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PUBLIC LAW 96-000—MMMM. DD, 1980

94 STAT. 1876

PUBLIC LAW 96-438—OCT. 13, 1980 LENDING LIMITS UNDER THE CONSOLIDATED FARM AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT ACT

7 USC 1994.

Cost projections.

Submittal to congressional committees.

SEC. 4. Section 346 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act is amended by inserting "(a)" after "SEC. 346" and adding at the end thereof new subsections (b) and (c) as follows: "(b)(1) Loans for each of the fiscal years 1980, 1981, and 1982 are authorized to be insured, or made to be sold and insured, or guaranteed under the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund as follows: "(A) real estate loans, $1,615,000,000, including $1,500,000,000 for farm ownership loans of which $1,400,000,000 may be for insured loans and $100,000,000 may be for guaranteed loans with authority to transfer 25 per centum of such amounts between categories, and $100,000,000 for water development, use, and conservation loans of which $90,000,000 may be for insured loans and $10,000,000 may be for guaranteed loans with authority to transfer 25 per centum of such amounts between categories; "(B) operating loans, $1,200,000,000 of which $1,150,000,000 may be for insured loans and $50,000,000 may be for guaranteed loans with authority to transfer 25 per centum of such amounts between categories; and "(C) emergency insured and guaranteed loans in amounts necessary to meet the needs resulting from natural disasters. Not more than 75 per centum of the insured loans authorized for farm ownership purposes and not more than 75 per centum of the insured loans authorized for farm operating purposes may be for applicants other than low-income, limited-resource borrowers. ^^(2) Loans for each of the fiscal years 1980, 1981, and 1982 are authorized to be insured, or made to be sold and insured, or guaranteed under the Rural Development Insurance Fund as follows: "(A) insured water and sewer facility loans, $1,000,000,000; "(B) industrial development loans, $1,500,000,000 of which $100,000,000 may be for insured loans and $1,400,000,000 may be for guaranteed loans with authority to transfer amounts between categories; and "(C) insured community facility loans, $500,000,000. "(c) The Secretary shall develop long-term cost projections for loan program authorizations required under subsection (a) of this section. Each such projection shall include analyses of (1) the long-term costs of the lending levels that the Secretary requests to be authorized under subsection (a) of this section and (2) the long-term costs for increases in lending levels bevond those requested to be authorized, based on increments of $10,000,000 or such other levels as the Secretary deems appropriate. Long-term cost projections for the three-year period beginning with fiscal year 1983 and each three-year period thereafter shall be submitted to the House Committee on Agriculture, the House Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and the Senate Committee on Appropri-