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Rural Broadband Access Loans and Loan Guarantees

Program Information

Popular name

Farm Bill Broadband Loans & Loan Guarantees

Program Number

10.886

Program objective

This program furnishes loans and loan guarantees to provide funds for the costs of construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and equipment needed to provide service at the broadband lending speed in eligible rural areas. In facilitating the construction of new and improved broadband 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

    $47,856,676 available should be awarded in FY16 pending future approvals of loan applications. Two loans awarded for $19,439,000

  2. 2017

    $27,000,000 available should be awarded in FY17 pending future approvals of loan applications

  3. 2018

    Loan was awarded for $19.8 million

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.

For a list of all official published information: https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/telecommunications-programs/rural-broadband-loans-loangrant-combinations-and-loan-guarantees#overview Regulations for the program may be found at 7 CFR 1738.