[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 11]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1780.36]

[Page 1046]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
    CHAPTER XVII--RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1780--WATER AND WASTE LOANS AND GRANTS--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart B--Loan and Grant Application Processing
 
Sec. 1780.36  Approving official review.

    Projects may be obligated as their applications are completed and 
approved.
    (a) Selection of applications for further processing. The 
application and supporting information submitted will be used to 
determine the applications selected for further development and funding. 
After completing the review, the approval official will normally select 
those eligible applications with the highest priority scores for further 
processing. When authorizing the development of an application for 
funding, the following will be considered:
    (1) Funds available in State allocation;
    (2) Anticipated allocation of funds for the next fiscal year; and
    (3) Time necessary for applicant to complete the application.
    (b) Lower scoring projects. (1) In cases where preliminary cost 
estimates indicate that an eligible, high scoring application is 
unfeasible or would require an amount of funding from RUS that exceeds 
either 25 percent of a State's current annual allocation or an amount 
greater than that remaining in the State's allocation, the approval 
official may instead select the next lower scoring application for 
further processing provided the high scoring applicant is notified of 
this action and given an opportunity to revise the proposal and resubmit 
it.
    (2) If it is found that there is no effective way to reduce costs or 
no other funding sources, the approval official, after consultation with 
applicant, may submit a request for an additional allocation of funds 
for the proposed project to the National Office. The request should be 
submitted during the fiscal year in which obligation is anticipated. 
Such request will be considered along with all others on hand. A written 
justification must be prepared and placed in the project file.