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Title 7 → Subtitle B → Chapter XVII → Part 1776 → Subpart B → §1776.5

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Title 7: Agriculture
PART 1776—RURAL DECENTRALIZED WATER SYSTEMS
Subpart B—DWS Grants

§1776.5 Eligibility to receive a DWS grant.

(a) The applicant must be a private organization.

(b) The applicant must be organized as a non-profit organization.

(c) The applicant must have legal capacity and lawful authority to perform the obligations of a grant recipient under this part. Example 1: If the organization is incorporated as a non-profit corporation, it must have corporate authority under state law and its corporate charter to engage in the practice of making loans to individuals. Example 2: if the organization is an unincorporated association, state law may prevent the organization from entering into binding contracts, such as a grant agreement.

(d) The applicant must have sufficient expertise and experience in lending and in promoting the safe and productive use of individually-owned decentralized water systems and ground water to assure the likelihood that the objectives of this part can be achieved.

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