[Federal Register: March 4, 2011 (Volume 76, Number 43)]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Foreign Agricultural Service
 
Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement Projects

AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), on behalf of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), has closed the application period 
for field-based projects under the USDA Local and Regional Food Aid 
Procurement Pilot Project (USDA LRP Project). All available funding for 
field-based projects has been allocated.

DATES: Effective March 4, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jamie Fisher, Chief, Local and 
Regional Procurement, Food Assistance Division, Foreign Agricultural 
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Stop 1034, 1400 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-1034; or by phone (202) 720-5620; or 
by fax: (202) 690-0251; or by e-mail: LRP@fas.usda.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 3206 of the Food, Conservation, and 
Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 1726c) directed the Secretary of 
Agriculture (the Secretary) to implement a local and regional food aid 
procurement pilot project in developing countries. The Secretary was 
directed to use CCC funds in the following amounts to carry out the 
pilot project:
     $5 million for fiscal year 2009;
     $25 million for fiscal year 2010;
     $25 million for fiscal year 2011; and
     $5 million for fiscal year 2012.

The USDA LRP Project Interim Guidelines provide that FAS will accept 
applications for funding until June 1, 2011 unless FAS publishes a 
notice in the Federal Register to close or extend the application 
period. FAS has allocated all available funding for field-based 
projects, and therefore, by this notice, is closing the application 
period.

    Dated: February 11, 2011.
John D. Brewer,
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, and Vice President, 
Commodity Credit Corporation.
[FR Doc. 2011-4872 Filed 3-3-11; 8:45 am]
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