[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 15]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR4279.77]

[Page 569-570]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XLII--RURAL BUSINESS-COOPERATIVE SERVICE AND RURAL UTILITIES 
                   SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 4279_GUARANTEED LOANMAKING--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 4279.77  Minimum retention.

    The lender is required to hold in its own portfolio a minimum of 5 
percent of the total loan amount. The amount required to be maintained 
must be of the unguaranteed portion of the loan

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and cannot be participated to another. The lender may sell the remaining 
amount of the unguaranteed portion of the loan only through 
participation.