### **CHAPTER 31—RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELEPHONE SERVICE**

#### SUBCHAPTER I—RURAL ELECTRIFICATION

Sec.
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Repealed.
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Repealed.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, 921b.
Repealed.
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

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.
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.
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.
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

941 to 950b.
Repealed.

#### 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.
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.

#### SUBCHAPTER VII—GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

950cc.
Public notice, assessments, and reporting requirements.
950cc–1.
Environmental reviews.
950cc–2.
Use of loan proceeds to refinance loans for deployment of broadband service.