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in accordance with section 310B(f) of the Consolidated Farm and
Rural Development Act’’ and inserting ‘‘and not less than $2,000,000
shall be available for grants in accordance with section 310B(f)
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: Provided
further, That of the total amount appropriated in this account,
$1,750,000 shall be for grants to the Delta Regional Authority
(7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) for any Rural Community Advancement
Program purpose’’.
(b) Consistent with any legal commitments made by the Delta
Regional Authority, at the request of the Authority and if the
Secretary of Agriculture agrees, the Secretary may deobligate any
unexpended Rural Community Advancement Program grant funds
made to the Authority pursuant to division A of Public Law 108–
7: Provided, That such reobligated funds are used by the Authority
for projects that are consistent with the purposes of the Rural
Housing Service Community Facilities Program.
SEC. 762. Of the unobligated balances available in the Rural
Housing Assistance Grant Program account, $1,000,000 is hereby
rescinded.
SEC. 763. Agencies and offices of the Department of Agriculture
may utilize any available discretionary funds to cover the costs
of preparing, or contracting for the preparation of, final agency
decisions regarding complaints of discrimination in employment
or program activities arising within such agencies and offices.
SEC. 764. Of the unobligated balances available in the Rural
Housing Insurance Fund Program account, $3,000,000 is hereby
rescinded.
SEC. 765. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for any
fiscal year and hereafter, in the case of a high cost isolated rural
area in Alaska that is not connected to a road system, the maximum
level for the single family housing assistance shall be 150 percent
of the average income level in the metropolitan areas of the State
and 115 percent of all other eligible areas of the State.
SEC. 766. Funds made available under section 1240I and section
1241(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 in fiscal years 2002,
2003, 2004, and 2005 shall remain available until expended to
cover obligations made in fiscal years 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005,
respectively, and are not available for new obligations.
SEC. 767. There is hereby appropriated $1,500,000, to remain
available until expended, for the Denali Commission to address
deficiencies in solid waste disposal sites which threaten to contami-
nate rural drinking water supplies.
SEC. 768. Notwithstanding any other provision of law—
(1)(A) the Alaska Department of Community and Economic
Development shall be eligible to receive a water and waste
disposal grant under section 306(a) of the Consolidated Farm
and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)) in an amount
that is equal to not more than 75 percent of the total cost
of providing water and sewer service to the proposed hospital
in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska; and
(B) the Alaska Department of Community and Economic
Development shall be allowed to pass the grant funds through
to the local government entity that will provide water and
sewer service to the hospital;
(2) or any percentage of cost limitation in current law
or regulations, the construction projects known as the Tri-
Valley Community Center addition in Healy, Alaska; the Cold
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Climate Housing Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska; and
the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Allied Health Learning
Center skill labs/classrooms shall be eligible to receive Commu-
nity Facilities grants in amounts that are equal to not more
than 75 percent of the total facility costs: Provided, That for
the purposes of this paragraph, the Cold Climate Housing
Research Center is designated an ‘‘essential community facility’’
for rural Alaska;
(3) the Secretary shall consider the City of Guymon, Okla-
homa; the City of Shawnee, Oklahoma; the Village of New
Miami, Ohio; the City of Vicksburg, Mississippi; and the City
of Altus, Oklahoma, to be eligible for loans and grants provided
through the Rural Housing Insurance Fund until receipt of
the decennial Census in the year 2010;
(4) grants made under section 306(a)(19) of the Consoli-
dated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(19))
using funds made available under this Act for the cities of
Ellisville and Waynesboro, Mississippi, shall be made without
a non-Federal cost share requirement;
(5) the City of Great Falls, Montana, shall be considered
a rural area for purposes of eligibility for business and industry
guaranteed loans under section 310B(a)(1) of the Consolidated
Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932(a)(1)) until
receipt of the decennial Census in the year 2010;
(6) the Secretary may consider the Piedmont Municipal
Power Agency of South Carolina eligible to participate in pro-
grams administered by the Rural Utilities Service until receipt
of the decennial Census in the year 2010; and
(7) until receipt of the decennial Census for the year 2010,
for all activities under programs of the Rural Development
Mission Area within the County of Honolulu, Hawaii, the Sec-
retary may designate any portion of the county as a rural
area or eligible rural community that the Secretary determines
is not urban in character: Provided, That the Secretary shall
not include in any such rural area or eligible rural community
any area included in the Honolulu Census Designated Place
as determined by the Secretary of Commerce.
SEC. 769. Section 501 of the Agricultural Trade Development
and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1737) is amended—
(1) in subsection (b)(1), by inserting ‘‘and Doug Bereuter’’
after ‘‘John Ogonowski’’; and
(2) in the heading, by inserting ‘‘AND DOUG BEREUTER’’
after ‘‘JOHN OGONOWSKI’’.
SEC. 770. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Consolidated
Farm and Rural Development Act (including the associated regula-
tions) governing the Community Facilities Program, the Secretary
may allow all Community Facility Program facility borrowers and
grantees to enter into contracts with not-for-profit third parties
for services consistent with the requirements of the Program, grant,
and/or loan: Provided, That the contracts protect the interests of
the Government regarding cost, liability, maintenance, and adminis-
trative fees.
SEC. 771. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make funding and other
assistance available through the emergency watershed protection
program under section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978
(16 U.S.C. 2203) to repair and prevent damage to non-Federal