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Ohio
Adams Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc., $7.7 million to
build 81 miles of distribution line and make other system
improvements.
Oklahoma
Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc., $15.6 million to build 134
miles of distribution line and make other system improve-
ments.
Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc., $22.2 million to
build 374 miles of distribution line and make other system
improvements.
Pennsylvania
REA Energy Cooperative, Inc., $15 million to build 77 miles
of distribution line and make other system improvements.
United Electric Cooperative, Inc., $15.3 million to build 141
miles of distribution line and make other system improve-
ments.
South Carolina
Little River Electric Cooperative, Inc., $11 million to build
259 miles of distribution line and make other system im-
provements.
South Dakota
Moreau-Grand Electric Cooperative, Inc., $10 million to
build 165 miles of distribution line and 10 miles of transmis-
sion line and make other system improvements
Oahe Electric Cooperative, Inc., $4.9 million to build 78
miles of distribution line and make other system improve-
ments.
Texas and Louisiana
Northeast Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc., $30 million for
plant improvement projects at the Dolet Hills Power Station
Unit 1 and Henry W. Pirkey Station Unit 1.
Texas
Brazos Electric Cooperative, Inc., $271.8 million to build 287
miles of transmission line, build and improve a substation
and switching stations, and make other system improve-
ments.
Wisconsin
Jump River Electric Cooperative, Inc., $2.3 million to build a
branch office and warehouse complex.
Wisconsin and Michigan
Bayfield Electric Cooperative, $10 million to build 191 miles
of distribution line and make other system improvements.
Wyoming
Wheatland Rural Electric Association, $4.6 million to build
85 miles of distribution line and make other system im-
provements.
USDA Announces Broadband
Funds for Unserved Rural Communities
A
griculture Secretary Tom Vil-
sack on October 24 announced
14 awards for projects to bring
broadband to unserved rural communi-
ties. Rural Utilities Service Administrator
John Padalino made the announcement
on the secretary’s behalf while address-
ing a regional meeting of the National
Rural Electric Cooperative Association in
San Antonio, Tex.
“Access to broadband is one of the
most important investments in rural
communities today,” Vilsack said. “These
awards will help create jobs and give ru-
ral residents greater access to educational,
health care, and social services.”
USDA is providing $20.3 million in
grants through the Community Con-
nect Grant program. These are the first
awards made under the program’s new
guidelines that now allow applicants to
fund broadband infrastructure for more
than one community and raise the mini-
mum required speed. Projects funded
must deliver broadband at five megabits
per second (Mbps).
The following is a list of awardees that
will receive USDA funding contingent
upon the recipient meeting the terms of
the grant agreement:
Alaska
Matanuska Telephone Association, Inc., $2,941,246 grant
to construct fiber optic cables to expand broadband service
at speeds ranging from 5 Mbps to 10 Mbps. The association
is working closely with the Matanuska Susitna Borough
School District to provide enhanced broadband service to
the Glacier View School and construct a community center
where all residents will have access to free 5 Mbps service
for at least two years.
Kentucky
Crystal Broadband Networks, $480,420 grant to deploy high-
speed broadband in and around the community of Idamay.
This project will allow access to real-time weather radar and
national weather updates to address severe weather condi-
tions.
Crystal Broadband Networks, $704,600 to provide broad-
band, video, and voice services to Lambric and Rousseau.
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