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Certa~o pr6blems have resulted from the practice of defining <br /> the geography of areawide clearinghouses to conform to <br /> the boundaries of an S~SA o.~ multiple S~.SA's. First, <br /> where metropolitan area clearinghouses designated <br /> O~.IB cross State lines, part of the area in each State <br /> may be encompassed by larger sub-State districts designated <br /> by the Governors of each State. This situation may ~esu!t <br /> in 'confusion for counties and municipalities that are <br /> · . served by both a metropolitan areawide c!earinc_house <br /> and a State-designated nonmetropolitan clearinghouse run <br /> by a sub-State planning district. Second, changes in <br /> .~ S~4SA boundaries following the 1980 Census could necessitate <br /> changes in aletropolitan clearinghouse jurisdictions. <br /> <br /> Since proposals submitted to HUD and other agencies must <br /> go through a clearinghouse, it is important that areawide <br /> clearinghouse boundaries correspond to the planning boundaries <br /> o~ the area from which the proposal is submitted. There <br /> is no mechanism for changing clearinghouse boundaries <br /> when SMSA boundaries change except by voluntary action <br /> of the local governments. Furthermore, changes in SMSA <br /> boundaries affect existing plans of regional government <br /> organizations that adhere to those boundaries; e~g., <br /> inclusion of a new county with wate~ pollution problems <br /> affects areawide programs related to water pollution. <br /> Finally, working relationships among the governments <br /> that are coordinated through clearinghouses must change <br /> when counties are added to or eliminated from SMSA's, <br /> and changes in clearinghouse jurisdictions result. <br /> <br /> Department of Aqriculture <br /> <br /> The major use of the SMSA concept in the Department of <br /> Agriculture is to classify data as metropolitan or <br /> nonmetropolitan. Trends in the fields of population, <br /> manpower, health, education, quality of life, housing, <br /> and income in nonmetropo!itan areas are analyzed. Only <br /> one piece of legislation involves the use of S..qSA's in <br /> programs of this Department. <br /> <br /> Farmers Home Administration (42 U.S.C. 1471). Section 520 <br />.. of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended Dy Section 5!1 <br /> · of the Housing and ComJnunity development Act o~ 1974, <br /> stipulates that the Farmers Home Administration may make <br /> housing loans in towns with a population o~ 10,000 ~o <br /> 20,000 if such a place "...is not contained within an <br /> S~.~SA" and also meets a criterion of lack of mortgage <br /> <br /> <br />