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Excerpt from The Rural Electrification Administration Is a Lending Agency in the United States Department of Agriculture
Rea makes long-term, interest-bearing loans to locally owned electric and telephone systems in rural areas. Rea does not construct, own, or operate any electric or telephone facility. Systems financed by rea serve 5 million rural electric consumers and about a million tele phone subscribers. Electric facilities are located in of the counties in the continental United States. The electric systems serve thinly populated rural areas. They average consumers per mile of line; urban utilities average better than 32 per mile of line. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.