# Guaranteed Loanmaking and Servicing Regulations
> **Rural Utilities Service** · Final rule. · Published 2023-11-24 · Effective 2023-11-24 · 88 FR 82225
## Document
- **Document number:** 2023-25908
- **Category:** rural-development
- **Sub-agency:** Rural Utilities Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 88 FR 82225
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 4279
- **Publication date:** 2023-11-24
- **Effective date:** 2023-11-24
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. RBS-20-BUSINESS-0016
## Abstract

The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RB-CS) (Agency), a Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is issuing a final rule to amend the interim rule published on May 22, 2020. The interim rule amended the Business and Industry (B&I) Guaranteed Loan Program to allow flexibility to obligate Federal funds for guaranteed loans pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) in response to the national COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. This final rule addresses public comments received on the interim rule and makes clarifying modifications identified by commenters and the Agency.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/24/2023-25908/guaranteed-loanmaking-and-servicing-regulations)
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