Programs listed on pages 12, 13, 15, 16, 29,

and 38

For details on most programs, consult local

or State educational authorities. Students wishing information on the National Defense Student Loan Program, Higher Education Act

grant and insured loans, or College Work Study

programs should contact their high school

principal or guidance counselor, or college student financial aid office.

Office of Emergency Planning

Executive Office Building

Washington, D. C. 20540

Program listed on page 13

Office of Manpower, Automation and Training

Department of Labor

Washington, D. C. 20210

Program listed on page 6

Office of Mineral Exploration

Department of the Interior

Washington, D. C. 20240

Program listed on page 31

Project Head Start

Office of Economic Opportunity

Washington, D. C. 20506

Programs listed on pages 24 and 45

Production Credit Associations

Farm Credit Administration

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Program listed on page 3

For details, consult your local Production

Credit Association.

Public Health Service

Department of Health,. Education, and Welfare

Washington, D. C. 20201

Programs listed on pages 13, 21, 22, 30, 33,

36, 38, 39, and 40

For details on most Public Health Service

programs, consult local or State health depart51
ments. For details on Federal Water Pollution

Control training program, write Robert A. Taft

Sanitary Engineering Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

45226

Public Housing Administration

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Longfellow Building

Washington, D. C. 20413

Programs listed on pages 13 and 27

Rural Areas Development

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Program listed on page 8

Rural Community Development Service

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Program listed on page 32

For details, consult your State RCDS director.

Rural Electrification and Administration

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Programs listed on pages 2, 5, 11, and 14

Small Business Administration

Washington, D. C. 20416

Programs listed on pages 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14,

24, and 37

Smaller Communities Program

Department of Labor

Washington, D. C. 20210

Programs listed on pages 28 and 29

Social Security Administration

Department of Health, Education^ and Welfare

Baltimore, Maryland 21235

Programs listed on pages 11 and 22

For details, consult local Social Security field

offices.

Soil Conservation Service

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Programs listed on pages 3, 9, 18, 19, 20, 26,

32, 35, and 41

For details, consult local Soil Conservation

Service county office.

Statistical Reporting Service

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D. C. 20250

Program listed on page 3

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Surgeon General

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Washington, D. C. 20201

Program listed on page 22

Tennessee Valley Authority

Knoxville, Tennessee 37901

Programs listed on pages 7, 18, 19, 20, 32, 34,

37, 38, and 42

Urban Renewal Administration

Department of Housing and Urban Development

1626 K Street N.W.

Washington, D. C. 20410

Programs listed on pages 10, 13, 27, 34, 36,

and 37

Veterans Administration

Washington, D. C. 20420

Programs listed on pages 3, 7, 24, 27, and 39

For health service or advice on other veterans' benefits, contact nearest VA hospital or

regional office. For loan insurance, contact local

VA insured lending agency.

Vocational Rehabilitation Administration

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Washington, D. C. 20201

Program listed on page 23

For details on most Vocational Rehabilitation

Administration programs, contact State Vocational Rehabilitation Agency.

Office of Economic Opportunity

Washington, D. C. 20506

Programs listed on pages 10, 17, 24, 31, 37,

44, and 45

Welfare Administration

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Washington, D. C. 20201

Programs listed on pages 9, 10, 23, 28, 39, 43,

and 44

For details consult local or State department

of public welfare.

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