# Designation of Rural Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities
> **Rural Utilities Service** · Interim rule with request for comments. · Published 1998-04-16 · Effective 1998-05-18 · 63 FR 19108
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-10156
- **Category:** rural-development
- **Sub-agency:** Rural Utilities Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 19108
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 25
- **Publication date:** 1998-04-16
- **Effective date:** 1998-05-18
## Abstract

This interim rule sets forth the policy and procedures by which the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will designate not more than five rural Empowerment Zones (Round II) as authorized by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (Pub. L. 105-34). This interim rule also amends regulations pertaining to the existing three (3) rural Empowerment Zones and thirty (30) rural Enterprise Communities which were designated pursuant to Title XIII of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (Pub. L. 103-66) (Round I). Published elsewhere in this Federal Register is a Notice Inviting Applications for Designation of rural Empowerment Zones for Round II pursuant to this implementing regulation.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/04/16/98-10156/designation-of-rural-empowerment-zones-and-enterprise-communities)
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