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Environmental Policies and Procedures
Rural Development, a mission area within the U.S. Department of Agriculture comprised of the Rural Housing Service (RHS), Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) and Rural Utilities Service (RUS), hereafter referred to as the Agency, is proposing to unify and update environmental policies and procedures covering all Agency programs by...
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Rural Determination and Financing Percentage
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS or Agency) is proposing policies and procedures for determining rural eligibility for all loans and loan guarantee financial assistance. In addition, policies and procedures are proposed for determining the percentage of total project costs the Agency will finance where the project supplies electricity to an...
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Energy Efficiency and Conservation Loan Program
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS or Agency) is proposing policies and procedures for loan and guarantee financial assistance in support of energy efficiency programs (EE Programs) sponsored and implemented by electric utilities for the benefit of rural persons in their service territory. This notice of proposed rulemaking proposes changes to RUS...
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Substantially Underserved Trust Areas (SUTA)
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) proposes to issue regulations in order to provide loans and grants to facilitate the construction, acquisition, or improvement of infrastructure projects in Substantially Underserved Trust Areas (SUTA). The intent is to implement Section 906F of the Rural Electrification Act (7 U.S.C. 960f) by providing the...
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Electric Engineering, Architectural Services, Design Policies and Construction Standards
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) proposes to amend the contract threshold amounts that require borrowers to use certain prescribed agency contract forms and to amend the contract dollar amounts that require RUS review of contracts prior to the contract being effective. Also, RUS proposes to raise the threshold amounts requiring RUS borrowers to...
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Guarantees for Bonds and Notes Issued for Electrification or Telephone Purposes
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) proposes to amend its regulations for the guarantee program for cooperative and other not- for-profit lenders that make loans for eligible electric and telephone purposes. These proposed amendments implement changes adapted in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. The intended effect is to update...
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Standards and Specifications for Timber Products Acceptable for Use by Rural Development Utilities Programs' Electric and Telecommunications Borrowers
The Rural Utilities Service, an agency delivering the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Development Utilities Programs, hereinafter referred to as USDA Rural Development or Agency, proposes to revise its regulations on Electric and Telecommunications Standards and Specifications for Materials, Equipment and Construction, by...
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Specifications for Primary Underground Power Cable
The Rural Utilities Service, an agency delivering the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Development Utilities Programs, hereinafter referred to as Rural Development and/or the Agency, proposes to amend its regulations regarding Bulletin 50-70 (U- 1) for electric distribution specifications for 15 kV and 25 kV primary...
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Accounting Requirements for RUS Electric Program Borrowers
The Rural Utilities Service, an agency delivering the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities Programs, hereinafter referred to as Rural Development, proposes to amend its regulation on accounting policies and procedures for Rural Development Electric Programs borrowers as set forth in 7 CFR Part 1767, Accounting...
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Elimination of Operational Controls
Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an agency delivering the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development utilities programs, proposes to amend 7 CFR Part 1717, Subpart M, Operational Controls (Subpart M), by eliminating the provisions thereof. Subpart M was promulgated as a compliment to the ``new'' distribution borrower loan...
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Electric System Emergency Restoration Plan
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is proposing to amend its regulations on Electric System Operations and Maintenance to establish policy requiring electric program distribution, generation and transmission borrowers to expand a currently established Emergency Restoration Plan (ERP), or, if no ERP is currently established, to create an ERP. The...
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Specifications and Drawings for 12.47/7.2 kV Line Construction
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is proposing to revise its regulations regarding RUS Bulletin 50-3, Specifications and Drawings for 12.5/7.2 kV Line Construction. This bulletin is currently incorporated by reference in RUS regulations and the revised and renumbered RUS Bulletin 1728F-804 would continue to be incorporated by reference. This...
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Guarantees for Bonds and Notes Issued for Electrification or Telephone Purposes
This rule proposes to establish procedures for a guarantee program for cooperatives and other not-for-profit lenders that make loans eligible for assistance under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (the RE Act). Criteria for eligibility of lenders and transactions are set forth in the rule together with application procedures. Program...
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Extensions of Payments of Principal and Interest
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is proposing to amend its regulation on extensions of payments of principal and interest, to include a maximum interest rate a RUS Borrower can charge on deferments for programs relating to consumer loans. The maximum interest rate will not be more than 300 basis points above the average interest rate on the...
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Revision of Electric Program Standard Contract Forms
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is proposing to amend its regulations to revise its standard forms of contracts that borrowers are required to use when contracting for construction and procurement, that are or will be financed by loans made or guaranteed by RUS, in accordance with applicable RUS regulations. RUS proposes to update,...
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Exceptions of RUS Operational Controls Under Section 306E of the RE Act
In an effort to continually look for ways to streamline requirements of borrowers and make regulations simple and direct, the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) proposes to eliminate regulations on Exceptions of RUS Operational Controls under Section 306E of the RE Act in its entirety. Because borrowers are now afforded the same exemptions from RUS...
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Useful Life of Facility Determination
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) proposes to eliminate the requirement to use depreciation rates as found in Bulletin 183-1, for determining the useful life of a facility. If the proposed useful life of a facility is deemed inappropriate by RUS, other means to establish an appropriate term for the loan will apply. Current reliance on the fixed...
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Mergers and Consolidations of Electric Borrowers
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is proposing to amend regulations to provide the Administrator with loan processing prioritization authority for recently merged companies. This change will allow the Administrator to grant or decline priority or grant priority for a limited amount of a loan application. This action is being proposed to allow...
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Demand Side Management and Renewable Energy Systems
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is proposing to amend its regulations by removing subpart H of part 1710 in its entirety. The existing subpart H details separate policies and requirements for loans for renewable energy systems and demand side management. Many of these requirements overlap provisions found elsewhere in part 1710. Others do not...
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Extensions of Payments of Principal and Interest
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) proposes to add procedures and conditions under which Borrowers may request extensions of the payment of principal and interest. These procedures and conditions are stated in RUS Bulletin 20-5:320-2, Extensions of Payments of Principal and Interest, dated May 10, 1972, and RUS Bulletin 20-23, Section 12...