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Notices
Federal Register Vol. 86, No. 20
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER
contains documents other than rules or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings, delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency statements of organization and functions are examples of documents appearing in this section.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Housing Service Docket No. RHS21MFH0004

Notice of Solicitation of Applications for Section 514 Off-Farm Labor Housing Loans and Section 516 OffFarm Labor Housing Grants for New Construction for Fiscal Year 2021
Rural Housing Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Rural Housing Service RHS, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture USDA, announces that it is soliciting competitive pre-applications for Section 514 Off-Farm Labor Housing Off-FLH
loans and Section 516 Off-FLH grants for the construction of new Off-FLH
units for domestic farm laborers, retired domestic farm laborers, or disabled domestic farm laborers. The program objective is to increase the supply of affordable housing for farm laborers.
This Notice describes the method used to distribute funds, the pre-application and final application process, and submission requirements.
DATES: Eligible pre-applications submitted to the Production and Preservation Division, Processing and Report Review Branch, for this Notice will be accepted until November 1, 2022, 12:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. See the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section for additional information.
ADDRESSES: Applications to this Notice must be submitted electronically to the Production and Preservation Division, Processing and Report Review Branch.
Specific instructions on how to submit applications electronically are provided below within this Notice under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jonathan Bell, Branch Chief, Processing
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and Report Review Branch 1, Production and Preservation Division, Multifamily Housing Programs, Rural Development, United States Department of Agriculture, via email:
MFHprocessing1@usda.gov or phone at:
2547429764.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The amount of program dollars available will be determined by yearly appropriations. Available loan and grant funding amounts can be found at the following link: https
www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/
farm-labor-housing-direct-loans-grants.
Expenses incurred in developing preapplications and final applications will be at the applicants sole risk.
Application Submission Deadlines There will be three rounds of preapplication submissions and selections set forth below. Pre-applications that are deemed eligible but are not selected for further processing for each individual fiscal year that this Notice is open, will be withdrawn from processing. The applicant may reapply in a future funding round. RHS will not consider any application that is received after the established deadlines unless the date and time are extended by another Notice published in the Federal Register. RHS
may at any time supplement, extend, amend, modify, or supersede this Notice by publishing another Notice in the Federal Register.
The application deadlines are as follows:
First Round 1. Available loan and grant funding posted to the RHS website by February 5, 2021.
2. Pre-applications must be submitted by April 1, 2021, 12:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time.
3. RHS notification to applicants by June 1, 2021.
4. Pre-application selections posted to the RHS website by July 1, 2021.
5. Final applications must be submitted by August 2, 2021, 12:00
p.m., Eastern Standard Time.
6. Funds must be obligated by September 30, 2021.
Second Round 1. Available loan and grant funding posted to the RHS website by August 2, 2021.
2. Pre-applications will be accepted after September 1, 2021.

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3. Pre-applications must be submitted by November 1, 2021, 12:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time.
4. RHS notification to applicants by January 4, 2022.
5. Pre-application selections posted to the RHS website by March 1, 2022.
6. Final applications must be submitted by May 2, 2022, 12:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time.
7. Funds must be obligated by September 30, 2022.
Third Round 1. Available loan and grant funding posted to the RHS website by August 1, 2022.
2. Pre-applications will be accepted after September 1, 2022.
3. Pre-applications must be submitted by November 1, 2022, 12:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time.
4. RHS notification to applicants by January 2, 2023.
5. Pre-application selections posted to the RHS website by March 1, 2023.
6. Final applications must be submitted by May 1, 2023, 12:00 p.m., local time.
7. Funds must be obligated by September 29, 2023.
Priority Language for Funding Opportunities RHS encourages applications that will help advance equity and improve outcomes in rural America. To encourage investments in rural properties, RHS will award points to projects located in rural Opportunity Zones where projects should provide measurable results in helping communities build robust and sustainable economies. An Opportunity Zone is an economically distressed community where new investments, under certain conditions, may be eligible for preferential tax treatment.
Localities qualify as Opportunity Zones if they have been nominated for that designation by the state and that nomination has been certified by the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury via his delegation of authority to the Internal Revenue Service. See https
www.irs.gov/newsroom/opportunityzones-frequently-asked-questions for more information.
To focus investments in areas where the need for increased prosperity is greatest, RHS will set aside 10 percent of the available funds for applications that will serve persistent poverty
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