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7 U.S.C. § 950aaa — Purpose
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The purpose of this chapter is to encourage and improve telemedicine services and distance learning services in rural areas through the use of telecommunications, computer networks, and related advanced technologies by students, teachers, medical professionals, and rural residents.
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The purpose of this chapter is to encourage and improve telemedicine services and distance learning services in rural areas through the use of telecommunications, computer networks, and related advanced technologies by students, teachers, medical professionals, and rural residents.
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**(a) Maintenance of base acres and payment yields** The Secretary shall maintain, for each covered commodity and upland cotton, base acres and payment yields on a farm established under sections 8702 and 8751 of this title, as adjusted pursuant to sections 8711, 8712, 8718, and 8752 of this title, as in effect on September 30, 2013, and as adjusted pursuant to sections 9012 and 9013 of this title.
**(b) Streamlining** In implementing this chapter and the amendments made by this title,11 See References in Text note below. the Secretary shall—
(1) continue to reduce administrative burdens and costs to producers by streamlining and reducing paperwork, forms, and other administrative requirements, to ensure that—
(A) a producer (or an agent of a producer) may report information, electronically (including geospatial data) or conventionally, to the Department of Agriculture, subject to the Secretary—
(i) establishing reasonable levels of tolerance that reflect the differences in accuracy between measures of common land units and geospatial data; and
(ii) ensuring that discrepancies that occur within the levels of tolerance established under clause (i) shall not be used to penalize a producer (or an agent of a producer) under any program administered by the Department of Agriculture;
(B) on the request of a producer (or an agent of a producer), the Department of Agriculture electronically shares with the producer (or agent) in real time and without cost to the producer (or agent) the common land unit data, related farm level data, conservation practices, and other information of the producer through a single Department of Agriculture-wide login;
(C) not later than September 30, 2020, the Administrator of the Risk Management Agency and the Administrator of
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**(a) Short title** This section may be cited as the “Advancing Critical Connectivity Expands Service, Small Business Resources, Opportunities, Access, and Data Based on Assessed Need and Demand Act” or the “ACCESS BROADBAND Act”.
**(b) Establishment** Not later than 180 days after December 27, 2020, the Assistant Secretary shall establish the Office of Internet Connectivity and Growth within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
**(c) Duties**
(1) **Outreach** — The Office shall—
(A) connect with communities that need access to high-speed internet and improved digital inclusion efforts through various forms of outreach and communication techniques;
(B) hold regional workshops across the country to share best practices and effective strategies for promoting broadband access and adoption;
(C) develop targeted broadband training and presentations for various demographic communities through various media;
(D) develop and distribute publications (including toolkits, primers, manuals, and white papers) providing guidance, strategies, and insights to communities as the communities develop strategies to expand broadband access and adoption; and
(E) as applicable in carrying out subparagraphs (A) through (D), coordinate with State agencies that provide similar broadband investments, outreach, and coordination through Federal programs.
(2) **Tracking of Federal dollars**
(A) *Broadband infrastructure* — The Office shall track the construction and use of and access to any broadband infrastructure built using any Federal support in a central database.
(B) *Accounting mechanism* — The Office shall develop a streamlined accounting mechanism by which any agency offering a Federal broadband support program and the Commission for any U
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In this chapter:
(1) **Construct** — The term “construct” means to construct, acquire, install, improve, or extend a facility or system.
(2) **Cost of money loan** — The term “cost of money loan” means a loan made under this chapter bearing interest at a rate equal to the then current cost to the Federal Government of loans of similar maturity.
(3) **Secretary** — The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture.
(4) **Rural area** — The term “rural area” has the meaning given the term in [section 950bb(b)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section950bb/b/3&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Services to rural areas** The Secretary may provide financial assistance for the purpose of financing the construction of facilities and systems to provide telemedicine services and distance learning services in rural areas.
**(b) Financial assistance**
(1) **In general** — Financial assistance shall consist of grants or cost of money loans, or both.
(2) **Form** — The Secretary shall determine the portion of the financial assistance provided to a recipient that consists of grants and the portion that consists of cost of money loans so as to result in the maximum feasible repayment to the Federal Government of the financial assistance, based on the ability to repay of the recipient and full utilization of funds made available to carry out this chapter.
**(c) Recipients**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary may provide financial assistance under this chapter to—
(A) entities using telemedicine services or distance learning services;
(B) entities providing or proposing to provide telemedicine service or distance learning service to other persons at rates calculated to ensure that the benefit of the financial assistance is passed through to the other persons; 11 So in original. Probably should be followed by “and”.
(C) libraries.
(2) **Electric or telecommunications borrowers**
(A) *Loans to borrowers* — Subject to subparagraph (B), the Secretary may provide a cost of money loan under this chapter to a borrower of an electric or telecommunications loan under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 ([7 U.S.C. 901](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section901&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.). A borrower receiving a cost of money loan under this paragraph shall—
(i) make the funds provided available to entities that qu
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**(a) Nonduplication** The Secretary shall ensure that facilities constructed using financial assistance provided under this chapter do not duplicate adequate established telemedicine services or distance learning services.
**(b) Loan maturity** The maturities of cost of money loans shall be determined by the Secretary, based on the useful life of the facility being financed, except that the loan shall not be for a period of more than 10 years.
**(c) Loan security and feasibility** The Secretary shall make a cost of money loan only if the Secretary determines that the security for the loan is reasonably adequate and that the loan will be repaid within the period of the loan.
**(d) Encouraging consortia** The Secretary shall encourage the development of consortia to provide telemedicine services or distance learning services through telecommunications in rural areas served by a telecommunications provider.
**(e) Coordination with other agencies** The Secretary shall coordinate, to the extent practicable, with other Federal and State agencies with similar grant or loan programs to pool resources for funding meritorious proposals in rural areas.
**(f) Informational efforts** The Secretary shall establish and implement procedures to carry out informational efforts to advise potential end users located in rural areas of each State about the program authorized by this chapter.
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Not later than 180 days after April 4, 1996, the Secretary shall issue regulations to carry out this chapter.
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There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this chapter $82,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023.
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 950aaa–1
(A) the number of residences and busi-
nesses receiving new broadband services;
(B) network improvements, including fa-
cility upgrades and equipment purchases;
(C) average broadband speeds and prices on
a local and statewide basis;
(D) any changes in broadband adoption
rates; and
(E) any specific activities that increased
high speed broadband access for educational
institutions, health care providers, and pub-
lic safety service providers.
(e) Limitations on reservation of funds
Not less than 3 but not more than 5 percent of
program level amounts available pursuant to
amounts appropriated to carry out subchapter
VI shall be set aside to be used for—
(1) conducting oversight under such sub-
chapter;
(2) implementing accountability measures
and related activities authorized under such
subchapter; and
(3) carrying out this section.
(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title VII, § 701, as added
Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6207, Dec. 20, 2018, 132
Stat. 4740.)
§ 950cc–1. Environmental reviews
The Secretary may obligate, but not disperse,
funds under this chapter before the completion
of otherwise required environmental, historical,
or other types of reviews if the Secretary deter-
mines that a subsequent site-specific review
shall be adequate and easily accomplished for
the location of towers, poles, or other broadband
facilities in the service area of the borrower
without compromising the project or the re-
quired reviews.
(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title VII, § 702, as added
Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6208, Dec. 20, 2018, 132
Stat. 4743.)
§ 950cc–2. Use of loan proceeds to refinance loans
for deployment of broadband service
Notwithstanding any other provision of this
chapter, the proceeds of any loan made or
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