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agement programs as the Secretary may re-
quire; 
‘‘(G)(i) does not own farm land; or 
‘‘(ii) directly or through interests in family 
farm corporations, owns farm land, the aggre-
gate acreage of which does not exceed 30 per-
cent of the average acreage of the farms, as the 
case may be, in the county in which the farm 
operations of the applicant are located, as re-
ported in the most recent census of agriculture 
taken in accordance with the Census of Agri-
culture Act of 1997 (7 U.S.C. 2204g et seq.), 
except that this subparagraph shall not apply to 
a loan made or guaranteed under chapter 2 of 
subtitle A; and 
‘‘(H) demonstrates that the available re-
sources of the applicant and any spouse of the 
applicant are not sufficient to enable the appli-
cant to farm on a viable scale. 
‘‘(27) RECREATIONAL PURPOSE.—For purposes 
of section 3410, the term ‘recreational purpose’ has 
the meaning provided by the Secretary, but shall in-
clude hunting. 
‘‘(28) RURAL AND RURAL AREA.— 
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to any deter-
mination made under subparagraph (B), the 
terms ‘rural’ and ‘rural area’ mean any area 
other than— 
‘‘(i) a city or town that has a popu-
lation of greater than 50,000 inhabitants; 
and 
‘‘(ii) any urbanized area contiguous 
and adjacent to a city or town described in 
clause (i). 
‘‘(B) DETERMINATION OF AREAS RURAL IN 
CHARACTER.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—If part of an area 
described in subparagraph (A)(ii) was eli-
gible under the definitions of the terms 
‘rural’ and ‘rural area’ in section 343 (as 
in effect on the day before the date of en-
actment of the Agriculture Reform, Food, 
and Jobs Act of 2013) for community fa-
cility, water and waste disposal, and 
broadband programs, that area shall re-
main eligible unless the Secretary, acting 
through the Under Secretary for Rural De-
velopment (referred to in this subpara-
graph as the ‘Under Secretary’), deter-
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mines the area is no longer rural, based on 
the criteria described in clause (iii). 
‘‘(ii) OTHER AREAS.—On petition of a 
unit of local government in an urbanized 
area described in subparagraph (A)(ii), or 
on the initiative of the Under Secretary, 
the Under Secretary may determine that 
part of an area is rural, based on the cri-
teria described in clause (iii). 
‘‘(iii) CRITERIA.—In making a deter-
mination under clause (i), the Under Sec-
retary shall consider— 
‘‘(I) population density; 
‘‘(II) economic conditions, favor-
ing a rural determination for areas 
facing— 
‘‘(aa) chronic unemployment 
in excess of statewide averages; 
‘‘(bb) sudden loss of employ-
ment from natural disaster or the 
loss of a significant employer in 
the area; or 
‘‘(cc) chronic poverty dem-
onstrated at the census block or 
county level compared to state-
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