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Farm Loan Programs Account Servicing Policies-Servicing Shared Appreciation Agreements
This action amends the terms and servicing of Shared Appreciation Agreements. This final rule allows the remaining contributory value of capital improvements made during the term of the Shared Appreciation Agreement to be deducted when calculating the recapture amount under the agreement, reduces the maturity period of such agreements executed...
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Handling Payments From the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to Delinquent FSA Farm Loan Program Borrowers
The issuing USDA agencies are revising their regulations for the use of administrative offset to collect delinquent debts due under programs formerly administered by the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA). This rule finalizes an interim rule on this subject which was published in the Federal Register on August 1, 1997. This action eliminates the...
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Operating Assistance for Off-Farm Migrant Farmworker Projects
The Rural Housing Service (RHS), formerly Rural Housing and Community Development Service (RHCDS), a successor Agency to the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA), proposes to amend its regulations for the Farm Labor Housing (LH) program for off-farm migrant housing projects. This action is taken to implement section 599C(e) of Pub. L. 105-276,...
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Loans to Indian Tribes and Tribal Corporations
This rule consolidates and revises the Indian Tribal Land Acquisition Program (ITLAP) regulations. The rule eliminates the reserve requirement and the waiver of sovereign immunity for all new loans; allows borrowers to use the loan reserve accounts as either an extra payment on their loans to the Farm Service Agency (FSA) or for other tribal...
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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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Water and Waste Disposal Programs Guaranteed Loans
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is discontinuing the use of its existing regulations for its Water and Waste Disposal (WW) Guaranteed Loan Program, and implementing a new regulation for its WW Guaranteed Loan Program. This action is needed to streamline and update the WW Guaranteed Loan Program. The intended effect is to simplify and clarify...
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Farm Loan Programs Account Servicing Policies-Servicing Shared Appreciation Agreements
On August 18, 2000, the Farm Service Agency (FSA) published a final rule at 65 FR 50401-50405, which reduced the term of future Shared Appreciation Agreements (SAA), lowered the interest rate on amortized SAA recapture, and deducted the value of certain capital improvements from the shared appreciation recapture calculation. This document...
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Prompt Disaster Set-Aside Consideration and Primary Loan Servicing Facilitation
Farm Service Agency (FSA) is proposing to amend its regulations for the Disaster Set-Aside (DSA) program to provide the disaster set-aside more quickly to those who can benefit most from the program. The proposed changes also will reduce the Government's risk associated with the delay in debt collection by adding security requirements.
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Associations-Community Facilities Loans
The Rural Housing Service (RHS) hereby amends the regulations utilized to administer the Community Facilities loan program to remove administrative requirements and the requirement to complete Forms RD 1942-14, 1942-43, and 1942-45 from Federal regulations. Forms RD 1942- 14, 1942-43, and 1942-45 are completed by Federal employees processing...
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Farm Labor Housing Technical Assistance
The Rural Housing Service (RHS) is amending its regulations for the Farm Labor Housing (FLH) program. The Housing Act of 1949 authorizes the RHS to provide financial assistance to private and public nonprofit agencies to encourage the development of domestic and migrant farm labor housing projects. The nonprofit agencies that receive this...
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Servicing and Collections
This rule explains the procedures used by certain Rural Development Agencies and the Farm Service Agency, Farm Loan Programs to refer accounts to the Department of the Treasury for administrative offset (TOP) and cross-servicing as required by the Debt Collection Improvement Act (DCIA), and by the Treasury Department's rules regarding the...
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Reengineering and Reinvention of the Direct Section 502 and 504 Single Family Housing (SFH) Programs
The Rural Housing Service (RHS), published an interim final rule on November 22, 1996 (61 FR 59761-59802) requesting comments on the Single Family Housing regulations. This action incorporates the changes made as a result of the comments received and is taken to further reduce unnecessary Federal regulations, improve customer service, and...
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Farm Loan Programs Account Servicing Policies-Elimination of 30-Day Past-Due Period
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) proposes to amend its regulations to eliminate the 30-day past-due period prior to a determination that the borrower is delinquent and clarify the use of the terms ``delinquent'' and ``past due'' with regard to direct loan servicing and offset. Because the regulation only allows debt writedown after a borrower...
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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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Prompt Disaster Set-Aside Consideration and Primary Loan Servicing Facilitation
Farm Service Agency (FSA) is amending its regulations for the Disaster Set-Aside (DSA) program to provide a disaster set-aside more quickly to those who can most benefit from the program. The changes also will reduce the Government's risk associated with the delay in debt collection by adding security requirements.
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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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Debt Collection Improvement Act-Treasury Offset and Cross Servicing
This action amends the regulations governing the servicing of Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) loan and grant programs by adding a section to clarify that any amounts paid by RBS on account of the liabilities of a guaranteed loan borrower will constitute a Federal debt owing to RBS by the guaranteed loan borrower. RBS may use all...
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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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Farm Loan Programs Account Servicing Policies-Elimination of 30-Day Past-Due Period
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is amending its regulations to eliminate the 30-day past-due period prior to a determination that the borrower is delinquent and clarify the use of the terms ``delinquent'' and ``past due'' with regard to direct loan servicing and offset. Because the regulation only allows debt writedown after a borrower becomes...