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The 37 Factors of 7 CFR Part 5001, Fully Enumerated and Annotated
Ask ten participants in USDA guaranteed lending what the regulation actually requires a feasibility study to contain, and the answers converge on the same evasion: a gesture toward "the framework in Part 5001," perhaps a recitation of the five feasibility components, then a change of subject. There is a structural reason for this. The one place where USDA enumerates the factors, Appendix A to Subpart D of 7 CFR Part 5001, was published in the Federal Register as two scanned i
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