# Streamlining Electric Program Procedures
> **Rural Utilities Service** · Final rule. · Published 2021-07-09 · Effective 2021-09-07 · 86 FR 36193
## Document
- **Document number:** 2021-14358
- **Category:** rural-development
- **Sub-agency:** Rural Utilities Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 86 FR 36193
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 1710
- **Publication date:** 2021-07-09
- **Effective date:** 2021-09-07
- **USDA docket:** RUS-21-ELECTRIC-0003
## Abstract

The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), a Rural Development agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is revising several regulations to streamline its procedures for Electric Program borrowers, including its loan application requirements, approval of construction work plans, contract bidding procedures, contact approval procedures, system operation and maintenance reviews, long-range engineering plans and system design procedures. Additionally, unnecessary sections in the regulations will be removed.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/07/09/2021-14358/streamlining-electric-program-procedures)
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