IRRR-Know Your Agency
In what city is IRRR headquartered?
What is Eveleth?
What is the standard project match requirement for grant programs?
What is 1:1?
True or False: FLUXX can only be accessed from a desktop computer.
What is False?
What three iron ranges were at the heart of the agency's early history?
What are the Mesabi, Vermilion and Cuyuna Ranges?
A community has a vacant, deteriorating house that is dragging down a neighborhood. Which program would you investigate?
What is Residential Redevelopment?
What is the statutory name of the geographic area where IRRR is authorized to expend its funding?
What is the maximum Grant Writing Assistance award?
What is $3,000?
True or False: FLUXX changes can take until the next business day to appear for other users.
What is False?
Which Minnesota governor worked during the late 1930s to create an agency focused on rehabilitating northeastern Minnesota's economy?
Who is Harold Stassen?
A business wants to install energy-efficient equipment that will reduce energy consumption. Which program?
What is Business Energy Retrofit?
What is the approximate size of IRRR's Taconite Assistance Area?
What is 13,000 square miles?
What is the maximum standard Culture & Tourism grant?
What is $30,000?
In FLUXX, what section contains applications that have been started but not yet submitted?
What is Draft?
In what decade did business development become an important tool for the agency?
What is the 1960s?
A city has a vacant former manufacturing building that needs to be demolished before the property can be redeveloped. Which program?
What is Commercial Redevelopment?
How many townships are currently included in IRRR's service area?
What is 135?
What is the maximum Public Works grant for privately owned buildings or infrastructure?
What is $145,000?
Name three things grantees can do through FLUXX besides submitting an application.
What is...
What was the original name of the agency created in 1941?
What is the Office of the Commissioner of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation?
A city wants to investigate the feasibility of a major economic development project before deciding whether to proceed. Which program might fit?
What is Development Partnership?
What year was the agency officially renamed the "Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation"?
What is 2017?
Under TEDF, each qualifying iron ore producer is eligible for a tax rebate of this amount per ton of iron concentrate produced annually, provided total industry production reaches the required threshold.
What is 25.1 cents per ton?
Name all six application statuses listed in the IRRR FLUXX portal.
What are...
Draft
Revisions Needed
Submitted
Declined
Withdrawn
Signatures
IRRR's original 1943 commission had seven members. Besides senate and house representatives, what state official held the seventh seat?
Who is The Commissioner of Conservation?
A city proposes a project to convert an abandoned commercial building into 10 new apartment units. The project has strong local housing demand and is located in the IRRR service area.
The city's proposed $1 million budget includes:
The city asks IRRR for $500,000 and proposes to use $500,000 of anticipated future rental income as its match.
Name TWO problems with the proposal under the Housing program.
What is...
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