Using the Hazard Mitigation Plan to Prepare Successful Mitigation ...

Agency
USDA: Rural
Business–
Cooperative
Service
USDA: Rural
Business–
Cooperative
Service
USDA: Rural
Housing
Service
USDA: Rural
Utilities
Service
USDA: Rural
Utilities
Service
Type of
Program Purpose Eligible Applicants
Grants for rural To improve economic Non-profit corporation,
cooperative conditions through creation universities and colleges
development or retention of jobs in rural
areas through cooperative
Grants and
loans for rural
economic
development
Community
facilities loans
and grants
Grants and
loans for
communities
with high
energy costs
Community
Connect Grant
Program
development.
To study feasibility of projects
for rural economic
development and job creation
To construct, enlarge, extend
or otherwise improve
community facilities providing
essential services, such as
child care, food distribution,
and education, assisted living
facilities, group homes,
mental health clinics, and
shelters
To acquire, construct,
extend, upgrade, and
improve energy generation,
transmission, or distribution
facilities in rural communities
with extremely high energy
costs defined as 275 percent
of the national average cost
or more
To improve connectivity in
rural areas through
broadband transmission
services including
construction, acquisition,
expansion, and/or operation
of a community center
providing such services
Electric and telephone utilities
that have current loans with
the Rural Utilities Service
State agencies, Indian Tribes,
local governments, non-profit
organizations
Political subdivisions of States,
businesses, cooperatives,
associations, organizations,
and other entities organized
under the laws of a State or
Indian Tribes
Indian Tribes, local
governments, or other legal
entity, including cooperatives
or private corporations of
limited liability that have the
legal authority to own and
operate broadband facilities
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