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31266 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 111 / Friday, June 11, 2021 / Notices 1. Allow for any public comments; through cooperative development. examples and illustrations in the 2. Discuss and approve guiding Eligible applicants are non-profit Application Template. Prior to official documents; corporations and institutions of higher submission of applications, applicants 3. Discuss the project proposal education. may request technical assistance or process; DATES: Completed applications must be other application guidance from the 4. Hear project proposal submitted electronically by no later than Agency, as long as such requests are presentations; and 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, August 10, made prior to July 12, 2021. Agency 5. Discuss, recommend, and approve 2021, through Grants.gov, to be eligible contact information can be found in projects that have been submitted. for grant funding. Please review the Section D of this document. Hemp Related Projects: Please note The meetings are open to the public. Grants.gov website at https:// that no assistance or funding can be The agendas will include time for www.grants.gov/web/grants/ provided to a hemp producer unless people to make oral statements of three register.html for instructions on the they have a valid license issued from an minutes or less. Individuals wishing to process of registering your organization approved State, Tribal or Federal plan make an oral statement should request as soon as possible to ensure that you in writing by the Tuesday before each of as defined by the Agriculture are able to meet the electronic Improvement Act of 2018, Public Law the scheduled meetings to be scheduled application deadline. Late applications on the agenda for that particular 115–334. Verification of valid hemp are not eligible for funding under this licenses will occur at the time of award. meeting. Anyone who would like to Notice and will not be evaluated. bring related matters to the attention of Persistent Poverty Counties: Section ADDRESSES: You are encouraged to the committee may file written 736 of the Consolidated Appropriations contact your USDA Rural Development statements with the committee staff Act, 2021, designates funding for State Office well in advance of the before or after the meetings. Written projects in Persistent Poverty counties. application deadline to discuss your comments and requests for time for oral Persistent Poverty counties as defined in project and ask any questions about the comments must be sent to Lejon Section 736 is ‘‘any county that has had RCDG program or the application Hamann, RAC Coordinator, 3644 Avtech 20 percent or more of its population process. Contact information for State Parkway, Redding, California 96002; or living in poverty over the past 30 years, Offices can be found at http:// by email to [email protected]. as measured by the 1990 and 2000 www.rd.usda.gov/contact-us/state- Meeting Accommodations: If you are decennial censuses, and 2007–2011 offices. a person requiring reasonable American Community Survey 5-year Program guidance as well as average, or any territory or possession of accommodation, please make requests application and matching funds in advance for sign language the United States.’’ Another provision in templates may be obtained at http:// Section 736 expands the eligible interpreting, assistive listening devices, www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/ population in Persistent Poverty or other reasonable accommodation. For rural-cooperative-development-grant- counties to include any county seat of access to the facility or proceedings, program. To submit an electronic such a persistent poverty county that please contact the person listed in the application, follow the instructions for has a population that does not exceed section titled FOR FURTHER INFORMATION the RCDG funding announcement the authorized population limit by more CONTACT. All reasonable located at http://www.grants.gov. than 10 percent. This provision expands accommodation requests are managed FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa the current 50,000 population limit to on a case-by-case basis. Sharp, Program Management Division, 55,000 for only county seats located in Dated: June 7, 2021. Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Persistent Poverty counties. Therefore, Cikena Reid, United States Department of applicants and/or beneficiaries of USDA Committee Management Officer. Agriculture, 1400 Independence Avenue technical assistance services located in [FR Doc. 2021–12260 Filed 6–10–21; 8:45 am] SW, Mail Stop-3226, Room 5160-South, Persistent Poverty county seats with BILLING CODE 3411–15–P Washington, DC 20250–3226, (202) 720– populations up to 55,000 (per the 2010 1400 or email to [email protected]. census) are eligible. