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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 161 / Tuesday, August 24, 2021 / Notices
underserved groups requires creative approaches to meeting time and capacity restraints. Incubating co-ops, implementing build and recruit methods, and developing a cooperative franchise are all examples of innovative approaches. How can these approaches be structured to clarify members responsibilities versus the co-op development centers responsibility?
5. The authorizing statute prioritizes applications that network with and share the results of their center with other cooperative centers and organizations involved in rural economic development. What suggestions do you have for documenting the results of networking with other cooperative development centers and organizations involved in rural economic development efforts?
6. The authorizing statute prioritizes applications that include multistate and multiorganization approaches to rural economic development. What suggestions do you have for documenting these approaches?
7. The authorizing statute requires applicants to take all practicable steps to develop continuing sources of financial support, particularly from private sector sources to support the sustainability of a center. How should an applicant demonstrate this requirement? What criteria or factors should the Agency use to determine sustainability of a center?
How would the Agency verify this information beyond written application narration?
8. The authorizing statute permits the Agency to make multiyear awards, up to a 3-year period of performance for centers that have been previously awarded under this program and have a successful record of performance. What criteria or factors should the Agency focus on in determining eligibility for applicants proposing multiyear awards?
9. RBCS is seeking feedback on how the programs performance should be assessed. As stated above, the purpose of the program is to improve the economic conditions of rural areas through cooperative development. The required goals of recipients must include facilitating the creation of jobs in rural areas through the development of new rural cooperatives, value-added processing, and other rural businesses.
Given this purpose and these goals, what performance measures should be established for the program? How should they be measured?
10. RBCS is seeking feedback on how an applicant can demonstrate the successful establishment of a cooperative or mutually owned business given the varying state incorporation laws. What documentation should the
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11. RBCS is seeking feedback on how applicants can document previous expertise when the outcome was no incorporation of a cooperative or mutually owned business. Applicants are required to discuss their cooperative development expertise when making an application to the Agency. This information is used as part of the meritbased scoring process. Experience has shown that not all cooperative development efforts result in the incorporation of a new cooperative; in fact, with some projects the most prudent advice is not to proceed. How should no-go cooperative development technical assistance efforts be recognized by the Agency and documented by the applicant to show previous cooperative development expertise?
12. RBCS seeks feedback on when the application deadline for the program should be. It is our intention to have a consistent deadline from year to year, rather than released at variable times through a Federal Register Notice. We also must allow sufficient time for processing applications in order to make awards and obligate funds prior to September 30 each year.

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COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS
Sunshine Act Meetings United States Commission on Civil Rights.
ACTION: Notice of commission public business meeting.
AGENCY:

DATES:

Friday, August 20, 2021, 12 p.m.

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Meeting to take place by telephone and is open to the public by telephone: 18006357637, Conference ID : 8000136.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Angelia Rorison: 2023767700;
publicaffairs@usccr.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the Government in Sunshine Act 5 U.S.C. 552b, the Commission on Civil Rights is holding a meeting to discuss the Commissions business for the month of August. This meeting is open to the public. Computer assisted real-time transcription CART
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player?event=USCCR. Please note that CART is text-only translation that occurs in real time during the meeting and is not an exact transcript.
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