§ 6612. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC6612]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 95--RURAL REVITALIZATION THROUGH FORESTRY
SUBCHAPTER II--NATIONAL FOREST-DEPENDENT RURAL COMMUNITIES
Sec. 6612. Definitions
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.
(Pub. L. 101-624, title XXIII, Sec. 2374, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4046;
Pub. L. 103-115, Oct. 26, 1993, 107 Stat. 1117; Pub. L. 106-113, div. B,
Sec. 1000(a)(3) [title III, Sec. 345(b)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1535,
1501A-203.)
Amendments
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.''
