Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund Self-Sufficiency Act of 1983: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit and Rural Electrification of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1300 ... March 20, April 12, and May 15, 1984U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 464 pages |
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accelerated depreciation amendment amount assets average bill billion budget capital costs CBO's co-ops Committee Congress Congressional Congressional Budget Office consumers coop customer coop subsidy coops and IOUS debt electric and telephone energy conservation equity Federal Financing Bank federal government federal subsidies fund's guaranteed loans increased insured loans interest expenses interest rates investment tax credits investor-owned utilities IOU subsidy IOU's legislation lenders lending lien accommodations loan guarantees loan program Madam Chairman NRECA analysis off-budget PAULA HAWKINS percent proposed provided to coops REA Administrator REA borrowers REA loans REA program REA's repayment result RETRF rural America rural areas rural electric cooperatives rural electric systems Rural Electrification Act Rural Electrification Administration rural telephone Senator HAWKINS Senator ZORINSKY served statement Subcommittee subsidies provided tax-exempt Telephone Bank Telephone Revolving Fund telephone service Treasury U.S. District Court U.S. SENATOR Utilities Cooperative
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Page 196 - Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to deprive any State commission, board, or other agency of jurisdiction, under any State law, now or hereafter effective, to regulate telephone service which is not subject to regulation by the Federal Communications Commission, under the Communications Act of 1934, including the rates for such service.
Page 107 - Act of 1936, as amended, and that such rural electric and telephone systems should be encouraged and assisted to develop their resources and ability to achieve the financial strength needed to enable them to satisfy their credit needs from their own financial organizations and other sources at reasonable rates and terms consistent with the loan applicant's ability to pay and achievement of the Act's objectives.
Page 187 - Congress declared that it is its policy that •rural electric and telephone systems should be encouraged and assisted to develop their resources and ability to achieve the financial strength needed to enable them to satisfy their credit needs from their own financial organizations and other sources...
Page 208 - The rural telephone legislation enacting clause contains the following statement of congressional policy: * * * it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress that adequate telephone service be made generally available in rural areas, through the improvement and expansion of existing telephone facilities and the construction and operation of such additional facilities as are required to assure the availability of adequate telephone service to the widest practicable number of rural users of...
Page 336 - Company Public Service Company of Colorado Public Service Company of New Mexico Puget Sound Power & Light Company St.
Page 319 - rural area" shall be deemed to mean any area of the United States not included within the boundaries of any city, village, or borough having a population in excess of fifteen hundred inhabitants, and such term shall be deemed to include both the farm and nonfarm population thereof ; the term "farm...
Page 219 - That it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress that the growing capital needs of the rural telephone systems require the establishment of a rural telephone bank which will furnish assured and viable sources of supplementary financing with the objective that said bank will become an entirely privately owned, operated, and financed corporation.
Page 177 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee. For the record, my name is Robert D. Partridge. I am...
Page 196 - ... agency is first obtained. In a State in which there is no such agency or regulatory body legally authorized to issue such certificates to the applicant, no loan shall be made under this section unless the Governor of the telephone bank shall determine (and set forth his reasons therefor in writing) that no duplication of lines, facilities, or systems, providing reasonably adequate services will result therefrom. "(6) As used in this section, the term telephone service...
Page 282 - Benevolent life insurance associations of a purely local character, mutual ditch or irrigation companies, mutual or cooperative telephone companies, or like organizations; but only if 85 per centum or more of the income consists of amounts collected from members for the sole purpose of meeting losses and expenses...