[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 14]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1951.221]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
   CHAPTER XVIII--RURAL HOUSING SERVICE, RURAL BUSINESS--COOPERATIVE 
SERVICE, RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, AND FARM SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF 
                         AGRICULTURE (CONTINUED)
 
PART 1951--SERVICING AND COLLECTIONS--Table of Contents
 
Subpart E--Servicing of Community and Direct Business Programs Loans and 
                                 Grants
 
Sec. 1951.221  Collections, payments and refunds.

    Collections are processed in accordance with subpart B of part 1951 
of this chapter. Payments and refunds are handled in accordance with the 
following:
    (a) Community and Insured Business Programs. (1) Field offices can 
obtain data on principal installments due for Community and Insured 
Business Programs loans with unamortized installments using the borrower 
status screen option in the ADPS.
    (2) Regular payments for Community and Insured Business Programs 
borrowers are all payments other than extra payments and refunds. Such 
payments are usually derived from facility revenues, and do not include 
proceeds from the sale of security. They also include payments derived 
from sources which do not decrease the value of FmHA or its successor 
agency under Public Law 103-354's security.
    (i) Distribution of such payments is made as follows:
    (A) First, to the FmHA or its successor agency under Public Law 103-
354 loan(s) in proportion to the delinquency existing on each. Any 
excess will be distributed in accordance with paragraphs (a)(2)(i) (B) 
and (C) of this section.
    (B) Second, to the FmHA or its successor agency under Public Law 
103-354 loan or loans in proportion to the approximate amounts due on 
each. Any excess will be distributed according to paragraph (a)(2)(i)(C) 
of this section.
    (C) Third, as advance payments on FmHA or its successor agency under 
Public Law 103-354 loans. In making such distributions, consider the 
principal balance outstanding on each loan, the security position of the 
liens securing each loan, the borrower's request, and related 
circumstances.
    (ii) Unless otherwise established by the debt instrument, regular 
payments will be applied as follows:
    (A) For amortized loans, first to interest accrued (as of the date 
of receipt of the payment), and then to principal.
    (B) For principal-plus-interest loans, first to the interest due 
through the date of the next scheduled installment of principal and 
interest and then to principal due, with any balance applied to the next 
scheduled principal installment.
    (3) Extra payments are derived from sale of basic chattel or real 
estate security; refund of unused loan funds; cash proceeds of property 
insurance as provided in Sec. 1806.5(b) of subpart A of part 1806 
(paragraph V B of FmHA or its successor agency under Public Law 103-354 
Instruction 426.1); and similar actions which reduce the value of basic 
security. At the option of the borrower, regular facility revenue may 
also be used as extra payments when regular payments are current. Unless 
otherwise established in the note or bond, extra payments will be 
distributed and applied as follows:
    (i) First to the account secured by the lowest priority of lien on 
the property from which the extra payment was obtained. Any balance will 
be applied to other FmHA or its successor agency under Public Law 103-
354 loans in ascending order of priority.
    (ii) For amortized loans, first to interest accrued to the date 
payment is received, and then to principal. For debt instruments with 
installments of principal plus interest, such payments will be applied 
to the final unpaid principal installment.
    (b) Grazing Association Loans, Irrigation, Drainage and other Soil 
and Water Conservation Loans. (1) Regular payments for such loans are 
defined in

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Sec. 1951.8(a) of subpart A of part 1951 of this chapter, and are 
distributed according to Sec. 1951.9(a) of that subpart unless otherwise 
established by the note or bond.
    (2) Extra payments are defined in Sec. 1951.8(b) of subpart A of 
part 1951 of this chapter, and are distributed according to 
Sec. 1951.9(b) of that subpart.

[55 FR 4399, Feb. 8, 1990, as amended at 66 FR 1569, Jan. 9, 2001]