RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELEPHONE SERVICE
Title 7 - Agriculture
Short title
General authority of Secretary of Agriculture
Authorization of appropriations
Loans for electrical plants and transmission lines
Fees for certain loan guarantees
Funding for administrative expenses
Use of funds outside the United States or its territories prohibited
Acquisition of property pledged for loans; disposition; sale of pledged property by borrower
Limitations on use of assistance
Administration on nonpolitical basis; dismissal of officers or employees for violating provision
Acceptance of services of Federal or State officers; application of civil service laws; expenditures for supplies and equipment
Extension of time for repayment of loans
Rescheduling and refinancing of loans
Definitions
Separability
Purchase of financial and credit reports
Criteria for loans
Prohibition on restricting water and waste facility services to electric customers
General prohibitions
Energy generation, transmission, and distribution facilities efficiency grants and loans in rural communities with extremely high energy costs
Acquisition of existing systems in rural communities with high energy costs
Rural and remote communities electrification grants
Congressional declaration of policy
Loans for telephone service
State regulation of telephone service
Definition of telephone service and rural area
Loan feasibility
Certain rural development investments by qualified telephone borrowers not treated as dividends or distributions
General duties and prohibitions
Prompt processing of telephone loans
Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
Level of loan programs under Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
Liabilities and uses of Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
Moneys in the Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
Authorized financial transactions; interim notes; purchase of obligations for resale; sale of notes and certificates; liens
Insured loans; interest rates and lending levels
Guaranteed loans; accommodations and subordination of liens; interest rates; assignability of guaranteed loans and related guarantees
Prepayment of loans
Sale or prepayment of direct or insured loans
Refinancing and prepayment of FFB loans
Eligibility of distribution borrowers for loans, loan guarantees, and lien accommodations
Administrative prohibitions applicable to certain electric borrowers
Substantially underserved trust areas
Loans from other credit sources
Full faith and credit of the United States
Loan terms and conditions
Refinancing of rural development loans
Use of funds
Cushion of credit payments program
Guarantees for bonds and notes issued for electrification or telephone purposes
Rural development loans and grants
Expansion of 911 access
Extension of period of existing guarantee
Electric loans for renewable energy
Bonding requirements
Cybersecurity and grid security improvements
Additional powers and duties
Access to broadband telecommunications services in rural areas
Expansion of middle mile infrastructure into rural areas
Innovative Broadband Advancement Program
Community Connect Grant Program
Outdated broadband systems
Default and deobligation; deferral
Federal broadband program coordination
Public notice, assessments, and reporting requirements
Environmental reviews
Use of loan proceeds to refinance loans for deployment of broadband service