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Rural Electrification Celebrates 80 Years of Rural Productivity

May 11, 2015 Brandon McBride, Administrator, USDA Rural Utility Service

In the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7037 on May 11, 1935 establishing the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), a temporary agency tasked with deciding how to fund rural electric systems. The following year, Congress passed the Rural...

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