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Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73

§2008p Grants for NOAA weather radio transmitters

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 50— - AGRICULTURAL CREDIT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › § 2008p

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary, through the Rural Utilities Service, can give grants to public or nonprofit groups and to borrowers of Rural Utilities Service loans to pay the federal share of buying radio transmitters that help NOAA’s all-hazards weather radio reach more rural areas. To get a grant, an applicant must give a binding promise from a tower owner to put the transmitter on a tower and a short plan showing how that placement will increase rural coverage. Grants can pay up to 75% of the transmitter cost. Up to $1,000,000 is authorized for each fiscal year 2014 through 2023.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §2008p

Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service, may make grants to public and nonprofit entities, and borrowers of loans made by the Rural Utilities Service, for the Federal share of the cost of acquiring radio transmitters to increase coverage of rural areas by the all hazards weather radio broadcast system of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(b)To be eligible for a grant under this section, an applicant shall provide to the Secretary—
(1)a binding commitment from a tower owner to place the transmitter on a tower; and
(2)a description of how the tower placement will increase coverage of a rural area by the all hazards weather radio broadcast system of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(c)A grant provided under this section shall be not more than 75 percent of the total cost of acquiring a radio transmitter, as described in subsection (a).
(d)There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2023.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical

Amendments

to this section. The

Amendments

by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 115–334 substituted “2023” for “2018”. 2014—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 113–79 added subsec. (d) and struck out former subsec. (d). Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this section for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012.” 2008—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 110–246, § 6021, substituted “2008 through 2012” for “2002 through 2007”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2008 AmendmentAmendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 8701 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

7 U.S.C. § 2008p

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73