**Minnesota Rural Business & Cooperative Programs**

**Revised 1/5/06**

**David Gaffaney (director)**

**USDA Rural Development**

**Suite 410**

**375 Jackson Street**

**St. Paul, MN 55101-1853**

**651-602-7814**

[**david.gaffaney@mn.usda.gov**](mailto:david.gaffaney@mn.usda.gov)

**Robyn Holdorf (specialist)**

**USDA Rural Development**

**Suite 410**

**375 Jackson Street**

**St. Paul, MN 55101-1853**

**651-602-7812**

[**robyn.holdorf@mn.usda.gov**](mailto:robyn.holdorf@mn.usda.gov)

**Denise Chapeau (technician)**

**USDA Rural Development**

**Suite 410**

**375 Jackson Street**

**St. Paul, MN 55101-1853**

**651-602-7791**

[**denise.chapeau@mn.usda.gov**](mailto:denise.chapeau@mn.usda.gov)

**Francis (Butch) Koehmstedt (specialist)**

**USDA Rural Development**

**201 Sherwood Avenue South, Box 16**

**Thief River Falls, MN 56701**

**218-681-2843, ext. 114**

[**francis.koehmstedt@mn.usda.gov**](mailto:francis.koehmstedt@mn.usda.gov)

**Kathy Coyle (specialist)**

**USDA Rural Development**

**809 8^th^ Street Southeast**

**Detroit Lakes, MN 56501**

**218-847-5694, ext. 121**

[**kathy.coyle@mn.usda.gov**](mailto:kathy.coyle@mn.usda.gov)

**Lisa Noty (specialist)**

**USDA Rural Development**

**1400 W. Main St.**

**Albert Lea, MN 56007**

**507-373-7960, ext. 120**

[**lisa.noty@mn.usda.gov**](mailto:lisa.noty@mn.usda.gov)

**[Financial Programs]{.underline}:**

1.  **Business & Industry Loan Guarantee Program (B&I)**

2.  **Intermediary Relending Program (IRP)**

3.  **Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG)**

4.  **Rural Business Opportunity Grant Program (RBOG)**

5.  **Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program (REDLG)**

6.  **Rural Cooperative Development Grant Program (RCDG)**

7.  **Value-Added Agricultural Product Development Grant Program
    (VAPG)**

> **and Agriculture Innovation Center (AIC -- VAPG)**

8.  **Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Grant and Loan Guarantee
    Program (Section 9006)**

9.  **Biomass Research and Development Initiative (Section 9008)**

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  **Minnesota                                                                
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  ** **           ** **          ** **         **1**             **2**       **3**

  ** **           **Gaffaney**   **Holdorf**   **Koehmstedt**    **Coyle**   **Noty**

  **B&I**         **PS**         **PS**        ** **             ** **       ** **

  **IRP**         ** **          ** **         **PS**            **PS**      **PS**

  **RBEG**        ** **          ** **         **PS**            **PS**      **PS**

  **RBOG**        ** **          ** **         **PS**            **PS**      **PS**

  **REDLG**       ** **          **B**         **PS**            **PS**      **PS**

  **RCDG**        ** **          **B**         ** **             ** **       **PS**

  **VAPG/AIC**    ** **          **PS**        **B**             ** **       **B**

  **9006/8**      **B**          ** **         ** **             ** **       **PS**

  **Co-ops**      **x**          **x**         **x**             **x**       **x**

  **Marketing**   **x**          **x**         **x**             **X**       **x**
  --------------- -------------- ------------- ----------------- ----------- ----------

**P** = Processing **S** = Servicing **B** = Backup

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