# Rural Broadband Loans, Loan/Grant Combinations, and Loan Guarantees
> **Rural Utilities Service** · Final rule; confirmation and response to comments. · Published 2022-11-30 · Effective 2022-11-30 · 87 FR 73443
## Document
- **Document number:** 2022-25856
- **Category:** rural-development
- **Sub-agency:** Rural Utilities Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 87 FR 73443
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 1738
- **Publication date:** 2022-11-30
- **Effective date:** 2022-11-30
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. RUS-19-Telecom-0003
## Abstract

The Rural Utilities Service (RUS or Agency), an agency in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Mission area, published an interim rule with comment in the Federal Register on March 12, 2020, to amend its regulation for the Rural Broadband Program, previously referred to as the Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program, to implement the Agricultural Act of 2018 (the 2018 Farm Bill). Through this action, RUS is adopting the interim rule as it was published and providing responses to the public comments received.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/11/30/2022-25856/rural-broadband-loans-loangrant-combinations-and-loan-guarantees)
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