29 U.S.C. § 1782h
Section 1782h · Definitions
Amended 1 time on record
For the purposes of this part—
(1) Participating community
The term “participating community”—
(A) in the case of a community conducting a project in an urban area, means a city in a metropolitan statistical area;
(B) in the case of a community conducting a project in a rural area, means a nonmetropolitan county or contiguous nonmetropolitan counties;
(C) in the case of a community conducting a project in an Indian reservation or Alaska Native village, the 1 grantee designated under subsection (c) or (d) of section 1671 of this title, or a consortium of such grantees and the State; or
(D) in the case of a community conducting a project in a migrant or seasonal farmworker community, the 1 grantee designated under section 1672(c) of this title, or a consortium of such grantees and the State.
(2) High poverty area
The term “high poverty area” means an urban census tract, a nonmetropolitan county, a Native American Indian reservation, or an Alaska Native village, with a poverty rate of 30 percent or more, as determined by the Bureau of the Census, or a migrant or seasonal farmworker community.
(3) Target area
The term “target area” means a high poverty area or set of contiguous high poverty areas that will be the focus of the program in each participating community.