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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) today announced over $3.9 million in loans for rural economic development in Kansas. The funding will go to rural utility and telephone cooperatives to re-lend funds to local businesses to create and retain jobs.
Midwest Energy, Inc.: $740,000
Heartland Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc.: $614,000
Sedgwick County Electric Cooperative Association, Inc.: $500,000
Lane-Scott Electric Cooperative, Inc.: $740,000
Rural Telephone Service company, Inc.: $740,000
Heartland Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc.: $600,000
"Spurring economic development in our rural Kansas communities is necessary at this time," Senator Roberts said. "I am pleased these funds will go to rural Kansas areas to create and maintain jobs and strengthen the local economy."
The loans were awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development’s Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program. Senator Roberts is a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and an outspoken advocate of rural issues in Congress.
For more information on USDA’s Rural Development Office, visit: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov .
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