[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 177 (Thursday, September 14, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63053-63054]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-19868]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Business-Cooperative Service

[Docket #: RBS-22-BUSINESS-0029]


Notice of Processing Timeline Change for the Rural Energy for 
America Program for Fiscal Year 2023

AGENCY: Rural Business-Cooperative Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (the Agency) is issuing 
a notice of the Agency's intention to remove the self-imposed 
restriction that all Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 applications that were 
submitted under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) prior to 
June 30, 2023, and were not funded in the national unrestricted pooling 
competitions, must be withdrawn.

DATES: This notice is effective September 14, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Burns, Program Management 
Division, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, United States Department 
of Agriculture, 774-678-7238 or email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Agency published two funding opportunity notices and a 
correction notice in the Federal Register for REAP for FY23. The first 
notice published December 16, 2022 (87 FR 77059), the second notice on 
March 31, 2023 (88 FR 19239), and the correction notice published May 
31, 2023 (88 FR 34823). The two funding notices state that obligations 
will take place through

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September 30, 2023, and complete and eligible applications which were 
not funded in the national unrestricted pooling must be withdrawn. The 
Agency is removing the self-imposed deadline on the national 
unrestricted pooling competitions for FY23 due to the overwhelming 
response to REAP for FY 2023. The Agency will continue processing 
applications received by June 30, 2023, into the first quarter of FY 
2024 for participation in these national competitions. Unfunded 
applications from the national competitions will not be moved into the 
next FY 2024 funding cycle and must be withdrawn.

Karama Neal,
Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative Service.
[FR Doc. 2023-19868 Filed 9-13-23; 8:45 am]
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