 | United States - 1966
...telephone facilities and the construction and operation of such additional facilities as are required to assure the availability of adequate telephone service...practicable number of rural users of such service. In order to effectuate this policy, the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 is amended as hereinafter... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry - 1969
...the 1949 telephone amendment to the Rural Electrification Act The declared Congressional policy is "to assure the availability of adequate telephone...to the widest practicable number of rural users." An already hard-pressed and undercapitalized rural telephone industry could not accomplish this objective... | |
 | 1991
...provide telephone service in rural areas. Congress directed that the rural telephone program be conducted to "assure the availability of adequate telephone...practicable number of rural users of such service." About 75 percent of the telephone systems financed by the agency are commercial companies, and about... | |
 | 1960
...telephone facilities and the construction and operation of such additional facilities as are required to assure the availability of adequate telephone service...practicable number of rural users of such service." Accordingly, loans are made to telephone companies and cooperatives at 2 percent interest for periods... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1979
...telephone facilities and the construction and operation of such additional facilities as are required to assure the availability of adequate telephone service...practicable number of rural users of such service." REA has exercised care in adopting its policies and procedures for the telephone program to carry out... | |
 | United States. Department of Commerce. Interagency Study Group - 1979
...telephone facilities and the construction and operation of such additional facilities as are required to assure the availability of adequate telephone service...the widest practicable number of rural users of such service.1 . . . [R]ural . . . telephone systems should be encouraged and assisted to develop their... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - 1981 - 1405 pages
...REA telephone companies continue to carry out the mandate of Congress enunciated over 30 years ago "to assure the availability of adequate telephone...practicable number of rural users of such service". Today they serve nearly four million telephone subscribers located in 2,100 of the nation's 3,100 counties.... | |
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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... 
