# Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan and Grant Programs
> **Rural Utilities Service** · Final rule; request for comments. · Published 2017-11-27 · Effective 2017-12-27 · 82 FR 55923
## Document
- **Document number:** 2017-25266
- **Category:** rural-development
- **Sub-agency:** Rural Utilities Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 55923
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 1703
- **Publication date:** 2017-11-27
- **Effective date:** 2017-12-27
## Abstract

The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), a Rural Development Agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), hereinafter referred to as RUS or the Agency, is issuing a final rule to streamline, revise, and update the Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Grant Program, to minimize the burden of applying for and awarding grants. The Agency's goal is to reduce the regulatory burden on grant applicants and to ensure that grant funds are awarded for projects with the most demonstrable need. The Agency will follow this final rule affording the public an opportunity to comment with a subsequent final rule.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/11/27/2017-25266/distance-learning-and-telemedicine-loan-and-grant-programs)
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