---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1900.53"
title: "7"
number: "1900.53"
heading: "Applicability."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1900.53"
---

# §1900.53. Applicability.

- (a) Appeals of adverse decisions covered by this subpart will be governed by [7 CFR part 11](/cfr/7/part11.md).
- (b) The provisions of this subpart apply to adverse decisions concerning direct loans, loan guarantees, and grants under the following programs: RUS Water and Waste Disposal Facility Loans and Grants Program; RHS Housing and Community Facilities Loan Programs; RBS Loan, Grant, and Guarantee Programs and the Intermediary Relending Program; and determinations of the Rural Housing Trust 1987-1 Master Servicer.
- (c) This subpart does not apply to decisions made by parties outside an agency even when those decisions are used as a basis for decisions falling within [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, for example: decisions by state governmental construction standards-setting agencies (which may determine whether RHS will finance certain houses); Davis-Bacon wage rates; flood plain determinations; archaeological and historical areas preservation requirements; and designations of areas inhabited by endangered species.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 60 FR 67318, Dec. 29, 1995, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 7 U.S.C. 1989; 7 U.S.C. 6991, et. seq.; 42 U.S.C. 1480; Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1953 (5 U.S.C. App.).