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Outreach Education and Technical Assistance

Program Information

Popular name

OETA

Program Number

10.147

Program objective

EOTA provides financial assistance to eligible recipients to perform outreach and technical assistance to improve the coordination and effectiveness of Federal programs, services, and actions affecting rural areas. The main goals are to (1) increase access and participation in FSA programs and services and (2) improve technical assistance to producers for FSA farm and farm loan programs with an emphasis on reaching socially disadvantaged, historically- underserved, beginning, and veteran producers .

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2024

    Through these agreements, eight train the trainer workshops have been held across the nation with nearly 200 individuals trained. Partnered with the Southern Rural Sociological Association for a special issue of the Journal of Rural Social Sciences focused on heirs’ property and estimated heirs’ property ranging from 3.3 to 5.3 million acres for the eleven states of Appalachia and the South.

    Fifty prospective borrowers received individual technical Assistance/Consultations with Financial Literacy Training Coordinator.

    Conducted monthly email updates and 80 prospective borrowers attending program workshop.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.