SAVE THE DATE: SEPTEMBER 8-10, 2015!

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2015 National Rural Assembly
September 8-10, 2015
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
400 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001

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