{"data":{"id":"us/7-cfr-1783.3","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"7 CFR 1783.3","heading":"What definitions are used in this regulation?","body":"Administrative expenses means expenses incurred by a grant recipient that are of the type more particularly described in § 1783.12.\nApplicant means a private, non-profit organization that applies for an RFP grant under this part.\nCONACT means the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.\nEligible entity means an entity eligible to obtain a loan, loan guarantee or grant under paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 of section 306(a) the CONACT (codified at 7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(1) and (2)).\nFunding opportunity announcement (FOA) means a publicly available document by which a Federal agency makes know its intentions to award discretionary grants or cooperative agreements, usually as a result of competition for funds. FOA announcements may be known as program announcements, notices of funding availability, solicitations, or other names depending on the agency and type of program. FOA announcements can be found at Grants.gov in the Search Grants tab and on the funding agency's or program's website.\nGrant agreement means the contract between RUS and the grant recipient which sets forth the terms and conditions governing a particular grant awarded under this part.\nGrant recipient means a private, non-profit entity that has been awarded a grant under this part.\nLoan recipient means an eligible entity that has received an RFP loan.\nRevolved funds means the cash portion of the revolving loan fund that is not composed of RFP grant funds, including cash comprising repayments of RFP loans, fees relating to RFP loans and interest collected on RFP loans.\nRevolving loan fund means the loan fund established by the grant recipient to carry out the purposes of this part, such fund comprising the proceeds of an RFP grant and other related assets.\nRFP means Revolving Fund Program.\nRFP grant means a grant from RUS to a grant recipient under this part.\nRFP loan means a loan from a grant recipient using the direct or indirect proceeds of an RFP grant awarded under this part.\nRural and rural area means a city, town or unincorporated area that has a population of no more than 10,000 inhabitants, and which excludes certain populations pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 1991(a)(13)(H) and (I). The population figure is obtained from the most recent decennial Census of the United States (decennial Census).\nRUS means the Rural Utilities Service, a Federal agency delivering the USDA's Rural Development Utilities Program.\nUSDA means the United States Department of Agriculture.","path":["Title 7—Agriculture","Subtitle B—Regulations of the Department of Agriculture","CHAPTER XVII—RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE","PART 1783—REVOLVING FUNDS FOR FINANCING WATER AND WASTEWATER PROJECTS (REVOLVING FUND PROGRAM)","Subpart A—General"],"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":"db0b1357e30422bdbd05feb6e0fb3aec65b3fe45351e2fbcbd8183bf70899b4f","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/7-cfr-1783.2","next":"us/7-cfr-1783.4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}