A bill to provide for improvements in the annual report on rural development submitted to the Congress by the Secretary of Agriculture, and to require the prompt appointment of a new Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development in the case of a vacancy in that position.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish five-year goals for quality of community services and facilities, education, employment, energy, environmental protection, financial resources and credit requirements, health, housing, income occupational training, population, sewage treatment, sewer and water facilities, social services, transportation and related aspects of rural development. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual written report to each House of the Congress containing an accounting, in detailed quantitative and qualitative terms, of the progress which has been made and which is anticipated with respect to meeting these goals. Amends the Rural Development Act to require the President to appoint a new Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development within 60 days after a vacancy in the post occurs.…