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Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loans

Program Information

Popular name

TPEP

Program Number

10.385

Program objective

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.

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

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.

Timber Production Expansion Program (TPEP) Guaranteed loan regulations has been updated and published.

  1. Pub. L. 117, 58, Section 40804(b)(3) and Section 40804(d)(3).

Program details

Eligible beneficiaries

  • American Indian
  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Individual/Family
  • Local
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Profit organization
  • Quasi-public nonprofit organization
  • Rural
  • U.S. Citizen
  • Veteran/Service person/Reservist (including dependents

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