SF 2572 Senate Long Description
Authorizing the rural finance authority to establish and implement a +livestock processing plant loan and grant program to provide capital for +cooperatively owned livestock slaughter and processing plants, establishing a +livestock processing plant development fund for the deposit of loan repayments, appropriating money in the fund to the commissioner of agriculture +for the program and specifying certain program requirements; authorizing the +RFA to establish and implement a program of loans and grants to provide +capital for livestock slaughter and processing plants catering primarily to +members of minority cultures or ethnic communities, establishing a culturally +specific livestock processing fund for use by the commissioner for the program+ and specifying certain program requirements; requiring commissioner cash +payments to the operators of livestock processing plants, specifying certain +application requirements, conditions and limits(ra)