[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: 7CFR1780.49]

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                          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. 1780.49  Rural or Native Alaskan villages.

    (a) General. (1) This section contains regulations for providing 
grants to remedy the dire sanitation conditions in rural Alaskan 
villages using funds specifically made available for this purpose.
    (2) Unless specifically modified by this section, grants will be 
made, processed, and serviced in accordance with this subpart.
    (b) Definitions--(1) Dire sanitation condition. For the purpose of 
this section a dire sanitation condition exists where:
    (i) Recurring instances of a waterborne communicable disease have 
been documented; or
    (ii) No community-wide water and sewer system exists and individual 
residents must haul water to or human waste from their homes and/or use 
pit privies.
    (2) Rural or Native Alaskan village. A rural or Native Alaskan 
community which meets the definition of a village under State statutes 
and does not have a population in excess of 10,000 inhabitants, 
according to the latest decennial Census of the United States.
    (c) Eligibility. (1) The applicant must be a rural or Native Alaskan 
village.
    (2) The median household income of the village cannot exceed 110 
percent of the statewide nonmetropolitan household income.
    (3) A dire sanitation condition must exist in the village.
    (4) The applicant must obtain 25 percent of project development 
costs from State or local contributions. The local contribution can be 
from loan funds authorized under this part.
    (d) Grant amount. Grants will be made for up to 75 percent of the 
project development costs.
    (e) Use of funds. Grant funds can be used to pay reasonable costs 
associated with providing potable water or waste disposal services to 
residents of rural or Native Alaskan villages.
    (f) Construction. (1) If the State of Alaska is contributing to the 
project costs, the project does not have to meet the construction 
requirements of this subpart.
    (2) If a loan is made in accordance with this part for part of the 
local contribution, all of the requirements of this part apply.

[62 FR 33478, June 19, 1997, as amended at 64 FR 29946, June 4, 1999]

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