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  • 2025-04988 — Amendment of Rural Development Funding Opportunities Pursuant to the Executive Order “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing”; Correction of Rural Energy for America Funding Notice
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    Type:Notice
    Citation:90 FR 13580
    Reading Time:about 4 minutes

    The United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development (RD) division is changing its funding opportunities to remove references to the previous Administration's key priorities and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) criteria. This update follows an Executive Order titled "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing," issued in January 2025. Programs affected by this change will no longer consider these previous criteria for application scoring. Additionally, the Rural Energy for America Program's funding notice is corrected to include $50 million from the 2018 Farm Bill that was previously omitted.

    Simple Explanation

    The USDA is changing how they give out money to help rural areas by not using some old rules and ideas that focused on fairness and diversity, following new instructions from the government. They also fixed a mistake about money info for a program that helps with energy projects in rural areas.

  • 2021-03345 — Notice for Public Comment on Administration for Native Americans' Program Policies and Procedures
    Type:Notice
    Citation:86 FR 10283
    Reading Time:about 10 minutes

    The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) is inviting the public to comment on proposed changes to their funding opportunities for Fiscal Year 2021. These changes involve updates to existing programs like Environmental Regulatory Enhancement and Native American Language Preservation, among others. They include new guidelines for intellectual property protection, eligibility criteria, and application requirements. The ANA plans to implement these changes unless significant feedback is received before March 22, 2021.

    Simple Explanation

    The Administration for Native Americans wants to change some rules about who can get their money and how, and they're asking people to share their thoughts about these changes before March 22, 2021. They're trying to make it fairer, but they need people to help them figure out if that's really happening.