B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 16, 1972
Butz Says ‘72 Act Boosts Development Opportunities
The Rural Development Act of
1972 can remake the face of rural
America and broaden op
portunity for all Americans—
urban as well as rural, Earl L.
Butz, Secretary of Agriculture,
said this week.
The Act confers the major
responsibility to coordinate rural
development on the Department
of Agriculture and provides
several new authorities that will
help to improve rural economic
opportunity and community life.
“The result should improve rural
Ameirca, bolster agriculture and
help to relieve urban congestion
by reducing migration from
farms to city and by encouraging
a more balanced national
growth,” Butz said
Highlights of the new
legislation include:
1. It authorizes guaranteeing
and making loans for com
mercial, industrial, and com
munity development. Private
banks and other lenders could
make government guaranteed
loans to finance rural job
creation.
2. It authorizes substitution of
insured for direct loans. This
would permit private lenders to
assume an increased role in
financing rural dedevelopment
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and reduce the impact on the
Federal Budget of such
programs.
3. It authorizes loans to rural
youth, and increases the limit for
farm operating loans from
$35,000 to $50,000.
4. It provides for a number of
improvements in the ad
ministrative machinery of the
Farmers Home Administration
which will result m more ef
fective program administration.
5. It authorizes cost sharing in
watershed project areas for
water quality improvement,
water supply, pollution
abatement, and ground water
recharge. Similar authority
along with rural fire protection is
provided for Resource Con
servation and Development
areas.
6. It provides for a program to
inventory and monitor soil,
water, and related conditions,
and a land inventory report at
five-year intervals.
7. Funds are provided to ex
pand rural development and
small farm research and ex
tension activities through the
Land-Grant Colleges and
Universities
8. It provides annual
authorizations for pollution
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abatement grants of $25 million
to be made to individuals and an
additional $5O million to com
munities.
9. It authorizes a three-year
grant program for rural fire
protection of $7 million annually.
10. It provides an increase in
the annual sewer and water grant
authorizations to $3O million for
planning grants and to $3OO
million for development grants.
11. It authorizes ten-year cost
share contracts under the Rural
Environmental Assistance
Gourmet Cooking
Workshop Dates
Interested in learning some of
the basics involved in Gourmet
Cooking? Five classes will be
offered with information con
cerning crepes, buying the
proper cuts of meats, and lear
ning some good preparations and
techniques in the art of Gourmet
Cooking.
The sessions will be held from 1
to 3 p.m. in the Extension
Training Center on October 3,10,
24, 31 and November 7. To take
care of special demonstrators
and cost of food, a fee of $l5 will
be requested.
Contact the Extension Office at
1383 Arcadia Road, Lancaster,
Pa. 17601, or phone 394-6851, for
details. Registration deadline
will be September 26.
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Program, and provides for cost
sharing under this program for
pollution abatement practices.
Butz said the Department will
cooperate with all other govern
mental agencies and the private
sector to find the best possible
means to implement the
legislation and to exploit its full
potential to the advantage of
rural residents and rural com
munities.
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The Secretary said con
siderable planning and advance
work must be done to implement
and coordinate this legislation
with ongoing programs. This
planning which is already un
derway will require several
weeks more. Furthermore,
congressional appropriations
may be necessary to implement
certain of the newly authorized
programs.
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