PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To construct, enlarge, extend, or otherwise improve community facilities providing essential services to rural residents.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. BUSINESS AND COMMERCE;
- Economic Development;
- Economic Injury and Natural Disaster;
2. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;
- Rural Community Development;
- Recreation;
- Site Acquisition;
- Land Acquisition;
- Fire Protection;
3. DISASTER PREVENTION AND RELIEF;
- Flood Prevention and Control;
4. EDUCATION;
- Educational Facilities;
5. HEALTH;
- Facility Planning and Construction;
6. TRANSPORTATION;
- Highways, Public Roads, and Bridges;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Farmer/Rancher/Agriculture Producer;
- Rural;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- Intrastate;
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- U.S. Territories and possessions (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Private non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Quasi-public non-profit institution/organization;
- Native American Organizations (includes Indian groups, cooperatives, corporations, partnerships, associations);