OpportunityTitle: Renewable Energy for America Program
CategoryExplanation: REAP provides grants to agricultural producers and rural small businesses to purchase and install renewable energy systems or make energy efficiency improvements. The program is designed to help agricultural producers and rural small businesses reduce energy costs and consumption and help meet the Nation&#146;s critical energy needs.
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: To be eligible  for this program, an applicant must  meet the eligibility requirements  specified in 7 CFR 4280.109, 7 CFR  4280.110(c), and, as applicable, 7 CFR  4280.112, or 7 CFR 4280.122.  For the purpose of this Notice, and in  addition to meeting the small business  size determination as defined under  small business in 7 CFR 4280.103, rural  small business applicants must  demonstrate that the majority (i.e., 51  percent or more) of their past 3 years&#146;  annual receipts from their business  operation are derived from a rural area.  If the rural small business applicant has  not engaged in business operations for  the past 3 years, then information for as  long as the rural small business  applicant has been in business must be  submitted. To ensure that there is  sufficient information for the Agency to  make this determination, rural small  business applicants, as part of their  application requirements in 7 CFR  4280.116(b)(3)(v)(A), should list the  physical address, total annual receipts,  and number of employees for each  urban or rural location. The Agency will  make this determination for rural small  business applicants that do not have any  annual receipts (new businesses only)  on the location of the rural small  business applicant.
Description: REAP provides grants to agricultural producers and rural small businesses to purchase and install renewable energy systems or make energy efficiency improvements. The program is designed to help agricultural producers and rural small businesses reduce energy costs and consumption and help meet the Nation&#146;s critical energy needs.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Program Contact
GrantorContactText: Kelley  Oehler &lt;br/&gt;Branch Chief, USDA Rural Development, Energy Division &lt;br/&gt;
CloseDateExplanation: Grant applications and  combined grant and guaranteed loan  applications for renewable energy  systems and energy efficiency  improvement projects under this Notice  will be accepted up to July 7, 2014.  Guaranteed loan only applications for  renewable energy system and energy  efficiency improvement projects will be  accepted on a continuous basis, but to  compete for Fiscal Year 2014 funding,  complete applications must be  submitted to the Agency by July 31,  2014.  For all applications submitted under  this Notice, complete applications must  be received by the appropriate USDA  Rural Development State Office no later  than 4:30 p.m. local time of the  applicable application deadline date in  order to be considered for Fiscal Year  2014 funds. Any application received  after its applicable date and time,  regardless of the postmark on the  application, will not be considered for  Fiscal Year 2014 funds.