# § 9812a. Interest rates payable on certain rural development loans; assignment of loan contracts
**(a)** **Modification of interest rates** Notwithstanding any other provision of law—
with moneys from the Rural Development Loan Fund established by section 9812(c)(1) of this title or with funds available (before October 27, 1998) under section 9910(a) of this title (as in effect before October 27, 1998) to an intermediary borrower shall bear interest at a fixed rate equal to the rate of interest that was in effect on the date of issuance for loans made in 1980 with such moneys or such funds if the weighted average rate of interest for all loans made after December 31, 1982, by such intermediary borrower with such moneys or such funds does not exceed the sum of 6 percent and the rate of interest payable under this subsection by such intermediary borrower.
**(1)** any outstanding loan made after December 31, 1982, by the Secretary of Health and Human Services; or
**(2)** any loan made after September 30, 1986;
**(b)** **Assignment of certain loan contracts** Any contract for a loan made during the period beginning on December 31, 1982, and ending on September 30, 1986, with—
to an intermediary borrower that is a county government may be assigned by such borrower to an entity to which such loan could have been made for the purpose for which such contract was made. Any entity to which such contract is so assigned shall be substituted as a party to such contract and shall be obligated to carry out such contract and the purpose for which such contract was made.
**(1)** moneys from the Rural Development Loan Fund established by section 9812(c)(1) of this title; or
**(2)** funds available (before October 27, 1998) under section 9910(a) of this title (as in effect before October 27, 1998);
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 99–425, title IV, § 407(a), (b), Sept. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 971; Pub. L. 105–285, title II, § 202(c), Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2755.)
## Editorial Notes
### References in Text
, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b)(2), was in the original a reference to . was omitted, and a new section 681 enacted, in the general amendment of chapter 106 of this title by , , . The new section 681 is classified to .
### Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Human Services Reauthorization Act of 1986, and not as part of the Community Economic Development Act of 1981 which comprises this subchapter.
### Amendments
1998—Subsec. (a). , in concluding provisions, inserted “(before )” after “funds available” and “(as in effect before )” after “9910(a) of this title”.
Subsec. (b)(2). , inserted “(before )” after “funds available” and “(as in effect before )” after “9910(a) of this title”.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date
Section effective , see , set out as an Effective Date of 1986 Amendment note under .
### Transfer of Loan by Utah or Ohio Local Public Body to Nonprofit Corporation
> “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any Utah or Ohio local public body to which a loan was made after
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> , from the Rural Development Loan Fund may, at the discretion of such local public body and with the approval of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, transfer such loan to a nonprofit corporation designated by such body to serve as an intermediate borrower and to carry out the purposes of the loan.”
, , , 1783–35, and , , , 3341–35, purported to amend section 623B(b)(2) of the Community Economic Development Act of 1981, a nonexistent section of that Act ( et seq.), by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: