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about Rural Utilities Service
With more than 60 years of experience, the Rural Utilities Service
(RUS) has found that electric utility construction, operation, and maintenance
are best when high-quality, long-lasting materials are used. Because the
quality of materials is so important to program objectives, RUS continues to
require that borrowers observe RUS standards and use Technical Standards
Committee A (Electric) accepted products on their systems whether
they use RUS loan funds, their own general funds, or other sources of financing
assistance.
Committee A considers requests from
manufacturers and makes determinations as to whether the products comply with
applicable RUS and national industry standards and specifications and if the
products can be expected to perform satisfactorily in the harsh environments of
rural America. The Technical Standards Committees limit acceptance to one
product per manufacturer for a specific category of product; this limitation
allows manufacturers to concentrate on one design for rural electric borrowers,
enabling the manufacturers to pass the efficiencies of standardization on to
their customers.
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