USDA Rural Business Enterprise Grants
Pacific Northwest/Alaska Tongas National Forest Initiative

State  Recipient            Amount     Jobs   Project Description

AK     City of Craig       $150,000    n/a    Develop a new industrial park and
                                              industrial grade deep-water dock with
                                              public access.

AK     State of AK         $180,000    n/a    Funding for a number of projects in
       DCRA                                   small communities that will create
                                              opportunity for business development.

AK     Workforce           $ 79,885     12    Workforce Development Center will
       Development Center                     create a business incubator for Sitka.

AK     City of Craig       $ 50,000    n/a    Funding a study on the feasibility of
                                              building a wood kiln facility on the
                                              west coast of the island of Craig.

CA     Happy Camp          $ 35,100     20    Project will provide a training
       Comm. Services                         facility to support the activities of
       District                               the California Conservation Corp.,
                                              AmeriCorp. and other job training and
                                              employee development activities.

CA     County of           $ 45,000     25    Provide funds for capital expenditures
       Del Norte                              for essential infrastructure -- phones,
                                              computers, and work stations -- needed 
                                              for the expansion of a small
                                              information center.

CA     Tri County          $ 65,000     118   Provide technical assistance
       Economic Dev.                          with the expansion of a new rural
       Corp.                                  venture capital network to increase
                                              marketing activities throughout 10
                                              designated Pacific Northwest timber
                                              counties.

CA     City of Red         $ 75,000     3-5   Fund a preliminary engineering report
       Bluff                                  to determine the feasibility and cost
                                              of a sewer system extension to one of
                                              the city's commercial areas.

CA     Arcata EDC          $ 46,000    n/a    Technical assistance to provide a
                                              consultant/manager position for local 
                                              food processing micro-industry.

OR     Wallowa             $199,000      4    Develop a Tribal interpretive center as
       Band Nez Perce                         part of a "homelands" development.
       Trail Interpretive
       Center Inc.

OR     Linn County         $ 20,000      5    Continuation of the revolving micro-loan
                                              fund administered by the Linn County
                                              Business Development Center.

OR     City of Enter-      $ 99,800      8    Joint project between City of Enterprise,
       prise                                  the Enterprise Hometown Improvement
                                              Group and the Oregon Dept. of Transpor-
                                              tation to create an attractive business
                                              atmosphere in the business district.

OR     City of Joseph      $198,000     83    Reconstruct and revitalize approximately
                                              nine blocks of the commercial corridor
                                              along Main St. in downtown Joseph,
                                              Oregon.

Totals:                  $1,242,785    280


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