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15 U.S.C. § 653 — Office of Rural Affairs
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**(a) Establishment** There is hereby established in the Small Business Administration an Office of Rural Affairs (hereafter in this section referred to as the “Office”).
**(b) Appointment of director** The Office shall be headed by a director who shall be appointed by the Administrator not later than 90 days after November 15, 1990.
**(c) Functions** The Office shall—
(1) strive to achieve an equitable distribution of the financial assistance available from the Administration for small business concerns located in rural areas;
(2) to the extent practicable, compile annual statistics on rural areas, including statistics concerning the population, poverty, job creation and retention, unemployment, business failures, and business startups;
(3) provide information to industries, organizations, and State and local governments concerning the assistance available to rural small business concerns through the Administration and through other Federal departments and agencies;
(4) provide information to industries, organizations, educational institutions, and State and local governments concerning programs administered by private organizations, educational institutions, and Federal, State, and local governments which improve the economic opportunities of rural citizens; and
(5) work with the United States Tourism and Travel Administration to assist small businesses in rural areas with tourism promotion and development.
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**(a) Establishment** There is hereby established in the Small Business Administration an Office of Rural Affairs (hereafter in this section referred to as the “Office”).
**(b) Appointment of director** The Office shall be headed by a director who shall be appointed by the Administrator not later than 90 days after November 15, 1990.
**(c) Functions** The Office shall—
(1) strive to achieve an equitable distribution of the financial assistance available from the Administration for small business concerns located in rural areas;
(2) to the extent practicable, compile annual statistics on rural areas, including statistics concerning the population, poverty, job creation and retention, unemployment, business failures, and business startups;
(3) provide information to industries, organizations, and State and local governments concerning the assistance available to rural small business concerns through the Administration and through other Federal departments and agencies;
(4) provide information to industries, organizations, educational institutions, and State and local governments concerning programs administered by private organizations, educational institutions, and Federal, State, and local governments which improve the economic opportunities of rural citizens; and
(5) work with the United States Tourism and Travel Administration to assist small businesses in rural areas with tourism promotion and development.
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The Chief Counsel may from time to time prepare and publish such reports as he deems appropriate. Not later than one year after June 4, 1976, he shall transmit to the Congress, the President and the Administration, a full report containing his findings and specific recommendations with respect to each of the functions referred to in [section 634b of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section634b&num=0&edition=prelim), including specific legislative proposals and recommendations for administration or other action. Not later than 6 months after June 4, 1976, he shall prepare and transmit a preliminary report on his activities. The reports shall not be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget or to any other Federal agency or executive department for any purpose prior to transmittal to the Congress and the President.
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**(a) Aid, counsel, assistance, etc., to small business concerns** The essence of the American economic system of private enterprise is free competition. Only through full and free competition can free markets, free entry into business, and opportunities for the expression and growth of personal initiative and individual judgment be assured. The preservation and expansion of such competition is basic not only to the economic well-being but to the security of this Nation. Such security and well-being cannot be realized unless the actual and potential capacity of small business is encouraged and developed. It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts or subcontracts for property and services for the Government (including but not limited to contracts or subcontracts for maintenance, repair, and construction) be placed with small-business enterprises, to insure that a fair proportion of the total sales of Government property be made to such enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the Nation.
**(b) Assistance to compete in international markets**
(1) It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Federal Government, through the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, acting through the Associate Administrator for International Trade, and in cooperation with the Department of Commerce and other relevant State and Federal agencies, should aid and assist small businesses, as defined under this chapter, to increase their ability to compete in international markets by—
(A) enhancing their abil
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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 653
countries for management and technical as-
sistance;
(B) evaluate appropriate Small Business
Development Center-programs which might
be replicated in order to meet the needs of
each of such countries; and
(C) identify and assess the capability of
educational institutions in each such coun-
try to develop a Small Business Develop-
ment Center type program.
(2) Not later than 18 months after November
5, 1990, the Commission shall review the rec-
ommendations submitted to it and shall for-
mulate and contract for the establishment of
a three-year management and technical assist-
ance demonstration program.
(c) Eligibility
In order to be eligible to participate, the edu-
cational institution in each designated Central
European country shall—
(1) obtain the prior approval of the govern-
ment to conduct the program;
(2) agree to provide partial financial support
for the program, either directly or indirectly,
during the second and third years of the dem-
onstration program; and
(3) agree to obtain private sector involve-
ment in the delivery of assistance under the
program.
(d) Initial meeting and organization
The Commission shall meet and organize not
later than 30 days after November 5, 1990.
(e) Reimbursement for necessary expenses
Members of the Commission shall serve with-
out pay, except they shall be entitled to reim-
bursement for travel, subsistence, and other
necessary expenses incurred by them in carrying
out their functions in the same manner as per-
sons employed intermittently in the Federal
Government are allowed expenses under section
5703 of title 5.
(f) Meetings; quorum
Two Commissioners shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business. Meetings shall
be at the call of the Chai
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