657 guarantees made in fiscal year 1999. REGULATIONS, GUIDELINES, AND LITERATURE: Direct Loans: 7 CFR Part 1980-E, Section 1980.401 through 1980.500. Guaranteed Loans: 7 CFR Part 4279-A, Section 4279.1 through 4279.100, Part 4279-B, Section 4279.101 through 4279.200, and Part 4287-B, Section 4287.101 through 4279.200. INFORMATION CONTACTS: Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for appropriate Rural Development State Office Headquarters Office: Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. 20250-3201. 80 Telephone: (202) 690-4730. Use the same number for FTS. FAX: (202) 690-4737. Web Site Address: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov. EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Loans made and guaranteed by RBS have been in order to assist a wide variety of manufacturing, retail, wholesale, and service businesses. Some recent loans and loan guarantees have assisted an agribusiness in expanding its service area, helped a radio station begin operations, provided access to capital for a catfish farm, assisted a textile firm in modernizing and expanding its operations, and provided working capital and financing for machinery and equipment for a printing company. CRITERIA FOR SELECTING PROPOSALS: (1) Those projects that will save existing jobs, (2) improve existing business and industry, (3) create the greatest number of permanent jobs,
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