Department of Agriculture June 7, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

USDA announces the availability of grants through the Rural Business Opportunity Grant Program (RBOG) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012. Public bodies, nonprofit corporations, institutions of higher education, Indian tribes on Federal or State reservations and other Federally Recognized Native American Tribes or tribal groups, and rural cooperatives may apply. Approximately $2.37 million is available in reserved and unreserved funding and will be distributed as follows: $1,140,610.78 is reserved for projects benefitting Federally Recognized Native American Tribes (Native American) in rural areas and $1,230,020 is unreserved. Applications for unreserved funding are limited to $50,000 or less. Applications for reserved funding have no limit. See 7 CFR Part 4284, subpart G.

This notice lists the newspapers that will be used by the ranger districts, forests and regional office of the Intermountain Region to publish legal notices required under 36 CFR 215, 219, and 218. The intended effect of this action is to inform interested members of the public which newspapers the Forest Service will use to publish notices of proposed actions and notices of decision. This will provide the public with constructive notice of Forest Service proposals and decisions, provide information on the procedures to comment or appeal, and establish the date that the Forest Service will use to determine if comments or appeals were timely.