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rural areas

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16 U.S.C. § 2106 — in this section (2 versions over time)

provide financial, technical, and related assistance to State foresters or equivalent State officials in cooperative efforts to organize, train, and equip local firefighting forces, including those of Indian tribes or other native groups, to prevent, control, and suppress fires threatening human lives, crops, livestock, farmsteads or other improvements, pastures, orchards, wildlife, rangeland, woodland, and other resources in rural areas. As used herein, the term “rural areas” shall have the meaning set out in the first clause of section 1926(a)(7) 1 of title 7; and

23 U.S.C. § 101 — in this title (7 versions over time)

The term “rural areas” means all areas of a State not included in urban areas.

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