Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-110
§6941a Coordinator for Chronically Underserved Rural Areas
Title 7 › CHAPTER 98 — DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE REORGANIZATION › SUBCHAPTER III — RURAL ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT › § 6941a
Summary
The Secretary must create a Coordinator in Rural Development to focus USDA resources on high-need, high-poverty rural areas. The Coordinator must coordinate help and planning with other offices and with state, local, and nonprofit partners and may get funding for fiscal years 2008 through 2012.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §6941a
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(a)Establishment
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)Mission
The mission of the Coordinator shall be to direct Department of Agriculture resources to high need, high poverty rural areas.
(c)Duties
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)Authorization of appropriations
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 L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub.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 7, Agriculture
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110