7 CFR § 1786.51 - Definitions.

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title: "7 CFR § 1786.51 - Definitions."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "1786.51"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
part_number: "1786"
part_name: "PREPAYMENT OF RUS GUARANTEED AND INSURED LOANS TO ELECTRIC AND TELEPHONE BORROWERS"
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authority: "7 U.S.C. 901-950b; Title I, subtitle B, Pub. L. 99-509; Pub. L. 101-624, 104 Stat. 4051; Pub. L. 103-354, 108 Stat. 3178, (7 U.S.C. 6941 ), unless otherwise noted."
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# 1786.51 Definitions.

As used in this subpart:

*Act* means the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended (7 U.S.C. 901 *et seq.*).

*Administrator* means the Administrator of RUS.

*Discounted Present Value* shall have the meaning specified in § 1786.53

*Fund* means the Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund established pursuant to the Act.

*REA* means the Rural Electrification Administration formerly an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture and predecessor agency to RUS with respect to administering certain electric and telephone loan programs.

*RUS* means the Rural Utilities Service, an agency of the Unites States Department of Agriculture, established pursuant to Section 232 of the Federal Crop Insurance Reform and Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103-354, 108 Stat. 3178), successor to REA with respect to administering certain electric and telephone programs. See 7 CFR 1700.1.

*RUS Loan Agreement* means the agreement between the borrower and RUS providing for loans pursuant to the Act.

*RUS Notes* means those notes, bonds or other obligations evidencing indebtedness created by loans made pursuant to Titles I, II or III of the Act (7 U.S.C. 901-940).

[51 FR 46999, Dec. 29, 1986. Redesignated at 55 FR 49250, Nov. 27, 1990, as amended at 59 FR 66441, Dec. 27, 1994]