Local Meat Capacity Grants

 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), requests applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2023 Local Meat Capacity Grants (MCap). This program supports small meat and poultry processing businesses with funds to provide more and better options to producers by increasing meat and poultry processing capacity.

Active 10.189 Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture B - Project Grants Not applicable. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) (Pub. L. No. 117-2), Part TITLE 1 – COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION, AND FORESTRY Subtitle A - Agriculture, Section Section 1001(b). Food Supply Chain and agriculture pandemic response.
This section directs the Secretary to make loans and grants and provide other assistance to maintain and improve food and agricultural supply chain resiliency. Eligible entities are described in the program's request for applications. Eligible entities must be meat and poultry processors, including entities that offer primary processing services and or further processing services, as defined below. Applicants must be domestically owned, and their facilities must be physically located within the 50 States of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Not applicable. A grant is entered between the AMS and the eligible entity that submits an application and is selected. OMB Guidance for Grants Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards at 2 CFR 200 and 2 CFR 400 applies to this program. 2 CFR 200, Subpart E - Cost Principles applies to this program. Preapplication coordination is required. An environmental impact assessment is required for this listing. 2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards applies to this program. 2 CFR Part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards applies to this program. AMS only accepts electronic applications which are submitted as specified in the RFA. Please refer to the RFA for further details for submitting applications, which will be available via Grants.gov. Any specific instructions in the RFAs supersede the general information provided in the assistance listing database. AMS outlines the application requirements and merit review process in each grant program's RFA. Applicants are required to use the RFA to apply for grant funds. After the application deadline has passed, applications will be reviewed and scored against the benchmarks for high-quality proposals described in the RFA. Deadlines are published in the request for applications. Contact the headquarters for application deadlines. From 30 to 60 days. From 1 to 15 days. Please see https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/AMSPolicyonConsiderationofLateNonresponsiveApplications.pdf Not applicable. Not applicable. Funds must be used in accordance with the requirements of the 2 CFR 200, Award Terms and Conditions, and the Request for Applications. More information can be found at www.ams.usda.gov/grants. Performance Reports: Progress, performance and financial reports are required. A final performance and financial report are required within 120 days after the expiration date of the grant period. In accordance with the provisions of 2 CFR 200, Subpart F - Audit Requirements, nonfederal entities that expend financial assistance of $750,000 or more in Federal awards will have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year. Non-Federal entities that expend less than $750,000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in 2 CFR ? 200.503. For each year that a State receives a grant under this section, the State shall conduct an audit of the expenditures of grant funds by the State in accordance with 2 CFR ? 200, Subpart F- Audit Requirements. This program is also subject to audit by the cognizant Federal audit agency and the USDA Office of Inspector General. Recipients must retain all records (including financial) relating to grant for a period of three years after the final Federal Financial Report (SF - 425) is received by AMS or until final resolution of any audit findings or litigation claims relating to this program. Statutory formula is not applicable to this assistance listing.

Matching is mandatory. Recipients will be required to provide 50% of project costs. For underserved farmers and ranchers, or for other businesses that qualify under SBA categories of Small disadvantaged business, Women-owned small business, or veteran-owned small business, the required match funding contribution or cost share must provide 25% of the project costs.

MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. Length of time of the assistance in the request for applications. Funds are advanced or reimbursed. Applicants have up to 3 calendar years to use the funds. Method of awarding/releasing assistance: See www.ams.usda.gov/grants for grant agreement award terms and conditions to obtain information on how assistance is awarded/released. Method of awarding/releasing assistance: Lump. USDA AMS Local MCap 1400 Independence Ave SW, RM 1510-S Washington, DC 20250 amsgrants@usda.gov Website: www.ams.usda.gov/grants Margaret "Megan" Haidet, Deputy Director, Grants Division
1400 Independence Avenue SW
Washington, DC 20250 USA
Margaret.Haidet@usda.gov
Phone: 202-690-1300 http://www.ams.usda.gov/grants 12-0408-1-2-605 (Project Grants) FY 22 FY 23 est $75,000,000.00; FY 24 est $0.00; - FY 2023 - $75,000,000 FY 2023 - $75,000,000 Additional information can be found at www.ams.usda.gov/grants. Not applicable.