-Lancaster Farming. Saturday, March 27,1971
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FHA Reports on Rural Progress
Rural community progress in
Pennsylvania has 'been spurred
by financial assistance through
the Fanners Home Administra
tion, U. S Department of Agri
culture, for 108 separate proj
ects for water systems, sewer
systems, rural development,
watershed and recreation cen
ters, State Director Penrose Hal
lowetl of the rural credit agency,
said recently
Hallowell repoited on the bene
fits brought to the state under
the Rural Community Facilities
programs that have been en
larged under President Nixon’s
efforts to improve living condi
tions m rural areas
Loaas and giants to inral
communities totalling $34,223,-
15S have been approved and
funded for Pennsylvania since
the current programs began in
1906.
Hallowell said that water sup
ply problems have been or will
be solved for moie than 48,421
people in rural Pennsylvania
through the completion of 55
water systems made possible by
the Farmers Home Administra
tion loans and giants The new
systems serve both luial towns
and countryside where the
people have had to exist on un
certain, sometimes unsafe water
supplies
Hallowell reported that 27
rural communities in the state
will have new or impi oved sewer
systems through projects to pro
vide these facilities for some
38,613 rural residents
additional eight communi
ties will have combined projects
that provide for both water and
sewer systems for 11,131 people
through the Farmers Home Ad
ministration assistance.
The Fanners Home Adminis
tration. through insurance of
private loan financing, also has
made possible the construction
of 14 outdoor oriented recreation
centers developed by community
associations and serving an esti
mated 14,410 people in rural
Pennsylvania. These centers give
the rural families the same op
portunity as the city and subur
ban dwellers to enjoy in their
home communities such facili
ties as modern swimming pools,
picnic areas, tennis courts, fish
ing, riding trails, and other
popular forms of outdoor recrea
tion.
The Farmers Home Adminis
tration makes community faci
lity loans through its county of
fices. The loans aie made to
local public agencies and non
profit associations that cannot
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obtain other sources of finan- ment during the past five y*^ s
cm a of construction and building
trade workers in rural areas
Grants may supplement loans that has totaled more than
for water and sewer systems 44c ,j avs
only when the projects provide ’ ..
for modest facilities and the f F “ nds w ar ® ava ,f“ e ’
projects cannot be financed en- to f Mr ‘ Hallowell, financing
tire y on a loan basis to result water systems to nonprofit Gr
in a reasonable user charge. gamzations; funds are
very limited for public orgamza-
Hallowell said the Farmers tions and are disbursed on a
Home Administration has also priority of need.
made grants to 47 counties in communities interested in
Pennsylvama for comprehensive assis t ance mus t apply by the use
planning of the future develop- c £ p orm SF-101, obtained at one
ment of water and sewer sys- 0 £ 25 county FHA offices
terns in rural areas. These i oca t et j throughout Pennsyl
grants have totaled $903,150. vania, or directly from the State
Another benefit derived Office located in the Federal
through the construction of the Building, P.O. Box 905, 228 Wal
water, sewer, and the recreation nut Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
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