Notes on rural electrification and telephone service : US Code - Notes
Search Notes on rural electrification and telephone service : US Code - Notes
SUBCHAPTER I - RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
Sec.
901. Short title.
902. General authority of Secretary of Agriculture.
903. Authorization of appropriations.
904. Loans by Secretary of Agriculture for electrical
plants and transmission lines; preferences; consent
of State authorities.
905. Repealed.
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. Repealed.
909. Administration on nonpolitical basis; dismissal of
officers or employees for violating provision.
910. Repealed.
911. Acceptance of services of Federal or State officers;
application of civil service laws; expenditures for
supplies and equipment.
911a. Repealed.
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
921. Congressional declaration of policy.
921a. Policy of financing of rural telephone program.
921b. Policy of expansion of markets for debentures.
922. Loans for rural 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
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; accommodation 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.
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.
940b. Use of funds.
940c. Cushion of credit payments program.
940c-1. Guarantees for bonds and notes issued for
electrification or telephone purposes.
940d. Limitations on authorization of appropriations.
940e. Expansion of 911 access.
940f. Extension of period of existing guarantee.
SUBCHAPTER IV - RURAL TELEPHONE BANK
941. Telephone Bank.
942. General powers.
943. Special provisions governing telephone bank as a
Federal agency until conversion of ownership,
control, and operation.
944. Governor of telephone bank; functions, powers, and
duties.
944a. Publication of rural telephone bank policies and
regulations.
945. Board of directors.
946. Capitalization.
947. Borrowing power; telephone debentures; issuance;
interest rates; terms and conditions; ratio to
paid-in capital and retained earnings; investments in
debentures; debentures as security; purchase and sale
of debentures by the Secretary of the Treasury;
treatment as public debt transactions of the United
States; exclusion of transactions from budget totals.
948. Lending power.
949. Telephone bank receipts; availability for obligations
and expenditures.
950. Conversion of ownership, control, and operation of
telephone bank.
950a. Liquidation or dissolution of telephone bank.
950b. Borrower net worth.
SUBCHAPTER V - RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
950aa. Additional powers and duties.
950aa-1. Repealed.
SUBCHAPTER VI - RURAL BROADBAND ACCESS
950bb. Access to broadband telecommunications services in
rural areas.
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