Pub. L. 111-5, div. A, tit. I, sec. 105

Sec. 105. Of the amounts appropriated in this title to the “Rural Housing Service, Rural Community Facilities Program Account”, the “Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Rural Business Program Account”, and the "Rural Utilities Service, Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Account”, at least 10 percent shall be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty counties: Provided, That for the purposes of this section, the term “persistent poverty counties” means any county that has had 20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 1980, 1990, and 2000 decennial censuses.