NATURE AND This program improves the diets of low-income households and expands the market for domestically produced food by supplementing the food purchasing power of eligible low-income families. Families exchange the money they would normally be expected to spend for food for coupons worth more. The U. S. Government pays for the difference between the amount each family pays and the total value of food coupons it receives. The coupons are used to buy food in retail stores. Except for items labeled as imported, the coupons may be used to buy any food for human consumption. The Consumer and Marketing Service, USDA, authorizes retailers to accept coupons. Retailers redeem the coupons at face value at their local banks or authorized wholesalers. Families may participate if they live in an area that has the program, are found by local welfare officials to be in need of food assistance, are receiving some form of welfare assistance, and are unemployed, part-time employed, working for low wages, or living on limited pensions. If families are not receiving welfare assistance, eligibility is based on family size and income, and their level of liquid assets. The Food Stamp Act of 1964 allows for gradual expansion of the program over the period of the next few years into areas of the country that want it. The state agency responsible for Federally aided public assistance programs submits requests for the program to USDA's Consumer and Marketing Service on behalf of local political subdivisions that want to participate. Food Stamp Division Consumer and Marketing Service Food Stamp Program, PA-645 or: Local State Welfare Agency Pilot Food Stamp Program, Agricultural Economic Report No. 29 AVAILABLE AUTHORIZING The Food Stamp Act of 1964; P.L. 88-525; 78 STAT 703; 7 USC 20112025 (1964). ADMINISTERING PROGRAM TITLE FOREST SERVICE COOPERATIVE STATE AND PRIVATE PROGRAMS ROGRAM NATURE PURPOSE PROGRA These programs provide technical assistance, information, service, and financial aid to state agencies responsible for protection, management, and development of state, local, and privately owned forest lands. The major forestry practices for which this assistance is available, normally through state foresters, are: 1. Forest fire prevention and control 2. NATURE AND 3. 4. WHO CAN 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 12. Timber growing and timber harvesting Timber stand improvements and tree planting The feasibility of new or expanded forest industry Forestry-based cooperatives Assistance in combating fire disasters. State forestry and other state agencies, local governments and organizations, private woodland owners, and private forest industries. are eligible. AUTHORIZING Rural Fire Defense Training, Project 107 Public Forestry Assistance for Small Woodlands, PA-409 Forest Recreation for Profit, AIB-265 Managing the Family Forest, FB-2187 Forest Industry Opportunities in Rural Development, AIB-222 A National Plan for the Protection of Rural Areas in a Wartime Emergency 36 STAT 961-963; 43 STAT 653; 45 STAT 699; 54 STAT 168; 58 STAT 736, WHO CO NATURE AND This program makes available contracts and grants for basic and applied forestry research in some special cases. Contracts are ordinarily limited to routine or repetitive laboratory or related tests and evaluations. Basic research grants and cooperative aids are available to universities or private research institutes within the limitations of available funds. Fields covered include research on: PRINTED INFORMATION AVAILABLE AUTHORIZING Mimeographed handbook on forestry research grants is available from Forest Products Act; P.L. 70-466; 45 STAT 699; P.L. 85-934; 72 ADMINISTERING PROGRAM TITLE LAND STABILIZATION, CONSERVATION, AND EROSION CONTROL IN APPALACHIA ROGR NATURE AND This program provides technical and financial assistance to landowners, operators, and occupiers for land stabilization; erosion and sediment control; reclamation and development of soil, water, woodland, and wildlife; and recreation resources. The program is developed by the state government and, when approved by the Appalachian Commission, is administered by the Secretary of Agriculture through the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, with technical and educational assistance from the Soil Conservation Service and the Federal Forest Service for planning and installing approved conservation practices. Cost sharing may not exceed 80 percent of the cost of treating not more than 50 acres of land for any purpose. Loan funds are available through the Farmers Home Administration to assist selected needy farmers with their share of the cost and to help farmers to apply additional conservation practices or land treatment measures on their farms. NATUR PURPO HOG Landowners, operators, or occupiers who will control the land for the period of the agreement and who furnish an acceptable conservation and development plan to the Secretary of Agriculture are eligible. Preference is given to needy farmers. Loans are made only when properly secured and when credit is not available from other sources under prevailing reasonable rates. WHO APPLY Official program bulletin and fact sheets are available from the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965; P.L. 89-4; 79 STAT 5; 40 USC Appendix A 203 (1965). ADMINISTERING U. S. Department of Agriculture 166 GRAM TITLE TURE AND POSE OF >GRAM LOANS AND GRANTS FOR FARM LABOR HOUSING This program provides insured loans and grants to finance construction of housing for domestic farm laborers. Loans may be made to a farmowner, association of farmers, state or political subdivision, or nonprofit organization. Grants may be made to a state or political subdivision or a broadly-based nonprofit organization that intends to provide labor housing as a community service. A state or political subdivision or a broadly-based nonprofit organization may receive both a loan and a grant. Occupants must be citizens of the United States who receive a substantial portion of their income as farm laborers. Loans may be used to construct, improve, or repair farm labor housing, including facilities for kitchens, dining halls, and appropriate health and recreational facilities. In addition, funds may be used to develop water, sewage disposal, heat, and light systems needed for the housing and other facilities. Grants may be used to buy land on which labor housing project will be located. The interest rate is 5 percent per year on the unpaid principal. The maximum term is 33 years. 10 CAN PLY An applicant must be a farm owner, association of farmers, state or political subdivision, or nonprofit organization, and be unable to finance the needed improvements with his own resources or with credit from other sources. The applicant must give security for the loan, must repay it, and must maintain and operate the housing financed with the loan. An authorized representative of the borrower may not have any financial interest in the award of the architectural or construction contracts, the purchase of equipment, or the purchase of the land for the housing site. AUTHORIZING LEGISLATION Housing Act of 1949, Section 514; P.L. 87-70; 75 STAT 186; 42 USC 1484. 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