7 U.S.C. § 6612: Definitions

Summary

Defines key words used in this part. "Action team" is a rural natural resources and economic diversification team set up by the Secretary under another part of the law. "Economically disadvantaged" means having economic hardship because jobs or income from forestry, wood products, or related businesses like recreation and tourism in the national forest were lost. "Rural community" means either a town, local government unit, or nonprofit representing such an area with no more than 10,000 people, or a county not inside a Metropolitan Statistical Area. In both cases at least 15 percent of the area’s total primary and secondary labor and proprietor income must come from forestry, wood products, or related forest industries (including recreation and forage production), and the area must be inside or within 100 miles of a national forest. "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture.

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As used in this subchapter:

(1)The term “action team” means a rural natural resources and economic diversification action team established by the Secretary pursuant to section 6613(b) of this title.

(2)The term “economically disadvantaged” means economic hardship due to the loss of jobs or income (labor or proprietor) derived from forestry, the wood products industry, or related commercial enterprises such as recreation and tourism in the national forest.

(3)The term “rural community” means—

(A)any town, township, municipality, or other similar unit of general purpose local government, or any area represented by a not-for-profit corporation or institution organized under State or Federal law to promote broad based economic development, or unit of general purpose local government, as approved by the Secretary, that has a population of not more than 10,000 individuals, is located within a county in which at least 15 percent of the total primary and secondary labor and proprietor income is derived from forestry, wood products, and forest-related industries such as recreation, forage production, and tourism and that is located within the boundary, or within 100 miles of the boundary, of a national forest; or

(B)any county that is not contained within a Metropolitan Statistical Area as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget, in which at least 15 percent of the total primary and secondary labor and proprietor income is derived from forestry, wood products, and forest-related industries such as recreation, forage production, and tourism and that is located within the boundary, or within 100 miles of the boundary, of a national forest.

(4)The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture.

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1999—Par. (1). Pub. L. 106–113 substituted “natural resources” for “forestry”. 1993—Par. (3). Pub. L. 103–115 amended par. (3) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (3) read as follows: “The term ‘rural community’ means— “(A) any town, township, municipality, or other similar unit of general purpose local government having a population of not more than 10,000 individuals (according to the latest decennial census) that is located in a county where at least 15 percent of the total primary and secondary labor and proprietor income is derived from forestry, wood products, and forest-related industries such as recreation and tourism; or “(B) any county or similar unit of general purpose local government having a population of not more than 22,550 individuals (according to the latest decennial census) in which at least 15 percent of the total primary and secondary labor and proprietor income is derived from forestry, wood products, and forest-related industries such as recreation and tourism, that is located within the boundary, or within 100 miles of the boundary, of a national forest.”

§6612 Definitions

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