DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Commodity Credit Corporation Foreign Agricultural Service Notice of Funding Availability:
Inviting Applications for the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program SUMMARY:
The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announces that it is inviting proposals for the 2019

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Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC) program.

The TASC program is administered by personnel of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) on behalf of CCC.

The intended effect of this notice is to solicit proposals from the U.

S.

private sector and government agencies for fiscal year 2019 and to set out the criteria for the awarding of funds under the program.

Future announcements of funding availability for the TASC program will be made through the Grants.gov website.

DATES:
To be considered for funding, proposals must be received by 5 p.m.

Eastern Daylight Time, on Friday, June 8, 201 8.

Any proposals received after this time will be considered only if 720–9361, or by email:
podadmin@ fas.usda.gov.

Information is also available on the FAS website at http:// www.fas.usda.gov/programs/technical- assistance-specialty-crops-tasc.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A.

Funding Opportunity Description Announcement Type:
New.

Award Instrument:
Grant.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number:
1 0. 60 4.

Authority:
The TASC program is authorized by section 3205 of Public Law 107–17 1.

The TASC regulations appear at 7 CFR part 148 7.

Purpose:
The TASC program is designed to assist U.

S.

organizations by providing funding for projects that seek to remove, resolve, or mitigate sanitary, phytosanitary, or technical barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of U.

S.

specialty crops.

U.

S.

specialty crops, for the purpose of the TASC program, are defined to include all cultivated plants, or the products thereof, produced in the United States except wheat, feed grains, oilseeds, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, and tobacco.