# Maximum Loan Amount for Business and Industry Guaranteed Loans in Fiscal Year 2014
**AGENCY:**
Rural Business-Cooperative Service, USDA.
**ACTION:**
The Notice of Funds Availability published in the *Federal Register* , Volume 78, Number 243, on December 18, 2013, that limited Business and Industry Guaranteed Loans to $10 million is hereby rescinded for Fiscal Year 2014. The carryover of unspent Fiscal Year 2013 together with Fiscal Year 2014 funds has resulted in a program level that merits the removal of the $10 million restriction.
**DATES:**
*Effective Date:* March 31, 2014.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Jerred Brown, USDA, Rural Development, Business Programs, Business and Industry Division, STOP 3224, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250-3224, telephone (202) 720-1970, email *[email protected]* .
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
This action has been reviewed and determined not to be a rule or regulation as defined in Executive Order 12866 as amended by Executive Order 13258.
Date: March 6, 2014.
Lillian E. Salerno,
Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative Service.