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On the recordNovember 5, 2003
This provision gives the Administrator flexibility to use underutilized funds for this high priority purpose. As a member of the Agriculture Appropriations Committee, I will seek Conference report language to clarify that funding would be available to current and prospective RUS borrowers and that a wide range of projects be eligible for funding including 911 upgrades, broad emergency communications initiatives, statewide emergency communications projects which include rural areas and projects that provide a dual public safety and commercial uses.
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Joseph T. Burns
Ohio
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Discussing funding flexibility for rural emergency communications projects.

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