These include water and waste treatment, electric power, and telecommunications services.
Approximately 7,200 rural communities are served through financial assistance received from water and waste loans and grants.
[3] In 2023, RUS was in charge of the ReConnect Program; this Biden administration program is overseen by the Agriculture Department[4] to expand broadband Internet access to rural parts of America, including the Marshall Islands.
[7] In 1949, the REA became authorized to provide loans to rural telephone cooperatives.
[8] Under the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 the REA was absorbed by the Rural Utilities Service (RUS).