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(4) Crop harvesting: facilities for threshing, hulling, baling, ensilage cutting, and other crop harvesting needs.

(5) Processing: facilities for the processing of agricultural and other products for marketing purposes.

(6) Handicrafts: facilities for the making and marketing of handicraft products.

(7) Grading, packing and storing: facilities for the grading, packing, and storing of perishable commodities, including cold storage and warehousing.

(8) Marketing and purchasing: facilities for the purchase or sale of raw or processed materials and goods, including the general merchandising of goods and services.

(9) Livestock improvement: facilities for livestock improvement, such as the acquisition of purebred sires, and so forth.

(10) Medical and health services.

(c) Requests for loans for participation in facilities or services other than those listed above may be submitted, and may be approved, if the facilities or services are determined by the Administrator to be proper purposes for which the Farm Security Administration is authorized to make loans.*† [Par. 5]

304.5 Security. Where a loan made to an association for the purpose of acquiring specific property or for the purpose of producing a crop, such loan shall be secured by a mortgage, chattel mortgage, or lien on the property or crop so acquired or produced, and may be further secured by a mortgage, chattel mortgage, or lien on any other property or crop of the association, and/or by an assignment of fees, tolls, and rights under marketing and service agreements.

Where local law or the individual situation of the association makes a different type of security more desirable, a different form of security may be used on approval of the Solicitor. The Farm Security Administration will not in any case waive its rights as a general creditor.

Loans for purposes other than to acquire specific property or produce a crop shall be secured by such security as may be approved by the Administrator.*t [Par. 7a]

304.6 Period of loan. Loans will be for the shortest period consistent with the purpose and policies of this subpart, considering the use to which the proceeds thereof are to be put, the financial resources and earning capacity of the borrower, and, in the case of loans to finance the purchase of specific property, the probable rate of depreciation, the estimated life thereof, and the amount of the loan as compared with the total purchase price, but in no case will the period exceed 40 years. When a loan is made for purposes which dictate different maximum periods of payment, repayment will be computed and will be required for each type of loan in accordance with this section.*t [Par. 8]

304.7 Amortization. Loans which have a maturity of less than 2 years will be repaid in such instalments of principal and interest as the Administrator may determine. Efforts will be made, however, to have such loans repayable in quarterly, semiannual, or annual equal instalments of principal and interest.

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**For statutory and source citations, see note to § 304.1.

Loans which have a maturity in excess of 2 years will be repayable in equal annual instalments of principal with interest added or in equal annual instalments including interest, Provided, however, That when the loan is for a period of 5 years or more, and, in the opinion of the Administrator, the financial condition of the organization so justifies, there need be no requirement that any payment be made on the principal during the first 3 years after the loan is made, but, in such cases, interest shall be paid annually each of the 3 years. Provision may be made for repayments in such instalments as the regional director may determine to be in accordance with the anticipated maximum ability of the borrower to repay, Provided only That the total amount of the loan which is required to be repaid by the end of any particular year will not be less than the total amount of the loan that would have been required to be repaid if the loan has been payable in equal annual instalments.** [Pars. 9a, 9b I]

304.8 Rate of interest. In the case of loans to associations, interest will be charged at the rate of 3 percent per annum on balances remaining unpaid from time to time.

In cases where two rates of interest are charged in the same loan, the rate or rates on the portion of the loan to which each applies must be clearly indicated in the Loan Agreement.** [Pars. 10a, 10d]

304.9 Reports. Any association or group which receives a loan will file with the Administrator, during the period of the Loan Agreement, reports, in the form prescribed by the Administrator, and referred to the division concerned.*+ [Par. 11a]

304.10 Bonding of employees of borrowing associations. The regional director or his delegated representative will require that all officers, agents, and employees of the borrowing association, charged with the custody of any of its funds or property shall furnish adequate bond at the expense of the borrower.* [Par. 12c]

304.11 Control over expenditures. All Loan Agreements to associations will provide that property and services of the Farm Security Administration may be advanced to the association in lieu of cash, and that the obligation therefor will be in an amount equal to the actual value of such property or services to the Farm Security Administration.

