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Rural Telecommunications Loans

Program Information

Popular name

Telecommunications Infrastructure Loan Program

Program Number

10.851

Program objective

This program provides loans for the construction, maintenance, improvement, and expansion of telecommunications services (telephone and broadband) in rural areas. In facilitating the construction of new and improved infrastructure, the program will fuel long-term rural economic development and opportunities in rural America.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    Fiscal year 2016: Awarded 10 loans to fund deployment of advanced telecommunications facilities serving over 71,000 customers (As of May, 2016) Fiscal year 2016: Awarded 14 loans to fund deployment of advanced telecommunications facilities serving over 77,000 customers

  2. 2017

    Fiscal year 2017: Awarded 21 loans to fund deployment of advanced telecommunications facilities serving over 147,000 customers

  3. 2018

    Awarded 13 loans to fund the deployment of advanced telecommunications services to over 39,000 customers.

  4. 2024

    For FY 24, the program received 5 applications totaling $63.5 Million in requested funding. Through the end of FY 24, no awards were approved. The 5 applications will carry forward to FY 25 for processing.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

7 CFR-XVII. RUS publishes and issues upon request technical operations manuals and bulletins covering financing, construction, operation and maintenance of rural telephone systems. An application guide and other supporting schedules are available at http://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/telecommunications-infrastructure-loans-loan-guarantees