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  • 2021-00134 — Inviting Applications for the Rural Energy for America Program; Correction
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    Type:Notice
    Citation:86 FR 3991
    Reading Time:about a minute or two

    The Rural Business-Cooperative Service of the USDA released a correction to a previous notice about the Rural Energy for America Program. The original notice contained mistakes regarding the points given for the size of the funding request and for applicants who hadn’t received grants or loan commitments in the past two years. The corrections specify that applicants who haven’t recently received funding can earn 5 extra points. Additionally, smaller grant requests can qualify for 10 extra points, with a total maximum score possible of 100 points for those applications.

    Simple Explanation

    The Rural Business-Cooperative Service made some changes to the rules for a program that helps people in the countryside get energy grants or loans. They fixed a mistake to let people earn more points if they ask for a smaller grant or haven't gotten money in the last two years, and now they can get up to 100 points.

  • 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.