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PROPOSED RULES: Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002; implementation—; Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements, Grant, Guaranteed Loan, and Direct Loan Program,
Published: 2004-11-15
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) is extending the
deadline of November 4, 2004, for submitting comments regarding the
proposed Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements
Grant, Guaranteed Loan, and Direct Loan Program. The program will
assist farmers, ranchers, and small rural businesses to purchase
renewable energy
NOTICES: Loan guarentee authority; maximum portion available (2005 FY),
Published: 2004-10-04
As set forth in 7 CFR 4279.107 (b) and 4279.119 (b)(4), each
fiscal year the Agency shall establish a limit on the maximum portion
of guarantee authority available for that fiscal year that may be used
to guarantee loans with a guarantee fee of 1 percent or guaranteed loans with a guarantee percentage exceeding 80 percent.
Allowing the
NOTICES: Value Added Producer Grants,
Published: 2004-06-15
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) announces the
availability of $13.2 million in competitive grant funds for fiscal
year (FY) 2004 to help independent agricultural producers enter into
valueadded activities. RBS hereby requests proposals from eligible
independent producers, agricultural producer groups, farmer or rancher
cooperatives,
NOTICES: 1890 Land Grant Institutions Rural Entrepreneurial Program Outreach Initiative,
Published: 2004-06-10
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) announces the
availability of approximately $1.5 million in competitive cooperative
agreement funds allocated from fiscal year (FY) 2004 budget. RBS hereby
requests proposals from the 1890 Land Grant Universities and Tuskegee
University (1890 Institutions) interested in applying for competitively
NOTICES: Rural Cooperative Development Program,
Published: 2004-06-09
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) announces the
availability of approximately $5.0 million in competing Rural
Cooperative Development Grant (RCDG) funds for fiscal year (FY) 2004.
Of this amount, up to $1.5 million will be reserved for applications
that focus on assistance to small, minority producers through their
cooperative
NOTICES: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy specific risk and renewable energy pilot program,
Published: 2004-05-18
This NOFA announces an emergency Pilot Program (the ``Pilot
Program'') to provide guaranteed loans for developing renewable energy
systems from the use of diseased livestock as a process raw material
for the energy source. This Pilot Program is a further action to
support the Departmental efforts to address the risks associated with
Bovine
RULES: Cooperative Services Program, Value-Added Producer Grants, Agriculture Innovation Centers Program, and Rural Cooperative Development Grants,
Published: 2004-04-29
This final rule implements new regulations for Value-Added
producer grants (ValueAdded Producer Grants) and a new demonstration
program whereby agriculture innovation centers provide technical and
other assistance to agricultural producers to help them establish
businesses that produce and sell ValueAdded agricultural commodities
or products
NOTICES: Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals,
Published: 2004-03-30
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces Rural Development's intention to request an extension
for a currently approved information collection in support of the
ValueAdded Producer Grant (VAPG) Program.
NOTICES: Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program; maximum dollar amount on awards (FY 2004),
Published: 2004-03-30
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service hereby announces the
maximum dollar amount on loan and grant awards under the Rural Economic
Development Loan and Grant (REDLG) program for fiscal year (FY) 2004.
The maximum dollar award on zerointerest loans for FY 2004 is
$450,000. The maximum dollar award on grants for FY 2004 is $300,000.
The maximum
NOTICES: Rural Business Enterprise Program,
Published: 2004-03-09
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS), an Agency within
the Rural Development mission area, announces the availability of two
individual grants: one single $497,050 grant from the passenger
transportation funds appropriated for the RBS Rural Business Enterprise
Grant (RBEG) program and another single $248,525 grant from the
Federally
NOTICES: Rural Business Opportunity Program,
Published: 2004-03-09
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS), an Agency within
the Rural Development mission area, announces the availability of
grants of up to $50,000 per application from the Rural Business
Opportunity Grant (RBOG) Program for fiscal year (FY) 2004, to be
competitively awarded. For multiState projects, grant funds of up to
$150,000 will be
NOTICES: Loan guarantee authority; maximum portion available (2004 FY),
Published: 2004-01-27
As set forth in 7 CFR part 4279, subpart B, each fiscal year
the Agency shall establish a limit on the maximum portion of guarantee
authority available for that fiscal year that may be used to guarantee
loans with a guarantee fee of 1 percent or guaranteed loans with a guarantee percentage exceeding 80 percent.
Allowing the guarantee fee to be
PROPOSED RULES: Business and industry loans; tangible balance sheet equity,
Published: 2004-01-16
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS or the Agency)
proposes to amend existing regulations relating to Business and
Industry (B&I) loans made or guaranteed by the Agency by modifying the
provisions that address the evaluation of credit quality. Specifically,
the Agency proposes to modify the definition of tangible balance sheet
equity to
