[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 73 (Friday, April 15, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22499-22500]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-08243]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Business-Cooperative Service

[Docket #: RBS-21-BUSINESS-0039]


Notice of Application Deadline Extension for the Rural Innovation 
Stronger Economy (RISE) Grant Program for Fiscal Year 2022

AGENCY: Rural Business-Cooperative Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (Agency), an agency of 
the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), published a Notice 
of Solicitation of Applications (NOSA) for the Rural Innovation 
Stronger Economy (RISE) program for fiscal year (FY) 2022, on December 
20, 2021. This notice is being issued to extend the application 
deadline from April 19, 2022, to May 19, 2022, due to a technical issue 
with the Agency's method for receiving concept proposals. In addition, 
this notice is requesting that potential applicants that submitted 
concept proposals on or prior to February 18, 2022, reach out to the 
Agency if they did not receive a response from the Agency regarding 
their submittal.

DATES: This Notice is applicable beginning April 15, 2022.
    Applicants that submitted a concept proposal by February 18, 2022, 
but did not receive communication from the Agency must contact the 
Agency by April 26, 2022.
    Completed applications must be submitted electronically by no later 
than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, May 19, 2022, through Grants.gov, to be 
eligible for grant funding.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information on this notice 
and for potential applicants that did not receive communication on 
their concept proposal submittal, please contact Rachel Reister, 
Program Management Division, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, United 
States Department of Agriculture, via phone (503) 414-3393 or email 
[email protected] to ensure a timely response.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Agency published a NOSA in the Federal 
Register on December 20, 2021 (86 FR 71868), and a corresponding 
correction on February 14, 2022 (87 FR

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8217), to solicit applications for the RISE program for FY 2022. The 
NOSA afforded potential applicants an opportunity to electronically 
submit concept proposals for review by the Agency at [email protected] no later than February 18, 2022, in accordance with 7 
CFR 4284.1115(a). The Agency experienced technical issues with its 
receiving method as the email inbox referenced above did not allow 
properly submitted proposals to be accepted through the intake system.
    Potential applicants that submitted their concept proposals by the 
deadline but did not receive communication from the Agency are asked to 
reach out to Rachel Reister as identified in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this Notice by no later than April 26, 
2022, so the Agency can provide feedback on the concept proposals.

Karama Neal,
Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative Service.
[FR Doc. 2022-08243 Filed 4-13-22; 4:15 pm]
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