The Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) program helps small businesses in urban and rural communities gain preferential access to federal procurement opportunities. Benefits: Competitive and sole source contracting and 10%...
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Federally-designated Foreign Trade Zones are U.S. Customs and Border Protection-approved locations where companies can engage in special procedures to help encourage U.S. activity by delaying or reducing duty payments on...
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Federal financial assistance to landowners and operators that establish, produce, and deliver biomass feedstock crops for advanced biofuel production facilities. For more information, visit: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=home&subject=ener&topic=bcap.
Federal loan guarantees for the development, construction, and retrofitting of commercial-scale biorefineries that produce advanced biofuels. Grants for demonstration scale biorefineries are also available. For more information, visit http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/BCP_Biorefinery.html.
Southern California Edison (SCE), an investor-owned utility, offers a number of programs to help qualifying businesses reduce energy usage and lower electricity costs.
California tax law allows businesses that experience a loss for the year to carry this loss forward to the next year (dubbed “Net Operating Loss Carryover”) in order to offset…