Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 31 — Rural Electrification and Telephone Service
§ 908. Limitations on use of assistance
Statutory text
Subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the Secretary may allow a recipient of a grant, loan, or loan guarantee under this subchapter to set aside not more than 10 percent of the amount so received to provide retail broadband service.
A recipient who sets aside funds under subsection (a) of this section may use the funds only in an area that is not being provided with the minimum acceptable level of broadband service established under section 950bb(e) of this title, unless the recipient meets the requirements of section 950bb(d) of this title.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the ability of any borrower to finance or deploy services authorized under this chapter.
The Secretary shall not provide funding under subsection (a) if the funding would result in competitive harm to any grant, loan, or loan guarantee referred to in subsection (a).
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
Pub. L. 115–334 title VI § 6210(b) · 132 Stat. 4490
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 908
(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, § 8, as added Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6210(b), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4744.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, § 8, as added Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6210(b), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4744.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) Title I of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 901–918a) is amended by inserting after section 7 the following: “SEC. 8. LIMITATIONS ON USE OF ASSISTANCE. “(a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the Secretary may allow a recipient of a grant, loan, or loan guarantee under this title to set aside not more than 10 percent of the amount so received to provide retail broadband service. “(b) A recipient who sets aside funds under subsection (a) of this section may use the funds only in an area that is not being provided with the minimum acceptable level of broadband service established under section 601(e), unless the recipient meets the requirements of section 601(d). “(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the ability of any borrower to finance or deploy services authorized under this Act. “(d) The Secretary shall not provide funding under subsection (a) if the funding would result in competitive harm to any grant, loan, or loan guarantee referred to in subsection (a).” .
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 908, acts May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, § 8, 49 Stat. 1366; Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 776, § 2, 63 Stat. 948; , Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 235(a)(4), 108 Stat. 3221, related to transfer of functions of Rural Electrification Administration created by Executive Order No. 7037, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 776, , 110 Stat. 1150.
Credits
(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, § 8, as added Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6210(b), , 132 Stat. 4744.)