774.6—Eligibility requirements.
Loan applicants must meet all of the following requirements to be eligible under the Emergency Loan for Seed Producers Program;
(b)
The individual or entity loan applicant must have a timely filed proof of claim in the Chapter XI bankruptcy proceedings involving AgriBiotech and the claim must have arisen from acontract to grow seeds in the United States;
(c)
The loan applicant must be a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationalization Act. For a business entity applicant, the majority of the business entity must be owned by members meeting the citizenship test or, other entities that are domestically owned. Aliens must provide the appropriate Immigration and Naturalization Service forms to document their permanent residency;
(d)
The loan applicant and anyone who will execute the promissory note must possess the legal capacity to enter into contracts, including debt instruments;
(e)
At loan closing, the applicant and anyone who will execute the promissory note must not be delinquent on any Federal debt, other than a debt under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
(f)
At loan closing, the applicant and anyone who will execute the promissory note must not have any outstanding unpaid judgments obtained by the United States in any court. Such judgments do not include those filed as a result of action in the United States Tax Courts;
(g)
The loan applicant, in past and current dealings with the Agency, must not have provided the Agency with false information.