Assistance program
Rural Telecommunications Loans
$4.1 Million committed in FY2018–FY2025
- Agency
- Rural Utilities Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Loans;Guaranteed/Insured Loans
- CFDA number
- 10.851
- What it does
- This program provides loans for the construction, maintenance, improvement, and expansion of telecommunications services (telephone and broadband) in rural areas. In facilitating the construction of new and improved infrastructure, the program will fuel long-term rural economic development and opportunities in rural America.
- Who benefits
- Residents and businesses of eligible rural areas.
- Who applies
- Telephone companies or cooperatives, nonprofit associations, limited dividend associations, mutual associations or public bodies including those located in the U.S. Territories and countries included in the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985, providing or proposing to provide telecommunications service to meet the needs of rural areas.
- Authorized by
- 7 U.S.C. § 921, 922-924, and 930-940
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- Committed through this program
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Direct payments