New Rules for Rural Broadband Access Loans and Loan Guarantees

The Rural Utilities Service, an agency delivering the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Rural Development Utilities Programs, is adopting as final, with change, an interim rule (published at 76 FR 13770 on March 14, 2011) for its regulation for the Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program (Broadband Loan Program).

This final rule is effective on February 6, 2013.