PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To encourage and improve the capability of State and local units of government and local nonprofit organizations in rural areas to plan, develop and carry out programs for resource conservation and development.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. AGRICULTURE;
- Resource Conservation and Development;
- Technical Assistance, Information and Services;
2. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;
- Recreation;
3. DISASTER PREVENTION AND RELIEF;
- Flood Prevention and Control;
4. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY;
- Water Pollution Control;
5. NATURAL RESOURCES;
- Water Conservation and Research;
- Community Water Supply Services;
- Wildlife Research and Preservation;
- Land Conservation;
- Recreation;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;
- Local;
- Public nonprofit institution/organization;
- Private non-profit institution/organization;
- Quasi-public non-profit organization;
- Rural;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- 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;