Assistance program
Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loans
$12.1 Million committed in FY2025–FY2026
- Agency
- Rural Business Cooperative Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 10.385
- What it does
- The TPEP will provide financial assistance through loan guarantees to lenders providing loans to entities seeking to establish, reopen, expand, or improve a sawmill or other wood processing facilities, and to forest workers, including loggers and other jobs that supply materials to these sawmills and facilities, that are using ecological restoration byproducts from an identified unit of USFS National Forest System lands. These units of USFS National Forest System lands must be classified as being a high or very high priority for ecological restoration involving vegetation removal, due to the risk of unnaturally severe wildfires, or insect or disease infestation. Under TPEP facilities will purchase and process the byproducts from ecosystem restoration projects, typically small- and mid-diameter timber.
- Who benefits
- The purpose of this program is to revitalize rural economies and the timber industry by providing access to capital to establish, reopen, retrofit, expand, or improve a sawmill or other wood processing facility.
- Who applies
- To be eligible for a loan guarantee under TPEP, a lender must meet the eligibility requirements in 7 CFR 5001.130. The borrower must meet the requirements specified in 7 CFR 5001.126(a) and (d) at the time of each guaranteed loan’s approval and through issuance of the loan note guarantee. In addition, the borrower must be: (a) An entity engaged in or proposing to engage in establishing, reopening, retrofitting, expanding, or improving a sawmill or other wood-processing facility. For purposes of this opportunity, an eligible borrower entity may include a forest worker, logger, heavy equipment operator, material handler, or other professional entity responsible for purchasing and processing ecosystem restoration byproducts. (b) Eligible borrowers must use ecosystem restoration byproducts from federal or Tribal lands that USFS identified as high or very high priority for ecological restoration involving vegetation removal and must procure a significant amount of raw materials from federal or Tribal lands. High priority designated lands can be found using the TPEP Priority Areas dashboard at the following link: www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/5d6d9d9922a8486f83d51d40835f1870.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 117-58, Section 40804(b)(3) and Section 40804(d)(3)
- Program site
- https://www.rd.usda.gov/onerdguarantee ↗
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* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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