CHAPTER 31 — Rural Electrification and Telephone Service
75 sections.
SUBCHAPTER I — RURAL ELECTRIFICATION 24 sections
- § 901. — Short title
- § 902. — General authority of Secretary of Agriculture
- § 903. — Authorization of appropriations
- § 904. — Loans for electrical plants and transmission lines
- § 905. — Fees for certain loan guarantees
- § 906. — Funding for administrative expenses
- § 906a. — Use of funds outside the United States or its territories prohibited
- § 907. — Acquisition of property pledged for loans; disposition; sale of pledged property by borrower
- § 908. — Limitations on use of assistance
- § 909. — Administration on nonpolitical basis; dismissal of officers or employees for violating provision
- § 910. — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 777, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1150
- § 911. — Acceptance of services of Federal or State officers; application of civil service laws; expenditures for supplies and equipment
- § 911a. — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 235(a)(5), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3221
- § 912. — Extension of time for repayment of loans
- § 912a. — Rescheduling and refinancing of loans
- § 913. — Definitions
- § 914. — Separability
- § 915. — Purchase of financial and credit reports
- § 916. — Criteria for loans
- § 917. — Prohibition on restricting water and waste facility services to electric customers
- § 918. — General prohibitions
- § 918a. — Energy generation, transmission, and distribution facilities efficiency grants and loans in rural communities with extremely high energy costs
- § 918b. — Acquisition of existing systems in rural communities with high energy costs
- § 918c. — Rural and remote communities electrification grants
SUBCHAPTER II — RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE 9 sections
- § 921. — Congressional declaration of policy
- §§ 921a, 921b. — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6602(b)(13), (14), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4777
- § 922. — Loans for telephone service
- § 923. — State regulation of telephone service
- § 924. — Definition of telephone service and rural area
- § 925. — Loan feasibility
- § 926. — Certain rural development investments by qualified telephone borrowers not treated as dividends or distributions
- § 927. — General duties and prohibitions
- § 928. — Prompt processing of telephone loans
SUBCHAPTER III — RURAL ELECTRIC AND TELEPHONE DIRECT LOAN PROGRAMS 29 sections
- § 930. — Congressional declaration of policy
- § 931. — Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
- § 931a. — Level of loan programs under Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
- § 932. — Liabilities and uses of Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
- § 933. — Moneys in the Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
- § 934. — Authorized financial transactions; interim notes; purchase of obligations for resale; sale of notes and certificates; liens
- § 935. — Insured loans; interest rates and lending levels
- § 936. — Guaranteed loans; accommodations and subordination of liens; interest rates; assignability of guaranteed loans and related guarantees
- § 936a. — Prepayment of loans
- § 936b. — Sale or prepayment of direct or insured loans
- § 936c. — Refinancing and prepayment of FFB loans
- § 936d. — Eligibility of distribution borrowers for loans, loan guarantees, and lien accommodations
- § 936e. — Administrative prohibitions applicable to certain electric borrowers
- § 936f. — Substantially underserved trust areas
- § 937. — Loans from other credit sources
- § 938. — Full faith and credit of the United States
- § 939. — Loan terms and conditions
- § 940. — Refinancing of rural development loans
- § 940a. — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 780, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1151
- § 940b. — Use of funds
- § 940c. — Cushion of credit payments program
- § 940c–1. — Guarantees for bonds and notes issued for electrification or telephone purposes
- § 940c–2. — Rural development loans and grants
- § 940d. — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6601(b), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4776
- § 940e. — Expansion of 911 access
- § 940f. — Extension of period of existing guarantee
- § 940g. — Electric loans for renewable energy
- § 940h. — Bonding requirements
- § 940i. — Cybersecurity and grid security improvements
SUBCHAPTER IV — RURAL TELEPHONE BANK 1 sections
SUBCHAPTER V — RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 2 sections
SUBCHAPTER VI — RURAL BROADBAND ACCESS 7 sections
- § 950bb. — Access to broadband telecommunications services in rural areas
- § 950bb–1. — Expansion of middle mile infrastructure into rural areas
- § 950bb–2. — Innovative Broadband Advancement Program
- § 950bb–3. — Community Connect Grant Program
- § 950bb–4. — Outdated broadband systems
- § 950bb–5. — Default and deobligation; deferral
- § 950bb–6. — Federal broadband program coordination