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§6941a Coordinator for Chronically Underserved Rural Areas

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 98— - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE REORGANIZATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - RURAL ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT › § 6941a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Create a Coordinator in USDA’s Rural Development Mission Area to focus USDA aid and regional planning on high-need, high-poverty rural areas with other offices, state and local governments, and nonprofits. Funds may be appropriated for fiscal years 2008 through 2012.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §6941a

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(a)The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish a Coordinator for Chronically Underserved Rural Areas (in this section referred to as the “Coordinator”), to be located in the Rural Development Mission Area.
(b)The mission of the Coordinator shall be to direct Department of Agriculture resources to high need, high poverty rural areas.
(c)The Coordinator shall consult with other offices in directing technical assistance, strategic regional planning, at the State and local level, for developing rural economic development that leverages the resources of State and local governments and non-profit and community development organizations.
(d)There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as necessary to carry out this section for fiscal years 2008 through 2012.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246. Section was enacted as part of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, and not as part of the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994, which in part comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Enactment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 8701 of this title.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 6941a

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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