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[CITE: 7USC918a]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
         CHAPTER 31--RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELEPHONE SERVICE
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
 
Sec. 918a. Energy generation, transmission, and distribution 
        facilities efficiency grants and loans in rural communities with 
        extremely high energy costs
        

(a) In general

    The Secretary, acting through the Rural Utilities Service, may--
        (1) in coordination with State rural development initiatives, 
    make grants and loans to persons, States, political subdivisions of 
    States, and other entities organized under the laws of States to 
    acquire, construct, extend, upgrade, and otherwise improve energy 
    generation, transmission, or distribution facilities serving 
    communities in which the average residential expenditure for home 
    energy is at least 275 percent of the national average residential 
    expenditure for home energy (as determined by the Energy Information 
    Agency using the most recent data available);
        (2) make grants and loans to the Denali Commission established 
    by the Denali Commission Act of 1998 (42 U.S.C. 3121 note; Public 
    Law 105-277) to acquire, construct, extend, upgrade, and otherwise 
    improve energy generation, transmission, or distribution facilities 
    serving communities described in paragraph (1); and
        (3) make grants to State entities, in existence as of November 
    9, 2000, to establish and support a revolving fund to provide a more 
    cost-effective means of purchasing fuel where the fuel cannot be 
    shipped by means of surface transportation.

(b) Authorization of appropriations

                           (1) In general

        There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this 
    section $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2001 and such sums as are 
    necessary for each subsequent fiscal year.

       (2) Limitation on planning and administrative expenses

        Not more than 4 percent of the amounts made available under 
    paragraph (1) may be used for planning and administrative expenses.

(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, Sec. 19, as added Pub. L. 106-472, 
title III, Sec. 301, Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2069.)

                       References in Text

    The Denali Commission Act of 1998, referred to in subsec. (a)(2), is 
title III of div. C of Pub. L. 105-277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-
637, which is set out as a note under section 3121 of Title 42, The 
Public Health and Welfare.
