---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 4280.43"
title: "7"
number: "4280.43"
heading: "Discretionary points."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/4280.43"
---

# §4280.43. Discretionary points.


The RBS Administrator has the discretion to designate up to 25 points (no more than 5 points for each of the following elements) based on whether the Project:

- (a) Is located in a Rural Empowerment Zone, Rural Economic Area Partnership Zone, Rural Enterprise Community, or Champion Community;
- (b) Is located in a county that has experienced the loss, removal, or closing of a major source or sources of employment in the last 3 years which causes an increase of 2 percentage points or more in the county's most recent unemployment rate compared with the same period immediately before the dislocation;
- (c) Is located in a county that has experienced chronic or long-term economic deterioration;
- (d) Is located in a county that was designated a disaster area by the President of the United States that significantly affected rural economic development and job creation. The county must have been designated within 3 years prior to filing of the completed application with Rural Development; or
- (e) Is consistent with the Rural Development State Office's approved strategic plan and mission area objectives and is identified as a priority area for assistance in the States' plan.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 72 FR 29843, May 30, 2007, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1989(a), 7 U.S.C. 2008s.

### Source

Source: 70 FR 41303, July 18, 2005, unless otherwise noted.