---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1776.5"
title: "7"
number: "1776.5"
heading: "Eligibility to receive a DWS grant."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1776.5"
---

# §1776.5. Eligibility to receive a DWS grant.

- (a) The applicant must be a private organization.
- (b) The applicant must be organized as a non-profit organization.
- (c) The applicant must have legal capacity and lawful authority to perform the obligations of a grant recipient under this part. Example 1: If the organization is incorporated as a non-profit corporation, it must have corporate authority under state law and its corporate charter to engage in the practice of making loans to individuals. Example 2: if the organization is an unincorporated association, state law may prevent the organization from entering into binding contracts, such as a grant agreement.
- (d) The applicant must have sufficient expertise and experience in lending and in promoting the safe and productive use of individually-owned decentralized water systems and ground water to assure the likelihood that the objectives of this part can be achieved.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1926e.

### Source

Source: 70 FR 28788, May 19, 2005, unless otherwise noted.