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B-201257 1 (1980-12-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaditw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~ \~ THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES SA WASHINGTON. .C . 20548 FILE: B-201257 DATE: December 31, 1980 MATTER OF: Agrifuels Refining Corporation DIGEST: GAO will not review Federal agency's denial of application for loan guarantee. Agrifuels Refining Corporation (ARC) has filed a complaint against the Department of Energy's (DOE) rejection of its application for a Federal loan guaran- tee under the Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels Act of 1980 which is at Title II of the Energy Security Act, Pub. L. No. 96-294, 94 Stat. 611 (1980). The statute authorizes DOE to provide loan guarantees for the con- struction of alcohol fuels, biomass energy, and munici- pal waste projects. ARC applied for the guarantee in response to DOE's implementation of the statute in a rule published at 45 Fed. Reg. 67021 et seq., October 8, 1980. The rule stated that loan guarantees were to be awarded applicants on a competitive basis. Applications were to be comparatively judged by several criteria in- cluding the project's technical feasibility and its environmental impact and the financial stability of the applicants. ARC complains that DOE's evaluation of its application was not in accordance with the procedure and criteria prescribed. IWe will not review DOE's decision not to award ARC a loan guarantee. ARC's complaint is analogous to one concerning the awarding of a Federal grant by a Federal agency. We have declined to consider such protests because: * * * it is not our intention to interfere with the functions and responsibilities of grantor agencies in the actual awards of grants. Therefore, we do not generally con- sider our Office as an appropriate forum in which complaints concerning the denial of grant applications or the actual awards of

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