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NOTICES: Telecommunications plant; depreciation rates; publication,
Published: 2004-12-23
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) hereby announces the
depreciation rates for telecommunications plant for the period ending
December 31, 2003.
NOTICES: Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals,
Published: 2004-12-20
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended), the Rural Utilities Service's (RUS)
invites comments on this information collection for which RUS intends
to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
NOTICES: North Carolina Electric Membership Corp.,
Published: 2004-12-20
Notice is hereby given that the Rural Utilities Service (RUS),
an agency delivering the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural
Development Utilities Programs, is issuing an environmental assessment
with respect to the environmental impacts related to the construction
of a 336 megawatt (MW) simplecycle electric generation facility in
Anson County,
RULES: Technical assistance grants,
Published: 2004-12-08
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an agency delivering the
United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities
Programs, amends the regulation utilized to administer the technical
assistance grant programs. This action is necessary to separate the
technical assistance and training grant and solid waste management
grant programs
RULES: Servicing delinquent community facility loans,
Published: 2004-12-08
The Rural Housing Service (RHS) hereby amends the regulation
utilized to service the Community Facilities and Business Programs loan
program by adding requirements for servicing delinquent Community
Facilities in conformance with the Debt Collection Improvement Act of
1996. The intended effect of this action is to establish a workout
agreement
NOTICES: Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program,
Published: 2004-12-03
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) announces its Distance
Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Program grant application window for
funding during fiscal year (FY) 2005 subject to the availability of
funding. FY 2004 funding for the DLT grant program was approximately
$24.6 million. This notice is being issued prior to passage of a final
appropriations
NOTICES: Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals,
Published: 2004-11-30
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces Rural Development's intention to request an extension
for a currently approved information collection in support of loan
programs administered by the Rural Housing Service, the Rural Business
Cooperative Service, and the Rural Utilities Service.
RULES: Household Water Well System Program; Withdrawn,
Published: 2004-11-17
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is withdrawing the direct
final rule for the Household Water Well System Grant Program that was
published on October 6, 2004 (69 FR 59764). RUS stated in the direct
final rule that if it received adverse comment by November 5, 2004, the
agency would publish a timely notice of withdrawal in the Federal
Register.
NOTICES: Household Water Well System Program,
Published: 2004-11-17
Notice is hereby given that the Rural Utilities Service (RUS)
has made a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) for a new grant
program that will implement the Household Water Well System Program
(HWWSP) lending program.
RULES: Farm Security and Rural Investment Act—; General credit provisions; correction,
Published: 2004-11-15
This document corrects the final regulations published in the
Federal Register on February 18, 2003, implementing certain provisions
of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (2002 Act).
RULES: State Nonmetropolitan Median Household Income; definition clarification,
Published: 2004-11-15
The Rural Housing Service (RHS), Rural Business-Cooperative
Service (RBS), and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), agencies
delivering the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural
Development housing, business, and utilities programs, amend their
regulations to reflect the clarification of the definition of Statewide
Nonmetropolitan Median
PROPOSED RULES: Servicing of water and waste loan and grant programs,
Published: 2004-11-15
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) proposes to consolidate and
amend the regulations utilized to service water and waste loan and
grant programs. The proposed rule will combine the water and waste loan
and grant servicing regulations found in 7 CFR parts 1951, 1955 and
1956 into one regulation. Unnecessary and burdensome requirements for
water and
RULES: Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002; implementation—; Business and industry loans,
Published: 2004-11-09
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) revises its
regulations to incorporate provisions outlined in Sections 6013, 6017,
and 6019 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L.
104424) (2002 Farm Bill). This action is taken to comply with the
amendments to sections 310(B) and 333A of the Consolidated Farm and
Rural
PROPOSED RULES: Operational controls; elimination,
Published: 2004-11-08
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
NOTICES: Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals,
Published: 2004-11-04
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended), the Rural Utilities Service (RUS)
invites comments on this information collection for which RUS intends
to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
RULES: Bonds and notes issued for electrification or telephone purposes; guarantees,
Published: 2004-10-29
This rule establishes procedures for a guarantee program for
cooperatives and other notforprofit 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
participants are
NOTICES: Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals,
Published: 2004-10-21
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Rural Housing Service (RHS), the Rural Business
Cooperative Service (RBS), Rural Utilities Service (RUS), and the Farm
Service Agency's (FSA) intention to request an extension for a
currently approved information collection in support of compliance with
Civil Rights
PROPOSED RULES: Materials, equipment and construction—; Cable splicing connectors,
Published: 2004-10-20
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) an agency delivering the
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities Programs,
proposes to amend its regulations on Telecommunications Standards and
Specifications for Materials, Equipment, and Construction, by revising,
renumbering, and renaming RUS Bulletin 34554, ``RUS Specification for
NOTICES: Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, Inc., et al.,
Published: 2004-10-20
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an agency delivering the
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities Programs,
intends to hold a public scoping meeting and prepare an environmental
impact statement in connection with potential impacts related to a
project being proposed by Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, Inc.,
(WFEC), of
NOTICES: Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program,
Published: 2004-10-18
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) hereby announces the
recipients selected to receive grant awards during fiscal year (FY)
2004 under the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program.
RULES: Electricity System Emergency Restoration Plan,
Published: 2004-10-12
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an agency delivering the
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities Programs,
is amending its regulations on Electric System Operations and
Maintenance to require electric program distribution, generation and
transmission borrowers to expand a currently established Emergency
Restoration Plan
RULES: Household Water Well System Program,
Published: 2004-10-06
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an agency delivering the
United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities
Programs, is issuing regulations in order to establish the Household
Water System Program as authorized by section 306E of the Consolidated
Farm and Rural Development Act (CONACT). This direct final rule will
establish
RULES: Revolving Fund Program; revolving funds for financing water and wastewater projects,
Published: 2004-10-06
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS or the Agency) is issuing a
regulation to establish the Grant Program to Establish a Fund for
Financing Water and Wastewater Projects (Revolving Fund Program (RFP))
as authorized by the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act
(CONACT), as amended by section 6002 of the Farm Security and Rural
Investment Act of
PROPOSED RULES: Household Water Well System Program,
Published: 2004-10-06
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an agency delivering the
United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities
Programs, is issuing regulations in order to establish the Household
Water System Program as authorized by section 306E of the Consolidated
Farm and Rural Development Act (CONACT). This rule will establish a
lending
PROPOSED RULES: Revolving Fund Program; revolving funds for financing water and wastewater projects,
Published: 2004-10-06
On May 13, 2002, the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of
2002 (Farm Bill) was signed into law as Public Law 107171. Section
6002 of the Farm Bill amended the Consolidated Farm and Rural
Development Act (CONACT), by adding a grant program to establish a
revolving loan fund. The Secretary may make grants to qualified,
private, nonprofit
