---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 771.4"
title: "7"
number: "771.4"
heading: "Eligibility requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/771.4"
---

# §771.4. Eligibility requirements.

- (a) **An eligible applicant must—**
  - (1) Meet all requirements prescribed by APHIS to qualify for cost-share grant funds as determined by APHIS, (FSA will accept the determination by APHIS as to an organization's qualification);
  - (2) Have the appropriate charter and/or legal authority as a non-profit corporation or as a State organization specifically organized to operate the boll weevil eradication program in any State, biological, or geographic region of any State in which it operates;
  - (3) Possess the legal authority to enter into contracts, including debt instruments;
  - (4) Operate in an area in which producers have approved a referendum authorizing producer assessments and in which an active eradication or post-eradication program is underway or scheduled to begin no later than the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the application is submitted;
  - (5) **Have the legal authority to pledge producer assessments as security for loans from FSA.**
- (b) **Individual producers are not eligible for loans.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 7 U.S.C. 1989; and Pub. L. 104-180, 110 Stat. 1569.

### Source

Source: 67 FR 59771, Sept. 24, 2002, unless otherwise noted.