An application deadline for Carbon County’s Community Development Block Grant Business Assistance Program has been extended due to a lack of response.

“We haven’t received any applications, so we’re pushing the deadline from June 30 to July 30,” said David Bodnar, Carbon’s director of planning and development, said during Thursday’s commissioners meeting.

For-profit businesses with less than $1 million in annual revenue and 100 or fewer employees are eligible to receive up to $10,000 in CDBG funds.

“It’s meant to assist the local economy and create or retain jobs for low- to moderate-income residents,” Bodnar said of the program.

In addition to the revenue and employee number eligibility requirements, businesses must:

• Demonstrate it experienced disruption due to the coronavirus crisis

• Provide evidence of viability before crisis

• Document at least one full-time equivalent job that would be created or retained with grant/loan assistance

• Have at least one-year business operations and at least one-year tax returns

• Proof of up-to-date tax payments or a payment plan

• Be located in Carbon County

• Retain jobs and/or provide working capital principally for low- or moderate-income people.

The money can be used on payroll, rent/mortgage, utilities, supplies, equipment purchases needed to “prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus,” insurance, accounting, legal and advertising.

The application for the money can be found on the county website and the Carbon Chamber and Economic Development website.