# Modernizing Grant Program Regulation
> **Rural Utilities Service** · Final rule; request for comment. · Published 2024-09-16 · Effective 2024-11-15 · 89 FR 75762
## Document
- **Document number:** 2024-19804
- **Category:** rural-development
- **Sub-agency:** Rural Utilities Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 89 FR 75762
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 4284
- **Publication date:** 2024-09-16
- **Effective date:** 2024-11-15
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. RBS-24-BUSINESS-0004
## Abstract

The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBCS or the Agency), an agency of the Rural Development (RD) mission area within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is issuing a final rule with comment to implement the provisions of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 related to the Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) Program and the Agriculture Innovation Center (AIC) Program and to modernize the Rural Cooperative Development Grant Program (RCDG). In addition, this action will support ways to simplify and streamline RD program delivery by removing outdated and ineffective definitions, requirements, and scoring criteria for the grant programs above.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/09/16/2024-19804/modernizing-grant-program-regulation)
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