{"data":{"id":"us/7-cfr-1776.5","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"7 CFR 1776.5","heading":"Eligibility to receive a DWS grant.","body":"(a) The applicant must be a private organization.\n(b) The applicant must be organized as a non-profit organization.\n(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.\n(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.","path":["Title 7—Agriculture","Subtitle B—Regulations of the Department of Agriculture","CHAPTER XVII—RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE","PART 1776—RURAL DECENTRALIZED WATER SYSTEMS","Subpart B—DWS Grants"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-7.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:01Z","sha256":"21af566aa9dd222f1414769e2faa22ae5f4ec705605d9276d7b3357c24a42bb0","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/7-cfr-1776.4","next":"us/7-cfr-1776.6"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}