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Joseph T. Burns: “This provision gives the Administrator flexibility to use underutilized funds for this high priority purpose. As a…”

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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