[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 11]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1717.350]

[Page 147]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
    CHAPTER XVII--RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1717--POST-LOAN POLICIES AND PROCEDURES COMMON TO INSURED AND GUARANTEED ELECTRIC LOANS--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart H--Federal Pre-emption in Rate Making in Connection With RUS 
                    Electric Borrowers in Bankruptcy
 
Sec. 1717.350  Purpose.

    Source: 55 FR 38653, Sept. 19, 1990, unless otherwise noted.


    This subpart contains regulations of the Rural Utilities Service 
(RUS) implementing provisions of section 4 of the RE Act (7 U.S.C. 904) 
which authorizes the Administrator to establish terms and conditions of 
loans, and provisions of the RUS documents which provide for the 
establishment of rates for electric service to be charged by RUS 
electric borrowers. This subpart contains the general regulations of RUS 
for the pre-emption of the regulation by a State Regulatory Authority 
under State law of an RUS borrower's rates and for the exercise by RUS, 
pursuant to the RUS documents, of exclusive jurisdiction over rates of a 
borrower by or against whom a case under the Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as 
amended, has commenced.