Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73
§921 Congressional declaration of policy
Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 31— - RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELEPHONE SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE › § 921
Summary
Congress requires adequate phone service in rural areas by upgrading and adding facilities to reach as many people as practical.
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Title 7, §921
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It is declared to be the policy of the Congress that adequate telephone service be made generally available in rural areas through the improvement and expansion of existing telephone facilities and the construction and operation of such additional facilities as are required to assure the availability of adequate telephone service to the widest practicable number of rural users of such service.
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Codification Section is composed of the first sentence of section 1 of act Oct. 28, 1949. The second sentence of section 1 of that act, which provided that: “In order to effectuate this policy, the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 [this chapter] is amended as hereinafter provided” , is omitted from the Code. Section was not enacted as part of title II of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 which comprises subchapter II of this chapter.
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7 U.S.C. § 921
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73