<section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" style="-uslm-lc:I80" id="id54eceb5a-4a51-11e9-831e-e916c2d71749" identifier="/us/usc/t7/s1990a"><num value="1990a">§ 1990a.</num><heading> Refinancing of certain rural hospital debt</heading><content>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">Assistance under <ref href="/us/usc/t7/s1926/a">section 1926(a) of this title</ref> for a community facility, or under <ref href="/us/usc/t7/s1932">section 1932 of this title</ref>, may include the refinancing of a debt obligation of a rural hospital as an eligible loan or loan guarantee purpose if the assistance would help preserve access to a health service in a rural community, meaningfully improve the financial position of the hospital, and otherwise meet the financial feasibility and adequacy of security requirements of the Rural Development Agency.</p>
</content><sourceCredit id="id54eceb5b-4a51-11e9-831e-e916c2d71749">(<ref href="/us/pl/87/128/tIII">Pub. L. 87–128, title III</ref>, § 342, as added <ref href="/us/pl/115/334/tVI">Pub. L. 115–334, title VI</ref>, § 6103, <date date="2018-12-20">Dec. 20, 2018</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/132/4728">132 Stat. 4728</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I76" topic="codification" id="id54eceb5d-4a51-11e9-831e-e916c2d71749"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Codification</heading>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Another <ref href="/us/pl/87/128/s342">section 342 of Pub. L. 87–128</ref> amended <ref href="/us/usc/t7/s1013a">section 1013a of this title</ref>.</p>
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