If the Administrator determines that the association, organized in connection with a community resettlement project, has assets sufficient to serve as security for any loans made to it, no detailed control will be extended over the expenditure of any moneys obtained from the proceeds of loans made to it. This does not exempt the cooperative from making such reports as the Administrator may determine to be essential.

If the association organized in connection with a community resettlement project has insufficient assets to secure properly the loans made to it, other than the property to be acquired from the proceeds of loans, the Administrator will indicate for each project the procedure necessary to insure that the funds are expended in accordance with the Loan Agreement.*t [Par. 13a II]

*For statutory and source citations, see note to § 304.1.

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304.12 Control over construction. All plans and specifications for any new construction for an association organized in connection with a community resettlement project will be submitted to the Administrator for approval if such construction involves a cost exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500).

All major construction for an association organized in connection with a community resettlement project will have such inspection as the Administrator will prescribe.*† [Par. 13a III A]

304.13 Final inspection. A final inspection and acceptance of all construction undertaken by a cooperative association which requires inspection pursuant to established procedures will be made before the cooperative association makes the final payment on any construction contract entered into with any individual, partnership, corporation, or other contracting party. All resettlement Loan Agreements and such rural rehabilitation Loan Agreements, as the Administrator may require, shall provide for such final inspection, and shall also provide that all construction contracts entered into by the cooperative associations shall make similar provision.

Such final inspection will be made according to the procedure established for final inspections. A copy of the final inspection report and certificate of acceptance will be furnished to the regional director, director of the division concerned, the Budget Officer, the manager of the cooperative association, the agency or contracting party performing the construction for the cooperative association (if there be such an agency or contracting party), and the regional loan approving office to file with other documents concerning the project.* [Par. 6, A.O. 40, rev. 2, Supp. 2, Dec. 31, 1936]

304.14 Inspection costs. All costs incidental to inspection of construction under the jurisdiction of a cooperative association will be paid from administrative funds of the Farm Security Administration.* [Par. 7, A.O. 40, rev. 2, Supp. 2, Dec. 31, 1936]

Sec.

PART 321-OTHER SERVICES

Sec.

SUBPART-Grants to individuals 321.3 Purpose for which grants may be for rural rehabilitation and re

made.

lief in stricken agricultural areas 321.4 Policies applicable to the exten321.1 Persons eligible. sion of medical aid to clients. 321.2 Policy with respect to grants. 321.5 Resettlement Information Service.

SUBPART-GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS FOR RURAL REHABILITATION AND RELIEF IN STRICKEN AGRICULTURAL AREAS

Section 321.1 Persons eligible. Farm owners, farm tenants, sharecroppers, farm laborers, persons now on the official rolls of the Farm Security Administration, and other persons who now live on farms or in farm areas and who, when last employed, received the major portion of their income from farming operations will be eligible for grants under this subpart, without regard to availability of suitable and adequate soil resources and other conditions and characteristics, other than employability, ordinarily indicating poten

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*For statutory and source citations, see note to § 304.1.

tiality for rehabilitation. Need for public aid of persons who qualify under this section will be established when it has been determined through personal investigation that their material and credit resources are inadequate to meet accepted subsistence requirements, to maintain health and prevent human suffering.* [Par. 2a, A.O. 92, rev. 2, Aug. 14, 1936, i F.R. 1124]

*§§ 321.1 to 321.5, inclusive, issued under the authority contained in the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act in effect at the time of issuance, sec. 6, 49 Stat. 118, 49 Stat. 1609, sec. 2 (a), 50 Stat. 354; 15 U.S.C., Sup., 728. The authority delegated to the President by these statutes has been redelegated by him in the Executive orders listed in note to § 301.1.

321.2 Policy with respect to grants. It is the policy of the Farm Security Administration to make grants to all persons eligible under § 321.1, within the limit of funds available, until need for such public aid has ended. In addition to persons eligible for direct relief under his subpart, supplementary grants may be made to: (a) emergency rural rehabilitation loan cases and emergency corporation loan cases in need of such aid; (b) standard rural rehabilitation cases and standard corporation cases in an amount not to exceed total subsistence needs in instances where rehabilitation can be accomplished only by advances in excess of the borrower's ability to repay as revealed in the Farm Management Plan; and (c) standard rural rehabilitation cases and standard corporation cases to enable them to meet unforeseen and extraordinary emergencies not anticipated in the Farm Management Plans accepted by the Farm Security Administration as a basis for loans, provided such grants are consistent with the purpose of Administration Order 92 (Revision 2), August 14, 1936, and are within the limitations of the authorities set forth in Administration Order 92 (Revision 2), August 14, 1936.

Need for public aid in the form of a grant (direct relief) must be determined upon the basis of personal interview with the proposed recipient and the preparation of a deficiency budget which will supplement available income, or other resources contributing to the family subsistence, with a monthly amount sufficient to maintain the recipient's standard of living at a level adequate to meet accepted subsistence requirements and to maintain health.* [Par. 2b, A.O. 92, rev. 2, Aug. 14, 1936, 1 F.R. 1124]

321.3 Purpose for which grants may be made. Grants may be made under this subpart to persons who qualify under § 321.1 to meet emergency needs for food, fuel, clothing, shelter, indispensable medical services and other essential subsistence goods or services.* [Par. 3, A.O. 92, rev. 2, Aug. 14, 1936, 1 F.R. 1124]

321.4 Policies applicable to the extension of medical aid to clients. It is the policy of the Farm Security Administration to provide emergency cases with indispensable medical services, as authorized in § 321.3, through grants in cooperation with individual physicians or the county medical society. This policy will be carried out in such a manner as to protect the Farm Security Administration from abuses that will result from having extensive medical, surgical, and dental services paid for by the Farm Security Administration.

*For statutory citation, see note to § 321.1.

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Such extensive services would not be consistent with the purpose of the emergency grant program. In other words, it would not be reasonable to have an accumulation of long-standing physical defects or ailments corrected at public expense while receiving emergency grants. On the other hand, when clients are beset by acute illness, broken limbs, toothache or are in need of obstetrical care, and so forth, they should not be permitted to suffer for want of indispensable medical, surgical or dental aid. State and local health authorities will be consulted when arrangements for medical care are under consideration.

When illness and accident necessitate medical and surgical aid entailing considerable expense, local private and public agencies should be requested to cooperate in meeting the problem. Arrangements should be made and an understanding reached with physicians, surgeons and dentists for special rates to emergency grant cases. When a schedule of charges for medical and dental services for relief clients, has been agreed upon between the medical profession and relief agencies, such charges will not be exceeded for services to grant recipients. When situations arise wherein it is impossible to enlist local co-operation and there is an apparent disposition to force the Farm Security Administration to carry the whole load and meet all costs at regular commercial rates, any arrangements contemplated will be submitted to the Administrator for approval.* [Par. 4, A.O. 92, rev. 2, Aug. 14, 1936, 1 F.R. 1124]

321.5 Resettlement Information Service. In order to prevent the aimless migration from drought areas of farm families who feel that there is no hope for successful operation of their farms and to provide such families with information as to conditions and alternative opportunities in other areas, there is established herewith, as a function of the Rural Rehabilitation Division, a Resettlement Information Service. This Service will provide farmers with information as to (a) types of farming in other areas; (b) problem areas where closer settlement is inadvisable; (c) capital required to become established in areas suitable for closer settlement; (d) employment opportunities available in other areas; and (e) soil types, natural cover, climate and other physical data in other areas.

This Service will be maintained strictly as an information service. No attempt will be made to advise farmers to remain where they are or to move to other areas.* [Pars. 1, 2b, A.O. 191, Aug. 13, 1936]

AGRICULTURAL ENTRIES ON MINERAL LANDS: See Public Lands, 43 CFR Part 102.

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*For statutory citation, see note to § 321.1.

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