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Reins et al. (2013) indentified 151 low mass galaxies with optical signs of AGN activity. Of these, 39 sources are unambigous AGN displaying either broad emission lines or have been identified as AGN in the BPT diagram. Of these 39 sources, 27 are observable with Arecibo in the Spring. For all potential targets, we estimate the 21-cm flux using 40\% gas fractions, which generally places our targets below the detection threshold of the ALFALFA survey (see Figure X).  We have identified 45 primary targets for an estimated total of 33 hours required for high signal-to-noise observations. Our primary targets include all spring BPT AGN candidates and all broad-line or isolated BPT composites. We have also identified 41 secondary targets that include the remaining BPT composites for an additional 57 hours of observing time, in case the gas fractions for our primary targets are underestimated. \textbf{We request a total of 33 hours with the Arecibo telescope to observe 45 primary primary,  low mass AGN candidates.} Given our prior experience, we are confident that we will obtain high quality, high signal-to-noise spectra for our proposed observations. We will observe our target dwarf galaxy AGN candidates in the L-band wide receiver, with the spectrometer in 9 level sampling mode with 4096 channels and a 12.5 MHz bandwidth. This yields a velocity resolution of 0.66 km/s which we will center on the redshifted 21-cm line using the SDSS optically measured recession velocity. All of our target galaxies have recession velocities less than 5000 km s−1 and are unresolved by the Arecibo beam. We chose the L-band over the ALFA receiver as it has a higher sensitivity and minimizes side-lobe contamination. To mitigate any baselines issues, we will perform an associated off observation (position switching) of equal integration time for each target.