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Implementation of Low-Documentation Direct Operating Loan (Lo-Doc) Regulations
This rule amends the regulations governing the Farm Service Agency's direct operating loan (OL) program by simplifying the application process for certain farmers requesting assistance of $50,000 or less and for certain recurring OL applicants. By making FSA's direct OL program application process more consistent with standard industry...
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Loan Limitations and Cash Flow Requirements for Farm Service Agency Guaranteed Loans
This rule amends the Farm Service Agency (FSA) guaranteed loan regulations to remove the requirement that the Agency consider the costs of replacing capital items when considering whether a guaranteed loan customer has adequate capacity for debt service. Also, this rule provides for the adjustment of maximum guaranteed loan limits annually based...
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2002 Farm Bill Regulations-General Credit Provisions
This rule amends the Farm Service Agency's (FSA) regulations to comply with provisions of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (2002 Act). In addition, this rule clarifies direct loan eligibility criteria in accordance with the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994. This rule amends the regulations that govern the...
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2002 Farm Bill Regulations-Loan Eligibility Provisions
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) proposes to amend the regulations for direct and guaranteed farm operating loans (OL) to implement the provision of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (2002 Act) relating to loan eligibility for applicants with prior debt forgiveness resulting from a disaster or emergency designated by the President....
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Value-Added Producer Grants and Agriculture Innovation Centers
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service proposes to implement new regulations for value-added producer grants (Value-Added 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 value-added...
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Loan Payments and Collections
The Agencies are revising their internal loan payment and collections regulations to replace the current regulations. This action is necessary since existing regulations are obsolete and do not accurately reflect the current payment and collections methodologies employed by the Agencies. The intended effect is to simplify and update the...
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Technical Changes to Citizenship Requirements and Loan Eligibility Regulations
This rule amends the Farm Service Agency's (FSA) regulations for direct and guaranteed loan making requirements by revising loan eligibility requirements to conform with provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). In addition, it amends the direct and guaranteed loan program regulations to...
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2002 Farm Bill Regulations-Loan Eligibility Provisions
This rule amends the Farm Service Agency's (FSA) regulations for direct and guaranteed farm loans to implement provisions of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (2002 Act). Specifically, the rule provides that borrowers who are current on an FSA loan before the beginning date of the incidence period of a Presidentially-declared...
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General Requirements for Cooperative Services Grant Programs, Value-Added Producer Grants, Agriculture Innovation Centers and Rural Cooperative Development Grants
This final rule implements new regulations for Value-Added producer grants (Value-Added 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 Value-Added agricultural commodities or products...
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Revisions to Direct Farm Loan Programs Appraisal Regulations
This rule amends the Farm Service Agency's (FSA) regulations governing real estate and chattel appraisals. In loan making, the rule allows FSA to obtain appraisals after loan funds become available and the applicant is determined eligible. Also, the rule increases the dollar threshold that determines when a real estate appraisal is required. In...
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Regulatory Streamlining of the Farm Service Agency's Direct Farm Loan Programs; Conforming Changes
This rule removes the Farm Service Agency's direct Farm Loan Programs regulations from the Rural Development's mission area loan program regulations. In addition, it makes conforming changes to FSA's regulations for the boll weevil eradication loan program, the servicing of minor program loans, the special apple loan program, and the emergency...
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Rural Development Grants
Rural Development, a mission area within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proposing a unified grant platform for enhanced delivery of eight existing Rural Development grant programs--Community Facility; Distance Learning and Telemedicine; Economic Impact Initiatives; Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvement Projects;...
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Value-Added Producer Grant Program
The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (the Act), amends section 231 of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000, which established the Value-Added Producer Grant Program. This program will be administered by the Rural Business-Cooperative Service. Under the proposed program, grants will be made to help eligible producers of...
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Value-Added Producer Grant Program
The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (the Act), amends section 231 of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000, which established the Value-Added Producer Grant Program. This program will be administered by the Rural Business-Cooperative Service. Under the interim rule, grants will be made to help eligible producers of agricultural...
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Environmental Policies and Procedures
Rural Development, a mission area within the U.S. Department of Agriculture comprised of the Rural Housing Service (RHS), Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) and Rural Utilities Service (RUS), hereafter referred to as the Agency, is proposing to unify and update environmental policies and procedures covering all Agency programs by...
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Value-Added Producer Grant Program
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (Agency) is publishing this final rule for the Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program. This final rule modifies the interim rule for VAPG based on comments received on the interim rule, which was published on February 23, 2011, on the Agricultural Act of 2014 (2014 Farm Bill), and on a listening session,...
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Debt Management
The general debt management regulations of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) provide that individual USDA agencies may issue regulations for their own specific debt collection activities principally in recognition that the agencies conducted debt collection activities prior to the enactment of the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996...