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  • Drought Mitigation

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    Agency: Department of the Interior-Bureau of Reclamation   Description: Grants, contracts, or financial assistance agreements to complete short-term bridging actions and longer-term durable actions to protect the Colorado River and the 40 million people it serves and possibly other basins experiencing a comparable level of long-term drought, such as the Sacramento-San Joaquin, Klamath, and Rio…

  • USDA Assistance and Support for Underserved Farmers, Ranchers, Foresters: Discrimination Financial Assistance

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture-Office of the Secretary   Description: To provide financial assistance to producers that have experienced discrimination in the Department of Agriculture’s farm lending programs prior to January 1, 2021. Bill Section: 22007(e) US Code: 7 USC 2279 New or Existing: New Potential Cost:      $2,200,000,000 Timeline:      FY22-31   TCS Notes: In…

  • USDA Assistance and Support for Underserved Farmers, Ranchers, Foresters: Equity Commission

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture-Office of the Secretary   Description: To fund the activities of one or more equity commissions that will address racial equity issues within the USDA and the programs of the USDA. Bill Section: 22007(c) US Code: 7 USC 2279 New or Existing: New Potential Cost:      $10,000,000 Timeline:      FY22-31   TCS…

  • USDA Assistance and Support for Underserved Farmers, Ranchers, Foresters: Technical and Other Assistance

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture-Office of the Secretary   Description: To provide funding for outreach, mediation, financial training, capacity building training, cooperative development and agricultural credit training and support, and other technical assistance on issues concerning food, agriculture, agricultural credit, agricultural extension, rural development, or nutrition to underserved farmers, ranchers, or forest landowners, including veterans, limited…

  • Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture-Rural Business-Cooperative Service   Description: Competitive grants to transportation fueling facilities and fuel distribution facilities to increase the sale and use of higher blend biofuels – blends greater than 10% for ethanol and 5% for biodiesel – through infrastructure improvements for blending, storing, supplying, or distributing biofuels. Bill Section: 22003 US Code:…

  • Rural Energy for America Program (REAP)

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture-Rural Business-Cooperative Service   Description: To provide guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements. Agricultural producers may also apply for new energy efficient equipment and new system loans for agricultural production and processing. Bill Section: 22002(a)…

  • Empowering Rural America (New ERA)

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture-Rural Utilities Service   Description: Loans and other financial assistance for “… the greatest reduction in carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions associated with rural electric systems through the purchase of renewable energy, renewable energy systems, zero-emission systems, and carbon capture and storage systems, to deploy such systems, or to make…

  • Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) program

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture-Rural Utilities Service   Description: To provide partially forgivable loans to renewable-energy developers and electric service providers, including municipals, cooperatives, and investor-owned and Tribal utilities, to help finance large-scale solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, hydropower projects and energy storage in support of renewable energy systems. Projects must be based on bankable power purchase…

  • Grants to Facilitate the Siting of Interstate Electricity Transmission Lines

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    Agency: Department of Energy – Grid Deployment Office   Description: For grants to State, local, or Tribal governments to study the impacts of a high-voltage interstate or offshore electricity transmission line; study alternate locations for the project; participate in regulatory proceedings or negotiations; carry out other actions to support the speedy approval of the project;…

  • Transmission Facility Financing

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    Agency: Department of Energy – Grid Deployment Office   Description: Loans “for the construction or modification of electric transmission facilities” in the national interest. Bill Section: 50151 US Code: 42 USC 18715 New or Existing: New Potential Cost:      $2,030,000,000 Timeline:      FY22-30   TCS Notes: To be eligible for a direct loan, a transmission…