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: COVID–19 Administrative Relief DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Exceptions: The Agency reviewed the Overview Office of Budget and Management’s Rural Business-Cooperative Service Federal Agency: Rural Business- (OMB) Memorandum M–20–17 entitled ‘‘Administrative Relief for Recipients [Docket #: RBS–21–CO–OP–0015] Cooperative Service. Funding Opportunity Title: Rural and Applicants of Federal Financial Inviting Applications for Rural Cooperative Development Grants. Assistance Directly Impacted by the Cooperative Development Grants Announcement Type: Initial Notice. Novel Coronavirus (COVID–19) due to Catalog of Federal Domestic Loss of Operations’’, and OMB AGENCY: Rural Business-Cooperative Assistance Number: 10.771. Memorandum M–20–11, Service, USDA. Date: Application Deadline. ‘‘Administrative Relief for Recipients ACTION: Notice of funding availability. Electronic applications must be received and Applicants of Federal Financial by http://www.grants.gov no later than Assistance Directly Impacted by the SUMMARY: This Notice announces that 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, August 10, Novel Coronavirus (COVID–19)’’, and the Rural Business-Cooperative Service 2021, or it will not be considered for has made every attempt to reduce (Agency) is accepting fiscal year (FY) funding. administrative burden within our 2021 applications for the Rural The Application Template provides authority. Any reduction in burden will Cooperative Development Grant (RCDG) specific, detailed instructions for each be discussed within the requirement. program. The program funding level for item of a complete application. The FY 2021 is a total of $5.8 million. The Agency emphasizes the importance of Paperwork Reduction Act purpose of this program is to provide including every item and strongly In accordance with the Paperwork financial assistance to improve the encourages applicants to follow the Reduction Act, the paperwork burden economic condition of rural areas instructions carefully, using the associated with this Notice has been VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:14 Jun 10, 2021 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11JNN1.SGM 11JNN1 jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 111 / Friday, June 11, 2021 / Notices 31267 approved by the Office of Management Agency is clarifying those terms for the applicant has been debarred or and Budget (OMB) under OMB Control purpose of this program as follows: suspended. In addition, an applicant Number 0570–0006. Conflict of interest—A situation in will be considered ineligible for a grant which a person or entity has competing due to an outstanding judgment A. Program Description personal, professional, or financial obtained by the U.S. in a Federal Court The RCDG program is authorized interests that make it difficult for the (other than U.S. Tax Court), is under section 310B(e) of the person or business to act impartially. delinquent on the payment of Federal Consolidated Farm and Rural Regarding use of both grant and income taxes, or is delinquent on Development Act (CONACT) (7 U.S.C. matching funds, Federal procurement Federal debt. See 7 CFR 4284.6. The 1932(e)), as amended by the Agriculture standards prohibit transactions that applicant must certify as part of the Improvement Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115– involve a real or apparent conflict of application that they do not have an 334). You are required to comply with interest for owners, employees, officers, outstanding judgment against them. The the regulations for this program agents, or their immediate family Agency will check the Do Not Pay published at 7 CFR part 4284, subparts members having a financial or other System at the time of application and A and F, which are incorporated by interest in the outcome of the project; or also prior to funding any grant award to reference in this Notice. Therefore, you that restrict open and free competition verify this information. should become familiar with these for unrestrained trade. Specifically, b. Any corporation that has been regulations. The primary objective of the project funds may not be used for convicted of a felony criminal violation RCDG program is to improve the services or goods going to, or coming under any Federal law within the past economic condition of rural areas from, a person or entity with a real or 24 months or that has any unpaid through cooperative development. apparent conflict of interest, including, Federal tax liability that has been Grants are awarded on a competitive but not limited to, owner(s) and their assessed, for which all judicial and basis. The maximum award amount per immediate family members. An example administrative remedies have been grant is $200,000. Grants are available of a conflict of interest occurs when an exhausted or have lapsed, and that is for non-profit corporations and employee of the grantee, an individual not being paid in a timely manner institutions of higher education only. on the grantee’s board of directors, or an pursuant to an agreement with the Grant funds may be used to pay for up immediate family member of either, has authority responsible for collecting the to 75 percent of the cost of establishing the appearance of a professional or tax liability, is not eligible for financial and operating centers for rural personal financial interest in the assistance provided with funds cooperative development.